Business is Human

Reflection is about, who I am, what I want, what I am good at, how I feel, and what I need. It is important to take the time to reflect on yourself and what you need. Connection is about using your gifts, talents, and abilities to serve other humans. We are all wired for connection, and wired to help and to be helped. We need time to pause away from the frenetic busyness of our lives and reflect....

Sharing your journey and your story can be a powerful tool. It can make recovery easier and it can also help others heal and grow. Reflection and connection are so important to our growth and healing as human beings. We must be vulnerable and know ourselves through reflection to authentically connect with others. In this week’s episode, we talk to Ashley Kesner about her journey with alcoholism an...

Most of us know when we are not doing well. However, we struggle to define what it would mean for us to feel better. We can’t identify the barriers to happiness, and sometimes we can’t even describe what that happiness would look like. Our culture promotes happiness despite it being a deeply individual thing. As career-achieving women, we often wait to care about ourselves until we are caught up o...

Many of us want to feel better, but don’t know where to start. We have to define how we are feeling and set personal goals are in order to make any progress. To feel better, we often have to adapt our behaviors and patterns and connect with other meaningful people in our lives. We even have to step outside ourselves and empathize with other people around us. In the end, the most important part of...

We need to trust ourselves and ask for help when we need it. Sometimes we feel miserable in careers that fit society’s mold for what we should be doing. When that happens, we are striving. However, sometimes we feel at home in a job and we feel like we belong, and that is when we begin to thrive. Our jobs should play to our unique talents, gifts, and abilities. As humans, we are personal, emotiona...

Community is a powerful tool we all have. When we share our stories, experiences, and knowledge we can help our people around us. In this week’s episode, we will listen to Kathleen Wiant — a public speaker, a mother, and an anti-hazing activist — as she tells us about the tragic death of her son. Her son, Collin Wiant, died in a hazing incident at Ohio University in 2018. Ever since that moment, K...

Uncertainty is a human phenomenon. We have all had uncertainty in our lives, and this year we have had more than ever. Right now, many working moms are facing uncertainty with the announcement of all-virtual learning. They are concerned and stressed, and I am here to help. Even though we, as career women, have been hit the hardest, we will learn skills that will help us persevere and make us stron...

We all walk around with a story. Sometimes we feel alone in our stories and sometimes we don’t know how to share our stories. But if we can be vulnerable and connect with others, we can start to heal and grow from our stories. We can find hope in our trauma, and use our experiences, talents, and abilities to help others in their stories. In this week’s episode, we will listen to Michelle Corrao an...

We need to share our stories and our vulnerability with others. Sometimes we feel that we don’t “fit the mold” of our chosen career path, but if we share our journey, we can inspire others. When we make our careers our own, the opportunities are endless. As humans, we are humans are personal, emotional, and social even if we think we need to control, measure, and optimize our lives to be more prod...

What happens when we allow ourselves to be curious? We challenge our current way of thinking and learn more about ourselves. Our curiosity drives us to step out into something we’ve never done before and just figure it out. It’s this act of figuring it out that gives us confidence. Once we start to evoke that sense of confidence in ourselves, others start to have more confidence in us. In this wee...

Connection is fuel for our soul and it requires us to know ourselves really well. We have to have a firm understanding of ourselves before we can actually connect with others in a meaningful way. Our connections aren't meant to fix us or change us; they remind us who we really are and why that matters. To know ourselves, we must reflect on what our unique gifts, talents, and abilities are. When we...

Business has a ton of uncertainty. The strategy, the customers, the employees — people are uncertain. We are personal, emotional, and social beings. We aren't robots. And uncertainty is a shared human experience that has the opportunity to ring us together. When we have those shared human experiences, there's comfort and courage that gets built in knowing that we're not alone. In this week’s episo...

