The Low Carb Leader

In today's episode, we talk with best selling author and podcaster, Shawn Stevenson. Shawn's Sleep Smarter book was recently ranked #1 by Audible and will be featured as a go to book in 2017. His podcast, the Model Health Show has over 8 million downloads and is consistently ranked in the top 5 fitness and health podcasts on iTunes.

Shawn will discuss how sleep can improve all aspects of your life and why it is so important. Shawn also discusses how he reversed a serious spinal degenerative disease in his own life through nutrition, sleep and lifestyle changes. An exciting discussion with Shawn Stevenson.

The Aspiring New Leader has featured many smart and interesting individuals whose experience has given us a lot to learn from. In today's episode, we were lucky enough to bring together Katie White, Kyle Davidson, and Jacob Roddis to join in a panel discussion and share their insights on the question: CEO vs Aspiring Leader, Who's Right?

The panel offers different perspectives from different levels of the business. Kyle, who joined us in episodes 003 and 004, shares her experience from a non-management position. Katie, whom you will remember from episode 002, will offer her insights as a new manager with just over 2 years of experience. Jacob has over 10 years of extensive experience in various functions – 8 years from human resources and 3 years from various operations positions. In this episode, we hope that you will be entertained with our little debate to find out who is right – the CEO or aspiring new leaders.

If you're a leader and you think you know everything, then, you're never going to improve as a leader.

Patience, persistence, and perseverance are key factors in pursuing – and being successful – with your passion. In today's podcast, we will be talking to Daniel Hayes, an actor, model, and accomplished athlete who has persevered in his pursuit of his passion for acting and sports. He is a middleweight champion, top-ranking prospect and Olympic boxing ambassador to Trinidad & Tobago.

Daniel discovered his love for sports at a very young age. He has played and excelled in a wide variety of sports such as soccer, baseball, football, track and field, basketball, and swimming. At the age of 16, he was already a highly-recruited athlete who was invited to play for several NCAA Division 1 and 2 schools, before deciding on Thompson Rivers University where he had also been offered an athletic scholarship.

Daniel's upbringing and story is quite interesting. His self-discipline and focus has paved the way to a successful athletic career and these traits have also helped him overcome the mental strain caused by recovering from a physical injury. In today's podcast, he will share tips on how to improve focus and self-discipline and self-realizations that have allowed him to overcome challenges.

Becoming a great leader is more than the way you communicate and collaborate with your team. To truly become a great leader, you need to learn how to lead with authenticity. On today's episode, Dan and Jacob chat with Jami Wolfe, Ph.D, an organizational psychologist at CMA Consulting in St. Louis.

Jami earned Bachelor's degree from William Woods University with double majors in Business and Psychology. She later earned a Master of Science in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Perdue as well as her Ph.D in Organizational Psychology from St. Louis University.

Today, she explains what an organizational psychologist is, how they help businesses, organizations, and leaders discover and improve their authenticity, and shares tips and tools to help new leaders begin their discovery journey before hiring a consultant.

Have you ever felt like you were just drifting in your career without any real sense of direction, purpose, or intention? Perhaps you've felt stuck working at a job you're simply not happy doing. According to a recent study conducted by the University of Phoenix School of Business, 73% of professionals in their 30s are wanting to change their career paths. Our guest today, Alison Cardy, is the founder and CEO of Cardy Career Coaching and the author of Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career.

Alison has worked with hundreds of individuals and professionals to find innovative and functional career solutions that help balance the "see-saw" scale of the workforce. Today, we'll talk about some of the bad reasons people choose a career path and how to avoid them, the various levels of figuring out where you want your career to go, the steps to take to successfully change your career, and how Alison helps her clients through the "drifting phase" to find a career path that works for them.

You've probably heard the phrase: "Lead by example," but have you ever thought about how to lead through strength? Today, Jacob and I are talking with Lisa Cummings, the founder and CEO of the leadership strengths finding and consulting firm, Lead Through Strengths.

Lisa has a wealth of knowledge and experience in helping business owners, professionals, and organizational leaders restructure their leadership teams, focusing on each individual strengths so they can be more productive throughout the work-day.

Lisa has presented at several speaking engagements around the world, including on the TedX stage. Her strategies to lead through strength have helped thousands of business owners and executives.

In this episode, Lisa shares how she has used her personal experiences from working in the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds to create her business and help her clients lead better, more intentional, and productive teams through strength-based leadership as well as how to utilize Gallup's Strengths Finder Assessment.

You may remember Sonya Jones from the 16th season of the NBC hit reality show, The Biggest Loser. Sonya was the only female finalist on the show in that season, who subsequently lost to Toma Dobrosavljevic, who lost only 0.01% more weight than she did. On today's episode of The Aspiring New Leader Podcast, Sonya shares her journey as a contestant on the show and explains what it was like to fulfill her "secret dream" of becoming a contestant. She explains some of the challenges she had to face throughout the experience – both physically and emotionally – and how the show has positively impacted her life. Today, Sonya is an inspirational public speaker on a mission to help others become motivated to be the "very best version" of themselves.

On today's show, we are talking with Marc Miller, founder of Career Pivot, about the generational echo effects currently happening in today's workforce and how millennial leaders can get past the communication obstacles that often show up at work. As a baby boomer, Marc began his career at IBM, where he spent 22 years working as an engineer before travelling the world and expanding his cultural knowledge within and out of the workplace. After seeing the sights and gaining more experience about how people in different cultures as well as different generations work together, he founded Career Pivot, a career-designed firm for workers in the second half of life. Marc currently focuses on helping baby boomer workers make meaningful career transitions. Today, he shares his thoughts, insights, and tips on how to improve communication throughout the workplace by taking into consideration the generational differences and adapting to them.

It's that time of year again when many entrepreneurs, business owners, and organizational leaders begin to reflect on the previous year's accomplishments, 'big wins', mistakes, and failures and how they could have handled things differently. On today's episode, Dan and Jacob reflect on the mistakes they have made throughout their leadership careers, what they believe they should have done differently, and how you can learn from their mistakes before making them yourselves. Dan also shares his biggest leadership lesson – the importance of networking, and how to network correctly to advance your career.