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Hello and welcome to the Robin Zander Show. My guest today is Dr. Emily Anhalt , a clinical psychologist and the co-founder of Coa, a startup building virtual and in-person centers to practice and improve mental health and resilience. Emily spoke at a Responsive Conference event that I hosted on Mental Health in San Francisco in November 2019, and I was so impressed with her presentation on stage...

Hello, and welcome back to the Robin Zander Show! My guest today is Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.  Jeremy heads up investments in consumer technology at Lightspeed, a well-known Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and has invested in iconic and culturally relevant companies, including Snap, Giphy, Rothy's, Affirm, Honest, Cheddar, and many more. Jeremy is willing to embra...

Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show. My guest today is Eldra Jackson III.  Eldra is a TED mainstage speaker and the co-executive director of Inside Circle, a non-profit which works to end cycles of incarceration and recidivism. Eldra was incarcerated for 24 years, with several years of that time spent in solitary confinement. Eldra now spends most of his time sitting with people inside and outsi...

Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show.  I first met Mark Brand through his talk at Responsive Conference 2017. The conversation in today's episode is broad in scope, but the central thread is Mark's tireless effort towards improving equality for all people. In Mark's world, that is predominantly through getting people fed. As a former restaurateur myself, I'm blown away by what Mark has accomplish...

Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show!  For today's episode, I sat down with Jude Gomila to talk about his journey as an entrepreneur and his start-up Golden. I first met Jude, and learned about Golden, when Zander Media was hired to create an explainer video about the company. We had 10 days to get up to speed on this company, craft a script, and put together this short video: https://vimeo.com/3...

Welcome back to another episode of the Robin Zander Show! My guests today are Alex Jamieson and Bob Gower, co-authors of the new book, Radical Alignment . This book is designed to help people achieve more joy and less drama - at work and in daily life. Bob Gower is an organizational design consultant. He supported my curation leading up to the first Responsive Conference, where he gave a talk on "...

I'm really pleased to share my live conversation with Chris Fussell, former Navy SEAL and Chief of Staff to General Stan McChrystal. who was himself in charge of Special Operations during the Iraq War. Chris is now the President of the McChrystal Group and spoke onstage at Responsive Conference 2016. Chris is the first person I look to about how we can respond to crisis and we spent this webinar d...

Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show, and an entirely different world. The Coronavirus Pandemic has the entire world in an uproar. In today's podcast, I have a conversation with David Hanrahan, CHRO of Eventbrite, about taking a large company entirely remote in under 2 weeks, parenting tactics when so many of us are working from home, changes to the events business, and maintaining mental health....

Welcome back to the show! I'm your host, Robin Zander. I meet with a lot of people exploring the edges of both personal and professional performance, but rarely find folks combining these disciplines skillfully within large organizations. The Trium Group is an exception. In this interview, I sit down with Darren Gold, managing partner of The Trium Group, to discuss peak performance, his very unusu...

A few weeks ago I sat down with Greg Russel, VP of Talent at Snapdocs to talk about talent development. The conversation ended up covering a great deal more including company culture, special needs, human development, and my own eclectic background. I hope you enjoy!

This fall I spent 3.5 weeks traveling with my mother in Ghana, Africa. The relationship between me and my mom is complicated. She frequently drives me crazy, so traveling in close quarters for several weeks in a foreign country was a bold test for our rel

A few weeks ago in NYC, I led a strategy workshop for an exclusive group of CEOs and founders who are building companies designed to thrive in the Future of Work. Every organization is tasked with issues that seem insurmountable. Often, the process to accomplishing a huge goal can be so overwhelming that we never get started. Behavior change can help make seemingly impossible goals feel smaller an...

Recently while in NYC, I led a strategy workshop for an exclusive group of CEOs and founders who are building companies designed to thrive in the modern world. Here, we discuss how to have more authenticity in our sales. Respecting others' time and double checking that they are still available and willing to speak gives you initial buy in to the conversation. You are much more likely to have a con...

My guest today is the President of Pepsi Global Foods, Simon Lowden. Simon has been the driving force over the last 10 years at turning Pepsi into a forward-thinking and self-iterating company. He is incredibly thoughtful when it comes to marketing and Responsive organizations, and in today's conversation, we dive deep into some of the philosophies that he has implemented over the span of his care...

A few weeks ago, I sat down with Michael Roderick to discuss brand strategy and his work around creating "referrable brands." This conversation covers a wide range of topics related to brand strategy, including his AIM model which stands for Accessibility, Influence, and Memory. We apply this framework to a variety of business examples, including my own efforts at Zander Media. I hope you enjoy! P...

This is a talk that Robin Zander gave at the HR Transform conference in Las Vegas to the Heads of HR of some of the fastest growing tech companies you have definitely heard of. The context for his talk was storytelling. Robin pulls on his experience at Robin's Cafe and Responsive Conference to help others tell their story.   In today's world, it's not enough to just have a great company culture -...

In this episode, my friend, Daniel Stillman, interviews me for his podcast, The Conversation Factory . We discuss how to ask better questions, the value of loving, non-judgemental questions, and my story. I hope you enjoy today's podcast as Daniel flips the script and interviews me on the art of asking questions.   Line Notes 1:15 How Robin describes himself 5:15 Responsive Org Mentions: Responsiv...

Perfectionism can limit your creative fuels. The fear of failure can be crippling, and the pressure to execute consistently can paralyze you from trying at all. To help combat this, try making a list of 10 ways you can do any specific thing unsuccessfully. The idea is to find ways to do something incorrectly, on purpose, in order to get your ideas flowing and remove your self-judgment. You are int...

We all have a myriad of beliefs, and it is useful first to recognize your beliefs. But it is also possible to amplify them, and use your beliefs as fuel to create more of what you want. In this exercise, we looked for the earliest memories of a specific belief, and then turned the belief into a statement of purpose. This process took an abstract memory and created an action that feels tangible and...

We are each in control of our own reality. If you feel that making money by selling your art or your work is impossible, go find other people whose work you admire that are successful. If someone else has done it, you can do it too. Find roll models that have something in common with you to help you believe in your own abilities.   --   This was recorded live at a Financial Freedom workshop in the...

If you want to save more money, adopting principles of behavior change will be important. What areas of your daily life can you cut back on spending? It's important to be thoughtful on what you spend money on in conjunction with how you want to live. That being said, if something in an unnecessary expense but brings you immense joy, don't cut it out. Whether that's a $5 latte or traveling with fam...

This is the story of how I came to own Robin's Cafe in the course of 3 weeks with no initial intention or experience in purchasing a coffeeshop. The mental and emotional growth I gained through that experience was instrumental. From that experience, I also found that when we show up humbly and ask for help, people are extremely receptive. People who love you will want to see you succeed. I was abl...

50 ways to 50k is a game you can play to come up with ways to make extra money each month.   The first step is to choose an amount of money that feels really achievable for you to make additionally to your normal income each month. The second step is to brainstorm 15 ways to make that amount of money for next month. The third step is to decipher whether each job you came up with will make money co...

One of the pieces around money that we don't clarify enough is establishing your "why". The reason you want something can be highly motivating, and the absence of a clear "why" can limit you from taking direct action. Be specific with how much more money you want, why it is important to you, and what it is for. Defining that can be a driving force to achieving your financial goals.   --   This was...

I recently sat down to chat with Lindsay McGregor in New York City. Lindsay is the co-author of The New York Time's best selling book "Primed to Perform" and also spoke onstage at Responsive 2018. She and her husband co-founded the company, VegaFactor, which works with fortune 500 companies, fast growing start-ups, and a wide variety of other organizations to improve performance. In this interview...