The Work Ethic

The audio is hard to hear with some of the audience questions but most of it seemed decent enough. I was happy to find this old archive!

Sandye is a master transformational coach for organizational leaders and women entrepreneurs. Her mission is to help people fully actualize their gifts and talents to manifest their greatest impact without sacrificing their experience of personal fulfillment. Jon and Sandye's conversation meandered among some of the deepest questions from the start of their dialogue as Sandye took the intro prompt to introduce herself into the deepest of reflections on the question "who are you?" There really is something here for everyone as they dig into concepts of freedon, identity, sacrifice, struggle, and so much more. Please enjoy this conversation!

You can learn more about Sandy or connect with her at sandyebrown.com

Chico Lopez is a famour breeder of and advocate for the American Pit Bull Terrier. He has given his life to breeding the best of the best to preserve the original Pit DNA. His love and passion for his work is beautiful and listening to him talk about these dogs highlights so many of the virtues that this very show was designed to explore in human beings. We have a lot we can learn from the real American Pit Bull Terrier

Learn more at http://chicolopez.com/

Follow Chico at https://www.instagram.com/realchicolopez/

Dirk is the Director for the Center of Entrepreneurship and the University of South Florida's Muma College of Business. He is passionate about connecting students with both theorists and practitioners as they build their own solutions. This discussion offers a really great look into the ways that universities are building environments incubation and acceleration of the entrepreneurial spirit and enterprises. 

Mauro Costa is the founder and CEO of Bulkitrade, a B2B international trade marketplace focused on connecting emerging brands with international retailers. This is an incredible conversation with Mauro and he shares about the many moves that have led him to where he is today. -enjoy 

Mark E. Leib is, among other things, a playwright that has been producing plays that have been on stages throughout the nation since the 1980. Leib's plays and adaptations have been produced at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village (Art People), the Manhattan Punch Line (Terry by Terry), the American Repertory Theatre (Terry by Terry and adaptations of The Marriage of Figaro, and Platonov) and at the Edinburgh and Singapore Theatre Festivals. His play The Return to Zion was chosen for a staged reading at the Southern New Plays Festival at New Orleans’ Southern Rep, and his play Tongue was a winner in the short play festival at Florida Studio Theatre. Leib was the first playwriting lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Study at Harvard University, and taught playwriting and various drama survey courses for Harvard Extension School from 1981-1990. He received his BA in Government magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was president and poetry editor of the literary magazine The Harvard Advocate, and his MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where he won the CBS Foundation Prize in Playwriting. He now teaches playwriting, screenwriting, and fiction at the University of South Florida. Mark also worked as a theater critic for Creative Loafing in Tampa Bay and Sarasota for more than a decade beginning in 1998. His criticism won six awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, including two first-place statewide Sunshine State Awards for Critical Writing.

This year Mark has a new play and a novel both coming out. Jon and Mark discuss both the play and the novel, among so many other fascinating topics in this conversation. Please enjoy!

I was so excited to have David Dennis (the 2nd most listened to episode) back to siduss his new book, Gameness. 

Gameness | Land on Your Feet, Not on Your Feelings

What's gameness? We often hear the cryptic question, “Got game?” But gameness isn’t just about sports . . . it’s about life. It’s a person’s ability to live beyond the inevitable problems and pains that threaten to derail us from our fullest potential. It’s realizing that God didn’t put us on earth merely to survive . . . but to take charge of our lives! Gameness means living each day with a never-quit mindset, resoluteness to a purpose, a fighting spirit, and the will required to act beyond our feelings. What is it about those who face life’s biggest heartaches and find a way to bounce back and turn setbacks into breakthroughs? They’ve found the secret of making life work, and in this book, David Dennis explains the secret to all of us. These aren’t academic concepts to David. He has lived them, refined them, and now, he’s imparting his wisdom to the rest of us. Buckle up, hold on tight, and be ready to be challenged like never before.

After minting his Jolly Roger, Will prompted this conversation to cover some basic questions that he felt would have made it easier for him to understand and feel comfortable getting started.

Here are some helpful links:

Wallet set up instructions

Down the Rabbit Hole Series

Mint Jolly Rogers at www.wellbuilt.city/jollyroger 

This was a great conversation to kick of 2023! I had the opportunity to join Mark Gesner the President of Community Engagement & Communications at St Leo at his office on campus where he was hosting Isaac McCoy, who among many other things is Dean of Stillman College School of Business. Since Mark assured me that he would be willing to do another episode to dig into his own story and relationship to work, we focused this conversation of Isaac's and  you are in for a treat! -Enjoy

We've discussed doing this for a long time and Ben and I finally got around to recording an episode where he steps in to interview me as a way to add my own story to the cannon of episodes on The Work Ethic Podcast!