Move Mountains Podcast

Part 2 with Bill Bryan and Nora Behren's of the Bryan Group. Listen in as Bill, Nora, and Charlie break down how we all have Decision Making personalities. Finding where our team thrives is imperative to having a balanced business.

This month we dive into Meeting Culture with Charlie White, Bill Bryan, and Nora Behrens. Have you heard these questions in your organization? "We have way too many meetings." "Nothing gets accomplished in these meetings." "The same people do all the talking, and nothing changes." Bill Bryan and Nora Behrens have joined Charlie White to define what creates an efficient meeting based on clarity of...

Joining Charlie in this episode are two extremely accomplished and confident individuals with resumes that have taken them on adventures into the mountains and wilderness of our planet and bold, scientific walks outside the space shuttle.   John Herrington is a retired Naval Test Pilot and NASA Astronaut who was the 143 rd  person to walk in space and the first Native American in history to do so....

What does it look like to show up as your authentic, vulnerable, messy self at work and in life, and engage in real dialogue about the most difficult, divisive, and polarized issues of our times?  Charlie and Nico Page, an HR Business Partner with LinkedIn, have a deep conversation about the last few years of racial identity politics, leadership responses, policy creation, power structures, privil...

Russell takes us on a fascinating journey through his family's bold and life-affirming decision to move from Seattle to Costa Rica for a year, inspired by a Tony Robbins question: "What is your plan?" He and Charlie explore the mindset of possibilities and serendipity, choosing to live as you want to and breaking free from the stories and setbacks that constrain our hopes and dreams.  What does it...

What is Functional Medicine and why isn't it the norm in our health care system?  Charlie speaks with Dr. Renee Prescott, Pharmacist and Director of Education for PCCA, a compounding pharmacy business based in Houston, about her passion for the more holistic and grounded approach of Functional Medicine and her journey to start her own health coaching business.  Renee discusses what it takes to mov...

Take a fascinating journey to Guatemala with Greg Jensen, Founder and Director of Cultiva International, a humanitarian organization working to eradicate extreme poverty one relationship and one garden box at a time.  Greg's story is not just about his work on an urgent and complex global issue but is also about rethinking how to solve and define problems and their root causes, how to inspire true...

Sue Purvis joins Charlie for a deep, thoughtful, and metaphor-rich conversation exploring the possibilities and fears of speaking your truth at home, in romance and relationships, at work, and in life.   Sue is the award-winning author of the 2018 book "Go Find." She is also a writing coach, public speaker, and wilderness medicine and avalanche education specialist who has taught on all 7 continen...

This week on the podcast, we are joined by Mike DeLisio, the North American Sales Director for PCCA (Professional Compounding Centers of America). He and Charlie discuss the intricacies of communication amidst the challenges of first adjusting to business via zoom, and then readjusting as the world re-opens. Mike stresses the importance of taking yourself out of the equation when figuring out the...

Today on the Podcast, Charlie is joined by two guests, and they dive deep into leadership skills as relationship skills. Joree Rose is a LMFT, Author, Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher, and Podcast Host of Journey Forward with Joree Rose.  Dr.  John S c hinnerer holds a PhD in Psychology, and is an Executive Coach and Podcast Host of The Evolved Caveman.  The three of them discuss how the culture...

Today on the Podcast we are joined by Mia  Kyricos, who manages her own small business strategically advising leadership teams who want to bring wellness to life. She specializes in the hospitality industry and brand strategy, and has worked with various companies to help them identify their brand values and align them with the company goals. She knows that once the core values have been establish...

Today on the Podcast, we sit down to talk with Todd Steele, CEO of active-wear clothing brand Lolë, whose mission is to help people connect with the outdoors and bring well-being to as many aspects of their lives as possible. He speaks candidly about his journey into leadership, and how essential flexibility has been for him in this role. He realized early on that leadership is not something that...

