The xMonks Drive

How grateful are you to be in the moment? Being grateful goes far beyond saying thank you. It is a choice and so is happiness. On this episode of The xMonks Drive Podcast, our guest Chris Palmore unravels all this Thanksgiving.

Chris Palmore is a gratitude conductor, coach, creator, and author. He is the founder of GratitudeSpace and a host on GratitudeSpace Radio. He has a Media And Performing Arts Degree and a minor in Video and Broadcasting from Savannah College of Art and Design and is a proud member of The International Alliance of Theater and Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.). He lives with his wife, Rocío, in Louisville, KY.

Chris traveled to different states and countries looking for people who were willing to share what they were grateful for. He interviewed many, young and old, rich and poor, sick and healthy, male and female, from all walks of life and posted the videos of these interviews on his website and on different social media platforms. He met a lot of interesting people in the process, and the more he got involved in his quest for gratitude stories, the more determined he became to share these experiences with others.

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Are we coming from a place of self-authenticity, or are our ego-patterns leading the way? Are we elevating our levels of consciousness?  And how would we be able to tell? Leon VanderPol joins us on the xMonks Drive to discuss how consciousness and profound awakening can unlock a whole new paradigm of leadership potential.

Leon VanderPol (PCC) is an internationally known coach trainer, transformational coach, coach mentor, and founder of the Center for Transformational Coaching.

He runs the Deep Coaching Intensive, a professional coach training and personal growth journey developed to help coaches learn the art of deep transformational coaching and to facilitate profound inner growth and awakening. He has over a decade of experience as a coach trainer, and mentor.

He is the author of A Shift in Being: The Art and Practices of Deep Transformational Coaching, a new paradigm of coaching which invites people to drop below surface-level engagement, explore the boundaries
of their existence, and tap into their most authentic self. 

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You have to let life happen. Jerry Colonna adds that in between life happening and decisions we make, one cannot be a strong leader unless you allow yourself to grow, and this can only happen by leading a life examined. Hear more of life and leadership with Jerry at The xMonks Drive podcast.

Jerry is the founder and CEO of Reboot.io Inc. He is a certified professional coach, drawing on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their careers to improve their performance and satisfaction. He established his coaching practice in 2007. Prior to this work, He was a venture capitalist focused on investing in early-stage technology-related startups.

 In 2002, Colonna became a partner with J.P. Morgan Partners (JPMP), the private-equity arm of J.P. Morgan Chase where he led the firm’s investments in companies such as ProfitLogic Inc. Colonna served as a director at ProfitLogic until its purchase by Oracle Inc.

Colonna also serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Naropa University. Naropa University comprises a four-year undergraduate college and graduate programs in the arts, education, environmental leadership, psychology and religious studies. It is the only accredited Buddhist-inspired university in North America.

He also serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Tibetan Village Project, a not-for-profit, non-political organization dedicated to creating sustainable livelihoods for Tibetans through social entrepreneurship and educational opportunities.

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You can not predict the future, you can only create one. Francisco Palao's mantra to a purpose-driven life is a mindset built to make an impact. 

Francisco Palao (PhD, MBA) is an award-winning innovator and a purpose-driven entrepreneur and his purpose is to evolve humanity through technology, social change, and love.

Francisco has founded several companies, including Cognocare (an award-winning AI-based assistant to personalize cancer treatments), LeanMonitor (a cloud-based platform acquired by Gust.com in 2014 and aimed at helping big organizations and startups to implement lean startup principles and to improve their innovation techniques/strategies), Nativoo (an AI-based platform for personalized tourism, acquired by SBTUR in 2012) and IActive (a high-tech company focused on AI and named Cool Vendor by Gartner in 2012).

In addition, Francisco collaborates with leading business schools and universities, such as Singularity University and IE Business School teaching entrepreneurship, disruptive innovation, and exponential technologies.

Francisco has been honored with several prestigious international recognitions, such as the TR35 award given by MIT to innovators under 35 all over the world. 

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A coaching conversation is powerful yet enigmatic. It can set the client on the path of transformation and awareness. Tracy Sinclair will reveal the profound effects and dynamics of a coaching conversation in this new episode. 

Tracy Sinclair is a corporate executive and board-level coach, as well as a leadership development designer and facilitator, who has worked with a wide range of organizations within the UK and internationally. Drawing on her broad experience in the field across the last two decades, Tracy works with business leaders and executives to support and enhance their professional and personal development. 
 
As a well-established Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Tracy uses her extensive knowledge to train coaches and assist managers and leaders in developing their coaching capability. She is a published author and co-authored Becoming a Coach, the Essential ICF Guide published in 2020 which provides a comprehensive guide to coaching for coaches at all levels of skill and experience, the psychology that underpins coaching, and the updated ICF Core Competency Model. Tracy also specializes in working with organizations to support the development of coaching culture and is an expert speaker on these topics. 
 
