The Me-Suite

Your host, Donna Peters , interviews Dr. Kara Nance , CEO of WellessenceMD .  Kara shares her professional and personal journey to find what makes us well .  She started on the traditional path of school, marriage, mom of 4, homeowner—and realized that things in life were not working for her.  So much “doing” had disconnected her from what she really needed and wanted.  She listened to an inside v...

I made a new friend in the garden this week. The Frog Formerly Known as Prince is what I named him. So he has something to do with leadership coaching, believe it or not. As a leadership coach, I help clients identify and achieve personal goals. And the absolute top-trending issue in coaching is Time. Time is always a constraint, keeping people from achieving the goals that they set for themselves...

Your host, Donna Peters , interviews Andy Parker , co-author of Eat, Sleep, Innovate .  Andy is a partner at Innosight, the firm founded by Harvard professor and author, Clayton Christensen.   Andy, Britain-born and Singapore-based, shares the 5 behaviors required for innovation and change in our own personal lives: curiosity customer obsession collaboration experimentation  empowerment We discuss...

Listen to this amazing story about "Tell Them Yes."  Your host, Donna Peters , interviews Donna Cryer , founder and CEO of the Global Liver Institute .  She is a Harvard and Georgetown Law grad, patient advocate, social impact entrepreneur and 25-year liver transplant recipient.  Donna focuses on increasing patient access to innovative care and helping people live a life of high achievem...

Delegation is the true leader's paradox. In feedback discussions, have you ever heard: You need to focus on more strategic issues. Why do you send emails so late at night and on the weekends? I’d like to engage you in this new important initiative, but you have so much on your plate. Simultaneously, are you saying to yourself: It’s just faster if I do it myself. I don’t want to dump this task...

I am a career coach, podcast host and faculty at a globally renowned business school.  The #1 question I am asked is “what is the biggest mistake you’ve made in your career?” I plan to be alive much longer to make many more mistakes, but thus far my #1 mistake was believing in work-life balance .  Work-life balance is a common concept. Some now dress it up and call it work-life integration.  The c...

Your host, Donna Peters , interviews serial entrepreneur and dearest, funny friend, Mac Hardcastle .  Mac is the author of the Entrepreneur's Handbook with decades in private equity and VC.   He is now a C-Suite leader at a not-for-profit.  In 2020, Mac had a near-death experience with a 5% chance of living.  Here he reflects, with humor and insight, on: not letting the urgent crowd out the i...

Welcome to Season 2 of The Me-Suite podcast.  I'm your host, Donna Peters.   I am a career coach working with individuals, companies and academic institutions.  I help career-minded people have a life.  To live with, what I call, a Me-Suite mindset.    Beyond this  podcast, you can learn more about me and The Me-Suite career coaching and professional development at the-me-suite.com .  And fin...

In this final episode of Season 1, an avid listener, Amy Easton , turns the mic around and interviews Founder & Host, Donna Peters . How is Donna feeling about wrapping up Season 1 of the podcast? What has been the most fun thing about the The Me-Suite podcast experience? Is she doing anything differently now because of the podcast lessons learned? What episode topic was the most difficult? Wh...

Host Donna Peters knows you'll love this episode!  In 13 lucky minutes, hear a montage of the Core Values across our incredible Season 1 guests.   The Core Values are as diverse as the guests we interviewed, with Curiosity, Helping Others and Integrity emerging as the more in-common themes.  The diversity of thought, backgrounds and experiences represented in this group of tremendous talent l...

Donna Peters interviews serial entrepreneur and adventurer, Franziska Iseli , on her latest book, The Courage Map: 13 Principles to Living Boldly . Sir Richard Branson wrote the foreward and echoes the criticality of being courageous in all we do.   Some highlights include: Courage is a skill that can be learned.   Butterflies in the stomach means you're growing. Courage is feeling fear about...

The Me-Suite listeners have requested an episode on Change .  Donna Peters hosts a panel discussion with innovation expert, Julian Gonzalez , and organizational psychologist, Dr. Robert Stroud , on the concept of Change : 1. How does our brain respond when we are faced with changes? Our brains have natural instincts when faced with something new and different.   2. Why is change often uncomfortabl...

