The Me-Suite

Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Richard Culberson about how he made significant, non-linear career moves--from engineering to consulting to industry, from strategy to operations, different industries, different functions. Richard shares nuggets around:

• be a collector of people and experiences
• listen when others see things in you that you don't see in yourself
• balance your  teaching to learning ratio

Richard's core values are: stay true to yourself, embrace challenges, be positive but ask why.

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Your host, Donna Peters, chats with the wonderful, thoughtful, Sandy Hernandez. By sharing her career journey, Sandy encourages us to:

--give yourself permission to figure out what you want to do
--think of time off as a catapult, not a step back
--remember co-workers are human beings
--we all have rough defining moments in our lives...it's how we respond to them that matters
--amp up your creativity with 3 specific tips

Sandy is a Retail innovation strategist with a Wharton MBA. She is the founder of The Retail Muse Project. Her core values are Passion, Intuition, Curiosity, Curation, Respect.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Jessica Hartley, VP of Strategy.  Jessica shares how she takes her strategic planning skills and applies them to life planning. We cover important dimensions including:

• Life is about choices and how you choose to respond to what happens.
• It's not good enough to think about your North Star or to only say it, you have to write it down (goal-setting, roadmap, priorities, timing, your personal brand outside of your current role).
• We are a community. We don't get here by ourselves. You can't do it alone--you need people and support.
• DE&I is a way of life and an evolution. We all code-switch.

Jessica's core values are HOT: honest, open, and transparent. Jessica's podcast is Hustle, Grind, Shine and Reignite.

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This episode discusses mental health, and is not appropriate for small children.  

Your host, Donna Peters, chats with career veterinarian, Dr. Jodi.  There's a lot we're learning about wellness and mental health at work...but too little is being discussed about the professionals who do so much for the animals we love. Here we talk about the impact that the pandemic is having on us as pet owners and on the veterinary profession (70% of whom are female). You'll think differently about the vets in our lives after this powerful discussion.

Pets are family and have played a feature role in our home lives and work-from-home lives. Indeed, 70% of US households have a pet. Many households welcomed a pet for the first time during the pandemic, and many are bonding even more closely with their furry kids as we spend more time together at home working and playing. And what about the veterianarians, and the wonderful impact they have on us at our time of need? And what about the statistic that 1 in 6 vets has contemplated suicide, and vets are ~3x more likely to die by suicide than the general population.

We also have some fun with pet names:).

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Announcing The Me-Suite book release: Options are Power: Career Strategies for High Performers Who Want a Life.  What a relevant time in our society for this book for you or someone you care about. And there's a bonus chapter with advice from The Me-Suite community where we curate counsel across the various seasons of the podcast.

In gargantuan gratitude.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Brad Pawlowski, dad of two girls, senior leader, brewmaster. Brad shares his personal experiences growing as an ally and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. We discuss leadership lessons such as:

• start with listening
• participate, show up
• invest time with people
• go beyond the monetary in career discussions
• recognize we are both mental and physical beings

Brad's core values are: positive, disciplined, generous

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Your host, Donna Peters, and return guest, Sissi Chen Jennings, review 7 different ways Me-Suite guests conduct strategic planning as a family each year. So many great ideas curated in this episode for being intentional about your personal and professional goals and achieving them as a family.

1. CEO Meg Powell's three pages
2. Partner Mike Malinchock's hundreds list
3. Dr. Danielle Drobbin's vision board
4. Dr. Lubna Rashid's hell yes approach
5. President and COO Dipak Patel's placing bets
6. VP Sam Finley's "I'll need your help" approach
7. Managing Director Sissi Chen Jenning's concentric circles

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You'll feel so great about the future of work and business when you hear this guest. Your host, Donna Peters, chats with Jasmine Burton about her passion to be in business for good. Jasmine is a design engineer and entrepreneur in the sanitation space #everybodypoops. Jasmine is the founder of Wish for WASH, winner of the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize Competition, and winner of 30 Under 30 in the nonprofit sector. She is featured in CNN Money, Wired, FastCompany, and on the TEDx stage. In this episode, we discuss B-Corp certification and aligning personal values with company values. We also discuss the critical need for empathy and resilience in the for-profit and nonprofit arenas.

Jasmine's core values include Empathy and a focus on the UN's SDGs 3, 5, 6 (sustainable development goals): Health, Gender Equality, and Sanitation.

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Start your 2022 with this listen! Your host, Donna Peters, talks to Tim Connors about the restorative powers of taking a Leave of Absence (LOA). This is such a timely episode as we are all working in the era called the Great Resignation, We are reassessing and reflecting on our own self-care and the role we want work to play in our lives. Tim shares how he moved from a shocking period of apathy to being the person he always thought he was--with calm, maturity and clarity. Tim encourages us to write down where we are (physically, emotionally mentally) and to say out loud the changes we need.

Tim's core values are integrity, accountability, respect, stewardship, listening, and empathy. His characteristics include 'grinding it out' with the best team, best idea, and an action orientation.

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Your host, Donna Peters, sits down with college career counselor, Everette Fortner. We talk about one of the biggest questions when you're 18-22: "What am I going to do with the rest of my life?" Everette applies principles of design thinking to help early career/young adults design their life in three steps:

• clarifying
• exploring
• prototyping

Everette challenges students (and parents) to think about:

• If anything were possible, what would I be doing after college?
• What are my three possible lives?
• What is the design criteria for creating those three possible lies for myself?
• What is my passion? What gives me energy?
• Where do I start figuring out my career next steps?
• How important is my major?
• How important is that first job out of college?

And of course, we talk about the important role parents play at this life stage.

Everette's core values: family first, energy; exploring.

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