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Dr. Bob Nelson is considered the leading advocate for employee recognition and engagement worldwide. He has worked with 80 percent of the Fortune 500 and presented on six continents. He has been featured by the likes of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, CBS 60 Minutes, MSNBC, and ABC about how best to motivate today’s employees. He has been named  "One of the Most Influential People to Follow for 2021" by peopleHum, a Top 5 Global Management Guru, a Top Thought Leader for the Best Practice Institute and a Top Global Employee Engagement Influencer.

In this episode Jason and Dr. Bob discuss:

• The value of giving praise 
• Making work fun - work and life integration
• Remote work vs in-office work
• Building connections even in remote environments 

Key Takeaways: 

• If we keep work and fun separate, we’re going to have a cynical work environment. 
• Research shows that people are more productive when working from home and we should listen to the people to see what they really want and what works for them. 
• There are ways to deepen company relationships even in a remote environment. 

“If you don’t have ability but you have drive and passion, you can overcome it and gain ability. If you have ability without motivation, you’re not gonna have much performance anyway.” - Dr. Bob Nelson

Get Dr. Bob Nelson’s Book, “Work Made Fun Gets Done” by clicking here: http://www.nelson-motivation.com/womafungedo.html

Connect with Dr. Bob Nelson:

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/drbobnelson

Website: www.drbobnelson.com | http://www.nelson-motivation.com/

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

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LAURA CALANDRELLA is a leadership strategist and consultant. She has spent the past two decades working with organizations from across the environmental community to design collaborative approaches to our most pressing issues. Her career began as a conservation biologist and international development practitioner. These experiences gave Laura firsthand knowledge of the power of collaboration, but also the difficulties that arise when diverse perspectives align under a shared vision for change. Now she guides the growth of sustainability and conservation partnerships by teaching the practices of collaborative leadership. Her work strengthens relationships, delivers more holistic and creative solutions, and allows her clients to achieve impactful results at increasingly larger scales.

In this episode Jason and Laura discuss:

• It’s about relationships, in any business, with our planet, and with people. 
• Not being concerned with what other people think of us but rather our interconnectivity as people.
• Continued growth and dialogue with one another as fellow humans.
• Better production occurs through happier people with positive mindsets.

Key Takeaways: 

• Start the day after coming to an understanding of your reason, your purpose, understanding what you’re doing, why you’re here while being open and present. 
• Create the environment around you that promotes focus to help you stay clear and present for achieving your goals for the day. 
• Be willing to do the inner work on your own readiness and growth in order to achieve your results, goals, and successes.

“What would change if we thought of adversaries as allies?” - Laura Calandrella

Mentioned:

 Simon Sinek Find Your Why

Laura’s book: Our Next Evolution Transforming Collaborative Leadership to Shape Our Planet’s Future 

Connect with Laura Calandrella:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lcalandrella

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lcalandrella/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcalandrella/

Website: https://www.lauracalandrella.com/

Email: [email protected]

Book: Our Next Evolution Transforming Collaborative Leadership to Shape Our Planet's Future 

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun

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Steven Plaisance is president of mortgage banking at Gateway First Bank, a national retail and correspondent lender and servicer.  He has nearly 32 years of financial services experience, with nearly 30 devoted to mortgage.  He spent 31 years and 8 months at the same company before making a bold leap to run Gateway's exciting mortgage division in late February 2021.  Steven is active in the MBA, serving as the current Chairman of the Mortgage Action Alliance.  His passion is helping people -- from customers, to partners, and of course, his own team members and his community.

In this episode Steve and Steven discuss:

• Learning effectively from other people 
• Finding time to respond to every feedback 
• What it takes to be a good listener
• Cultivating continuous growth in your career 

Key Takeaways: 

• Leading effectively takes listening to other people and learning from them 
• Commitment is one of the cornerstones of being a leader. If you believe in answering every question, request or issue, then make time for it. Commit because people rely on you. 
• Be a good listener who’s present, follow-up on what you’ve listened to and learn to be a discerning communicator.   
• Do the job you do today the very best you can. Master what you’re doing today and be curious about what’s around you. Ask questions.

