Uncover the Human

This week we have a wonderful conversation with Kelli Oberndorf on how to connect different silos. As very commonly experienced, silos are widely present in organizations, despite the awareness that they cause deep gaps internally and externally.     Breaking them down comes "down" to having the tools and desire to focus on and invest in connecting people, communication, and interpersona...

The Great Resignation, the Great Awakening, the Great Journey to aligning purpose, meaning, and values with our work lives.  We have heard many ways to describe the record level numbers of people leaving their current employment.   The main reason?  People are searching for meaning and purpose, they want to know that their work matters, that they are valued, seen, heard, and appreciated for what t...

Our 50th Episode comes out just in time for this very busy time of the year.  We reconnect with Eimear Zone on establishing boundaries as a key skill to not overwhelm ourselves and then burnout.  Eimear helps us unpack why it is so hard to communicate and set boundaries, how to provide an elegant NO that allows us to maintain respect for the relationship, the recipient and ourselves.  

Life is full of lessons and it is not linear .  We explore the multi-facets of life, what it means to find our essence of being, and embrace the journey with Michanda Lindsey.   She helps us accept that there is no one-size fits all and that when we learn to embrace the messiness and just enjoy it, we can just BE and make the most of our experiences. 

For Simply Tiny Development, sustainability is not just a word, it is action.  We have the honor to learn from Sean and Megan this week about their incredibly important work in creating environmentally sustainable living options by building custom tiny homes and camper conversions.    Their commitment to sustainability goes way beyond the environmental and financial benefits of tiny living.  They...

Season 2 kicks off with a recap of the best personal and professional assessments to know yourself and your workplace better. Cristina and Alex discuss the pros and cons of various assessments along with different paths to uncover the hard data behind essential skills in yourself and others.  The two assessments we review and recommend are The Working Genius   and The Standout Assessment .   

We are taking a break. Season 1 exceed all our expectations, by a lot.  We will be back with Season 2 in November with new exciting guests and fun conversations.   In the meantime, you can catch up with any of our first 46 episodes on your favorite Podcast platform.   Thank you for your support.  Listen to yourself, listen to others, and remember to Uncover The Human. 

This is the second part of our Season 2 reflections and highlight of our enriching and wholehearted guests.   We will be taking some time off to regenerate and get ready for Season 2, coming in November.  Until then, you can find all our episodes wherever you listen to podcasts and the latest ones on Youtube.   In the meantime, we would like to thank all our listeners and supporters, this has been...

As we close out our first season of Uncover the Human, we decided to reflect back on all the inspiring guests we had the absolute honor to have on our podcast.  This is another two-part episode, because they were so many, that we felt each one should have a proper mention, along with what we learned and enjoyed the most.   We are deeply grateful for the availability and willingness to give us a bi...

Continuing with our VALUES focused month, we share our personal values, what we learned from going through our values discovery and how we came together to review for alignment, update, and create an action plan around our company's values.  Understanding what behavior reflects our core values helps us make business decisions, align with clients based on our mutual values, and be accountable...

In this second part of our Values Discovery and Definition exercise with Laurie,  we review SMAFFA (Laurie's values).   We then proceed to the action plan.  We discuss how she can put them into action in her every day life, when making decisions, and how they are signals of misalignment when they are being challenged.     Laurie also shares what the impetus to understanding and living into he...

This week we changed things up a bit and decided to go through Values Discovery activities with one of our favorite returning guests, Laurie McElroy.  This is a two-part episode, where we ask Laurie to share times in her personal and work life when she felt most alive and energized.   We then proceeded to discern the common themes from her stories to help discover what really matters to her - her...

This week we shared a particularly vulnerable conversation with Taylor Fraser, the writer, producer, and director of the Foreward Podcast - a narrative exploration of her family's true experience surviving a school shooting and aftermath in the years since. Exploring healing from trauma through the power of sharing experiences, Taylor has been able to connect her community and others who have...

Sam Moore joins this week to explain his business philosophy and inspiring journey of creating Hazlo, his tequila mixer company. Sam illuminates his own journey in entrepreneurship with vulnerability and honesty, discussing the heavy influence of companies he admires like La Colombe and Chobani, and how he realized the power of treating his business like a person to be created rather than a produc...

Suraya Yahaya is the founder of Khazana, Inc, where she provides fractional COO services for several companies. Her story proves the value of boiling your business down to fundamental values as a means of creating satisfaction and success at the same time.  Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com . Credits: Raechel Sherwood for Original Score Composition. 

There's a lot to be gained by realizing and accessing our humanity, and on this episode we get to the nitty-gritty of how to do that with the person who literally wrote the book on this topic: MaryBeth Hyland. Her book ( Permission to be Human ) explores how to create conscious leadership and unlock authentic potential in yourself and your team.  Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.weare...

This week we dig into the core of living authentically with Matthias Hartmann. Matthias founded emBodhi Life Coaching to help people get in touch with their core selves and shares his methods for finding your authenticity, mentally and physically.  Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com . Credits: Raechel Sherwood for Original Score Composition.  Links: YouTube Channel: Uncover Th...

Michael Niyompong is the Chief Engagement Officer at the Mental Health Center of Denver. He establishes and experiments with the most effective ways of producing well-being for individuals, organizations, and communities. In this episode, he shares fascinating insights on the concrete and abstract ways to weave connection, ownership, and innovation to deliver larger-than-life results. Episode Note...

Humans need community to thrive, so this week we're talking to Stephen Jaye whose mission is to understand, replicate, and foster community. This is a key step in fighting the isolation and loneliness, spreading as it's own epidemic under the forced social distance of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Stephen shares his experiences and curiosity around how we nurture communities and ourselves a...

This week we are getting to the core of the social aspect of human nature: Emotional Intelligence. Debbie Muno  &  Jeff Summers are experts in the Emotional Intelligence space and helping teams and organizations improve EQ, one of the most influential skills for workers and leaders in the 21st century. Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com Credits: Raechel Sherwood for Origin...

Respect is both a noun and a verb. It is something we experience and a way we treat people (including ourselves). Entailing acknowledgement, appreciation, acceptance, and everything in between, respect is a basic human right. This week Duncan McLachlan joins from Paris to share how we can create and foster respect and makes a convincing case for adding respect as a core personal value, all fueled...

Trust is the cornerstone of healthy cultures, effective leadership, and successful relationships. Knowing this is one thing, practicing it is a far greater challenge. Allison Torpey joins this week to unpack her chosen leadership style - leading with trust.  Doing this takes time, practice, and continual deliberate reinforcement, and Allison shares the methods she uses to keep this front-of-mind....

Standing at the intersection of 5 living generations, a global pandemic,  and endless technologies bombarding us with information all the time, it is challenging to meaningfully connect with those around us. Connection is a central tenant of being human, however, so Barbara Randell created Future Image Group to address the isolation pandemic of our modern era. Listen in as she shares the secrets o...

Hailing from Sicily, Italy, Mirko Maccarrone joins the podcast to discuss different paths to conscious living and leadership. After years of practicing developing people and creating an impact on their lives, Mirko started the Mastery Hub to combine his passions in coaching and consulting into a "coach-sulting" practice. Focusing on the best ways to develop people, Mirko is growing the a...

Most people want equality, to be an ally, to improve the world, and make things a little more just - the only problem is that it is very hard. Rebecca Brown Adelman and Trent Norman created Affinity Arts Consulting to give people the ability to practice social justice, difficult conversations, and real interactions with complex topics so we can all be a little more comfortable making the world a b...