the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast

This UNCORK conversation with my friend and your historian Craig Minchin is inspired by the awfulness of 10 days and an adventure of 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.

Craig and I UNCORK some exquisite Irish whiskey and American bourbon and chat about the amazingly insightful and inspiring life and work of one of the foremost female journalists of the 19th century. Nellie Bly (born in 1864) found the truth in what we wish was fiction and the fact in the fiction book that inspired her to circle the globe.

During our conversation, we press into these ideas: What being a voice for the voiceless and risking your safety and sanity can do for others. How being both selfless and selfish is a reality for all of us. And how the frailty of our humanity honestly expressed can motivate and inspire everyone around us.

Nellie Bly was driven to uncover uncomfortable truths and inspired to make fiction fact. She went undercover & around the world. She had real chutzpah and wrote and spoke “truth to the power” before it was a thing. And she harnessed the energy of her curiosity and married it with courage and compassion to create social change.

Pour a drink and get ready to work more and talk less. Get ready to move from articulation to action and turn what seems like just “fantasy” into “reality” for you and others.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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This 5 MINUTE & 6 SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY episode explores this provocative and powerful question and idea; How do you identify the "pollinators" in your "ecosystem" and partner with them.

Why? Because you need "pollinators," you need "bees."

You must engage and enlist the people who influence other people early and often. You need the people that others tend to look to, are naturally attracted to or have an affinity for in your "ecosystem" to help spread the "word." So take your idea to them first. Let them smell it. Let them taste it. Let them touch it and let them "rub up" against that idea in such a way that when you start to try to communicate that idea or that strategy or that new thing you want to do, they come alongside when you're not there and they "pollinate" and help grow and fertilize it.

Please overlook the rawness of the audio I recorded on my iPhone at the picnic table at my campsite. I just had to get this little idea out of my head.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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UNENDERS are and were WEAVERS.

Listen to this episode, and you will discover the 3 Wonderous gifts the UNENDING WEAVER gives to you and me.

Firstly, they give us the gift of PARTNERS & PARTNERING. They help us see that the tapestry of our interconnected lives is a weaving. Connect you and me with other threads. And they weave their ideas and ideals in and through you and me.

The second gift the UNENDING WEAVER gives us is of PATTERNING & PATTERNS. They help us identify and address good and bad patterns in our lives. Teach you to “pattern match” with people. And they teach you to be a patient weaver.

And the third gift the UNENDING WEAVERS give us is the gift of PERSPECTIVE & PERCEPTION. They instruct and implore us to understand that there are no mistakes in the weaving. Encourage you to relax and submit to the “stretch” of the loom of life. Remind you and me that sometimes we all sabotage our own tapestry. And they equip and encourage us to alter our vantage point and come around with them to see the “finished” side of the tapestry.

UNENDING WEAVERS encourage you and help you to turn the rug and the tapestry and look at it from the other side, the finished side. We look at our lives from the back side of the tapestry. See loose threads and messy knots. We see backwards patterns and unmatched and uncoordinated colours. UNENDING WEAVERS encourage us, sometimes with a “prophetic urgency,” to turn it around, flip it over, and see the “other side” … the wonderous and, of course, beautifully flawed tapestry that you and I are becoming .... a tapestry with just the correct number of mistakes. With just enough room for the Spirit, the divine, and with enough mercy and graciousness for ourselves and others to enter in and make us more human. A powerfully beautiful fabric garment that has discovered and embraced the interconnective tapestries of our lives. Not just as a single and separate piece of cloth but as one small piece in one epic weaving of all of humanity for all of history. UNIQUE HOMO SAPIENS who fully know that we are one thread and in need of others because, as a rich reminder of this, our UNENDING WEAVERS have woven themselves into us before they died.

UNENDERS are and were WEAVERS. And if you and I become WEAVERS NOW … Wise Weavers who enable and encourage everyone around us to see the wondrous beauty of the finished side of the tapestry of our lives, we can and will become UNENDING legacy leavers. UNENDERS in the lives of many people we encounter in this life.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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Leaders need to stop fooling themselves; they don't really believe their employees are "customers" because they think their employees always have to "buy" into what they're saying and selling.

In this 4-minute and 38-second mini NITTY-GRITTY, we discover the 5 things that great leaders must "sell" to their employees. Because if they don't "buy" in ... you and your team will fail.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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What do you "lean" into? What are you "leaning" into in this season?

