The Me-Suite

Donna Peters interviews Dr. Suzy Green, Clinical Psychologist, Founder and CEO of The Positivity Institute and author of The Positivity Prescription: A 6-Week Wellbeing Program Based on the Science of Positive Psychology.

We are living in VUCA times: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.  Dr. Green challenges us to ask, "Am I my usual self?"  And if not, why not, what can I do about it?

Positive Psychology is the science of us us at our best fulfilling our human potential.  Dr. Green discusses the six, science-based, foundations of flourishing:

• Mindfulness
• Mindset
• Mood
• Motivation
• Might
• Meaning

Dr. Green's Core Values: Wisdom, Humility, Energy

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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 community leader, Copland Rudolph.  She shares how she works at keeping her actions aligned with her core values by: creating space to do what's important, getting proximate, saying 'no,' and being present.

Copland is the Executive Director of a not-for-profit foundation focused on equity for all children in the public schools.  She is also a certified fitness instructor and shares her talents with others in her community, including women inmates at the correctional facility.

Reflect on how you're living aligned to your core values:

• are you feeling your feelings?
• are you telling your truth?
• are you keeping your agreements?

Copland's personal mission statement: "I am fully alive in every moment of every day."  

Copland's core values: Well-being, Integrity, Justice

Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Servant Leadership
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
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

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.

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Donna Peters interviews CEO, Lita Dwight, on her path from practicing law, to finding her "big why," to founding the plant-based foods business, Brytlife.  "Doing what you are called to do is the highest expression of yourself."

Lita advises that curiosity is the magic to getting to "your why."  And once you know "your why," take the first step on the invisible bridge, a la Indiana Jones, to pursue  it.  And don't forget to surround yourself with experts.

Brytlife's mission is to achieve a more compassionate and healthier planet through superior non-dairy products that bring joy to customers. 

Lita's Core Values are Freedom, Authenticity and Compassion.

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

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
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Donna Peters interviews Keith Hausmann, Chief Revenue Officer at Globality and Founder of Procurian.  Keith is a dad and entrepreneur who has held multiple C-Suite positions at small and large organizations.  Donna thought she'd be interviewing him on his Procurement and Supply Chain areas of expertise.  Instead, she got a much more valuable "master class" on how to keep things in perspective and be mindful no matter what you do.

Keith's leadership lessons include:

• Have an accomplishment mindset and focus on today--what will you accomplish today?
• Know how to tell your story
• Be deliberate about your legacy
• The body is the temple of the mind
• Life is too short to not have fun

Keith's Core Values are:

1. Do everything with pride and commitment
2. Treat others as you'd want to be treated
3. Go with the flow
4. Keep an open mind

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

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

Donna Peters interviews CEO, Inventor and Mom, Shawn Walker.  Shawn and her horse, Alick, are top-tier champions in the sport of dressage.  Shawn discusses her lifelong passion for horses, training and competing.  She shares wisdom for all of us on keeping our interests, our passions, alive.  She challenges us to think how the opposite is actually true--our interests and passions keep us alive.

• Eliminate the myth that you don't have the time.  You do have the time to pursue your passions
• Don't make excuses to delay "if I only had x, I could start."  Start now.  Take the first small step, make the first call.  Get creative
• In addition to your career and family, you need a silo for yourself.  Set boundaries

Shawn's Core Values: Continuous Improvement, Fairness, Awareness, Learning from Mistakes, Humor

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

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

Me-Suite listeners, this is Donna Peters. First of all, thank you so much for being just that, a Me-Suite listener.  Time is precious.  There are lots of things you could be doing with your time, and you chose to spend it here.  I am grateful.  The Me-Suite is exactly 3 months old this week, and what an amazing ride it has been so far.  We need to eat our own dog food and continue to stay fresh and relevant for the future. 

I need your help in 2 areas:

1) If you love what you're hearing, write a review wherever you get your podcasts.

2) And I need your feedback on what to stop, start and continue doing with the Me-Suite podcast as we look to planning for Season 2 over the next several months.

• What future episode topics would you like to see?
• Are there any changes you'd like to see to the format--changes to the interview format, the length of the episodes, maybe the intro music drives you crazy?
• What would you be expecting in Season 2 of The Me-Suite?