“Make sure you thoroughly listen and understand what the other person is talking about or what they’re asking before you start giving an answer. Often times we give answers way too soon” - Steven Plaisance

Connect with Steven Plaisance:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gatewayloan

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GatewayMortgage/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-plaisance-3b15405/

Website: www.gatewayloan.com

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

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As president of Lenders One® Cooperative, Justin leads its day-to-day operations and strategic execution.With nearly 30 years of mortgage, consulting and business development experience, including roles such as Chief Operating Officer of MLB Residential Lending and President of The Hills Mortgage and Finance Company, Justin brings a plethora of mortgage knowledge and leadership skills to the table.He is a licensed mortgage loan originator and a Certified Mortgage Banker. Justin serves as resident CMB instructor for the Mortgage Bankers Association’s CMB Final Prep Course. Justin serves on the Mortgage Bankers Association of New Jersey Board of Directors.

In this episode Jason and Justin discuss:

• What does it mean to create value for others 
• Changes, trends, and innovation in mortgage banking
• Better ways of generating leads 
• Big Rock Items for C-Suite managers 

Key Takeaways: 

• As solution providers, it’s part of our responsibility to identify the pain points of people we serve - what they need and want most and how we can provide that for them.
• Lead generation tools and companies are good ways to grow your client-base, but organic relationships are still the best way to build your business. 
• The whole world is going through tough times; one of the things that will help your business get through it with grace is by maintaining culture in the office. 

“It’s our job to fully understand what our members’ needs and pain points are, no matter who they are or what they’re size is and offer solutions to be able to assist them.” - Justin Demola

Connect with Justin Demola:

Website: www.lendersone.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-demola-mortgage

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

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Barry Habib is an American Entrepreneur and frequent Media resource for his mortgage and housing expertise. He appears regularly on television outlets such as CNBC and Fox. Barry is the founder and CEO of MBS Highway – the real estate industry’s most highly regarded and recognized tool for transforming salespeople into advisors.

Barry has won awards such as:

• Two-time Crystal Ball Award given by Zillow and Pulsenomics for the most accurate Real Estate forecasts out of 150 of the top economists in the US. 

• 2019 Mortgage Professional of the Year by National Mortgage Professional Magazine 

• 2019 Finalist for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Barry is active in many successful businesses across different verticals including, and get this, being the Lead Producer and Managing Partner for “Rock of Ages” which is the 27th longest-running show in Broadway history. 

During his mortgage career, Barry personally originated over $2 Billion dollars.

Barry's new book entitled Money in the Streets is due out October 2020.

In this episode Jason and Barry discuss:

• Being goal-oriented and how achievement of goals gives a sense of fulfillment.
• Building trust and goodwill in your clients and employees.
• Surrounding yourself with good teammates so that you can do your job well.
• Which social media platforms to use for marketing and how to gear them to your audience.

Key Takeaways: 

• Start your morning routine the night before. Having a proactive game plan and the days’ objectives planned so that you can be on offense instead of defense.
• Embrace the uncertainty and the unknown and try to reduce it by creating a plan to get through it. Be resourceful and resilient in your solution.
• Build trust with knowledge by giving people all the information, both good and bad.
• You have control over your own destiny, you just have to decide how bad you want it.

Movie Mentioned: Barry Munday

Book Mentioned: Money in the Streets

Broadway Show Mentioned: Rock of Ages

Connect with Barry Habib:

Twitter: @BarryHabib

Facebook: Barry Habib

Website: MBSHighway.com

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun

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Vikas is a Fortune 100 Executive turned Executive Coach and Leadership Development consultant. He is a unique combination of pragmatism and vision given his extensive frontline experience in the corporate world and being a philosopher / systems thinker at heart. He is passionately committed to a transformation in the way of being and doing of leaders, managers and teams, all for the sake of a world that works better for all, starting with oneself. Vikas invites his clients to go deep to the root causes of problems and has the skill to escort them back to the place from which they can take effective action for sustainable change. By working with Vikas, leaders and teams in Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized firms and start-ups alike have transformed themselves and their environments.  

