the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast

In this 5-minute and 38-second nitty-gritty episode, We explore one of the most straightforward yet potent strategies to prepare, protect, and propel you of others as you wade into the deep waters of personal or professional change. Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens

Listen to this 5-minute and 42-second nitty-gritty episode that will encourage and empower you to:  Not get seduced and paralyzed by perfection.  To get comfortable releasing your imperfect plans into the world, experiment with them, and let them find their way.  And to always remember that ... IT'S ONLY PERFECT IN YOUR MIND. Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theunc...

This UNCORK conversation is a thoughtful and instructive chat with Facilitator, Musician, Producer and my friend Kris MacQueen. As we explore his almost 30-year journey through 3 very different careers, Kris and I consider this question: How do you uncommodify one world with the lessons you learn in a "seemingly" different world?   Here are some thoughts and questions we consider as we s...

Listen to this 5-minute and 3-second episode I recorded on my iPhone while camping which will challenge you with this question: What's your goal? Give a mandate or create a MOVEMENT. Here's what I have discovered: If you want to be motivated and motivate others. If we want to avoid having to drive people all the time. If we want people to show up daily with passion and purpose to execute...

This UNCORK conversation is a practical and provocative chat with my colleague and consulting partner Amanda Macdougall that will challenge you about how you see the people in your organization. If you say that people are your greatest "assets," do your attitudes and actions align with this declaration?  Along the way, we explore these critical questions:  Are you treating people like di...

As you stand on the edge of a new year, here are some questions for you to consider: Are you so wrapped up in what you're planning and producing that you forget to plug in and recharge?  Are you getting enough time in "Cathedral Space"… in "Sacred Space?"  Do you need to wade into a "familiar river" as I did and realize that it is never the same as the last time...

This episode is an UNCORK Conversation with Erin Sikopoulos. Erin is a certified Gemstone Energy Medicine Practitioner, advanced Intuitive and a Licensed Massage Therapist for over a decade. In private practice, Erin combines all three specialties into unique energy & bodywork sessions for clients. She also mentors and speaks on developing intuition, utilizing gemstone energy and holds regular...

In this 10-minute and 23-second NITTY-GRITTY episode, I explore an ancient story that teaches us about the best gift you can give yourself and others: the journey we all need to go on to find our true selves.  Listen in, and you will discover the wisdom of "wrestling an angel" and wrestling your darkness in the presence of light.  If you want to walk differently in this life, as I have,...

This episode is an UNCORK Conversation with Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, Speaker and Author Lisa Schermerhorn. Lisa and I chat about her new book, IN EVERY BELIEF IS A LIE, and explore these provocative questions: If there is a lie in every belief, is there a truth in every lie? How is a lie built? How is a lie broken?  During our conversation, we discover that:  - Unfortunately, most...

In this 8-minute and 6-second nitty-gritty episode, I encourage you to be a Monitor who plans to check in with your people along the way, tell them to expect problems and prepare them to solve them proactively. Not a Micro-Manager who checks up on everyone constantly and pounces on people when there's a problem. Nobody sets out to be a Micro-Manager, but you will become one if you can't...

It's always better to see individuals and not groups; to see individual people, not groups of priests, pagans, or politicians. When we talk in homogenous ways regarding large groups of people - like "everyone," "everybody," or "all of those people," the reality is it can never be true because not every person in that ecosystem, whatever that ecosystem, is the sam...

This episode is an UNCORK conversation with my friend Craig Minchin.  Craig and I explore how his journey from a profound and dark soul-crushing personal and professional crisis led him to find emotional healing, revive his Mr. Incredible, and as a bonus, find the best job he ever has had.  Craig shares on a deeply personal level the pain and the pleasure of his journey that began with him asking...

This 5-MINUTE & 49-SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY episode explores these provocative questions and challenges;  Why must we stop providing quick answers and start asking better questions to embrace and move into our uncertain future? And why must we embrace ambiguity and the truth that we are rather dim-sighted? BECAUSE: there are very few things that we truly can control around us. We have no idea...

