the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast

This episode is an UNCORK Conversation with Cam Shapansky, a social sector fundraising and program development advocate, thought leader, and an old friend of mine. Cam is the Founder and CEO of Blue North, a fundraising and strategy group that works with Non-profit Organizations around the world, helping them improve their programs, raise more money, and do more great work for others. Cam and I re...

In this NITTY-GRITTY, I share two more Life and Leadership lessons that my RV trips are teaching me. I am applying these in my personal life and my work with my client partners. I am learning valuable lessons about towing the LOAD and gaining some insights about "weight distribution" and burning "fuel" in my life as I do. I am also learning about hooking up and testing my LIGHT...

In this NITTY-GRITTY episode, I encourage you to understand that your ears are not the only body part that helps you listen. So listen, and you will discover the other appendages you need to activate to help you hear better and more. Give me 10-minutes and 53-seconds of your time, and you will discover the secret power of note-taking when you use it to keep you on track in the conversation, contai...

This UNCORK conversation is sparked by this quote from Haile Selassie, "We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community."  Leadership Historian Craig Minchin and I UNCORK some except...

Back in EPISODE # 50 entitled UNDETERRED & UNDENIED (If you haven't listened to that one yet, please check it out), I outlined 12 positive predispositions undeterred and undeniable people.  In this 9-minute and 55-second follow-up episode, I share some more thoughts and encourage you to consider, at a deeper level, how they were TENACIOUSLY PATIENT, tenacious and patient. You will discove...

This episode is an UNCORK CONVERSATION with Matt Fletcher.  Matt is an UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast listener that I connected with through social media. After learning his story, I wanted to have on the show to share his personal and professional journey of buying his Dad’s business. And then recently selling that business to a larger corporation in an industry in which up to 70% of the industry’s knowle...

In this episode, I highlight the 4 GIFTS that I consistently hear that employees, teams, partners, your partner, your children, and even your dog and cat want and need from you and other leaders this Christmas and throughout next year. Give these 4 GIFTS that are on everyone's Christmas list this year and every year, and you will build trust and catalyze the attention and desire to set and ac...

This episode is entitled "a CURIOUS Man. a CONSENSUS Building Mayor. an UN-POLITICIAN who Marches to the Beat of a Different Drummer." it's an UNCORK Conversation hosted by Kris MacQueen (my Podcast Producer) with Cam Guthrie, the Mayor of one of Canada's fastest-growing cities, Guelph, Ontario.  In this UNCORK conversation, Kris and Cam (and myself: eavesdropper and occasional...

In this NITTY-GRITTY episode, I uncover and expose the GREAT BIG LIE that keeps you from being as productive as you could be.  Give me 12-minutes and 14-seconds of your time, which you will never get back, and you will discover the key to maximizing your impact and effectiveness. You will, as I have, find the TRUTH and the WISDOM within the GLASS. Think about this question before you listen to thi...

Are your personal and professional relationships BUILT TO LAST? Or do they crumble, fail, and fall apart too often or too quickly?  Here's what you will learn in this episode, if you want to build relationships that survive the "storms" and "winds" of life, relationships that thrive and stand the test of time, you will need to dig down and dig deep.  In this 1 MINUTE &...

This episode entitled "MindSet ReSet: Getting off the Hamster Wheel" is an UNCORK Conversation with Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner Lisa Schermerhorn. Lisa and I walk some of the fiery coals of our fears and failures and challenge ourselves and you to explore the conscience and subconscious beliefs, the "scripts" we run and rehearse in our mind – good or bad and how...

Do you want to be a better and more effective Coach?  Do you want to coach more and more often? It's all about where you are during the game. This episode is a 1 MINUTE & 24 SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY that will give you one very simple yet powerful tip to instantly "put" yourself in a better "place" to cause you to have to coach better and more often. Would you please ov...

In this UNCORK CONVERSATION, with Keynote Speaker, Facilitator, and Author, KRISTIN LINDEEN, we explore the idea of Generational Journeys. How personal and professional values translate, transfer, and continue to transform from one generation to another. We muse about the privilege we all have to call out the gifts we see in others. And we ask if our journeys are determined choice or decided desti...

