Finding Brave

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "So if you really want to incubate innovation, you cannot ignore the culture. You do so at your peril, because there is no way that you can ignore the culture. I understood that before, but not at the depth that I understand it today."- Timothy Clark As humans, we want to be included and to contribu...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "You don't even necessarily have to have the best ideas, but if you have the most influence, then those are the ideas that are going to win the day." - Steve Herz Whether you're looking for work, worried about remaining competitive and keeping your job during a recession, or trying to reach your hig...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "You are not your past. You are all of it, your past, present, and future. So do the work to release the shame, the humiliation, and the negative judgments you have about yourself. Release yourself." - Kathy Caprino Over the past several weeks on the podcast I've been highlighting the critical power...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "In the end, the people that bail on their dreams often pursue a direction that isn't right for them. Many didn't learn, or they weren't taught, that the only constant thing in life is change and the only secure thing resides inside of you, not outside." - Kathy Caprino At this very moment in time,...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! " I understand that in some cases people truly have no options, for a variety of solid reasons, but for so many other people there are options. There are different avenues available, but we have to feel strong enough to find the right kind of help." - Kathy Caprino I've seen firsthand--and research...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "We have to connect with people. We must, because this is how it works in life. The huge thing that you want, the amazing outcome, or that big milestone, it's not doable without other people. It just isn't." - Kathy Caprino The answers to all your networking and career-building questions aren't as f...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "If your emotions get the best of you, you're not going to present the best case. It's going to come across that it's all about you, and it's not all about you. It's about why getting what you want is actually great for the organization." - Kathy Caprino In today's Finding Brave episode I look at an...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Prepare for the consequences when you start asserting yourself differently. People will not know what happened, and you've got to prepare for that. If you've always been striving to make others happy, then you're most likely not making yourself happy and you're not saying what needs to be said." -...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Know that you are amazing. Every individual on the planet is, and the world needs your talents and your abilities desperately. Can you trust and accept that fact, that you are special and you are unique, and now is the time to recognize that clearly?" - Kathy Caprino I'm very excited to be sharing...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Your job as a leader is not to lead as an individual, but to foster the environment of co-elevation amongst your team. That's the key, because your team needs to become co-elevators of each other." - Keith Ferrazzi I'm doing something a bit differently on today's special episode. I was recently hav...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Embrace the struggle. Certainly if you're in the career coaching business and you've got to sit across from somebody, how in the world are you going to have anything worthwhile to pour out to them if you've never struggled?" - Ken Coleman The first step toward a dream job is always the scariest, bu...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Who is looking over your shoulders and making sure you succeed, because that's the kind of support network you need to build. There's no reason to do this alone. It's perfectly ok to ask for help." - Dr. Ravi Gundlapalli Mentorship can be a powerful tool in the workplace, as it builds strong and me...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "I do want us to think bigger, and the whole mindset of "the best thing" is living each day to the max because we woke up and because we are here. Indeed, if I am here today, I truly do believe the best thing is ahead of me. - Antonio Neves Today, I'm sharing an exploration with you of my own belief...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! We ask for your indulgence regarding the poor audio quality of this recording. We faced audio issues during this recording that have now been addressed. Thank you for understanding! "Every experience that has occurred in your life, up to this point, has been placed beautifully to help you confront a...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "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...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "You've always got to keep your mind open, your mental aperture, because if you think you know it all there's a good inclination that hubris is right around the corner knocking on your door, and ready to come strike you down." - John Havlik Being an effective leader today is much more than having th...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "We have to decide where we're going to anchor ourselves, and I think we all need three to five really great and positive relationships with people that will tell us the truth. We can really be empowered by each other right now." - Dr. Gregory Jantz During times of uncertainty like these today, we s...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "My heart was in self-care as a leader, and how a manager was managing their energy and taking care of themselves. I feel like if that's handled, everything else gets handled, but if we're burnt out and fried, we can't lead." - Anese Cavanaugh Our presence is our impact, and the way that we show up...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "If you have done something and if you have something unique that you can do, then you deserve to help other people do that. If you haven't done it, what's the damn point? You're just lying to people." - Jeremy Ryan Slate At the age of 19, today's Finding Brave guest had a near death experience as a...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Ok, can we improve the job that we're doing by maybe 3 percent? If we improve it by 3 percent, would it feel a little bit better? I think that's why I'm so thrilled with the feedback that people have sent me." - Bruce Daisley Many of us don't love what we do, and we feel exhausted trying. Overwork,...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "The problem is when we're wishing that a situation or another person would change, and the reality is that they're not going to, we can wish until the cows come home and it's not going to make a single iota of difference." - Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler Every single person experiences conflict with...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "It's relationships, right? How do we build relationships with prospective employees, with the media, with our prospective business owners? A lot of it starts with understanding your narrative, and the story you're telling." - Shama Hyder In today's business world, your reputation precedes you, and...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "You really need to make sure that toxicity is absolutely caught before it spreads, because it is very costly to the company, and the lives of the people." - Frank Wander In this new era of work people count more than ever, and what they are able to collectively produce means everything. Everyone is...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "The main takeaway for me would be that we need to weave a discussion about contribution into more and more conversations, because it's a way to repair the broken relationship between people and the work that they do today." - Tom Rath When today's Finding Brave guest was 16 years old, he learned he...

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "People were putting time against the things that didn't really matter most to them, and they would then not have the energy for the things that did. I thought I could create a system and a process for people to ensure that they can align what matters most to them in their lives with where they spen...