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Vanessa Rosenblum is the President and founder of Pro REA Staffing, a recruiting firm that specializes in connecting talented administrative staff with real estate teams across the US and Canada. Vanessa holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Corporate Finance from the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, CA. She currently lives in Spain with her husband and son. When she is not working, you can find her in her garden or working on projects in her 400-year-old farmhouse.

Vanessa Rosenblum started her first recruiting firm at the age of 25 while working as the Operations Manager for a real estate coaching company in Los Angeles. She saw a need to provide a higher level of training, support, flexibility and leverage to the real estate agents her coaching company served. Vanessa founded Pro REA Staffing in 2008, grew the company to four full-time recruiters and well over 1000 successful placements. She sold a majority share of the company to Black29 Group in 2018 which has allowed her to expand the company and the services she offers her clients.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Vanessa’s career journey began when she took a job with a real estate business coach.
• Some of the learning lessons Vanessa experienced after starting her own business.
• How her business really took off when she was no longer limited by geography.
• All of the significant moves, to multiple countries, that Vanessa and her husband tried before settling in Spain with their son.
• The value she places on experiences over stuff.
• Her current life in Spain, the schedule that works, and her happiness.

Links

• Vanessa Rosenblum on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
• www.youtube.com/proreastaffing
• www.proreastaffing.com



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Ron Carucci is the co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, where he works with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations and industries. He has a 30-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership, overhauling leadership and culture to redesigning for growth. He is the author of eight books, is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes and a two time TEDx speaker. His work has been featured in Fortune, Inc, MSNBC, and Businessweek.

Ron started his career in the theater arts and while he was successful there, he felt restless. He translated that experience toward organizational psychology, leadership and systems change work with companies and government agencies which he has found to be engaging and meaningful over the past 30 years. During that time, Ron has worked in more than 25 countries on four continents and his career has taken some surprising twists and turns as he made several strategic choices that he often refers to as his “mitosis years”.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Ron began his career in the arts, living in NYC, yet he felt restless.
• The moment Ron’s career began shifting to organizational psychology and systems change work when he was in Germany.
• The various transitions he went through, “on accident,” that led him to the career he is in now.
• Ron’s moment of brutal honesty that led to him leaving a high-level firm and beginning his entrepreneurial journey.
• How he determines what best career moments look and feel like.
• The importance of making strategic career moves, instead of deciding what to do next from a place of pain.

Links:

• Ron Carucci on LinkedIn and Twitter
• www.navalent.com

Books mentioned in this episode:

• “Rising to Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives” by Ron Carucci
• “Leadership Stories From Tomorrow” by Ron Carucci
• “Relationships that Enable Enterprise Change: Leveraging the Client-Consultant Connection” by Ron Carucci and William A. Pasmore
• “Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing” by Ron Carucci

Other Resources

• Learn more about Dorie Clark



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Randah Taher is a Master Design and innovation facilitator with a playful sandbox in it. She designs cultures of innovation, creative problem-solving processes, biomimic analogies, service and design thinking systems, edutainment games and creativity tools. A Tedx and keynote speaker, Randah is a thought leader on creative thinking and a curator of a subscription box, IMAGINESS by Sajory. Find more about her work on www.sajory.com

Randah Taher has taken her background in leadership development, teaching and design thinking to apply them in a variety of work and education settings in order to support innovation and creative problem-solving. She has consulted with executives and ‘intrapreneurs’, alike who are charged with creating and implementing innovative, new approaches to addressing complex challenges across their companies.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Randah helps organizations nurture their cultures for innovation.
• Randah’s processes for facilitating problem-solving, how she gives organizations tools for growth and offers a monthly subscription box.
• The 4 specific innovation methods she uses, including biomimicry.
• Her process for learning what her strengths are and doubling down on those.
• Her specific issues that allowed the opportunity to flip the script, put on my coaches hat, and offer Randah some different ways to approach her challenges.

Links:

• Randah Taher on LinkedIn and Twitter
• www.sajory.com
• Visit Randah’s website to sign up for her free gift, “15 Ways to Have an Imaginative Day at Work”

Other Resources:

• Randah’s Tedx Talk: “How Analogies Create Healthy Organizations – Biomimicry for our organizations”
• Learn more about Biomimicry



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John DeMato is a photographer and branded content creator who works with speakers, authors, coaches, and business leaders to produce image content portfolios that present informational, entertaining and inspiring aspects of their brand to their followers. As a former television producer, John has over 18 years of production experience and has been featured as a lifestyle photography expert on several NBC Universal daytime talk and reality shows.

More than just a guy who pushes a button for a living, John DeMato sets his clients up for success beyond the portrait session by educating them on how to best leverage their image content for their websites, social channels, bios, publications, advertisements, and various other needs. He was inspired after the death of his mother to pursue work that felt more purposeful and meaningful which took him on the path of entrepreneurship. He has not looked back.

In this episode we discuss:

• How John started his career in television production after getting his Master’s Degree.
• John’s process of self-reflection after his mom passed away, and how he came to terms with the reality his career was not fulfilling.
• How serving others and telling their stories has been a theme through all of his life.
• John’s love language of service, how he learned about it, and how it has influenced his career path.
• How John realized photography is his unconditional love and biggest passion. He said “It is my passion, my art. I would do it for free. I have built my business around my art in a way that does not compromise my integrity because it allows me to serve others.”
• The wisdom he shares with the listeners, discussing the importance of figuring out what truly lights you up and pursuing that because having a strong passion will help you through the dark and hard times.

Links

• John DeMato on LinkedIn and Twitter.
• https://www.johndemato.com/



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Jon is the executive director, life transition guide and learning facilitator at Liminal Space, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping others find the courage and means to navigate major life transition. He spends his days guiding 1x1 transition sessions, leading transition groups called PIER groups, and facilitating learning workshops that teach transition skills at The PIER Learning Center at Liminal Space. Jon is also the host of a weekly podcast called, Life Through Transitions.

Jon DeWaal’s mission is to help people create forward momentum by embracing their life’s most formative inflection points to create immense growth and transformation. He shares his career journey as a marketing consultant to a graduate degree in divinity to a painting contracting business, and then he fell off a roof. From there, he started to ask different questions and changed his story.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Jon moved out to Seattle to attend graduate school and thought he would follow a traditional path, but chose to follow a different path right after graduation.
• His journey through a four-year transition where he was a contractor and started a family.
• Jon’s injury that ended up shifting his myopic focus on earning money to thinking deeply about his purpose.
• The tools and people who helped Jon see the beauty in transition.
• The sacred discipline of transition and how humans can thrive during those seasons of change and growth.
• All about Jon’s company, Liminal Space, and the Liminal Guide Certification Program that teaches people how to help others through transition.

Links:

• Jon DeWaal on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram
• Life Through Transitions podcast
• https://inaliminalspace.org/directory/jon-dewaal/

Books mentioned in this episode:

• “Rising to Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives” by Ron Carucci and Eric Hansen

Other Resources:

• Listen to my interview with Marie Incontrera
• Learn more about Ron Carucci



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