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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 how money was, actually, created to be empathetic. We’re talking today with Holly Ruxin who shares her very personal experience with seeing the impact on customers when an entire industry is not built for empathy, even when the people involved are very kind and compassionate. She gets real about why we don’t associate the money management industry with empathy – but offers hope that it is changing and that we can evolve finance to that next level that humanity needs again in order to thrive. 

Key Takeaways:

  • Money was created to be empathetic. It is a win-win not a win-lose when done right.
  • Money is just an exchange of value. The story we put on it is a feature of our culture. 
  • Understanding what is really happening in any situation is where the empathy comes from.

“We’re seeing big shifts in our financial system and people are really starting to understand that being empathetic feels good. It is how we co-create a better world.” —  Holly Ruxin

About Holly Ruxin:

Holly Ruxin, CEO and Founder, Montcalm

Holly Ruxin is committed to transforming people’s lives by healing their relationship with money. Holly has decades of experience with Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America, where she gained a thorough understanding of how capital can be managed to help people and the planet, and also where our financial system needs reworking. She founded Montcalm in 2012 to empower people to manage their assets intelligently, with full personal integrity, and from a perspective of abundance. Holly is also the founder of Trevor TCR, a foundation that awards philanthropic grants to support health, education, enterprise, and the arts, all necessary cornerstones of healthy, successful communities. She has an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Connect with Holly and Montcalm

Website: montcalmtcr.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hollyziegelruxin

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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 Amy Wilson on today’s episode. Creating a more empathetic society starts with all of us taking action, but it also requires leaders who understand and value this duty as well. If we want systems or organizations to change, we need to get innovative about new solutions and new definitions of power – but it also requires a pledge for all of us, as leaders, to act with integrity, equity, and honesty. Stay tuned for a great conversation with actionable items that we all can do today. 

Key Takeaways:

  • There are four things that need to be brought together with empathy: dignity, curiosity, equity, and humility. 
  • When it comes to awareness, there is no silver bullet solution, but rather a million approaches that can be taken. 
  • Globalization is realizing that we have shared power. Power is a currency that you can give to people at different times. 

“We’re at a crossroads right now. We either go down the path of narcissism, of power over people, or the path of empathy and giving up power and giving agency to the people to change the world around them. We have to make this decision soon.” —  Amy J. Wilson

About Amy J. Wilson: 

Amy J. Wilson is a community builder, movement maker, and an empathy advocate. 

Her journey to sparking change started in AmeriCorps, leading a project to rebuild 50 homes in four months in the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. She was a chief architect of Booz Allen Hamilton’s Building a Culture of Innovation movement, which transformed the 100-year old firm. Amy later served for three years as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, where she created a shared language and led a movement for innovation and change in government. In her debut book, Empathy for Change: How to Create a More Understanding World, she hopes to inspire others to embrace kindness to enrich the world. In her free time, she enjoys

baking pies, traveling internationally, and telling stories.

We talked about how her past experience as a public entrepreneur framed her thinking on empathy, why the AmeriCorps pledge is so important for today’s leaders, and Empathy Deficit Disorder, which may be why it’s so hard for us to speak truth to power.

Connect with Amy:  

Website: www.amyjwilson.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/amyjwilson

Twitter: twitter.com/RealAmyJWilson

Instagram: instagram.com/realamyjwilson

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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 racism, social justice, gender equality, and so much more that have a real impact in the workplace and in our daily life. Today we crack open what makes this hard and how to broach these conversations in an empathetic, healthy way that respects the lived experiences of all involved.

Key Takeaways:

  • Hard conversations make us all uncomfortable. We need to learn to be comfortable in that discomfort.
  • Having honest, open conversations at work can be difficult and may need to be approached differently depending on your work culture and commitment as a leader.
  • From an empathy standpoint, it is really important for us to recognize that people are taking their own journeys in their own way.

“When you open the door to honest conversation, you will find that people are often hungry to talk about things, as long as they know they can do it confidentially and that you have a level of respect and can accept their answer without judgment.” —  M.E. Hart

About M.E. Hart:

M.E. Hart, JD – Attorney, DE&I Strategist, Master Facilitator, and Executive Leadership Coach.

M.E. Hart (who goes by Hart), JD brings a unique blend of training experiences – and expertise as an attorney, professional actor, and certified executive coach – to the design and delivery of highly effective learning solutions in the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors. Hart balances “life experience” with cutting edge research to teach critical communications, management and leadership skills that are unmatched in the adult-learning field.

His career has taken him into Fortune 500 companies across the US, and to interesting parts of the world. Hart has helped bridge cultural differences in Moscow and Ukraine; worked with global industry leaders in Belgium; conducted “emergency interventions” for organizations in crisis; produced interactive satellite and videoconference training for members of the federal judiciary; produced award-winning educational broadcast television programming; provided one-on-one executive coaching in the technology, finance, energy, and telecommunications sectors; and led interactive learning events on diversity, feedback & coaching, conflict management and many other topics.