Melissa Eisler has been a leadership and executive coach, mindfulness facilitator, yoga instructor, and hosted leadership retreats – and she credits much of her success to her meditation and mindfulness practices. Join us today as she shares her journey, including her struggles learning to meditate, overcoming the overwhelming feelings of grief and anxiety, and working to silence her inner critic....

We're back! After a brief hiatus, we catch up with Charlie and Erika Fisher, Chief Administration Officer & General Counsel at Atlassian. As a leader of many teams who have shifted to working from home, Erika shares insights on the pursuit of a work/life balance over time, zoom fatigue, and leaning into personal discomfort in an effort to continue to become a better leader. She is proud to be part...

Jumping into another week of messiness, we are joined by a different perspective this week: Eric Edelstein, President of the Reno Aces Minor League Baseball Team and Reno 1868 Football Club. Eric and Charlie talk about leadership in sports and navigating the changes to this world during COVID-19. As a young child, Eric realized that being an all-star player wasn't the only way to keep the game he...

Ben Schick of the Strozzi Institute joins us today to talk about unifying teams around a strong mission and purpose. As a leadership development professional and leadership coach for over 25 years, Ben loves the challenge of working with people, and enjoys leading strategies based in a strong vision, mission, or purpose. "Whenever you get a group of human beings together [...] to execute a strateg...

It's all about connection. Today we welcome Chris Skelding of the Sales Leadership Team at Hyatt Hotels, and discuss the importance of connecting with individuals to create a more efficient workplace, and how that ultimately translates to a more successful business. While we are often told to separate our personal life from business, Chris reminds us that as a leader, "you have to take care of you...

Greg Skidmore and Todd DeGhetto are back to take last week's conversation deeper. Todd shares his vulnerable leadership learnings that were truly life and death in his line of work as a retired Navy SEAL. These hard lessons allowed him to see that everyone on his team has a purpose, the need (and desire) to make mistakes and the importance of staying focused and clear, despite the fear. As a leade...

Charlie rounds up his friends Greg Skidmore, an entrepreneur and Financial Planner, and Todd DeGehetto, a retired Navy Seal, to discuss the significance of flexing your perseverance muscle. We discuss what it looks like from these two diverse backgrounds, and we are reminded, whether in business or the battlefield, you must learn to keep pushing yourself just outside of your comfort zone and get c...

Professional ultra-runner, Adam Kimble, joins us on the podcast for an inspirational conversation on pushing our boundaries. We've all been gifted with talents in life, Adam reminds us, and while your personal calling may not be running 100+ miles, you can still test your limits and boundaries and achieve incredible things you never thought possible. Adam fills us in how he has applied this way of...

A fiercely loyal and proud Nevadan, Dana Bennett, talks with us about her experience as President of the Mining Association for the state. Dana gives us a peak behind the curtain and addresses a lot of the misconceptions about mining and just how misunderstood the industry is. Now as a retiree, Dana reflects upon her greatest lesson learned: time is the most valuable resource we have and we must h...

Alexis Robin is the co-founder of PLink Leadership Executive Coaching and today we discuss the positives of the pandemic and how we can honor the emotions that have arisen, without being swallowed by them. Alexis reminds us to constantly ask ourselves whether the many choices we face each day get us closer to the life we want to have. We explore the notion that you can be grateful for the things y...

Today we catch up with Hakim Jones, the Enterprise and Analytics Portfolio Director at Nike to discuss constructive conflict and coming together, as the diverse world we are, around a common purpose. Charlie and Hakim discuss the importance of having uncomfortable conversations, keeping hope alive amongst the challenges and how we can have better conversations without being triggered or growing an...

A Gastroenterologist and soon to be dad, Jeff Costanzo, joins us on the podcast today to discuss his viewpoint on the pandemic's effects on the medical community and shares his humbling lessons from residency and experience as a care provider. Despite all of the chaos and unknowns we're all experiencing in our lives, Jeff reminds us to honor the intensity and the authentic fear that arises, but to...