Thought Leader

Thought Leader

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Thought Leader episodes

  • 101. Theresa Bailey & Regrowing Creativity and Connection

    🌞 Flowers, play dough, and Theresa’s interesting background. 00:46

    🖐 Pyramid of playdough: sessions and workshops with Hasbro. 02:03

    🤔 Theresa’s work with homeless people brought some questions to her. 03:21

    😇 Working with teams, facilitating for 20 years, and the research Theresa uses in her work. 06:38

    💧 Power of adapting: we are not evolving fast enough to deal with everything new in our world. 08:36

    🤸 Playdough stimulation: regrowing creativity and play. 11:05

    🙂 Joy in connecting in a different way. 13:04

    🌈 Theresa works with teams, online and in-person, but playdough is everywhere she is. 14:07

    🙌 Engaging sight, smell, and touch: finding different solutions for the challenges we face. 15:07


    Connect with Theresa: www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-bailey-2b203428

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    19 min
  • 100. Gill Tiney & Love and Collaboration as Superpowers

    🖼️ Photographs of Cornwall behind Gill. 00:48

    💂 Gill’s family had a positive attitude even living in challenging circumstances in London. 02:27

    💪 Her dad worked on the docks: labor and strikes. 04:05

    🤯 Gill didn’t purchase clothes until she was 13. 05:07

    😍 Human beings first: connection and inclusion Gill learned from her childhood. 06:26

    🥿 Her amazing nan and her property. 09:04

    😇 Business model of Collaboration Global is membership-based, and the community helps all members. 12:09

    🌞 Holding and encouraging a positive, empowering space.14:29

    🌺 Gill’s legacy: love and collaboration as superpowers. 17:01

    🌟 Her community feeds their souls every month through conversations and supporting each other. 19:54


    Connect with Gill: www.linkedin.com/in/gilltineycollaborationglobal

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    22 min
  • 99. Jayesh Surisetti & Maximizing Mobile Efficiency

    😇 Fascinating meaning of our guests’ names. 00:50

    🍞 Southern food: Rice is sacrosanct. And bread is sacrilegious. 01:30

    📱 He invented a tool to empower people to make better decisions while using smartphones. 02:13 

    ☹️ Overdependence on smartphones: relationships, grades, and efficiency has decreased. 04:39

    🤯 Shocking stats about phone usage. 06:21

    🧐 Issues that follow misuse of smartphones: chasing instant gratification and infinite feed. 08:14

    🚨 Apprison is not substituting one addiction for another: designed like an imprisoning system. 11:49

    😇 Gamification of phone usage: free app and the sources of revenue for Jayesh. 13:40

    🌞 Limiting phone usage for kids is a nightmare: Apprison can play “bad cop” instead of you.17:26

    😄 Humor in Jayesh branding and life: happea.life and understanding the peace in happiness in life. 19:29

    🧘 Inner peace and outer peace for Jayesh. 22:10

    📵 Uncontrolled tech usage is negatively affecting our happiness and peace. 23:52

    🩹 When you change your hobbies to phones, you get ‘phubbing.’ 26:39

    🙃 Having an unusual name is excellent for social media handles. 28:02

     

     

    Connect with Jayesh: www.linkedin.com/in/jayesh-surisetti

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    31 min
  • 98. Shelley Smith & Alignment of Values and Culture

    🖼️ Purple swirls behind Shelley makes her happy. 00:45

    🧐 What causes issues for the employee’s engagement with the employer. 02:03

    🧪 Culture is changing: toxic cultures cause a  tsunami of resignations. 04:00

    🌺 Clashing of our work lives and our personal lives: its impact on younger generations and the gig economy. 06:04

    😫 Bad employees can’t stay in the workspace for long, but a lousy employer is there to stay. 08:30

    🧈 Why do people feel trapped: “Suck it up Buttercup” mentality and perspective. 10:27

    👧🏻 Working as a nine-year-old girl: flea market auction house, a girl who enjoyed freedom and independence. 14:09 

    👨‍👧 Shelley’s dad had a fantastic gift of engaging and selling: a resilient daughter. 18:08

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    ⚡ She visualized herself to be a CEO from a very young age. 19:56

    🩹 Learning from scars, experiences, and life: slow simmer versus a quick instapot. 21:12

    🎙️ Shelley has a few podcasts:  The Morning Commute is a daily show with short culture messages.  23:08

     

     

     

    Connect with Shelley: www.linkedin.com/in/shelleydsmithpremierrapport

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    25 min
  • 97. Asger Lindholdt & Overcoming a Fear of Public Speaking

    🔱 Asger has a name with a very unusual meaning.  00:39 

    🇩🇰 His US accent is from Wisconsin, even though it is not his first language. 01:23

    😷 COVID pushed Asger to use more virtual sessions. 02:28

    🌞 Story format is the structure of each talk: we don’t need tremendous stories, just a connection. 04:10

    🎤 Public speaking is not just sharing your story; it is a range of personal development. 07:01

    🛤️ Niching down in your business: focus on passion and the things you do well. 09:27

    🤩 “Start cheap, outsource as much as possible, do what you love, and get good at that.” 11:43

    💪 Asger was a competitive student: his Ph.D. provided him with methodology and structure. 14:10

