Finding Brave

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Don't get down on yourself. The best thing people can do, in addition to applying more personally, is to do a bit of a listening tour when you are looking for a job, because the majority of people get their jobs through a human being and not through LinkedIn or Indeed." - Allison Cheston After taking a...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Once you're in the real world, there's so much ambiguity. There's so much less structure, and as a result it's not necessarily about keeping up, but it's about stepping up. It's about navigating this wilderness expedition that is our career." - Gorick Ng In today's workplace, there are many "unspoken r...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Are you keeping your eyes on what you need to accomplish, or are you looking at what somebody else is accomplishing? It is super important to know what you own, know who you are, and what you want out of life. If you don't, someone else will write it for you." - Sumana Rajagopal If you have been given...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "There is this balance between building that world-class network in record time, doing this as quickly as possible to accomplish your goals, helping your clients more or bring your vision to life, and also the fact that we are playing a very long game. Some of the people that you're making friendships w...

"We don't generate or manufacture our desires from thin air. We're social creatures, and from the minute that we're born we come out of the womb really looking to our mothers for cues about what's important." - Luke Burgis Mimetic desire -- the act of desiring simply what others desire - imitating what other people want instead of developing our own intentional, conscious wanting - is a powerful f...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "First we've got to get clear about where we're going over 12 months. Let's just get clear, because if we don't know where we're going over 12 months, how do we know where we want to go over the next week, tomorrow, or the next two hours? - David Wood What if I told you that playing safe is really the m...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "We have choices about how we show up, about the choices we make, and what we do. It's there that we can start to listen to that deepest, highest part of ourselves. When we do, when we live in this "Full Body YES." Then we light ourselves up and that light then reflects against everybody else's light, a...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "You absolutely can claim space, because you don't have to feel fearless. You just have to do the thing that will make you feel like a more empowered human being." - Eliza VanCort We all have a right to claim space – which means to live the life of our choosing unapologetically and bravely. Today's Find...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "Everything you do in life is about serving another human being, and as long as you stay focused on that, you'll never burn out. You may get tired, we all get tired, but you'll never get bored of it because you'll always understand what you're here to do is to help other people. That is always energizin...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "I think one of the important things is not to make the other person wrong for the way that they are reacting. We respect people, their emotions, and the way that they respond." - Paul Marciano Now more than ever, it's important for all of us to learn how to talk more effectively with each other, especi...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "The work is our compassionate ability to connect and live rich, real lives. Men just have to make the choice to live a good life and to stop living this hierarchical caricature of being a human being." - Mark Greene In our world today, there is a dominance-based man box culture of masculinity that is r...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "I think the problem is that a lot of people don't see the grunt work and the long process to get to what it is they see as success. They just see someone's success and haven't been following along the whole time." - Jeremy Levy As a singer and lifelong lover of music, I am so excited to bring you today...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "The exact same things that will get you from seriously subpar to normal, will get you from normal to Superman. Peak performance is nothing more or less than getting our biology to work for us rather than against us." - Steven Kotler As individuals we are all capable of so much more than we know, and ev...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "If you've got the highest salary in the room because you've been there the longest, and you're delivering less value than a fresh graduate or a Millennial who will work for half of what you're getting, you've got a problem." - Fawn Germer Millions of accomplished professionals are killing their careers...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "It's almost like reading a resume, a quick 60-second scan. I think the same thing goes for some of these pitches. You need to be relevant, you need to be specific, you need to be personal in your approach and you need to show how this person is going to bring value to a conversation.' - Maureen Carrig...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "We realized, as we were sitting around thinking in the aftermath of that first book, that we really think there is something here. When we started to dig into it, we started to see some of the data and we realized there is a gap worth writing about." - Claire Shipman "Claire and I have become confident...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "As we learn to think the best of others, when we learn to become comfortable affirming them and when we become comfortable working for ways to serve them, then they respond and that connects us." - Mike Stallard Today's Finding Brave guest is someone who has played a pivotal role in the support of my c...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "What I realized is that everybody we're with is always trying to communicate something that they're not communicating with their words. Sometimes they don't have the words." - Mark Goulston At this particular point of time, many of us are experiencing some degree of trauma, but what really happens to a...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "For a long time women have been afraid to stand up for themselves, because they didn't think that anyone had their back. That's what is different about this younger generation, they are not afraid to assert their rights." - Joann Lublin Despite tremendous progress, working mothers still face numerous c...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "We're all pretty scared. We're all worried we're going to mess things up. We're all pretty nervous that we don't have all the answers, and I think that was the thing that I was very afraid to tell anybody, that I didn't know what I didn't know." - Alli Webb When successful entrepreneurs share their sto...

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...