Our uniqueness is our competitive advantage and our superpower. Each of us has our own talents and gifts that we can use to serve our community. However, we need to get curious about ourselves first and understand who we really are before we take on that challenge. When we can get through the uncertainty and the insecurity of life, we can own our uniqueness and tap into the power of our humanity....

Our life is long. Our journey and our experiences are here to guide us and teach us. We have to have the courage to listen, learn and explore. We should be curious about our interests, ideas, and dreams. We should take time to discover ourselves because there is no template for how to do our life and out career. When we gain deep levels of self-awareness, it gives us the ability to have empathy fo...

The world needs us to boldly be ourselves. Oftentimes, we don't have the confidence to believe in ourselves and our talents. We listen to other people’s opinions of our lives before we listen to our own opinions, our own intuition, and our own ideas. To own our uniqueness, we must be courageous and confident. Once we shed the expectations others have set for us, we allow ourselves to be ourselves,...

Everything we need to thrive is already within us. We each have unique gifts, experiences, talents, and abilities that we can give back to our communities. Each of us is a piece of the puzzle, and we're looking for other people that fit our puzzle to make us stronger and more beautiful. When we finally tap into our authentic and unique self, we find our joy and start to live a life of thriving, no...

Our unique essence in this world is our true superpower. Our unique skills, talents, abilities, experiences, and even struggles all encompass our story. We are writing our story each day chapter by chapter. We need to intentionally write the story that we want to live because no two of us are the same. Each of us is unique. Each of us is different. In this week’s episode, we will listen to Denisa...

Sometimes we forget to put on our own oxygen mask before helping someone else. We advocate for everyone else before advocating for ourselves. And when we nurture and support others, we sometimes lose sight of our own needs. In order to thrive, we have to be able to breathe and we have to advocate for ourselves. In this week’s episode, we will listen to Wendy Noe — Executive Director of Dove Recove...

Our stories are written by us for us, and our intuition and our dreams for the future play a strong role in those stories. We must pursue our imagination and our dreams to achieve our greatest growth. Because the most courageous thing we can do is be curious about what's next and be willing to follow that curiosity. Writing our own story gives us influence over our own lives, and in this week’s ep...

Your story matters. Stories unite us, stories are how we make sense of the world, and stories have the power to help us reflect, connect, and thrive. Each of us has a unique story to tell, and in this week’s episode, Rebecca Fleetwood Hession — the CEO and founder of WEthrive.live — shares a bit of her story. In her keynote address to the women of “Rise and Thrive” Indianapolis, she talks about th...

Last year, Rebecca Fleetwood Hession — the CEO and founder of WEthrive.live — developed a process to help high achievers prevent and overcome burnout. In September of 2019, she launched a Rise and Thrive, a seven-month experience with a small group of women designed to ban burnout, build community, and boost their business. During their transformation, these women grew, flourished, prospered, and...

Courtney Carter is the founder of Carter Media Group (CMG). CMG represents and partners with inclusive creators to build innovative, story-driven businesses and brands. Carter serves as manager and production partner to creator sensation Liza Koshy; culinary collective Ghetto Gastro; strategist, host, and former Obama White House advisor Carri Twigg; and comedian and writer Matt Bellassai. Carter...

Not the wedding she had planned, Ally Ryan and her husband Cameron opted to move forward with their vows in spite of the quarantine. I didn't know Ally well but her social media pictures of that special and very intimate day brought me to tears. Seeing two people so committed to each other the love and connection more important than the party and celebration was a beautiful bright spot in some ver...

Shelly Towns is such a great example of living life intentionally. She makes self awareness look easy in the way she has used her unique gifts and talents and skills she's picked up along the way to pivot her career and capitlize on opportunities.

Tim is the CEO of Gibson Insurance and author of Revolution - Turning Crisis into Clarity to Ignite Growth. In this episode: The importance of community as a means to invite vulnerability Moving past the winner take all mindset to How can we all get better How our vulnerabilities connect us The importance of being curious about ourselves and others Living more holistically, not the hustle and grin...