I'd love to hear from you.  You can find me at the The Me-Suite website and email me at [email protected].  

May I hear your thoughts in May?  I will personally respond to all feedback.  It would mean a lot.  And I thank you in advance.

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.

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FB: @mesuite
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In honor of National Nurses Day, Donna Peters interviews nurses for real talk on:

• What are your Nursing superpowers?
• How do you know you've had a good day as a Nurse?
• If you were a patient, what kind of Nurse would you want?
• You know you're really a Nurse when ____ happens?
• What kind of patient are you?
• What would you say to someone interested in pursuing a Nursing career?
• Do you have any advice as we lessen social distancing restrictions?

Thank you to all the Nurses out there.  You show us what work-life balance really means.

Check out other episodes such as:
Are You Doing What You Love
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors

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

Donna Peters interviews Dr. Danielle Dobbin, Owner of Midtown Family Wellness.  Dr. Drobbin, mom of 4, discusses her holistic prescription for living the life you want to live.  "If you're following what drives you in your heart, you'll always be successful."  "If something is your priority, you'll find the time to fit it in."

• Do what you love--life is too short
• Create a vision board once a year to pursue your goals mindfully
• Use daily structure as a tool to fit it all in--family, work, wellness, vacation
• Clear out clutter
• Prioritize financial planning

Danielle's Core Values are Family, Balance, Congruence, Authenticity, Happiness

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

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

Has the quarantine thrown you off your fitness game?  Do you need to reboot your fitness focus after quarantining at the homemade-sour-dough-breadfest?  For National Fitness Day, Donna Peters interviews personal trainer, Jason Rumpf, on the true definition of fitness.   Fitness means you are balancing the SEESAW:

Sleep--good, sound rest
Eating clean foods
Exercise--see the 5 priority movements below
Sunshine--vitamin D
Air--getting outdoors
Water--hydration

PRACTICAL TIPS THAT CUT THROUGH ALL THE MEDIA NOISE AROUND FITNESS

• Learn the 5 priority movements you should master: squatting, upper body push, upper body pull, hinging at the hip, core stabilization
• Hear how a trainer to can help kickstart or reboot your fitness routine in 5 sessions.  And hear alternatives if you can't invest in a trainer right now
• And you don't need fancy equipment
• Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do."   Hear tips for being mindful of your fitness obstacles to make fitness just something you repeatedly do

Jason Rumpf's Core Values: Energy, Balance and Peace.   He can be reached on Facebook and at [email protected]

Check out other episodes such as:
My Top Mentor's Morsels: Work on Yourself First
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

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

Donna Peters interviews her mentor and friend, Adele Gulfo, career C-Suite leader and Board Director.  Adele is a member of the Committee of 200 (C200), an invitation-only organization of the world's most successful women business leaders.  She has dedicated her career to the healthcare industry as a C-Suite leader across geographies and functions.  Her leadership roles have spanned executive suite positions across strategy, business development, innovation, general management and launch.  She serves on multiple Boards in the biopharma arena.  

Adele was Donna's first experience shadowing a leader who transparently worked at balancing an aggressive career and strong family priorities while keeping a focus on physical health.  Donna learned so much early in her career from this mentor and is thrilled to share Adele's uplifting perspectives with the listeners.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Adele takes listeners through the process she went through to identify her Core Values.  She shares an energetic perspective on the value of the Core Values exercise and how to conduct it for yourself if you're not sure where to start.  Adele's Core Values are Vitality, Achievement and Harmony
• To thrive in a career, leaders need positivity, a solutions-oriented mindset and listening skills.  These are the softer skills, which are often the harder skills to master.  And it's the softer skills that drive both the business and its people
• There is nothing more valuable than working on yourself.  Work on yourself first.  Do the Core Values exercise, work with a coach, be prepared to let leaders know what drives you, so they can help you get what you want and need
• You are the average of the 5 people you spend time with.  Make sure it's the right people
• Adele offers advice, especially for female listeners, to ensure you get P&L experience in your role rotations.  P&L experience is highly sought when appointing Board members, and companies need more female Board members

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

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