The Me-Suite

Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Liz Tinkham, host of the Third Act podcast. What a helpful, super relevant discussion--whether you're 30, 40, or 50. Liz, an early-retired senior executive and mom of three, challenges us to be deliberate in how we use our time, treasure, and talent throughout the stages of our lives. From maximimizing earnings potential in our 30s, to thinking ahead in our 40s, to being ready in our 50s. This episode meets you where you are. Some highlights include:

--pretirement vs retirement
--talking to your honey about money
--our changing relationship with work

Liz's core values are: curiosity, humility, and stewardship.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Ben Bars, CEO of We Are Unity.  Ben's organization helps companies drive transformation through people. This timely discussion focuses on leadership and the moments that matter for employees and customers. The two groups are more interconnected than ever in this era called the Great Resignation, the Great Reassessment, the Great Reflection. Ben shares the critical role leaders play in creating psychological safety at work and truly showing interest in the other person. Ben challenges us to authentically mean it the next time we ask someone, "How are you?" And create an environment where people feel trusted to answer honestly when asked, "How are you?"

Ben's core values are: trust, transparency, and don't sweat the small stuff.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Managing Director and business transformation leader, Tina Nguyen Beaumont. Tina is the recipient of the 2019 Minority Business Leader Award and career-long sponsor of an Inclusion & Diversity mindset, including Women and Asia-Pacific talent priorities. Tina shares powerful stories of her family's Vietnamese heritage and other important influences on her leadership style. She encourages leaders to:

• give people space
• love the gray
• be ok with being wrong
• be thankful
• return kindness

Tina's core values are: authenticity, listen & collaborate, be challenged

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This talk about Pressure will actually relax you. Your host, Donna Peters, interviews CEO, lecturer, author, Dane Jensen, in this riveting conversation on pressure. We cover fascinating stories and research around:

• stress versus pressure
• the pressure equation: importance + uncertainty + volume
• using pressure to your advantage
• regret minimization
• stories from executives, Navy SEALS, and Olympic athletes
• how shaping perspective is the true role of a leader

Dane is the author of The Power of Pressure: Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution. His core values: high standards, responsibility, integrity, developmental bias

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Kofi Osei, organization effectiveness expert, husband, dad, Ghananian-Ugandan-American. We go to several super-interesting places in this discussion:

• building awareness of others' experiences
• understanding our differences
• introverts and the need to recharge
• setting expectations in the face of uncertainty
• laughing--here we laugh a lot

Kofi's core values are: listen more than you speak, share what you've learned with others, don't take for granted the relationships you've been gifted.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews, Sam Finley: VP, P&L owner, mom of 3, and Iron Man competitor.

Sam shares funny, humble, insightful stories about life, marriage, family, health and career. From a double-hip replacement before the age of 40, to competing in the Iron Man. From annual visioning exercises with her husband, to leading a P&L, to parenting 3 young ones. 

Sam's core values are empathy, humor, and humility.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Angie Flynn-McIver, author of Before You Say Anything: How to Have Better Conversations, Love Public Speaking, and Finally Know What to Do With Your Hands.

I don't know a single executive who isn't working on communication effectiveness. Angie helps us improve our most important conversations through practical advice anchored in Intention, Alignment, and Practice. A hot-listen and must-read for leaders seeking to impact change.

Angie's core values are Connection, Curiosity, and Meaningful Work.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Julio Carrillo, COO of Families First.  He shares the power of giving others a voice, being in service, and taking a pause. Julio recalls the key moments and leaders who gave a Latino, immigrant, gay man a chance.

Julio's leadership accolades include:

• 500 Most Powerful Leaders 2021
• 50 Most Influential Latinos in Georgia
• 40 Under 40 Atlanta
• Appointed to the Forbes Non-profit Council

Julio's Core Values are Integrity, Flexibility, Commitment, Forgiveness, Contribution.

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This is Donna Peters, and I'm thrilled to have you back for Season 4 of the award-winning Me-Suite podcast. We've just been named finalist for Best Business Podcast and Best Overall Podcast for 2021, and my book launches January 2022. The title is Options are Power: Career Strategies for High Performers Who Want to Life. Some portions of the book will reference research we've conducted across the various seasons of the podcast and its 150+ guests. Thank you to all of you listeners and guests. I hope that you can feel my hug of gratitude from way over here.

This season, we continue to shine a mic on career-driven life minded professionals. You will hear individuals who are marshaling their personal core values, they're keeping their day to day running smoothly, and they're staying fresh and relevant for the future that they want to have. C-Suites lead the most admired companies with these very intentions. And you and I should do the same thing for our own personal lives for our own Me-Suite, as I call it.

In Season 4, we will learn from professionals across all dimensions of diversity. You'll hear the wins and the warts from real people cultivating the role they want work to play in their lives. It's putting work to work for us really.

If you have ideas for topics you'd like to discuss this season, contact me at the-me-suite.com or LinkedIn. I'd love to hear from you. And remember, 5-star ratings and reviews keep us alive out here. They really do make a difference.

Thank you for having me back in your ear for Season 4. Let's get in there.

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This Season 3 finale is a montage of our diverse guests’ wisdom.   Season 3 Greatest Hits!

Every guest interview ends with the question: “What advice do you have for things we can start doing differently on Monday to lead with a Me-Suite mindset?”  This finale brings it all together--a  listener favorite for sure.
 
For more information on The Me-Suite career and leadership coaching services, visit me at the-me-suite.com and follow me on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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