In this 4-minute and 39-second mini NITTY-GRITTY, we explore why the 23.5-degree tilt of the earth is so important and why our personal, professional, and organizational "tilt" is as well.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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This episode is an eye-opening and practical chat with my colleague and consulting partner Amanda Macdougall about a bad habit, a very bad leadership and management habit that drives your very best employees to the brink and maybe even to drink.

Ponder these provocative questions with us: When is a gift not a gift? When is a reward not so rewarding? And why do leaders and managers sometimes reward their best and hardest working employees with the work that others fail to do?

In this conversation, Amanda and I unpack some practical and tactical frameworks that will enable leaders, managers, overachieving employees, and underachieving ones to navigate the waters of workload distribution and personal efficiency and effectiveness. And the sometimes tricky and difficult performance conversations that must happen to create a healthier and happier team.

Listen in as we explore and learn: What drives a leader to choose this bad workload and people management strategy? How some employees are protecting themselves from the generous gift of their colleagues' work? And how testing our beliefs, proactively articulating expectations, and encouraging everyone to hold their own feet to the fire is the best way forward.

Grab a coffee, and let me tell you the tales of woe that birthed this conversation. And don't worry, names have been withheld to protect and incent and the not so incent.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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UNENDERS are and were RUNNERS.

Listen to this episode, and you will discover why RUNNERS are not afraid to put their success in your hand and trust you to run well with "it" and them. And how they help you and others learn the skills and secrets required to get out of the blocks and into a fast stride; get rid of "toxins," and "oxygenate" yourself to run farther and longer in life. And to understand the wisdom of pace and rhythm and how to rest even as you run the long "race" of life.

UNENDERS are and were RUNNERS. And if you and I can become RUNNERS NOW, with and for others, RUNNERS who set the pace, race, and place our baton in the hands of others, we can and will become UNENDING legacy leavers. UNENDERS in the lives of many people we encounter in this life.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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UNENDERS are and were DIGGERS.

In this, the 7th episode in a 14-part series, we explore another of the 13 characteristics, the actions, and the passions of those who are UNENDING legacy leavers. the UNCOMMODIFIED. the UNENDERS, who even though many of them are gone now, they are still alive with me.

UNENDERS are and were DIGGERS. And if you and I can become DIGGERS NOW ... DIGGERS who unearth, uncover and help people discover the shit and the silver, the poop and the platinum under the surface of their lives, we can and will become UNENDING legacy leavers. UNENDERS in the lives of many people we encounter in this life.

Listen to this episode, and you will discover how DIGGERS are like Archeologists and Geologists in the lives of people they inspire and influence. Discover the "tools " they use to dig down to "bedrock" and what their "digging" up helps you and me rediscover and refresh in our lives.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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This episode is entitled "UNBRANDED & UNBRIDLED: Living and Leading the Maverick Way" it's an UNCORK Conversation with consultant, trainer, mentor, speaker, and author Judith Germain.

Judith is a "Mindful Maverick" who amplifies impact and influence - hers, mine, and yours.

Judith and I set this conversation free and ride full-on into the world where Mavericks run free and wild for the sake of others.

Ride with us along the trail, and you will discover what a Maverick is and how they use their superpowers to get it done, get it done right for you and them, and have a heap load of fun.

Along the way, you will discover that some of you are Mavericks by personality and some Mavericks by leadership. And how socialized Mavericks adapt to create more significant impact and influence.

Near the end of my conversation with Judith, I step into the "confessional" as I have an epiphany about how I parented my daughter into a "princess box" and ultimately muted her inner Maverick for many years. After all, only men are mavericks. Right. NO. Absolutely WRONG.

Grab a glass of water and get ready to run wild and free. UNBRANDED & UNBRIDLED: Living and Leading the Maverick Way.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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UNENDERS are and were BELIEVERS.

Listen to this episode, and you will discover how belief and being a believer in and for others will impact and influence them today ... tomorrow ... and even when you are dead and gone.

Together we will discover the practical things that believers do that empower and demonstrate their belief in others. And we also examine the possibilities and potential that are unlocked when you are cheering others on and articulating and expressing your fanatic faith in them.

In this, the 6th episode in a 14-part series, we explore another of the 13 characteristics, the actions, and the passions of those who are UNENDING legacy leavers. the UNCOMMODIFIED. the UNENDERS, who even though many of them are gone now, they are still alive with me.

UNENDERS are and were BELIEVERS. And if you and I can become BELIEVERS NOW … in others and in their ability to do anything they put their heart and soul into and onto ... We can and will become UNENDING legacy leavers. UNENDERS in the lives of many people we encounter in this life.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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