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Donna Peters interviews serial entrepreneur and adventurer, Franziska Iseli, on her latest book, The Courage Map: 13 Principles to Living Boldly. Sir Richard Branson wrote the foreward and echoes the criticality of being courageous in all we do.   Some highlights include:

• Courage is a skill that can be learned.  
• Butterflies in the stomach means you're growing.
• Courage is feeling fear about something and doing it anyway by taking calculated risks.
• We need courage now more than ever to face the conversations we need to be having in our global community.
• We all need to take more chances.  Take more shots.  

Franziska recognizes that everyone has different "courage boundaries."  For some, the monumental fear may be speaking to a stranger.  For others, the fear may be learning to swim.  In this episode, Franziska talks about one of the courage principles, Kindness.  Donna highlights her favorites of the 13 principles: Stories, Intention and Non-attachment.

Franziska is co-founder of multiple businesses in the marketing and brand strategy space.  She is on the Board of the Entrepreneur Organization (EO) and support her passion for sustainability by serving on panels at the university level and with the United Nations.  Born in Switzerland, she has traveled to over 100 countries and now resides in Australia.

Franziska's core values are: love unconditionally, trust, freedom, courage, evolution and impact.

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Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader

The Me-Suite listeners have requested an episode on Change.  Donna Peters hosts a panel discussion with innovation expert, Julian Gonzalez, and organizational psychologist, Dr. Robert Stroud, on the concept of Change:

1. How does our brain respond when we are faced with changes?

• Our brains have natural instincts when faced with something new and different.  

2. Why is change often uncomfortable?

• Recognize that any change has interdependent impacts.  

3. How can we run towards change as a positive?  

• Mindset is important to seeing change as a growth opportunity. 
• Create rituals

Julian Gonzalez' Core Values are: Curiosity, Purpose, Adventure

Dr. Robert Stroud's Core Values are:

• Effort matters
• Team first
• Control the controllables
• Don't waste a day
• Pay it forward

Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and career coaching services.  Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors

This episode covers a top Me-Suite listener request: advice from Human Resources on career pathing and job searching. Donna Peters interviews HR executive, Karen Rice, on how best to get what you want.  This topic is very timely as people face job insecurities or may not have exactly what they want right now.  Karen's discusses:

• Be a problem-solver first and foremost.  No matter your position or function, know the dynamics of the business, what drives the business, and identify ways you can contribute to the most important questions in the business. Be relevant.
• Network, network, network--people are good and want to help.  Ask for help.
• People love to be asked to share their advice.  Ask for advice.
• Break your routines--take calculated risks
• Speak up for yourself--advocate for what you want--ask for the raise, ask for the promotion--the worst that happens is that you hear "no"

Karen's Core Values are: Balance, Respect and Giving Back.  She is on the Board of Claire's Army fighting for children living with cancer.

Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and career coaching services.  Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors

Donna Peters partners with Amy Easton to address listeners' career questions.  Amy is a Sydney-based psychology graduate, human capital expert and StrengthsFinder coach.  Donna is currently coaching clients through COVID19 'surprises,' and like many, Amy recently had a career 'surprise' herself.  

Donna and Amy take on the most frequent Me-Suite listener questions around career and today's job market, including:

• I thought I had a job.  Now I don't.  How should I be thinking about Plan B?
• Should I take the job offer I have right now, or wait for the role I really want?
• How do I make the most out of a job that isn't really right for me?
• I feel stuck where I am and need a change.  How do I get unstuck?

We share personal experiences and helpful mindset models for making decisions when you're at a crossroads--such as the brain's need for safety, the concept of self-limiting beliefs and the SCARF model: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, fairness.

Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and career coaching services.  Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power

Today, anyone can look up information, but it takes a special brain/heart connection to make sense of that information and lead constructively based on that information.  In this episode, Donna Peters interviews, Dr. Sarah Schrank, Professor of History.  Dr. Schrank has taught thousands of our next-generation leaders in the largest and most diverse educational system in the United States, focusing on urban history with a passion for building students' skills in:

• navigating and evaluating the bombardment of information/stimuli
• making connections between the past and the present in context
• civic citizenship

Dr. Schrank advises our next-generation leaders to be organized, stay focused on the task at hand and ask for help. 

