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Listen as Katherine Wells shares more about her path to creating Serenity Engage and co-founding Mavericks of Senior Living.

Katherine Wells saw a big, almost insurmountable need facing families and aging services providers. Listen and hear what she did to create fluid communication between nursing home residents, their families, and their care teams.

Dr. Alyx Porter Umphrey shares more about how she is continuing to advance physician diversity through her work with ElevateMeD.

Is there any benefit to remembering the bad things that have happened in our lives? Perhaps... Listen as Linda Roszak Burton, author of Gratitude Heals, tackles this topic.

Learn more about how Julie Rosenthal saw a pressing need with hunger among the seniors and what she did about it.

We can't just get over trauma. But, we can learn and grow from it. In this episode Linda Roszak Burton, author of Gratitude Heals, explores growth from trauma.

Julie Rosenthal saw a need to address hunger among the elderly in her community. She did something! She founded Food on the 15th. Listen learn about this grassroots work that feeds hundreds of low-income seniors.

Dr. Alyx Porter Umphrey, founder of ElevateMeD, saw a need regarding physician diversity and she's doing something to address it. Listen in for strategies you can use to see something and do something.

We're starting a new year...so many new opportunities facing each of us. We have to be careful not to get mired in yesterday. In this podcast we'll explore how we reinterpret the struggles, set-backs and stumbles inherent in life. We all face them... Linda Roszak Burton introduces the concept of 'grateful processing.' It's more than reframing. It's about reprogramming how we process events. Listen...

Have you ever noticed that some people are able to get things done? They take no prisoners. They kick tail and take names later. They get their projects off the ground. They get their ideas noticed. They accomplish things that others think impossible. So how is it that they’re able to accelerate their agendas? That’s what we’re going to talk about.

Try wandering around Rome in the dark after a couple of glasses of really good Italian wine looking for your hotel with your sister and what may be a faulty GPS… It wasn’t dark when we started out on this 20-minute trek that turned into an hour and a half adventure but it was very dark by the time we stumbled across our hotel...we discovered that we both have explorer's hearts!

What’s stopping you from reaching your goals? You can start if you know what’s stopping you! And I mean you can start anything if you can figure out what’s stopping you.

It's possible to misuse the concept of 'gratitude'. In this episode author Linda Roszak Burton explores the concept of weaponizing gratitude.

This podcast is a short mental tune-up for me and for you. My premise is simple: if we can change what we’re giving, we can change what we’re getting. The Law of Attraction says that positive thoughts bring positive results and negative thoughts bring negative results. We know it's not that simple, so let's go a little deeper.

We need tools to spark behavioral change. That’s what this podcast is all about. It’s about sparking the behavioral change that will help you lead people to excellence in every area of their work.

This podcast is all about habits of excellence of individual leaders and their organizations. This is a never-ending, transformational process that is not to be confused with perfectionism. Excellence is a realistic, attainable goal. Perfection is not.

If I’m not careful, I fall into the trap of only noticing the worst leaders, the worst organizations, the worst situations. That’s perhaps because people often wait until crises to call on a consultant so when I get there, I see them at their worst. In reality, there is a tremendous amount of compassion and kindness demonstrated by leaders everywhere. If you’re slipping into cynicism or apathy, pa...

A friend, her name is Dot, and I were discussing a problem shared with us by a mutual friend, whose name I won’t mention. She had bravely extricated herself from an unfulfilling, unhappy situation. But, she decided to return. My friend, a very wise woman said, “She’s going to be the grass and he’s going to be the lawnmower.” Dot and I talked about it she said some important things. She said that w...

I interviewed for a faculty position and I didn’t get it. I made it down to the final two and they picked someone else. I was really disappointed. I really miss being in the classroom. I love working with grad students. I love helping people explore their intellectual curiosity. I'm going to talk about the interview experience and the mistakes I made.

I’m going to quickly share my understanding of and thoughts on self-leadership. I think of it as a tool for what Parker Palmer calls 'letting your life speak.' If you haven’t read that book, Let Your Life Speak , you really should!

I want to talk about how we can accept the fact that we are perfectly imperfect. It is impossible to be physically, mentally or spiritually perfect, so don’t waste energy trying. Life is good as it is. We are good as we are. Can you take a moment and absorb that thought? You are good just as you are…amazing, contemplate that.

If we continue to live we will continue to have stressors in some shape, form or fashion. My Mom used to say the only people without stress were in the cemetery. And she wasn’t talking about the grave diggers. Recognizing that we’re all going to have some stress or another. I want to give a few tips for living joyfully with the realities of stress.

The list of possible career setbacks goes on and on. The setbacks are real. They’re hurtful. They’re damaging. They can have lasting, lingering effects on our careers, on our psyches, on our confidence, on our self-esteem. This podcast gives you twelve steps for dealing with the setback. None of it is new information. Consider it a reminder if you already know. If you don’t know it, take notes.

I had surgery this summer and had to spend a lot of time on my back. I’ve got a comfortable mattress and lots of pillows so time on my back was pleasant. But it’s not the creature comforts that made time on my back worthwhile. It’s the things money can’t buy, the real riches of life. I have a lot of those riches and am going to try to cover all of them.

There are times when I can dredge up every mistake I ever made. I can find every failure, every misstep. I try not to fall into this trap often, but I certainly fall in. This podcast is all about ways that we can move from regret to resolve. It doesn’t pay to keep our head or our hearts in the past. That just creates a cycle of negative emotions that keep us from leveraging our learnings. As hard...