TheCompassion Lab

You have the potential to embrace your greatness, find the flow, and discover success. All you need is a proven strategy that works for you to unleash your innate strengths to avoid burnout and discover success. In this episode, George Mumford , the Author of The Mindful Athlete , offers his proven strategy to guide us on the path to harnessing our strength and getting Unlocked . The ever-changing...

In today's fast-paced and chaotic world, maintaining balance and finding inner peace can feel like an uphill battle. Break free from the patterns that hold you back and unleash the power within to create a life of purpose, peace, and unyielding strength. Welcome back! In this thought-provoking conversation, we dive deep into the realm of personal development and mental well-being. Our guest today...

Embrace the transformative power of emotional intelligence, cultivate confidence, and gain clarity to unlock a more powerful path in leadership and life. Join us for an enlightening episode as we engage in a captivating conversation with Dr. Karyn Gordon , Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, TED Talk speaker, and CEO of DK Leadership . With a heart of service, Dr. Gordon discusses how to culti...

Life is unpredictable. We don’t know what and who might come into our lives. While it can be challenging, there are those who find success in the undetermined path, just like our guest in this episode. Victoria Labalme is a Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker, Speaker Hall of Fame, and Founder of Rock The Room® & Risk Forward®. She sits down with Katherine Twells to share h...

Addiction recovery can be a daunting task, but remember that substance use disorder is a treatable condition. There is always hope for living a drug-free life again. But current methods of addressing substance abuse do not encourage seeking treatment.  Carrie Wilkens, PhD , Co-founder of the  Center for Motivation and Change , wants to change that conversation. In this episode, Carrie sh...

A compassionate leader is someone whose heart seeks to understand other people’s experiences. This openness shows the importance of curiosity in each step of one’s journey. Our guest for today is not one who takes for granted curiosity in her life, taking her across different roles and cultures. Katherine Twells sits down with Valerie Love , the Senior Vice President for Human Resources for Coca-C...

If you don't recover from or find meaning in grief, you can negatively affect the people around you. If you don't heal your wounds, you'll bleed all over those that didn't even hurt you. While losing someone is permanent, losing hope isn't. Find the light at the end of the dark tunnel, face your grief head-on, and stop it from blowing up.    Join Katherine Twells as she talks to Death an...

Our dreams are full of symbolism that perhaps only the subconscious mind can ever understand. To have a better idea of what they mean, Machiel Klerk developed a method called dream incubation. Joining Katherine Twells, he explains how talking to your dreams before going to sleep can uncover its messages lying deep within. Machiel discusses how tapping into your subconscious can lead to profound se...

  How do you go about living a resilient life? Today’s guest is here to guide you. Dr. Susan Biali Haas, M.D. is an award-winning medical doctor, health and wellness expert, coach, speaker, and author. She joins host Katherine Twells to share how she helps people worldwide build resilience with insights you can find in her upcoming book, The Resilient Life: Manage Stress, Prevent Burnout &amp...

Too often, we see leaders as people born with special skills and traits that make them better suited for success than the rest of us. The truth is leadership is not about title or position. It is about personal impact. It’s about character and actions. Sometimes, the most unlikely people are the most effective leaders. We all can lead, and it is up to us to step up and take on the challenge when i...

We all have our inner demons. We let it ruin our relationships and run away with our dreams. And in this highly competitive world, it's easy to lose ourselves in the thought of wanting to be someone else. If you're still in the nightmare that you are never going to enough, this is your wake-up call! In this episode of The Coca-Cola Compassion Lab,  Dr. Mark Goulston  shares his journey o...

To be a Zen Executive is to lead by example because you influence your people's lives. What you do at work affects their self-care after work. That is why you need to work on both yourself and others. Here to combine spirituality with business, join Katherine Twells as she talks to  Jim Blake  about his new book,  The Zen Executive . Jim is the CEO of  Unity World Headquarters...

