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Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. Here we go! Our question for you today: What's in your toolbox to help you recenter?  Follow to get your Monday Fired up.

Don Cates is the President and CEO at Three Rivers Federal Credit Union and he is passionate about mentorship and coaching.  In this episode, Nikki and Don dive deep into the meanings of excellent leadership and how coaching and mentoring are intertwined. With anyone he mentors, Don makes sure that he promotes failure. Listen in to learn how failure and a "we" mentality can make all the difference...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. This episode is getting taken over by  Rosie Ward ,  CEO and Co-founder of  Salveo Partners. Listen in as she shares the differences between leading with an inner mindset versus an outward mindset and how that affects the workplace.  Follow to get your Monday Fired up. Want to hear more from Rosie? Follow...

Chris Howald is the CEO at Tweet/Garot Mechanical, Inc. and is a fourth generation leader where he believes he is a steward to his employees and the business instead of just an owner. In this subseries, Nikki has partnered with Performa , a purpose-driven, fully integrated architecture, engineering, and design firm that gives people (and purpose) the space to thrive. In this episode, Chris, Nikki,...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. This episode is getting taken over by  Rosie Ward,  CEO and Co-founder of  Salveo Partners. Listen in as she shares why leaders need to upgrade their inner operating system and how it effects performance. Follow to get your Monday Fired up.

Amy Woodall is the President of Sandler Training Trustpointe. For the past 20 years, the company has specialized in training, coaching, and assessments for individuals, teams, and organizations looking to foster techniques to grow sales and increase clientele. In this throwback episode, Nikki revisits  her conversation with Amy as she describes her craft as "business therapy," providing "mental In...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. This episode is getting taken over by Rosie Ward, CEO and Co-founder of Salveo Partners. Listen in as she shares how we can show up courageously.  Follow to get your Monday Fired up.

Todd Palmer is a coach to entrepreneurial CEOs and author of the book, From Suck to Success . He's a keynote speaker with more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO himself. In this episode, he describes the life experience that ultimately inspired his book. What's the key takeaway? ATV — authenticity, transparency and vulnerability. Listen in as Todd describes these characteristi...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. Here we go! Our question for you today: How can you seize the moment? Follow to get your Monday Fired up.

Craig Dickman is the Managing Director at TitletownTech , a venture capital organization that empowers, supports, and invests in entrepreneurs throughout their startup journey. For this subseries, Nikki has partnered with Performa , a purpose-driven, fully integrated architecture, engineering and design firm that gives people (and purpose) the space to thrive. In this episode, Craig, Nikki, and co...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week.  Tim Spiker  is taking over this episode with a message of how to be more inwardly sound and others focused.  Follow to get your Monday Fired up and hear more from Tim as he launches his own podcast on the PeopleForward Network.

Rebecca Metter is the CEO of Wambi, LLC, a digital healthcare employee recognition platform that improves patient satisfaction and safety. It's the first gamified system that significantly increases employee engagement. In this throwback episode, Nikki revisits her conversation with Rebecca, a CEO whose mission is to create meaningful interactions between people as a way to create real and lasting...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week.  Tim Spiker  is taking over this episode with a message of how to be more inwardly sound and others focused.  Follow to get your Monday Fired up and hear more from Tim as he launches his own podcast on the PeopleForward Network.

Tevis Trower is the CEO of Balance Integration where they have had the same mission for fifteen years: to humanize the work experience.  We all overlook getting to know ourselves better. In this episode, you'll hear Tevis explain why connecting with yourself is the first step to engaging the people around you. To learn more about the role of introspection and how understanding the person you want...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. Tim Spiker is taking over this episode with a message of how to be more inwardly sound and others focused.  Follow to get your Monday Fired up and hear more from Tim as he launches his own podcast on the PeopleForward Network.

Brian Mohr is the Co-founder of anthym , an interactive, patent-pending personal storytelling platform, leveraging the power of music to catalog some of the most meaningful and pivotal moments and memories in our lives. It's mission? To help more people experience meaningful relationships, especially at work.  Book Recommendations Ted Talk: What Makes for a Good Life by Robert Waldinger Man's Sear...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. Here we go! Our question for you today: How can you let your employees work in a way that fits them? Follow to get your Monday Fired up.

As leaders, we are often so focused on how to make our company or our employees better we forget to take time for our own development. Tim Spiker , President and CEO of The Aperio Group , is a speaker, author, leadership consultant, and experience-creator led by the mission of making better leaders. In this throwback episode, Nikki revisits the conversation she and Tim had around self-development...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. This episode is getting taken over by  Liesel Mertes , Founder of Handle with Care Consulting and host of the  Handle with Care: Empathy at Work podcast.   In this episode she explains why the phrase "Let me know how I can help" isn't the best way to support a friend or coworker. Follow to get your Monday...

Dr. Norma Tirado is the Vice President of Team Member Experience and Talent Development at Spectrum Health , where she strives to help her people find their gifts and pursue them in their careers. In this episode, her passion shines through as she talks about ways leaders can help their own employees and peers identify their strengths to reach their full potential. Book Recommendations:  Emotional...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. This episode is getting taken over by  Liesel Mertes , Founder of Handle with Care Consulting and host of the  Handle with Care: Empathy at Work podcast.   In this episode she discusses how powerful the phrase "tell me more" can be in the workplace. Follow to get your Monday Fired up.

What is the difference between leading a life of success and leading a life of significance?  In his 30s, Mark Whitacre defined success as a seven-figure salary, a 13,000-foot home with an eight-car garage, and flying on corporate jets all over the world. That was a reality. But because of his involvement in one of the largest white-collar price-fixing cases in US history, he was sent to federal p...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. This episode is getting taken over by Liesel Mertes , Founder of Handle with Care Consulting and host of the Handle with Care: Empathy at Work podcast.   In this episode she explains why you need to eliminate the phrase, "Take all the time you need" from your vocabulary.  Follow to get your Monday Fired up...

70 percent of employees don't feel engaged at work, which creates a big problem for companies not just across America but globally. That staggering statistic is just one of the reasons why employee engagement is at the top of  David Butler 's list. As the Founder of  Spanvest International , David works alongside company executives to champion change through the people stuff – the stuff that reall...

Happy Monday! Every Monday we drop some #MondayFire to help you get excited about your week. Here we go! Our question for you today: How can you fire up your life? Follow to get your Monday Fired up.