Finding Brave

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "When I screen a [small business] client prospect, I ask them this question - if their best clients couldn't hire them and they had to hire one of their competitors, what would be the value that they would lose or be missing?" - Robert Friedman I'm so excited to dig into the essential steps entrepreneur...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "With writing, somebody is holding up a mirror and you're getting to look into the mirror and see yourself. When someone is vulnerable, they're holding up that mirror and the light is bright, and I think you're putting skin in the game in a way that is courageous." - Bruce Gelfand  Today's Finding Brave...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "It's a miracle what happens when people are invited into a safe space and invited to speak their hearts and speak their minds. There's no wrong way to do it, you just drop onto the page and you go." - Bruce Gelfand  I'm so excited to bring today's amazing guest back to Finding Brave to share his expert...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "You have a lot of knowledge and expertise, but if you continually doubt the strength of your opinions, or the importance of sharing your ideas, you are going to lose the ability to shape where your career is going." - Kathy Caprino  Confidence is key as you step into being the most powerful version of...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts!   "I show them a work of art, something they have never seen before, and get them to tell me what they see. I then pull it together in a way that they can take that back to their work with them." - Amy E. Herman When the subject of problem-solving comes to mind, fine art may not be the first thing that...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "You don't have to be amazing. You don't have to put on this face like everything is great, and make it sound like it's easy. You just have to keep going. Crawling is fine, because eventually you'll get back up." - Rachel Mushahwar   Are you a female leader who feels compelled to make a broader impact?...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "We have been told to [eat and exercise] a certain way and you do it right or not at all. It is that mindset that really derails people, and The Joy Choice is the antidote to that." - Michelle Segar Most of the healthy eating and exercise programs, plans, and strategies that we've been taught as "correc...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Oftentimes, we hear people saying that they're inviting everyone and everyone can input their own opinion. That's great, that's a start, but that doesn't actually necessarily mean belonging. When you invite them, what happens when they get there? What's their experience? That's belonging." - Rumeet Bil...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "If you're talking to the same people, you are going to get the same answer. If you've got the same people in the room, I guarantee you you're going to get the same answer [about diversity]." - Fields Jackson, Jr.  When people are held accountable for budgets, sales, etc., you clearly see who can measur...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Sometimes it's just best to let the product and the customer be together. Don't get in the way and don't misinterpret the signal. Let the customer tell you exactly how it is they want this experience to lay itself out, and then let that further dictate how you should shape the product vision and the vi...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "If culture is the antidote, how do you define it? Where are you headed? Is there a 'from-to' that's required both to embrace diversity and drive inclusion, and to thrive in this environment? I think finding ways to keep your fingers on the pulse, frequently, is really critical." - Rose Gailey One of th...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "I knew that if it was between becoming a movie star but staying that size, or just becoming a civilian who had a normal job and was healthy, I would have picked that in a second." - Josh Peck Our special guest is back today for Part Two of our fascinating conversation, where he dives deeper into his ve...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "The whole book is about me finding happiness in my own way, and what it looked like for someone like me to walk through what I did, be it losing 100 pounds, or facing drug and alcohol addiction and then eventually pivoting in my career. It was all of these things that allowed me to find what happiness...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "We have to be really honest with ourselves, which I think is sometimes the hardest part. We have to really ask ourselves if we are happy in what we're doing. Are we actually enjoying this, or do we really not like what we're doing? Deep honesty [with ourselves] is where beautiful things come from." - S...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "There are a lot of gaps to be bridged, and the only way that starts is by getting yourself into a dynamic, personally, where you understand that you're part of the fabric. Be responsible for how you show up because that's where it starts." - Jennifer Edwards   "When we walk into places where people are...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "In the process of networking, you hone your story. You actually get a better idea of what you're trying to convey, how people are reacting to it, and how you need to modify it over time to become even better at telling your story." - Pat Hedley  Experts in the career, business and entrepreneurial space...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "People give up too quickly. They start a campaign and do SEO or paid ads, and if it doesn't work out in the first month or two, or even three months, they stop. Again, you need to do something consistently for at least 6 months to a year in marketing online, and it gets better over time when you can fi...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "The reason why I wrote so many one-woman shows over the years, and then I would always get films, is because it's almost like dating. My mother used to say start dating a few guys and another guy will see you out at dinner, and that guy will then ask you out. Work begets work, but there were dry period...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Confidence is an internal process. It's all those decisions and all those conclusions you make. It has relatively little to do with what actually goes on in the world, and it has relatively everything to do with what goes on internally in this space between your ears." - Dr. Nate Zinsser  I'm excited t...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Whether you're on an athletic team, a sales force, or a symphony orchestra, you better be honest about what you think about yourself. What you think about yourself and what you think about all the things that happen day by day, that's what constitutes your confidence." - Dr. Nate Zinsser Confidence is...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "It doesn't matter how old you are or what your experience is. You just have to have that little inner voice that says 'I really want to do it' and for a woman, 'I think I can.'" - Wendy Pease Have you ever wondered what would be needed for you to leave corporate and become a business owner? Today's Fin...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Sit with the idea of what it would mean for you to take on a worthy goal, become the best version of yourself, and unlock your greatness by taking on the hard things. I'm asking not just for you, but I'm asking for me and my world, because it's a chance for all of us to live a better life." - Michael B...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Feeling connection is the same whether I'm in front of an audience with a guitar, or behind a desk talking to someone about what they've done the last 40 years. As a corporate executive, you have to connect with people and then pick up that thread and pass it along to someone else." - Tony Vlahos As we...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "You just have to believe that there's a higher version of you that you can tap into and that can access higher-level wisdom, insight, solutions, strategies, people, and connections. If you believe it, and if you believe it strongly, it's amazing what happens in your life." - Kathy Caprino  As we approa...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Self-pity is when you exaggerate how bad your life is. When you start to get helpless, hopeless, and you think there's no hope and life can never get better, you dig in your heels and stay stuck. So if you say you are going to work on not feeling sorry for yourself, instead say that you're going to wor...