Uncover the Human

On today's episode of Uncover the Human we have the pleasure to welcome Fran Gallaher. Fran has inspired us to embrace our intuition. Intuition is a key part of how our minds work, it's the AHA moment that most people don't even realize they have it until they start embracing it.

Fran's life experiences helped her realize that accepting the intuitive part of herself and learning to be in touch with her emotions, was the only way to be whole and authentic. She discovered that the path to developing intuition for our decision making will lead to our most authentic self.

Here is a replay of another one of our favorite episodes on leadership and the importance of self-leadership with Tony Gambill. 

Leading people is a complex task made up of thousands of tiny decisions and interactions, weaving an intricate tapestry of relationships. Inevitably, we will make choices we wish to improve or to not repeat, so how do we improve at improving? 

Tony Gambill, author of the book "Getting It Right When It Matters Most" joins this week to share his "SOAR" framework for continually developing our leadership skills and lives in general through conscious self-leadership. 

On today's episode of Uncover the Human we have Jude Schweppe joining us. Jude has an eye opening way of approaching her work life. Her background is in performing arts. Jude loves being creative, and transitioned into advertising.  She finally blended coaching with a creative direction.  

Jude is a firm believer in having fun in the workplace, people learn better when they're having fun. They are able to engage and process things in a more profound way. Her goal as a coach is to laugh a lot. She will suggest fun challenges because that keeps her clients engaged. Sure, the goals might be quite big and grand but taking fun little steps along the way just makes the process more fluid and fulfilling. 

As we wrap up the second year of Uncover the Human, we are going to switch to biweekly releases of new episodes for the next couple of months. 

Here's the rerun of one of our many favorites, where we dig into the core of living authentically with Matthias Hartmann. Matthias founded emBodhi Life Coaching to help people get in touch with their core selves and shares his methods for finding your authenticity, mentally and physically. 

In today's podcast episode, Cristina and Alex welcome Kelli Oberndorf again to dive into empathy and perspective.

Many think that empathy is a skill that one can learn. However, empathy is a mindset and a way of being in the world, and with each other.

In the workplace, we tend to categorize empathy as something else we need to 'do', one more thing that we have to put on our plate.

Empathy isn't a thing to put on your plate...It IS the plate! It is what you should build your leadership on. It is the basis for the actions you take and the way you engage with your employees. It is how you create bonds, loyalty, and trust within your organization.

On today’s podcast Uncover The Human Cristina and Alex discuss the difference between potential and capacity. Everyone can have the potential to do something however, if you are not at full capacity you are more likely to not succeed at your full expectations. 

In terms of leadership, as far as potential and capacity, the role of leaders is to increase the capacity of their teams, to make sure that distractions are removed, things can be delivered, and the team's full capacity can be met.

If today you can give 40% and you give 40%, you have reached your full potential for the day.   Having the self-awareness and safe space to work at our capacity of the moment, is crucial to understanding our potential.

Cristina and Alex speak about why at Siamo they "banned" the word “just” and the importance about doing things in harmony, things that are connected.

It’s imperative to work together as a team to deliver something that is cohesive. Using phrases like “yeah well that’s just this department” or “our department just focuses on such and such” creates silos and disconnection.

We can have members that are brilliant at what they do as individuals, but if they don’t work together as a team and see the big picture as a whole, the organization is not going to thrive. 

Seth Godin:  The parts between

We are very excited to have Kelli Oberndorf back on the podcast and announce that she will be the newest member to the SIAMO family!  Kelli has a background as an organizational coach, facilitator, and community builder.  

On today’s podcast we discuss the unfortunate misconception on what it means to be a coach and how coaching overall can benefit your organization. Through the application of coaching as way to lead and work with our clients, our common goal as a Siamo team is to shift the concept of coaching from performance improvement programs to uncovering people's natural abilities and creating the elements for individuals and teams to thrive as their true selves. 

Being a coach is really not about the title or the certification, it's about who you are and how you relate to each other as humans. 

We, as a community, need to reduce our environmental impact and make it more sustainable. Gareth Evans is someone who is very achievement oriented in a sustainable way. He saw building solutions at the asset where the energy is needed being critical. 

Gareth joined us on the podcast to discuss  today's energy reality.  There is someone deciding what we pay, how we get energy, if we get it, and when we get it, and we actually don't really have a lot of control over that.  Gareth and his company, Veckta,  are paving the way to embrace the opportunity to take more control over our energy destiny.

Gareth is a dad, a husband, and an adventurer.  He believes we need to work together, as a team, leading by example within Veckta, where every decision and action is founded on the belief that when employees are collectively successful, everyone is individually successful as a result.