Amplify Hope Today

When should you start planning your next career move? The day you start your current job. Simon T. Bailey sits down with Larry Lynch, his former boss and mentor at Disney Institute. Larry has spent more than 45 years in leadership and career reinvention: law enforcement, association leadership, Disney Institute, the National Restaurant Association, food safety, real estate, and now owner and CEO o...

Why do so many well-funded efforts to fix struggling neighborhoods fade away? Eddy Moratin, President and Co-Founder of Lift Orlando, has spent years answering that question. His answer is that most solutions are built for communities instead of with them. Simon T. Bailey sits down with Eddy to explore what changes when leaders listen first. Eddy walks through the Lift Method, the framework behind...

Thinking about a career change at 40 or 50 and feel like you’re starting over? You’re not. You’re starting from experience. Best-selling author and She Believed She Could founder Allison Walsh joins Simon T. Bailey on Amplify Hope Today to share how to reinvent your career, rebuild your confidence, and take your next step without having the whole plan figured out. Her first move is to build a win...

Poverty is not the lack of cash. It’s the breakdown of order.” Dr. Obom Bowen learned discipline as a U.S. Marine, then had to learn it again lying paralyzed after an injury in service. The way he rebuilt his body, through faith, visualization, and small actions repeated daily, became the way he rebuilt his finances and businesses. Simon T. Bailey sits down with the author of Kingdom Economics to...

Victoria Angela's photography business looked like a success story. Inside, she was functioning but not fine. A conversation about burnout, boundaries, and redefining success. Victoria Angela was traveling the world, photographing major events, and working alongside celebrated professionals. Her calendar was full and her business was thriving. But underneath it all, she was functioning, and she wa...

Are you still replaying a mistake from years ago, while the world tries to tell you who you should be? In this episode of Amplify Hope Today, Simon T. Bailey explores the first arrow from his new book, Amplify Hope: Lead From Where You Are Standing: Fasten Your Identity. Social media, the news, AI, notifications, and other people's opinions compete for your attention every day. If you don't decide...

Barry Jacobson once ironed Bob Iger's shirt. He also started out as a lifeguard, held nearly 30 different roles, and spent 37 years inside The Walt Disney Company. In this episode of Amplify Hope Today with Simon T. Bailey, Barry shares the behind-the-scenes leadership and customer service principles that created Disney magic — and how any leader, in any organization, can put them to work. A paych...

In 2020, her entire industry went to zero. That's when she bought her company back. Jennifer Miller spent nearly thirty years building Access Destination Services into the largest destination management brand in North America. She became its first female CEO. She led through 9/11 and the Great Financial Crisis. She took the company through a major private equity transaction — and then, during COVI...

You may not have a performance problem. You may have a visibility problem. Most people who feel stuck at work assume they aren't doing enough. Simon T. Bailey thinks that assumption is often wrong — and that treating a recognition problem like a performance problem is why so many capable people work harder and get nowhere. In this episode of Amplify Hope Today, Simon introduces VITAL — Vision, Inp...

Two teachers got angry about the same note. Only one was angry about the right thing. Dr. Bahiyyah Maroon opens this conversation in a sixth-grade classroom — a cruel note signed by every student, a math teacher furious that his lesson was interrupted, and a science teacher furious about the cruelty itself. Those two men, she says, are the two prototypical business leaders. Most of us learned lead...

Why do two people facing the same pressure react in completely opposite ways? Why do some leaders build trust in a room while others quietly drain it? On this episode of Amplify Hope Today, Simon T. Bailey sits down with Kim Giles — founder of the 12 Shapes Behavioral Assessment and author of How Humans Are Wired — for a conversation about what's actually happening underneath human behavior. Kim's...

What is the Media Empire of Your Mind? It's the private broadcast running about you, inside you, most of it unexamined. You didn't write the programming. You inherited it — from family, from failure, from the one person whose opinion you never stopped carrying. And it quietly decides what you believe is available to you. Most people never think to change the channel. They assume the broadcast is t...

Austin Franklin started a company at twenty. His mother, Dr. Deidre Franklin, had spent two decades preparing him for it without either of them calling it that. Together they run Good Nature Life. In this episode of Amplify Hope Today, they sit down with Simon T. Bailey to talk about what actually transfers from one generation to the next — and what doesn't. What did Austin learn about success tha...