She is a yoga instructor and author of Free & Natural: the American Cult of the Body.  Her Core Values are: Loyalty, Conscientiousness, Self-Awareness

Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and career coaching services.  Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors

Donna Peters partners with Precious Price for an interview with Tonia Morris, Founder of Simply HR and 2019 Stevie Award Winner for Maverick of the Year.

Tonia advises on workplace culture and originated the concept of G&I: generational inclusion.  Tonia recognized the need for G&I as biases, misunderstandings and tensions exist across the five generations in today's workforce.  Tonia knows we need one another, that we have more in common than we do differences.  "We need to all get along so we can all belong."

Tonia encourages leaders to adopt the CARE model to gain the most from the multi-generational workforce: Communicate, Appreciate, Respect, Engage.  

Note: this episode was recorded during COVID-19 and prior to the racism pandemic.  Follow Tonia for more on how CEOs and professionals in the workforce can create solutions for both pandemics.

Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and career coaching services.  Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors

Donna Peters interviews Me-Suite fan, father and leader, Mike Malinchock.  Hear what a me-suite mindset means to Mike and what episodes have resonated with him.  Mike is always great for fun ideas and quotables, and this episode doesn't disappoint.

• "Real people are amazing."
• "Mindset is a personal choice."
• "Do hard things."
• "Make a hundreds list."

Mike and two of his boys launch a cross-country bicycle trip this summer to benefit the Be Loud! Sophie Foundation which supports teen and young adult cancer patients and their families. Visit Bike Loud to follow their biking and camping adventures and support the cause.  Mike, his wife Laura, and their boys Wesley, Evan and Cole thank you.

Mike's Core Values: Adventure Over Anxiety, Authenticity, Togetherness

Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and career coaching services.  Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors

Have you ever met someone and thought, "Wow, the future is in great hands with this amazing person?"  That's how I felt when I met Hilal Koc Savci.  She is a Me-Suite role model, career maverick and start-up expert.  Hilal is truly a global citizen of the world having lived in the US, Turkey, Argentina, Russia and the UK.  She is passionate about driving technology trends to improve lives and has contributed her talents to some of the most influential businesses in the world, including LinkedIn and Facebook. Hilal challenges us to write the headline we want to see for ourselves and take a leap of faith to achieve it.  And most wisely, she encourages us not to think of a career as a straight-line path, but rather as a mosaic of experiences and options we create by pulling on our strengths.

Hilal's core values: Curiosity, Passion, Humility 

Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and career coaching services.  Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power

Donna Peters brings back popular Episode #6 guest, Dipak Patel.  Here in episode #49,  Dipak talks about the power in having the mindset of a Chief Strategy Officer.

A Me-Suite mindset requires asking:

• Where do I want to be in the future? 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years?
• What bets do I need to place now to get to that future?  These bets could be about the company you work for, the people you surround yourself with, the knowledge you acquire, the experiences you gain, the personal priorities you place around family, health, finances, etc.

Dipak challenges us to ask smart questions and surround ourselves with people who make us better.  Listen also to Dipak's initial episode #6 on Having a Growth Mindset.

Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and career coaching services.  Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power

Donna Peters interviews Sissi Chen Jennings.  Sissi shares how to think like the Chief Strategy Officer of your own life.  She sees that the rigor used by Chief Strategy Officers (CSO) actually gives us more flexibility.  For a CSO mindset, Sissi advises us to:  

• set your personal vision and direction (and as a family if others are involved)
• define a plan to achieve the vision
• check in on that plan with family meetings
• know when to say "no" if something isn't aligned to your vision

Sissi's Core Values are: Family, Responsibility, Achievement, Personal Growth.  Sissi wisely acknowledges there are times our core values may be in conflict with each other and shares how to work through those uncomfortable moments.

Sissi is a career strategy consultant and founder of Xi Strategies & Coaching.

Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded.  Subscribe to the podcast.  Visit our blog and career coaching services.  Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.

www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power