Hart received his BA in Russian Language and Literature and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky. He also completed the Senior Executive Leadership Certificate Program at Georgetown University. Hart is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Emotional Competency Inventory and has consulted using many other organizational assessment tools. He is committed to working with organizations to create inclusive, creative and innovative cultures that empower people to accomplish their desired business goals while living their values.

Connect with Hart:   

Hart Learning Group website: HartLG.com

Twitter: twitter.com/corporatepoet

Poetry: hartofapoet.com

Thriver’s Quest Book: amazon.com/Thrivers-Quest-M-Hart/dp/1618460552

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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, we discuss what people first, then profit really means, and practical ways in which you can implement it in your business. We talk about redefining profit and identifying how you measure your wealth. We also talk about the importance and the value of relationship marketing, as you create, build and scale your business, and how you create unforgettable experiences for your customers.

Key Takeaways:

  • People first, then profit, is not correlative, it’s causal. You won’t be successful unless you understand that if you put people first, the profit will come.
  • Sales is the perfect alignment of your brand proposition and your client’s wants and needs.
  • You can differentiate yourself on a playing field by elevating yourself outside of the competition by HOW you do what you do.

“When you create a brand people love, you take someone on an emotional journey and they become fully committed to you  – then loyalty and championing come as second nature.” —  Don Mamone

About Don Mamone:

Relationship Marketer, Speaker, Eduator

Don’s decade-long career in hospitality culminated with his role as the Director of Events for the world-renowned Beverly Hilton. His time in this fast-paced high-profile career instilled in him the importance of customer service and relationship marketing.

Determined to pursue a life-long passion, Don and his wife Emily opened their photography studio 14 years ago guided by and based largely on these principles learned on the front lines of hospitality. Creating an award-winning studio photographing from Dallas to destinations around the world, The Mamones are confident their success is due in no small part to their People First, Then Profit philosophy.  As a relationship marketer, speaker, educator coach, and catalyst, Don is dedicated to helping business owners and entrepreneurs employ his proven tactics to crush their goals faster and with less work.

Connect with Don Mamone:  

Twitter: twitter.com/donmamone

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/donmamone

Facebook: facebook.com/donmamone

Instagram: instagram.com/donmamone

People First Then Profit Podcast: peoplefirstthenprofit.com

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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 brands, eaters with foods, businesses with environments, creativity with the process, and communities with each other. We talk a lot about the creative process, the emotion behind all forms of creativity, and the role of empathy in the creative process as well as in connecting with your audience, be they consumers, constituents, or communities. 

Key Takeaways:

  • Emotion matters to brand. There are emotions in the act of creativity for the creator and in the act of consumption from the consumer. 
  • An empathetic brand comes down to the people – not just what you’re putting out, but how are you creating interaction and conversation.
  • Listen and connect with those outside of your standard sphere, you never know what you will learn. 

“You either confirm five assumptions or you discover 100 opportunities. It’s better to discover the opportunities first, and then go ahead and confirm assumptions afterwards, if you feel like you need to.” —  Dava Guthmiller

About Dava Guthmiller: 

Dava Guthmiller, Founder and Chief Creative, Noise13

Co-Founder, InVisible Talks and InVisible Ventures

Dava Guthmiller is a believer in connections–what connects people with brands, eaters with foods, businesses with environments, creativity with the process, and communities with each other.

As the Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Noise 13, the San Francisco brand strategy and design agency, she is the driver behind building thoughtful, sustainable brands. From sustainability to diversity, to empathy & humanity, their renewed focus is to craft brands that are doing good for people and for the planet.

A design evangelist, Dava is the Co-Founder of In/Visible Projects. At its core, In/Visible Projects believes in the power of design. Healthy cross-functional collaboration leads to innovative decision-making. Design is the superpower that unlocks business value, but also advocates for the end-user. In/Visible Projects runs an annual conference, In/Visible Talks, in January, salons and smaller creative events year long, and manages the In/Visible Ventures community.

Always inventing, Dava is also an advisor, mentor, and investor. speaker, moderator, and artist. She sits on the advisory boards for all things good–Good People, Good Food Foundation, and the Visual Media Alliance. She is also part of the REGEN1 team building tools and big picture plans for a regenerative food system. Dava and Noise 13 have been featured in publications such as Forbes, The Dieline, Print Mag, and Creative Boom.

