Mary Lou Kayser
Play Your Position
Many of us receive the call to leadership at some point in our lives. It can happen when we are young, and it can happen later. Sometimes it happens more than once. Regardless of its timing, saying yes to that call fundamentally changes us and the direction of our lives. The Play Your Position Podcast explores what happens when we answer the call -- and why it matters.
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Mary Lou Kayser
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Apr 7, 2026
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Episodes
Mark Yegge on Winning the Money Game 02.03.2023 58:45
Mark Yegge, the Wealth Architect, has spent his entire life learning and teaching people about wealth and the importance of a success mindset. He started investing when he was 12 – and made enough to buy his first car at 16. Mark started, and later sold, his Wall Street software company - the company that ushered in after-hours trading. He then "retired" at the age of 39, but not before growing th...
Copy of a Copy of a Copy 26.02.2023 22:23
Today's audible is all about artificial intelligence (AI) and the growing role it's playing in how we live and work. Ultimately, we each have to ask ourselves, is our brand, our reputation, the kind of work that we do worth turning over to robots? Are we destined to become a copy of a copy of a copy? = = = = = My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- is available now! Grab your copy here Here...
Dr. Jean Oursler on What to Do about Your Caveman Brain 21.02.2023 56:00
With a Ph. D. in Business Psychology, Dr. Jean is one of the country's top business consultants, a top-rated speaker, a world-class business performance coach and the creator of Caveman Brain®. Dr. Jean developed The Caveman Brain® Business Growth System to help individuals, teams, and companies who want to accelerate their business growth. This groundbreaking business growth system is the only on...
Rob Commodari on Why You Are Better than You Think 13.02.2023 50:45
Rob Commodari helps people find the path to reach their fullest potential. He discovered his own path in 1990, when he realized that speech and communication are powerful tools that animate hearts and minds. Rob developed a personalized approach to communicating that teaches awareness so that listeners may find their purpose and set attainable goals. A serial entrepreneur, Rob has been involved in...
Map vs Compass 09.02.2023 11:29
Formulas are great for chemical companies. Recipes come in handy when you're looking to make something you've never made before. Like a 3 layer orange lemon sunrise surprise cake. Step by steps are excellent ways of learning new, useful skills. But here's the thing about formulas. Their success and execution depend on any number of variables that are often not in our control. Getting the exact...
Spencer Snakard on Breaking through Your Upper Limits 29.01.2023 50:29
Spencer Snakard is an Executive Transformation Coach, Trainer, and Speaker. She helps visionary entrepreneurial women leaders break through upper limits so they can turn their mission into a world-changing movement … without life-sucking consequences! With 25 years of experience, her transformative programs cause profound & lasting shifts in participants' lives by getting to the heart of what driv...
Owen McGab Enaohwo on Processes and Procedures that Drive Business Growth 20.01.2023 50:58
Owen McGab Enaohwo is the CEO and Co-founder of SweetProcess, an easy to-use software that enables company executives and their employees to collaborate together to quickly document and/or improve their standard operating procedures, processes, and policies. In our conversation, Owen explains why businesses with well-defined processes and procedures outperform businesses that don't. Owen was previ...
There Is Always Room for the Best 16.01.2023 17:56
This episode was inspired by a blog post on www.maryloukayser.com = = = = = When you're feeling the post-holiday, January blues, and can't quite get things in gear, the two techniques I share in today's episode can get your mojo up and running. = = = = = My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- is available now! Grab your copy here The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insi...
Patrick Woods on Driving Success with Community 10.01.2023 53:22
The post Patrick Woods on Driving Success with Community appeared first on the Play Your Position Podcast . = = = = = For brands of all sizes and shapes, community is fast becoming the driver of success. Today's guest has been at the epicenter for many years of helping brands bake community into their ecosytems for long-term growth and sustainability. If you're wondering what factor can determine...
Retrospective 2022 04.01.2023 55:34
Happy New Year, Team PYP! In today's episode, I present to you the voices of my 30 phenomenal guests from the past 12 months who gave us wisdom, encouragement and reminders that it's okay that we don't get it right every time. That we can bounce back. That we can rebuild. That we can build something new from scratch. That like the tide, our lives ebb and flow. And at the core of it all is to remem...
Tim Tortora on How to Succeed in Hollywood 28.12.2022 44:49
Tim Tortora started working in Hollywood over 30 years ago as a tape operator in a recording studio and worked his way up through the ranks to CFO by 2008. He learned a lot along the way and worked with some amazing people and some of the biggest companies ( Harpo Films, Mandalay Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Disney, TriStar Pictures, Columbia Pictures). He did it all having no family connection o...
Brooke Chapman on Achievable, Sustainable Marketing Success 16.12.2022 50:42
Brooke Chapman started her career as a television journalist before moving into corporate communications and public relations roles, advising leading brands across the mining, travel, property, recruitment, and not-for-profit sectors. Today, Brooke Chapman is the Executive Director for ThreeBy3 and 9Boxes. Having worked within and alongside marketing teams for over 10 years, Brooke made the transi...