    😇 Meet your fear: People feel better when they connect with their fear. 15:21

    🤓 Get comfortable with one talk and its content: it is not dull; people need good talks. 18:09

    Connect with Asger: www.linkedin.com/in/asgerlindholdt

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    21 min
  • 96. Guillermo Söhnlein & Venus as a New Destination for Living

    🤯 Guillermo is focusing on building his 11th startup. 01:01

    🪐 Venus might be a good place for settling humans because of the low gravity. 02:50

    🧐 Low gravity impacts human bodies. 05:30

    👨‍🚀 Guillermo’s dream was to be an astronaut and commander of the first Martian colony. 07:01

    🌭 Adapting to the new environment in the USA: stranger in a strange land.  08:43

    💦 Immigrant life is filled with studying and working harder than others. 10:01

    👨‍⚖️ Law school and being a marine officer: startups and the Marine Corps are similar.  11:51

    🤩 Guillermo’s favorite startup out of the eleven he founded. 13:28

    💪 What would Guillermo of today say to an 11-year-old Guillermo. 15:36

    👔 Why Guillermo is a great decision-maker. 18:31

    🆚 Mars vs. Venus: Destinations for human species. 20:40

     

    Connect with Guillermo: www.linkedin.com/in/guillermosohnlein

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    25 min
  • 95. Dr. Karthik Nagendra & Building Thought Leadership in India

    ⚔️ Having a name of an Indian god. 00:55

    🤓 Similarities between thought leadership and warlord wielding leadership. 01:33

    🛣️ Karthik’s journey from corporate sales in banks to thought leadership and a consulting business. 03:26

    🆙 Adopting thought leadership should start from the leadership level. 07:13

    🐞 Marketing bug comes from his dad, but Karthik is the only entrepreneur in the family. 09:02

    ⚫🐑 Karthik is a black sheep in the family: he was always different. 10:26

    🌞 Startups in India don’t have a structured approach in building thought leadership  11:57 

    📈 India is becoming an IT giant and ‘smart country’ that jumps some steps in business evolution. 13:46

    ✍️ Karthin wrote a book, The Thought Leader Way: Leading Your Business with Thought Leadership in an Altered World. 15:34

    Connect with Dr. Karthik Nagendra: www.thought-starters.com/who-we-are.htm

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    18 min
  • 94. Dan King & The Two Types of CEOs

    🏙️ Big buildings in NY: Dan as a young tourist. 00:54

    💪 Creator CEOs: the specific type of leaders Dan works with. 01:40

    🎾 Dan loves tennis and connects it with entrepreneurship. 03:10

    👨‍💼 A lawyer who followed a fortune cookie’s advice: Dan’s self-awareness path changed.  04:31

    🛺 Dan’s does something stupid every five years: Auto-rickshaw races. 06:52

    🤔 What does the fireside in his brand name means? 09:16

    🧘‍♂️ Branding is a path to deeper self awareness.10:58

    🕷️ Crosscourt forehand Dan has shown the powerful spider skill, and he uses it in business. 13:38

    👦 Dan spent a lot of time alone as a kid: watching patterns around him. 15:21

    😩 Creator CEOs are founders and find themselves swamped. 17:19

     

    Connect with Dan King: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danmking/

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    20 min
  • 93. Ketan Patel & Impactful Ideas on Money and Investing

    📚The many books behind Ketan and combining business and insight. 00:39

    ⚡ Developing a powerful story for raising capital, connection, and strategy.  03:55

    👔 Ketan did not want to rely on corporate checks, so he chose real estate as an occupation. 06:51

    🤯 Different approach to investing: How to buy a business or a house without having money? 07:31

    ⚗️ Ketan grew up in India: he wanted to help people be healthy. 10:04

    ✨ Growing within a family of retailers: being free to choose a career. 11:05

    🌞 Ketan’s modality: impacting people, their thoughts and beliefs around money and investing. 12:47

    👩‍👦 Having a happy son is every mom’s dream. 16:16

    😎 Lack of fear in investing: letting curiosity lead and tapping into intuition. 17:04

    🕊️ Parents who give their kids wings: KP was encouraged to be true to himself. 19:01

    ➡️ Capital raising program, teaching about investing in apartments and high-performance coaching. 20:53

    Connect with Ketan: www.KetanPatel.com

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    25 min
  • 92. Lee Chambers & A Functional and Holistic Approach to Business

    👕 Lee’s most vibrant shirt and his business. 00:46

    🔀 Functional coaching: interconnected aspects people are not always aware of. 02:21

    🧒🏽 Lee was an incessantly curious child: grandparents’ moral values. 05:25

    🚶🏽 Reflection point: losing the ability to walk and having to relearn. 07:57

    ⚡ People are making all the impact: Understanding ourselves is not intuitive and is not taught in our educational system.  09:17

    👨🏽‍🔬 How Lee uses different elements of his experiences and experiments with it. 11:32

    ↪️ The importance of having a hook on the back of your head: looking at things from different perspectives. 15:13

    👣 Learning to walk again: Stress comes from meaning, which brings responsibility. 18:26

    🎯 A very holistic approach in working with startups and building cultures. 21:15

    Connect with Lee: www.leechambers.org 

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    24 min

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