Do you want to attain mental fitness and fortitude but you don't know how? Then this is just the right episode for you! Marc Champagne  shares how he keeps himself mentally fit. It actually started with just a simple thing he does every morning, which is to wake up 10 -15 minutes earlier and just consume positive content from different materials such as blog posts, magazines, and books. In th...

Welcome to The Coca-Cola Compassion Lab! Yes, the name of the podcast has changed but make no mistake, our purpose and content will stay the same. Listen in as Katherine Twells discusses this meaningful and timely change and why it’s happening for the podcast. See you in The Lab for more great conversation! Love the show?  Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join The Coca-Cola CM...

The planet is almost one minute to midnight and people are trying to fix everything by tomorrow. That isn't going to work until they realize that they have to make a meaningful change. Everyone is at fault, they've known about these issues for years and haven't acted. Now is the time to act together for a brighter future. To help us with that is your host Katherine Twells and her guest Simon Mainw...

The book  24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week ,  written by  Tiffany Shlain , is about remembering the pleasures of the analog world. People need to learn how to balance both technology and humanity. Because when you disconnect from your screens, you get to really find and discover yourself. Join your host Katherine Twells as she talks to Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker,...

In today's digital and fast-paced world, everyone is too busy with a lot of things, be it in their families or their careers. Focusing on too many tasks at once leaves no more space for imagination. This results in an extremely stressful world full of unnecessary noise. Katherine Twells delves into elevating wellbeing with actor and speaker Anthony McLean . He talks about his hopes to finally blur...

With everything that's happened and is still happening for the past two years, talk on resilience has been adamant. But how do we take such a seemingly large undertaking by battling daily problems with everyday resilience? Joining Katherine Twells to talk about that is Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe . Robyne is a multi-award-winning psychology and education instructor specializing in resilience and navig...

How do you create lives of meaning and service? By becoming conscious leaders and dream weavers. Today, Katherine Twells has two special guests to introduce to you - Bonnie Buckner  and Ina Gjikondi . Bonnie is the Founder and Head of the International Institute for Dreaming and Imagery. Ina is the Founder & e-Co Leadership Coaching Program Director at George Washington University’s Cente...

Even though it is said that we have all the time in the world, it never seems enough in this fast-paced world. But what if experiencing time can be controlled on your own terms? Katherine Twells sits down with Lisa Broderick  to share her new scientific literature that revolutionizes the perception of time, which she discusses in her book, All the Time in the World . Through meditative practi...

To take the warrior's path is to learn from your shortcomings. You have to look inside yourself and embrace your inner trauma and pain. It's not easy to do, but it is the best way to achieve personal development. Join Katherine Twells as she talks to  Jeremy Hunter  about his warrior's journey. Jeremy is the Founding Director of the  Executive Mind Leadership Institute  and an...

Life is full of transitions, and the midlife crisis is simply a part of that. Chip Conley is the Founder of Modern Elder Academy. He is also a New York Times bestselling author whose manifesto on ageism, Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder, is inspired by his experience of being both a mentor and an intern in his 50s. Entering the middle of his life, Chip realized the value of continuous lea...

How do you achieve success and reach your goals? You do that by embracing possibility! In this episode, Katherine Twells interviews the founder of The Possibility of Today , Sibyl Chavis . Sibyl talks about her dream of becoming a lawyer, working towards the goal at Harvard and finally reaching her dream. She discusses the feeling of climbing the wrong ladder and pivoting towards her new goal...

As we go on through our lives, we acquire the wisdom that we need for self-fulfillment. We should be aware that we all have the power to create a better world, one passionate step at a time. Join Katherine Twells and the Chief Science Officer at  Wisdom Labs   Parneet Pal  as they delve into finding the mental, emotional and physical balance in dealing with different circumstances e...

Not many of us get to do the things we're passionate about. But when that moment comes, more often than not, it provides not only a sense of fulfillment to us but to those we impact as well.  Scott Shute  was able to do that. Marrying his passion with his corporate role, he has found a way to authentically live at the intersection of the workplace and ancient wisdom traditions. He is cur...