Connect with Dava, Noise13, and InVisible:

Noise13: noise13.com

Twitter: twitter.com/davag

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davaguthmiller

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/in-visible-ventures/

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/noise-13/

Instagram: instagram.com/davag

Instagram: instagram.com/noise13design

Invisible Talks: http://2021.invisibletalks.com/

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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 beliefs? My guest today, Edwin Rutsch, and I talk about how the answer to what we need is, in fact, more empathy in the culture and more support for those practicing empathy. Edwin has created and rolled out a powerful framework for harnessing empathy and getting people from all walks of life to open up, talk, and truly listen to one another with Empathy Circles. Tune in to hear his great stories of putting up empathy tents at the most heated rallies and protests and what magically happened when he did.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Empathy Circle is to discuss whatever the group wants to discuss in a safe space.
  • Empathy Circles are not about coming to an agreement about policies, they are about finding understanding and connection, even when we disagree.
  • Empathy burnout comes from too little empathy and support in the system, not from too much empathy. 

“Start to build empathy where you can in your environment – in your family, in your work, or in your school.” —  Edwin Rutsch

About Edwin Rutsch: Edwin Rutsch is the founding director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy. The center’s website, CultureOfEmpathy.com, is the internet’s most comprehensive portal for empathy-related material. It hosts many empathy-building projects including interviews with over 300 experts on the topic, trainings, and the Empathy Tent.  The Tent goes to public events and offers listening, facilitated dialogue, and conflict mediation.  Edwin is a world traveler, a “seeker,” a documentary filmmaker, and has worked in the computer technology field.

His focus now is on developing an online Empathy Circle Facilitation Training Course and Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). From his experience, the Empathy Circle process is the most effective gateway and first step practice for learning, practicing, and deepening empathic listening skills and mindset. The center is looking for collaborators to design and host the training.

Connect with Edwin:  

Center for Building a Culture of Empathy

http://cultureofempathy.com

Empathy Circle Website

http://www.empathycircle.com

Check out Edwin and an Empathy Circle in action in the documentary Trumphobia: What Both Sides Fear: trumphobiamovie.com/watch

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Robin Dreeke: Spycraft and the Leadership Code of Trust

If you’re curious to hear what spycraft, leadership, and building strong relationships have in common, keep listening. Author, speaker and former FBI agent Robin Dreeke used to recruit spies for a living so he knows how to create a relationship and build trust with all kinds of people! Today Robin and I talk about how to shift the focus from yourself to others, the 6 signs to predicting behavior and inspiring trust, and how to avoid manipulation in sales or leadership by understanding also the crucial difference between convincing someone and inspiring someone. Stay tuned for a refreshing take on understanding human behavior and how that understanding can lead to rich relationships and phenomenal success.

Key Takeaways:

  • Shift the focus from yourself and validate without judging. Validation doesn’t mean you agree, it means you seek to understand.
  • Transparency is the key to ensure there is no manipulation or expectation of reciprocity. That’s great leadership
  • Always take full accountability for your actions first when things go sideways.
  • Don’t allow yourself to be collateral damage for other people’s insecurities.

You cannot have a great conversation where someone is going to be inspired to share information with you unless they trust you.  —  Robin Dreeke

About Robin Dreeke: Robin Dreeke is a best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer, facilitator, and retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Robin has taken his life’s work of recruiting spies and broken down the art of leadership, communication, and relationship building into Five Steps to TRUST and Six Signs of who you can TRUST. Since 2010, Robin has been working with large corporations as well as small companies in every aspect of their business. Whether it is newly promoted leaders, executives, sales teams, or customer relations, Robin has crafted his People Formula for quick results and maximum success.

Connect with Robin:  

Twitter: twitter.com/rdreeke

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robin-dreeke-3a5b8824

Facebook: facebook.com/PeopleFormula

Instagram: instagram.com/rdreeke

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Bronwyn Saglimbeni: The Art of “No Enemy” Conversations

Do you ever wish you were a communications rockstar and the kind of person who can persuade, inspire, delight, and motivate in any given situation? Well, my guest today will share how it’s not a magic trick or something you have to be born with – you can learn to be a great communicator and feel like you have developed a superpower. On the show today, Bronwyn Saglimbeni and I discuss the essential ingredients to being a great communicator, how empathy plays a pivotal role in being a superstar on stage, and how to have No Enemy conversations that get powerful results and create lasting relationships. Bronwyn even reveals three of her favorite modern-day communicators and what you can learn from them.

Key Takeaways:

  • When we meet an audience’s needs first, our needs get met tenfold, every time.
  • You’re not born a good storyteller. We can ALL be good storytellers, it just takes practice!
  • Warmth allows you to be direct.
  • The greatest thing we can do is have a good intention.

“The skill of this new age is no longer going to belong to the people that are really good at fencing conversationally, it’s knowing how to reach across and create a handshake where there used to be fists.” —  Bronwyn Saglimbeni

About Bronwyn Saglimbeni: Bronwyn Saglimbeni is a communication coach, writer, and speaker devoted to helping people SHINE. Known for her playful, irreverent approach to coaching (and life in general), Bronwyn teaches serious transformation in how we communicate, inspire and connect with those around us. She is also the host of the Twenty Minutes with Bronwyn podcast.

