Finding Brave

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "I think society and life wants to see that we're willing to do the work. Our dreams need encouragement, and that encouragement is the decisions that we make every single day." - Antonio Neves My conversation with last week's Finding Brave guest was such an impactful one that we decided to air the concl...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "You do everything that society told you to do, to be happy and live the 'American Dream', but then at some point you find yourself living on autopilot. You find yourself going through the motions, and I found myself living on cruise control." - Antonio Neves If the past year has taught us anything,...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "We're all working on something and we're all insecure about something. If you give yourself a negative confirmation bias, you're always going to find the negative in someone. Give yourself a positive confirmation bias and always look for the greatness in others, because if you see their greatness,...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Rally behind the fact that [introverts] are not second-class citizens. Our path to success is just different, and when we embrace that and a system that is going to leverage our natural strengths, we can outperform in all these so-called extroverted arenas. They're all introverted ones in my mind."...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "This older way, what we call this more conventional and confined way of being a man, it no longer works. It's proving to be unhealthy, and even dangerous in the workplace and beyond, in society." - Ed Frauenheim In the flatter, faster, fairness-focused world that's taking shape today, it's become c...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "I tell people that what you see is not a dream. That's your reality waiting for you, but you've got to make it. It's not just a fantasy, but that's something concrete that you can actually make happen." - Cheryl Porter When I meet someone who is succeeding at the highest level using his or her crea...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Everyone is given guidance all of the time, but most of the time we don't listen, or we go in the direction that everyone else is. We're heading in that direction because we're told to focus on just all of the material things, and we lose track, making life harder and more fearful." - Lorna Byrne I...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "That's what it does. If a child can share with their guardian angel, then eventually they will share with mom, dad or someone else that can help them." - Lorna Byrne Today's episode of Finding Brave has a unique focus from many of my previous shows, as my inspiring special guests and I delve deeply...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "You have employees for a reason. They should be good at doing it, and if you're still doing it, that's a problem. It means that you don't trust your employees, and it means there's a functional issue in your relationship with them. It means they're not living up to their potential, and they could b...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Clarity is oftentimes the best fuel for courage, the best fuel for bravery and the best fuel for stepping into showing up as the person that you want to be, even if you feel like that person is really far away from who you perceive yourself to be in the moment." - Lisa Lewis When trying to figure o...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "People stand out because they're themselves and they're different from everybody else. They move our emotions and they do something in a really excellent way. We're drawn to people that just have excellence in them, aren't we?" - John Walsh In a competitive world that presents many difficult challe...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "If you clear your head with a stress management technique, maybe you'll be able to hear a solution to a problem that you wouldn't have been able to hear before, because you've got so much going on in your head and you're running from one thing to the other." - Jordan Friedman In last week's episode...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "It was like the prison door swung open and I was able to see that there were all of these other possible ways of existing, thinking and feeling, but for so long I only knew of one way." - Jordan Friedman With what is happening in the world right now, it makes sense to talk about how to reduce stres...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "The future is either something you default to, drive into in autopilot, go with the tides or currents and see wherever life takes you, or it's something that you can actually build by design. Constantly re-evaluate what success is, and then make these one-degree shifts." - Eric Termuende What does...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "To me there's a real interplay or a harmony with your business on one hand and the contribution you're making on the other, and you can't have one without the other, in terms of impact." - Ursula Jorch Focusing on the impact you can make with your business is a way to do good, and is also highly pr...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Don't just knee-jerk assume you have to get it all done yourself. Where is it appropriate for you to do it yourself, versus getting a super genius, professional specialist, versus just a pretty smart person that can live in any nation and learn it and do it?" - Pete Mockaitis Despite common misconc...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "It's not all about it necessarily being a white-collar or a blue-collar job, but if you can create the life that you wanted by doing what you want, you're head and shoulders above 99% of the other people on this planet, Most people just live week to week, while feeling out of control all of the tim...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "I think that having times in your life where you never quite know what's going to happen, and getting through those times, builds a tremendous amount of grit, resilience, spontaneity and flexibility, and these are the things that I know make me partly successful today." - Mitch Shepard Are you expe...

"The same problems are made in both internal communications and external communications. The problem is we don't sufficiently value our own stories, our own messages, our own people and what they believe. Therefore we don't think it is worthy of covering, and it absolutely is." - Justin Brady Communication is the #1 barrier that holds back any entity from greater exposure and success, and bad comm...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "If we know we have the ability to create a meaning around the sensations in our system and the things that happen, why don't we create meaning in our favor to allow ourselves to experience more happiness, joy, bliss, ease and grace?" - Samantha Skelly Do you know deep down that it's time to break f...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Most people get stopped by fear, and fear leads you to believe that where you are right now is a safe place and going forward is a risk. The truth is, you're always at risk when you're standing still. It's a risk of stagnating, but more importantly, a risk of missing out on your own destiny." - Sus...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "It's hard, but make yourself step back, take a breath and do this as if you were having a conversation with a friend. The minute that someone starts thinking that they're performing to an audience and not sitting across the table from a friend, they start making mistakes." - Gabe Wicks Whether you'...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "When we choose to be neutral on things where people have deep emotional responses, then we are not creating that kind of connection and community that we want to have in our culture." - Laura Gallaher Improving organizational culture now is extremely critical for the future longevity of companies e...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! I'm excited to share our "Editor's Summer Top Pick" for Finding Brave! This episode is a special favorite of our wonderful editor Matt Mawhinney of PodAssist.com and shares vitally important information about the first of the 7 damaging power gaps that 98% of professional women are facing today that...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "I think you've got to see everything as an opportunity. You cannot spend a lot of time lamenting the fact that we're in this, because we are and you need to re-evaluate everything." - Nell Merlino Despite the challenges in our current environment, there has never been a better time for women to lea...