In this episode Steve and Vikas discuss:

• Concepts that’ll help with dealing with daily stressors 
• Finding happiness and contentment 
• Breaking free from primordial tendencies of anxiety and fear of the unknown
• Living for the weekend vs. loving what you do 

Key Takeaways: 

• The journey is the destination, relax into it. Stress and anxiety is a natural thing in life, but there’s more to life than just these two feelings. 
• We peg our happiness or contentment on some external thing that we have to acquire. Doing so would be like, “postponing living”, waiting for something to happen for you to finally breathe. 
• Learn to see this moment as everything and be satisfied in any circumstance. 
• We spend so much of our life working, only to do something that sucks the life out of us - it’s a tragedy. Let meaning seep into your career, find a way to either do what you love or love what you do. 

“If you cannot be satisfied in this moment, in this set of circumstances, then you can never be satisfied in any moment or circumstances.” - Vikas Bhatia 

Connect with Vikas Bhatia:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/VikasAtPrana

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikas-bhatia-2850a64/

Website: http://www.thepranapartnership.com/profile

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

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In this episode Steve and Jason discuss:

• What is mindset coaching?
• How could mindset coaching be useful to somebody? 
• Why knowing what to do is sometimes not enough
• Necessities for long-term sustainable change 

Key Takeaways: 

• A lot of people know strategies that increase success, but the mindset makes all the difference. 
• Let’s not only work on our actions, but think also on what we think about our actions. 
• The right scripts and right actions may get you short-term results. But sustainable, long-term, life-style-changing types of results start by digging into your mindset and being self-aware. 
• We are made to be in community with one another, we need one another. 

“Think about what we think first and let that thinking ultimately dictate how we act.” - Steve Scanlon

Check out the Iceberg Model: https://www.rewireinc.com/who-we-are  

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

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In this episode Steve and Jason discuss:

• What is future proof and temporal integration 
• Our brains’ tendency whenever we’re going through a difficult time 
• The impact of knowing that difficult times will end for people.
• Three tips for future proofing your life: Focus, Self-Care, and Community 

Key Takeaways: 

• Remember the temporal nature of difficult events and circumstances. Things are going to change and it’s okay. 
• Knowing that the “suck will end” has been proven to give people hope. Future proofing yourself starts with believing that there will be a future. 
• Stay focused. Multitasking (or actually, “switch-tasking”) increases stress and decreases productivity. 
• Practice Self-Care. It feels like a luxury, but it’s a necessity. 
• Try to do community differently. Seek connection with people. 

“Never mistake education for transformation… we’re less interested in more people knowing stuff and more interested in more people doing stuff.” - Steve Scanlon

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Eric Harvey is a scholar and teacher with a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East from Brandeis University. His academic research deals with the historical development of the Psalms and with issues of disability in the ancient world. Eric went blind in the middle of his doctoral studies and finished the work with a very different set of skills than when he started. In addition to his core research, he now advocates for accessibility and universal inclusion in higher education and beyond.

In this episode Steve and Eric discuss:

• Thriving despite blindness - the difficult 5%
• How blindness has helped reveal the myth of self-reliance and independence
• Feeling powerless even as an able-bodied person. 
• Shattering your own myths 

Key Takeaways: 

• Many unnamed people have contributed to who you are today and what you’ve achieved, there’s a scaffolding of humanity around you that you’re not aware of.
• Acknowledge the people that enable you. Individualism hides a lot of interdependence beneath. 
• Know what you’re truly capable of, see it from another way, shatter the myths that hinder you from being fully human. 
• You can’t just pour knowledge into someone’s head, you can only be a catalyst of the idea-making process in their own life. 

“Disability… shattered this myth of independence that anybody does anything on their own… We are standing on an enormous mountain of contributions by people whose names and lives we’ll never know...” - Eric Harvey

Connect with Eric Harvey:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blind_scholar

Website: http://www.blindscholar.com/

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

In this episode Steve and Jason discuss:

• How to get more insights when reading or listening
• The importance of having a plan 
• Going back to basics and the significance of becoming intentional
• Tools and tips for thriving through changes 

Key Takeaways: 

• Insights come when we suspend our judgement
• Sometimes you have to make quick decisions to react to certain circumstances, but you shouldn’t neglect going back to making a game plan.
• Transformation sometimes takes humility or humiliation
• Ask what “back to basics” mean to you and how you can apply that

“Let’s transition back. Let’s do a comeback and be intentional about coming back.” - Steve Scanlon

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Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.