Bronwyn has prepared clients for television appearances on American Idol, Real Time with Bill Maher, Bloomberg TV, CNBC’s Power Lunch, the Oprah Show, the Home Shopping Network, and PBS Newshour. Bronwyn has midwifed over a hundred and twenty TEDx, TED Global, and TED talks.

Connect with Bronwyn:

Instagram: instagram.com/bronwynsf

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/bronwyn

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Christopher Melcher: Do Divorce Attorneys Have Empathy for Their Clients?

Isn’t it funny how we see certain professions as more empathetic than others? When you think of empathetic jobs, health care workers, counselors, or teachers come to mind; when you think of jobs that may result in a lack of empathy, you may believe that it could be a tax attorney, or someone that works for the IRS, or perhaps a divorce lawyer. Well, my conversation with today’s guest, Christopher Melcher, is going to shatter your myths about the importance of empathy in his success as a top divorce attorney in California. Christopher shares with us about the important role that empathy plays in his success and throughout, you’re going to learn how active listening can help a lawyer and any of you be a good advocate for your clients, customers, and employees.

Key Takeaways:

  • The cases aren’t complicated, the people make it complicated. It’s 90% emotion and 10% law.
  • The best leaders allow people to find their way and make their own decisions. People like to take ownership of how they get to the endpoint.
  • It is about connecting, not about believing. The truth is hard to know.

“Listening is the most powerful part of communication.” —  Christopher Melcher

About Christopher Melcher: 

Christopher Melcher

Partner, Walzer Melcher LLP

Business owners, celebrities, and trust beneficiaries across California turn to Christopher C. Melcher for his assistance in protecting their most valuable assets. With deep experience in complex family law litigation and premarital agreements, Mr. Melcher helps his clients achieve successful outcomes despite extremely challenging circumstances. He understands the need to keep sensitive family matters private for his noteworthy clients and is dedicated to handling family law matters in a discrete manner that still gets the results his clients are seeking.

For more than twenty years, he has been helping his clients navigate all the financial aspects of divorce, including tax consequences of property division and alimony, corporate laws dealing with the division of a family business, and the definition of income for purposes of setting spousal and child support. He also handles appeals of family law judgments and writ proceedings from family law orders.

He has presented approximately 200 continuing legal education programs to other attorneys on the issues of complex family law issues. A published author, Mr. Melcher wrote the only treatise on California premarital agreement law, published by LexisNexis.

Christopher is also an adjunct professor of family law at Pepperdine University in Malibu.

Connect with Christopher Melcher:  

Website: WalzerMelcher.com

YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCiOAB_SnBBn_40uaFaKX5Vw

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ccmelcher

Twitter: twitter.com/lafamlaw

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Michelle Tillis Lederman:  Get the Connector’s Advantage

How do some people become master connectors? How can you create more meaningful connections for your life and your work? And, especially, what role does empathy play in forming meaningful connections, particularly in the business world? We’re going to talk about all of that and more today with my guest, Michelle Tillis Lederman. Michelle is known for helping people work better together and advance their individual impact. She is one of my go-to resources for effective networking, and more importantly, effective connections to benefit your own life as well as your work. Listen in as we answer these questions and how you too can be more comfortable and authentic when connecting even if you think it’s not your strong suit.

Key Takeaways:

  • Networking is something you do, being a connector is who you are.
  • Find a way to keep yourself engaged in the conversation by asking your brain questions around the conversation.
  • You don’t have to agree with everyone you talk to. When you disagree, acknowledge and add – that keeps us in a conversation.
  • Sometimes the curiosity of trying to understand and being provocative can do something for somebody else because you’re showing interest, and you’re also making them think.

“Look for opportunities to do the things that you can say yes to. If you want a place to start, start by saying, ‘How can I help?’” —  Michelle Tillis Lederman

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About Michelle Tillis Lederman: Michelle Tillis Lederman, one of Forbes Top 25 Networking Experts, is the author of four books including the internationally known, The 11 Laws of Likability, and her latest The Connectors Advantage. Michelle is a connection creator and CEO of Executive Essentials, which provides customized communications and leadership programs for fortune 500, non-profit, university and government clients. A former finance executive and NYU Professor, Michelle is a regular in the media appearing on NBC, CBS, Fox, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, CNBC, and others. Michelle is known for helping people work better together and advance their individual impact.

Connect with Michelle:  

Website: MichelleTillisLederman.com

Facebook: facebook.com/MichelleTillisLederman

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/CommunicationExpertSpeaker

Twitter: twitter.com/mtlederman

YouTube: youtube.com/user/MichelleLederman

Instagram: instagram.com/mtlederman

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