Tracy is also dedicated to the development of the coaching profession and the coaching community. In recognition of her efforts, she was named as one of the Leading Global Coaches winners of the Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Awards of 2019 and is a nominee for the Thinkers50 Coaching and Mentoring Award in 2021 .

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Did you ever come across a guitarist turned a motivational speaker? This is an episode dedicated to redemption and transformation with Jay Jay French of Twisted Sisters and Steve Farber. 

John "Jay Jay" French is a Keynote and Motivational Speaker, Reinvention Expert, Entrepreneur, and Founding member of the renowned heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He has a unique perspective on business leadership based on my 40+ years of experience with Twisted Sister (as Manager, Guitarist, and Director of Licensing, Publishing & Touring), as well as being a producer/executive producer/manager of rock bands. I’m also the founder of The Pink Burst Project, a nonprofit.

Steve is the President of Extreme Leadership, Inc, and the founder and chairman of The Extreme Leadership Institute, organizations devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders around the world. His accessible, deeply inspirational, and eminently practical Radical LEAP framework is widely used across the business, non-profit and education spectrum. Farber has been credited with redefining leadership in deeply personal yet practical terms and re-energizing thousands of people to make a significant difference in their businesses, lives, and the world around them.

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The only thing that keeps a leader from achieving is their own fears. Pursuit of inhibitions drives a leader, Listen to Kara and her definition of being Undaunted and above Doubts in her leadership journey. 

Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint® water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has been named one of InStyle’s Badass 50, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fortune's Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Kara has successfully navigated the world of large companies and startups in many industries including media, tech, and consumer products. In addition, she understands retail and direct to consumer well. She is an active speaker & writer and hosts the podcast The Kara Goldin Show where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs, and other disruptors across various industries. Kara’s first book, Undaunted, published by Harper Leadership, was released in October 2020. She lives in the Bay Area. 

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The winner of any strategy is the ability of a leader to bring everyone towards a center. As vast as digital experiences have become, the center is the people. In this episode, we will discuss how digital and real have permeated. 

Raj De Datta is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bloomreach, the leading digital experience platform for e-commerce that powers 25% of retail e-commerce in the United States and the United Kingdom. Before creating Bloomreach, he worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mohr-Davidow Ventures, as Cisco's head of product marketing, and as a member of the founding team of telecom business FirstMark Communications. He also worked at Lazard Freres in technology investment banking. Raj is a Founder Partner at seed-stage venture capital firm Founder Collective and an individual investor in over 20 Silicon Valley startups. He also serves on the US Tennis Association's Council for Player Development.

Raj is the author of the upcoming book from Columbia University Press, “The Digital Seeker” which is a guide for digital teams to build winning experiences. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with a certificate in Public Policy and International affairs from Princeton University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. 

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Meet the team coaching genius and a man of true coaching essence, David Clutterbuck on The xMonks Drive podcast. Learn the definition of coaching, vision, and more in this new episode.

Professor David Clutterbuck is credited with introducing sponsored mentorship to Europe in the early 1980s. He combines a wealth of research-based knowledge and experience to deliver a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to coaching, mentoring, and talent management as an EMCC Master Practitioner (EIA, ESIA, and IPMA).
David is the author or co-author of almost 70 books. He is a visiting professor in four universities’ departments of coaching and mentoring – Henley Business School, Oxford Brookes, Sheffield Hallam, and York St John – as well as a visiting lecturer at a number of overseas universities. David is a practice lead at Coaching and Mentoring International Limited, a global network of researchers, trainers, and consultants specializing in coaching and mentoring in over 100 countries.

David’s current research interests include coach maturity transitions, the role of artificial intelligence in coaching, the ripple impact of mentoring, and the democratization/decolonization of coaching. Among his numerous humanitarian endeavors is the goal of establishing five million coaches and mentors for children in elementary school.

Outside of work, David’s hobbies include the use of humor for social and emotional well-being, authoring children’s books, ice skating, and traveling to distant regions of the world. Each year, he sets a new learning objective for himself.

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Andrew Scheffer has the unique distinction of being born in New York, educated at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania, and has traveled the world training with leading self-help teachers over the course of 30+ years of his life, including (over 10,000 hours) in silent intensive meditation retreats.

But Andrew didn't leave his practice in the retreat centers. He took what he learned there and applied it to the high-pressure work environments and family situations that most of us experience daily at work and at home in relationships and while parenting.

Since 2001, he has coached executives, entrepreneurs, health care workers, students, and even spouses seeking a higher level solution for anxiety, stress, and the frustration of everyday struggles that we all face in today's world. Andrew helps people develop their own strengths of mind to find the answers they need within themselves.  

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