Lead With Who You Are

Patricia Roberts is a Financial Educator and Writer / Go-To Education & Disability Savings Champion known for her expertise in 529 plans and her role as COO at Gift of College. She has written a book, "Route 529: A Parent's Guide to Saving for College and Career Training with 529 Plans", which was a top new release in Fall 2020.  In this episode, Patricia shares her journey of becoming an expert i...

Four-time Author, Design Leader and Leadership Coach, Maria Giudice, joins the podcast to talk about her new book, Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World. Maria is a powerful and influential voice in the space of design and believes that design has the power to transform. Unafraid of change and ultimately, transformation, Maria Giudice shares with us the ways in w...

Best-selling Author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger , Soraya Chemaly, joins the podcast to discuss anger, rage and how a new understanding of anger and rage can serve us in our leadership, our life and our impact. In this episode, we explore anger competence and understanding how anger and rage impact us personally and collectively.  And how to use it instead of defaulting back to...

Kelly Twichel, inventor and entrepreneur, joins the podcast to discuss her entrepreneurial journey and the moment that sparked the idea of her invention, Access Trax, improving access to the outdoors for folks with disabilities.   Kelly Twichel is an outdoor enthusiast and advocate for people living with disabilities.  One of her dreams is to bring Access Trax to the Paralympics to improve the exp...

Know your voice, lead with it. In this episode, Dia shares 2 of the 4 components of The Platform Map, a framework for helping develop a powerful high impact and confident voice as a leader in your domain, in your organization, and in your industry.  You’ll hear how to develop the first 2 components; purpose and person, which includes your purpose statement and your founder/leader story as a strate...

In this episode of Lead With Who You Are , we have Wanona Satcher, CEO & Founder of Makher Studio- a green manufacturing and design-build firm that specializes in innovative modular real estate and civic revitalization strategies.  Wanona has been a troublemaker in one setting and a visionary in another. In our conversation, we explore the issue of context- how context can make who we are a proble...

Gary Ware is the Founder of Breakthrough Play and a Play Consultant who helps leaders and companies use play in order to help people and businesses become their most successful and fulfilled selves.  Turns out that with play, you can learn more about who you are so you can lead with it. In my conversation Gary, you’ll learn about the 9 play-types so you can identify which one is yours.  You’ll get...

On today’s episode Dino Anderson, an executive leader and academic lecturer, teaches us how humans can create collective meaning and evidence-based impact in workplace culture. Dino leads a newly formed Culture Team at Articulate, an industry-leading creator platform for workplace learning. His charter is to evolve their Human-Centered Organizational Framework, expand Diversity, Equity and Inclusi...

Adam Somlai-Fischer is the co-founder and principal artist of the cloud-based presentation software company, Prezi. In this episode, we talk about the power of thinking together as a way to create empathy and compassion in our work.  His works and products has been covered by leading press including Wired Magazine, New York Times, Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg. Adam has suc...

Kim Steppe is the CEO and oversees Partner and Client Relations for RISEQUITY, Inc., where her passion is to identify opportunities within a company and bring innovative solutions to create diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces where every employee belongs.    Kim is an experienced Congressional Ambassador, having lobbied for Alzheimer's research funding and advocated at the federal and sta...

Cristina Jones is an intentional storyteller with a focus on action, impact, and culture. As Chief Engagement Officer at Salesforce.org, Cristina and her team use world-class storytelling to reach new audiences, spotlighting Salesforce.org as the technology platform built to power purpose.  In this episode Cristina defines what “action leadership” is, and the obligation as a leader— at any level—...

Dr. Nicholas Haan is a moonshot agitator for solving the world’s biggest challenges and creating a future that’s good for people and the planet. He draws from his multifaceted background to enable leaders to cultivate new mindsets, insights and skills necessary to thrive in the digital transformation era.   Nicholas is a Swahili-speaking, US–East Africa hybrid–originally from California and living...

Jay Lauf is no stranger to a significant challenge. He’s spent the last 30 years leading start-ups and turnarounds in the media space. As the publisher of WIRED in the 2000s, Jay helped lead it to be named Ad Age's magazine of the decade and then joined The Atlantic as its publisher where he turned its commercial fortunes around, twice earning him Publisher of the Year (once from AdWeek and once f...

Reaching across the aisle doesn’t mean forgetting who you are or your values —in fact, the opposite is true. When collaborating with people who don’t share your core beliefs, it is more important than ever to lead with who you are to arrive at your desired outcome.  Nisha is a grassroots activist and was arrested in Burma for passing out pro-democracy leaflets. She's got expansive organizing exper...

There’s a better way to tell your founder or leader story- a better way to brag.  A way that helps you hold your accomplishments high and use them to build trust.  And it starts with WHO you are.  In this episode, we’ll walk you through the three steps to building a better founder or leader story.   You want a better founder or leader story because it can do more for you.  It can build trust, cred...

Today we have a great guest, Jacyn Fu, Co-Founder and CEO of Pepper Bra, a company bringing exceptionally comfortable bras to small boobs everywhere.  We knew we were going to have Jaclyn Fu on the show, so I bought bras for the ladies on the team.  One of our team members texted me and said “OMG my pepper bra came today. I almost CRIED it fits so well.” Yes. Amazingly, good bras. But this episode...

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We very often have more power than we think.  It’s what you do with it that matters.  During this episode we get to hear from someone who took the stage to do more than get laughs. Comedy, Power and Confidence with Selene Luna!  In this episode, Comedian, Actor and Activist Selene Luna shares her story of finding power in her story and confidence on stage. Selene is the voice of Tía Rosita in Dis...

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We can get that itch that says, “it’s time for change”. Corporate Escape Artist, Caroline Castrillon, joins us today to talk career change.   Start by making a list of the things you want to change.  You might be surprised at what change really means to you!  It may be that what you thought needed to go, that one small change can change everything.  Listen to how to get started in this episode of...

Have a question?  Call us at 341-333-2997.   Leave a message and Dia may answer it on the show!   Get on the waiting list for our brand-new online membership program, BACKSTAGE . Follow the show on Instagram .  Check out all things Dia Bondi here.

Don’t confuse boldness with being a bulldozer.  On this episode, we talk with Rene Hue Lipton, advertising executive and badass who’s harnessed her power to speak truth into any room and to confront whatever elephant is sitting there waiting to be called out. Shes a force and a mentor voice you need to hear if you are taking on your own power and learning to wield it to create impact and carve a p...

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Money, Shame and the right to build wealth.  That’s the talk for today’s episode with Hilary Hendershott, Certified Financial Planner and Profits Coach.  Let’s get real about the dollars and cents and the plain old logistics of money AND let’s talk about the psychology of money.  Plus, Dia puts herself in the chair and shares her money crap for live coaching from Hilary.  Hint: Hilary shares that...