My 100th EPISODE. What a ride. What a journey.  Let's celebrate our uniqueness, continue breaking the evil spell of sameness, and remind ourselves of what we can discover through failure if we don't "turtle up" and say, I can't... I can't move forward. For those of you who listen regularly, I want to say thank you. Thanks for being part of this community, this UNCOMMO...

This episode is an UNCORK Conversation with Business Mentor Jeff Chesebrough.  Jeff is the CEO of Innovate Niagara, a one-stop resource for entrepreneurs in high-growth sectors that includes a network of business incubators and service providers. Our conversation explores some very practical ways that we can incubate the ideas, dreams, and passions of others. And the role that mentoring and asking...

In this 4-minute and 24-second Mini Nitty-Gritty episode, I explore the wisdom and power that comes to us and others when we live "paradoxically" and play "tug-a-war" with ideas and ideologies. For us to hold tension in truth, to hold tension in an argument, and to understand the complexity of many things in life, we must stop seeing things as contradictions. Instead, we should...

Inspired by a recent trip to Atlanta, I reflect on the challenge of MLK for me and you to be "Servants of Justice."  In this 6-MINUTE & 35-SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY episode, I challenge you and me to not let the feeling that the "little thing" we can do in our world to break the power of injustice is so insignificant that it's not worth doing.  Don't be deceived or...

Motivating and inspiring Humans to be great and to do amazing things is relatively simple.  This 4-MINUTE & 6-SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY episode will teach you that it's all about your beliefs about them and what those beliefs tell you to do next. Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY:...

This episode is entitled "Black Dogs & Butter Tarts."   It's an UNCORK Conversation with Sandy Nickel about living well with the "Black Dog." A chat about how Sandy manages her "black dog" (her depression) and her journey in learning how to take care of "him" in her daily life.  Sandy has enjoyed a 20-year career as an IT Project Consultant. She is...

WARNING: IF F-WORDS LIKE FAILURE, FAILING, FUCKUPS, OR FUCKED IT UP OFFEND YOU; THIS EPISODE MAY NOT BE FOR YOU ... BUT YOU SHOULD PROBABLY STILL LISTEN TO IT. I recently had the privilege of speaking at an event in my local community called "FuckUp Nights." This episode is based on what I shared that night.  These community events encourage and challenge us to share and think about our...

This UNCORK conversation with my friend and your historian Craig Minchin is inspired by the awfulness of 10 days and an adventure of 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.  Craig and I UNCORK some exquisite Irish whiskey and American bourbon and chat about the amazingly insightful and inspiring life and work of one of the foremost female journalists of the 19th century. Nellie Bly (born in 1...

This 5 MINUTE & 6 SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY episode explores this provocative and powerful question and idea; How do you identify the "pollinators" in your "ecosystem" and partner with them. Why? Because you need "pollinators," you need "bees."  You must engage and enlist the people who influence other people early and often. You need the people that othe...

UNENDERS are and were WEAVERS. Listen to this episode, and you will discover the 3 Wonderous gifts the UNENDING WEAVER gives to you and me. Firstly, they give us the gift of PARTNERS & PARTNERING. They help us see that the tapestry of our interconnected lives is a weaving. Connect you and me with other threads. And they weave their ideas and ideals in and through you and me. The second gift th...

Leaders need to stop fooling themselves; they don't really believe their employees are "customers" because they think their employees always have to "buy" into what they're saying and selling. In this 4-minute and 38-second mini NITTY-GRITTY, we discover the 5 things that great leaders must "sell" to their employees. Because if they don't "buy&quot...

What do you "lean" into? What are you "leaning" into in this season? In this 4-minute and 39-second mini NITTY-GRITTY, we explore why the 23.5-degree tilt of the earth is so important and why our personal, professional, and organizational "tilt" is as well.  Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHN...