The LIFE WORKS Podcast - Lessons From the Trenches of Life & Business

Joining us today is Rock Star Futurist, Educator, and Consultant, Garry Golden, CEO and Founder of Forward Elements Inc. He co-wrote the book,  Designing Your Future ,  as well as several white papers including the Future of the Social Web and the Future of Green as a Business Strategy. Garry is also an adjunct professor with the  Univers...

Joining me for today’s interview, “How to be Interesting…and Interested” is longtime friend, colleague, and one of the most interesting people I know – Dr. Michael Hertz. Michael is a Senior Leader with Progeny Systems, and co-founder of Empowering Haitians, a non-profit that seeks to create economic opportunity, social independence, self-sufficiency, and sustainability solutions in Haiti. I...

In this final interview excerpt, we cover how to survive a police encounter in order to “fight another day.” Joining me for this timely and very important interview is long time friend and colleague, Walter Powell is a Security Guru, and Former 20-year Police Officer. Walter grew up in the first generation following the civil rights era, and spent 20 years of his career as a police off...

Joining me for this timely and very important interview is long time friend and colleague, Walter Powell is a Security Guru, and Former 20-year Police Officer. He grew up in the first generation following the civil rights era, and spent 20 years of his career as a police officer. In this day and age, where the world is desperate for context, common sense, and critical thinking, he is uniquely qual...

Joining me for this timely and very important interview is long time friend and colleague, Walter Powell is a Security Guru, and Former 20-year Police Officer. He grew up in the first generation following the civil rights era, and spent 20 years of his career as a police officer. In this day and age, where the world is desperate for context, common sense, and critical thinking, he is uniquely qual...

Joining me for this timely and very important interview is long time friend and colleague, Walter Powell is a Security Guru, and Former 20-year Police Officer. He grew up in the first generation following the civil rights era, and spent 20 years of his career as a police officer. In this day and age, where the world is desperate for context, common sense, and critical thinking, he is uniquely qual...

Check out my new podcast episode, “10 Secrets of Building Unity and Community (Length 9:41)” In these anxious times, amid the backdrop of a pandemic and social unrest, we need to build unity and community more now than ever before. Over the years, I have observed (and personally implemented) these 10 SECRETS to bond and build unity, community, and camaraderie within groups or organizat...

We are living in cataclysmic economic times. Whether you have a job or are looking for a job you needs to see this interview with Career Coach Extraordinaire, Lorraine Rise . In this interview, we cover: * What a layoff can do to a person emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically* How a person finds a job or makes a career adjustment in times of great economic uncertainty* How to develop...

Joining me is long time friend and colleague, Dr. Marisela Martinez-Cola – an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utah State University. Her areas of research include race, ethnicity, and culture. She is the author of soon-to-be-published, “The Bricks before Brown”, which is a study of race, class, and gender across three school desegregation cases involving Chinese, Mexican, and...

Have you ever thought about how powerful the words we use are? Our words have great power. They are like “spells” we cast on our world. They shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, how high and how far we go in our career, they determine our success or failure. In fact our words determine our entire life. Music Credit Track: Memories — INOSSI [Audio Library Release]Music provided by Audio L...

In an economic environment where corporations can easily outsource work to other countries for less, where salaries are not increasing but are actually decreasing, where layoffs are a reality even in the most robust economic areas, and all so that companies can meet Wall Street expectations – fear of losing one’s job is not only valid but statistically likely. We talk about 10 ways to save your se...

Hard talks are an inevitable part of the human experience. All of us encounter difficult and awkward situations at work and in our personal lives, and at the heart of those situations are (you guessed it) difficult and awkward people that are usually the source of the problem. Music Credit Track: Memories — INOSSI [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be...

Dr. Hill is an authority on the role of emotions in consumer and employee behavior and an expert in facial coding to help measure people’s decision-making process. He is the founder and president of Sensory Logic, a research-based consulting firm that specializes working with companies to enhance their sensory-emotional connection with consumers. He has appeared on CNN, the Today Show, MSNBC...

The 3 Critical Qualities of Every Successful Business Relationship

Organizations have a bit of a cognitive dissonance or conflict when it comes to critical thinking and critical thinkers. Corporations and nonprofits alike want thinkers who have hardcore critical thinking skills, but in my observation, while they want people who are good at finding better ways, improvements, opportunities, more revenue, and cost savings, they often want the skill, but don’t always...

“What is your purpose?” “What is the meaning of your life?” Have you ever thought about these questions for yourself? The concept of purpose is broad, transcendent, and certainly not something you bring up in casual conversation, but knowing our purpose is critical to our success in life. It gives us focus, meaning, and a prism to view our life through to determine whether we are focus...

In a previous episode, “Confessions of a Micromanager” I talked about what’s really going on inside the head of a micromanager – using myself as the case study. In that episode, I talked about “the problem”, how micromanagers operate primarily from a place of insecurity, fear, or a lack of control or trust. In some cases, their behavior comes from extraordinarily high standards. In this post, we e...

Early in my career, I worked for a person who was the very dictionary definition of micromanagement. It was so bad working for them they actually gave me heart palpitations for months. Because of that experience, I swore I would never become a micromanager. Until about ten years ago…

Hello, my name is Mark, and welcome the Perfection Support Group. I am married to Perfection. I’ve been married to Perfection for over 30 years, but I’ve come to realize that I have a problem. Perfection has not been the spouse that I thought she would be. Music Credit Track: Memories — INOSSI [Audio Library Release]Music provided by: Audio Library PlusWatch: https://youtu.be/GePAKPB6vQY Free Down...

If you look around any waiting room nowadays, you notice people doing one of several things, but mainly one: they are using some kind of screen (phone, tablet, computer, TV) to pass the time. While our electronic devices have become necessary for work, communication, connection, and re-creation, at what cost does it come? I believe we sacrifice something of ourselves on the altar of “keeping busy”...

Have you ever been in a situation where you had an unproductive thought or emotion and could not let go, no matter how hard you tried? Several years ago, I was working with a talented colleague that didn’t have a good sense of time management… Music Credit Track: Memories — INOSSI [Audio Library Release]Music provided by: Audio Library PlusWatch: https://youtu.be/GePAKPB6vQY Free Download /...

As a parent, one of the things I dread is seeing my children suffer in any way. Several years ago, I was out walking with my kids, my [then] 4-year-old daughter was running far ahead of us, and my [then] 2-year-old daughter lagged behind… Music Credit Track: Memories — INOSSI [Audio Library Release]Music provided by: Audio Library PlusWatch: https://youtu.be/GePAKPB6vQY Free Download / Strea...

The self-actualized person is no longer worried about basic needs, but rather they are driven by their personal need to evolve and fulfill their life’s purpose or mission. Someone asked Abraham Maslow (The author of the “Hierarchy of Needs” theory / concept), “How do you if know if you are self-actualized?” Maslow responded with the following… Music Credit Track: Memories — INOSS...