The short answer: AI should strengthen human judgment, not substitute for it. The leaders who thrive in the AI era are the ones who keep asking better questions than the machine can answer. Can AI make us smarter — or is it quietly replacing our ability to think? On this episode of Amplify Hope Today, Simon T. Bailey sits down with Dr. Lawrence Drake — leadership expert, media psychologist, and fo...

Great leaders aren't built by titles—they're built by transformation. In this powerful episode of Amplify Hope Today, our host Simon T. Bailey welcomes internationally recognized leadership expert Enrique Acosta Gonzalez for a conversation about authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, faith, and personal growth. After serving 26 years in the United States Navy and coaching le...

In this episode, Simon reframes the stress conversation entirely. Anxiety before the big presentation. Pressure in a season of change. The emotional weight of leading when nothing feels certain. These aren’t signs you’re breaking — they’re signs you’re being stretched into someone new. You’ll learn how to read stress as a signal instead of a sentence, why growth almost never feels like growth whil...

Need a Fresh Start? Here's How to Make the U-Turn That Changes Your Life Have you ever looked around and wondered, "How did I get here?"In this powerful solo episode of Amplify Hope, motivational speaker and leadership expert Simon T. Bailey shares a transformational message about making the U-turn that can completely change your life. After being unexpectedly locked out of all of his devices duri...

Can AI replace your job? More importantly... can AI help you build an even better career? In this powerful episode of Amplify Hope, Simon T. Bailey interviews AI entrepreneur Tara  Weisner , founder of Weisner AI Ads, to discuss how artificial intelligence is changing careers, entrepreneurship, and the future of work. After watching AI eliminate over 1,000 corporate jobs—including her own—Tara cho...

The Ding is the moment when the doorbell of your soul rings and invites you to move in a new direction — even after divorce, loss, illness, or failure. What happens when you finally decide that enough is enough? In this powerful solo episode of Amplify Hope Today, motivational speaker, leadership expert, and bestselling author Simon T. Bailey shares one of the most vulnerable stories of his life....

How do you become the CEO of your own life? In this inspiring episode of Amplify Hope Today, Simon T. Bailey welcomes entrepreneur, business strategist, author, and Women of Principle founder MK Morales for a transformational conversation about personal growth, leadership, mindset, resilience, recovery, entrepreneurship, and living with purpose. After overcoming addiction and rebuilding her life f...

What if the most important parenting skill isn't teaching... but listening? In this powerful episode of Amplify Hope Today, Simon T. Bailey shares a personal story about his daughter Madison, a difficult season following divorce, and the parenting lessons that transformed their relationship. As parents, it's easy to become fixers, protectors, and problem-solvers. But Simon discovered that meaningf...

In this powerful and deeply personal episode of Amplify Hope Today, Simon T. Bailey shares his journey through rejection, identity struggles, childhood labels, depression, and a near-suicide attempt as a teenager. From being called hyperactive in school to hearing words that nearly destroyed his sense of self-worth, Simon reveals how damaging labels can shape our lives and why reclaiming our ident...

Have you ever felt like life damaged you beyond repair? In this emotional and deeply vulnerable Season 2 premiere of Amplified Hope Today, Simon T. Bailey shares a powerful message about self-worth, healing, masculinity, emotional health, and overcoming the lie that you are “not enough.”Using the metaphor of a dented can, Simon opens up about painful moments in his life including dropping out of c...

Are you stuck in overthinking, self-doubt, or constantly waiting until you feel “ready” to take action? In this episode of Amplify Hope Today, we sit down with mindset coach and author Dawn Mariotti to break down how to trust your intuition, overcome fear, and finally move forward with confidence. Dawn shares her journey from struggling with learning disabilities and self-doubt to writing her book...

Are you struggling to let go of control and trust God with your life? In this powerful episode of Amplify Hope Today, we dive into what it really means to surrender your plans, release anxiety, and trust that God’s plan is better than anything you could design yourself. Sherry shares how one simple mindset shift—“I only want for me what God wants for me”—completely transformed her life after loss,...