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Mimi Nicklin: Softening the Edges
Right now, our interactions feel prickly and pointed so maybe it’s time to come back to our human roots and embrace humanity’s oldest leadership trait: empathy. That’s what today’s guest, Mimi Nicklin, has devoted her work to advocating. Mimi and I discuss what softening the…
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Val Ries: How to Be the Leader Everyone Wants to Work For
What makes a great leader? The leader everyone is dying to work with, the leader whose team is so engaged, motivated, and high-performing that others in the company wonder how the heck they make it happen? My guest, Val Ries, believes everyone can be that…
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Michelle Arpin Begina: Empathy and the Bottom Line
Nearly every high performer has something that keeps them from fully stepping into their confidence of ownership around their finances. But did you know the key to not only being successful with money yourself, but understanding your spouse, colleagues, or employees is empathy? Today, I…
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John Lee Dumas: The Common Path to Uncommon Success
Success is not easy; it’s hard work. That might seem obvious, but many experts have made a fortune selling “secrets” to hungry entrepreneurs to make them think the road will be easy. While super rewarding, entrepreneurship is definitely not easy. No one knows this better…
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Brent Lowe and Susan Basterfield: How Innovative Organizations Lead and Scale – No Managers Required
Innovation is such a buzzword in many companies and organizations, but how often do we think about innovating our organizations and the way they run? What if your organization had no managers? What if everyone was committed to a mission, stepped up to lead, and…
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Sheila Murphy: 5 Pillars of a More Diverse Environment
Many of us would agree that a more diverse organization creates a more thriving organization. And research has proven that more diverse leadership teams and employee groups are more innovative and creative, perform better and also make better decisions. The questions become, how do you…
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Holly Ruxin: Evolving the Finance Industry to Move Money with Empathy
When we think of empathy, we don’t often think of the finance industry. In fact, anything to do with money seems to be the antithesis to an empathetic way of doing business. My next guest is leading a revolution to change that and tells us…
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Amy J. Wilson: Leadership’s Larger Duty and Avoiding Empathy Deficit Disorder
How do we even start creating a more empathetic society? Even more specifically, what is our own personal role and responsibility in enriching the world? These are just two of the questions that I talk about with my guest, community builder, innovation expert and author…
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M.E. Hart: How to Have Honest Conversations at Work
In today’s episode, I get to welcome back attorney, DE&I strategist and executive leadership coach M.E. Hart for an important conversation about how to have honest conversations in our personal and professional lives. We are living in a time of difficult, long overdue conversations around…
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Don Mamone: People First, Then Profit
In today’s episode, I talk to Don Mamone, whose long career in hospitality instilled in him the importance of customer service and relationship marketing. Don and his wife, Emily, run a successful photography studio based on the people first, then profit philosophy. Throughout this episode,…
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Dava Guthmiller: The Key to an Empathetic Brand
How do you actually use your assumptions, experiences, and messaging to create a brand that truly connects with and speaks to people? Today Dava Guthmiller and I are going to tackle that very question. Dava is a believer in connections – what connects people with…
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Edwin Rutsch: How “Empathy Circles” Can Change the World
In our world with so many diametrically opposed beliefs regarding politics, or policy, or religion, or anything else, is it possible to have too much empathy? Is it possible to connect with those who believe things that appear to be drastically different from our own…
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