This episode covers a top Me-Suite listener request: advice from Human Resources on career pathing and job searching. Donna Peters interviews HR executive, Karen Rice , on how best to get what you want.  This topic is very timely as people face job insecurities or may not have exactly what they want right now.  Karen's discusses: Be a problem-solver first and foremost.  No matter your positio...

Donna Peters partners with Amy Easton to address listeners' career questions.  Amy is a Sydney-based psychology graduate, human capital expert and StrengthsFinder coach.  Donna is currently coaching clients through COVID19 'surprises,' and like many, Amy recently had a career 'surprise' herself.   Donna and Amy take on the most frequent Me-Suite listener questions around c...

Today, anyone can look up information, but it takes a special brain/heart connection to make sense of that information and lead constructively based on that information.  In this episode, Donna Peters interviews, Dr. Sarah Schrank , Professor of History.  Dr. Schrank has taught thousands of our next-generation leaders in the largest and most diverse educational system in the United States, focusin...

Donna Peters partners with Precious Price for an interview with Tonia Morris, Founder of Simply HR and 2019 Stevie Award Winner for Maverick of the Year. Tonia advises on workplace culture and originated the concept of G&I: generational inclusion .  Tonia recognized the need for G&I as biases, misunderstandings and tensions exist across the five generations in today's workforce.  Toni...

Donna Peters interviews Me-Suite fan, father and leader, Mike Malinchock .  Hear what a me-suite mindset means to Mike and what episodes have resonated with him.  Mike is always great for fun ideas and quotables, and this episode doesn't disappoint. "Real people are amazing." "Mindset is a personal choice." "Do hard things." "Make a hundreds list." Mike...

Have you ever met someone and thought, "Wow, the future is in great hands with this amazing person?"  That's how I felt when I met Hilal Koc Savci .  She is a Me-Suite role model, career maverick and start-up expert.  Hilal is truly a global citizen of the world having lived in the US, Turkey, Argentina, Russia and the UK.  She is passionate about driving technology trends to improv...

Donna Peters brings back popular Episode #6 guest, Dipak Patel .  Here in episode #49,  Dipak talks about the power in having the mindset of a Chief Strategy Officer. A Me-Suite mindset requires asking: Where do I want to be in the future? 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years? What bets do I need to place now to get to that future?  These bets could be about the company you work for, the people you...

Donna Peters interviews Sissi Chen Jennings .  Sissi shares how to think like the Chief Strategy Officer of your own life.  She sees that the rigor used by Chief Strategy Officers (CSO) actually gives us more flexibility.  For a CSO mindset, Sissi advises us to:   set your personal vision and direction (and as a family if others are involved) define a plan to achieve the vision check in on that pl...

Donna Peters interviews Dr. Suzy Green , Clinical Psychologist, Founder and CEO of The Positivity Institute and author of The Positivity Prescription: A 6-Week Wellbeing Program Based on the Science of Positive Psychology. We are living in VUCA times: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.  Dr. Green challenges us to ask, "Am I my usual self?"  And if not, why not, what can I do abo...

Donna Peters interviews community leader, Copland Rudolph .  She shares how she works at keeping her actions aligned with her core values by: creating space to do what's important, getting proximate, saying 'no,' and being present. Copland is the Executive Director of a not-for-profit foundation focused on equity for all children in the public schools.  She is also a certified fitne...

Donna Peters interviews CEO, Lita Dwight , on her path from practicing law, to finding her "big why," to founding the plant-based foods business, Brytlife .  "Doing what you are called to do is the highest expression of yourself." Lita advises that curiosity is the magic to getting to "your why."  And once you know "your why," take the first step on the invi...

Donna Peters interviews Keith Hausmann , Chief Revenue Officer at Globality and Founder of Procurian.  Keith is a dad and entrepreneur who has held multiple C-Suite positions at small and large organizations.  Donna thought she'd be interviewing him on his Procurement and Supply Chain areas of expertise.  Instead, she got a much more valuable "master class" on how to keep things in...

Donna Peters interviews CEO, Inventor and Mom, Shawn Walker.  Shawn and her horse, Alick, are top-tier champions in the sport of dressage.  Shawn discusses her lifelong passion for horses, training and competing.  She shares wisdom for all of us on keeping our interests, our passions, alive.  She challenges us to think how the opposite is actually true--our interests and passions keep us alive. El...