Is Artificial Intelligence Bad? 12.12.2022 19:38
The recent release of artificial intelligence apps like Lensa and ChatGPT are casuing a huge commotion across the Internet right now. In today's episode, I focus on the ai photo app Lensa and its widespread implications. Tons of interesting questions we all need to be asking. You won't want to miss this episode! = = = = = Click here to check out the blog post of this episode My latest book, The F...
Zack Booth on Getting Your Vision Clear and Taking Action 08.12.2022 50:40
Zack Booth is the Founder of Driving For Dollars Mastery, where he helps people replicate his success through real estate investing. Just a few years ago, Zack was a window cleaner. You can even find his window cleaning tutorial videos on YouTube with millions of views. He even ended up on the history channel because of those window cleaning tutorial videos. Although he achieved success with his w...
Valerie Hayes on Helping Leaders Implement Their Strategic Vision 05.12.2022 44:51
Valerie Hayes is on a mission to help small businesses beat the odds and push through the roadblocks to become an industry leader. She helps overburdened entrepreneurs, small business owners, and CEOs run their companies like a high-performance sports car. Fast and effective. As a Fractional COO, Valerie helps untangle everything that's not working smoothly, sorts it all out, and puts it back toge...
Jack Tompkins on What It Means to Lead with Data 19.11.2022 43:37
Jack Tompkins is the owner of a consulting firm with the best name ever: Pineapple Consulting Firm. Based out of Charlotte, NC, Jack absolutely loves helping small businesses become data-driven! Originally from Connecticut, Jack spent years after college in Corporate America with roles ranging from analyst to partnership manager, but moved down to Charlotte and started his company, Pineapple Consu...
Ian Robinson on Building Your Own Digital Work Environment 12.11.2022 55:09
When you think about a work environment, what immediately comes to mind? For many people, their work environment is a physical place -- an office, a renovated closet, even the kitchen table. My guest today talks about another kind of work environment -- our digital spaces, where many of us spend considerable time as well. Ian Robinson and his team at Enliven design and build highly functional, col...
Let's Talk about Content Anxiety Syndrome 08.11.2022 22:21
Content Anxiety Syndrome is the name of a disorder I made up to explain what's happening to a lot of people. It is y et another unnecessary and heartbreaking side effect of the Internet Age plaguing far too many amazing people who have fallen into the trap of thinking they must "make more content" or else risk irrelevance. If you are experiencing too much time on your laptop or phone making conten...
Carol Sanford on the Responsible Business Framework for Continuous Success 24.10.2022 49:38
Carol Sanford is an award-winning business educator, summit Producer, podcaster, and author. She is a consistently recognized thought leader working side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executives in designing and leading systemic business change and design. Through her university and in-house educational offerings, global speaking platforms, multi-award-winning books, and human developme...
Dirk van Reenan on Finding the Right People for Your Business 14.10.2022 59:04
Dirk van Reenen is the founder and CEO of BERGflow, a company that specializes in helping small and medium sized businesses build better teams to grow faster, with higher profits, and more time freedom. Dirk is an award-winning entrepreneur, international consultant, trainer, and former CEO of an $800 million a year sales organization. After a decade of experience in building fast growing companie...
Self Promotion Is Not a Four Letter Word 11.10.2022 16:04
My personal experience with self-promotion isn't exactly the poster board for how to do it well. Like most people, I'd rather spend my time doing just about anything else besides telling the world about myself. Unfortunately, there is a direct correlation between how effective our self promotion efforts are and how many zeroes are in our bank account. In today's episode, I share some tips about ho...
If You Choose Not to Decide 06.10.2022 11:46
You still have made a choice. What is it costing us to not make decisions? I explore this quesiton in today's solo episode of the Play Your Position Podcast. Musical excerpt from "Freewill" thanks to RUSH Enjoy! === *** My latest book The Far Unlit Unknown launchs on October 30th!!! Stay tuned for details!!!*** = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and insp...
Tony Wall on Building a More Sustainable Future 03.10.2022 56:05
Anthony "Tony" Wall is the founder and president of Noēsis, a non-profit dedicated to issues of human sustainability, to examine evolutionary influence upon modern behavior, and to one day free humankind from the churn of perpetual conflict. Wall, who comes from a family of nine, graduated from the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. He then moved on to Chicago, where he graduated from La...
No One Handed Us a Manual 29.09.2022 17:22
Do you remember the first time you sat down to use the Internet? I do. I was teaching high school English at the time. It was the mid-90s and I already knew my students knew more about this wild thing than I or any of my colleagues did because I'd seen groups of them gathered around clunky laptops on the floor gawking at their screens. A palpable buzz filled the air. We all knew things were going...
Bill Gammon on Doing the Next Right Thing -- Especially When It's Challenging 26.09.2022 43:24
Doing the next right thing can be easy -- or the hardest challenge we've every faced. Today's guest William Gammon is an accomplished senior executive, advisor, thought leader, author, and mentor coach with more than 50 years of success across the airline, securities, and insurance industries who knows a thing or two about taking the next right step. William has held a leadership position as a fin...
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