In this NITTY-GRITTY Episode, we explore the "Alchemy of Change and Choice." Listen in and discover: - The four base "elements" that need to be "mixed" together to create and sustain CHANGE and CHOICE. - That when your desire for change is "magically morphed" into a true OBSESSION for the change you want, you will begin to make "gold." - That the w...

this is a 1 MINUTE & 42 SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY Episode that will provoke and challenge you to understand that your organization DOESN'T EXIST or DO ANYTHING. If you think that your organization can be fundamentally different than your people, you are deceiving yourself. Your organization DOESN'T EXIST or DO ANYTHING ... PEOPLE DO. If you want to be a better "organization,&quot...

In this episode Leadership Historian, Craig Minchin and I explore the life, legacy and leadership lessons we can learn from MOTHER INDIA - Indira Gandhi. We chat about: Building alliances. Seeing beyond and through the Crowds to individuals. Wise and Foolish advice. Discovering what we need to stand up for and stand up to. The danger of becoming an overconfident leader. How our strengths can becom...

In this mini NITTY-GRITTY, I share 3 Life and Leadership lessons I learned on a recent RV trip. It's My Site. Don't be a campsite"cutter." You need permission to cut across and cut through. Tanks. FRESH. GREY. And the dreaded BLACK one. It's time to check how full they are. & the Fire. How do you start and stoke yours and others? Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast –...

Riddle me this. When food isn't free ... but you can't buy it ... but you can shop for it ... where are you and what are you doing? In this NITTY-GRITTY, I share the story of how my friends and I UNCOMMODiFiED compassion and support for the poor and marginalized in a community I lived in for over 20 years. And at the end of this episode, I give you my cell number and ask you to do me a f...

This is a thought-provoking and timely UNCORK Conversation with leadership speaker, consultant, trainer, coach, and author Alain Hunkins  Alain and I dialogue about the impact and implications for employees, employers, and leaders of the fact that the U.S. Labor Department reported that a record 7.6 million people quit their jobs in April and May of 2021. and that The 2021 WORK TREND INDEX shows t...

How do you get your people to desire and embrace change better and quicker? In this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone, I share a provocative idea that I believe is what leaders often forget and overlook when they are trying to get their people to embrace change. You will instantly catalyze the energy and desire required to propel your change if you do this. Change Agents cultivate an...

This is an insightful and practical conversation with an international SAP and Supply Chain Execution Architect, my friend, and as you will find out … just a “dude” – Dave Webb. Dave and I explore what over 22 years of working with Senior Leaders during large-scale process and system change & implementation have taught him about: Leading change. Leaders. Leadership. Life. And Himself For Dave,...

In this UNCORK episode with Jon Wagner (Virtual Team Pioneer & Author), we tuck into a conversation about Making Virtual Teams Much More Human. We explore the importance of Personal and Professional Community, Connection, Collaboration, and the Human Systems that create, enhance, and sustain them. Jon shares 11 Key Principles that his years of research and experience showed him will create an...

A recent conversation with a Client inspired me to explain that my experience has shown me that Transition Planning, NOT Succession Planning is a much better way to say it, see it, understand it, and really feel it. WHY? Because words matter and have an immediate and lasting emotional impact, especially when talking about people's lives, identities, intrinsic value, future, and legacy.  And,...

This was a thought-provoking and practical conversation with leadership and team trainer, facilitator, coach, consultant, and my business partner Amanda MacDougall. In this conversation, we explore this provocative question ... if you are giving or receiving an opportunity to become a Manager, a people Manager, is that just a Fantastic Promotion or is it ultimately a Fundamental Career Change? You...

A recent conversation with a Network of Consultants and Coaches that I connect with inspired me to explore this question - Work-Life Balance, Myth or Manageable Expectation? Join me for a coffee in my backyard, and let's ruminate on this idea together. Let me challenge you to consider the mental image that immediately comes into your mind when you think of this subject. And share some strateg...