Unstoppable Mindset

Our guest this episode is Garett Tomasek. Garett describes himself as an “advocate for the disability community, specifically working directly with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities”. In our time together we discussed his involvement and commitment to an international program called Best Buddies. This program promotes especially inclusion for the community of persons wit...

BCK? Right. We get to learn all about that during our conversation this time with Milam Miller. Milam began life in Texas, but has moved around quite a bit over his life. He always has had some interests in sports as he will tell us.   During his time in New York years ago he dreamed of securing a job with his favorite baseball team, the New York Yankees. He decided that he didn’t really want to s...

So what the heck is a “profitability and growth advisor”? Candy will tell us. Actually, she has run her own bookkeeping business for nearly 19 years. What makes her story interesting today is that her business is all virtual. She has a staff of nine spread over four states. As she will tell us, she even began this process before the pandemic.   Until just a few years ago Candy Messer lived totally...

Maryl Eva says she is “a tattoo enthusiast, who is obsessed with gardening, her dog named Jim, and helping clients gain self-awareness”. Yes, we will talk about all these subjects. We start with Jim. Why not? I am sure he and guide dog Alamo would get along so dogs got, at least for a brief time, top billing. Maryl is a “data driven coach” who uses a tool called TAIS to conduct initial evaluations...

Meet our guest this episode, Cori Fonville Foster. Cori is a market at heart although she didn’t start out by founding her own company. However, after experiencing a rare eye disease she left a career in the medical industry and started her own marketing firm. Her story by any definition shows why I call her “unstoppable” and I think you will too. Cori had a wide variety of experiences while growi...

Dynamic and energetic only starts to describe our guest, Jennifer Watson. She is an identical twin who learned how to live, grow, thrive, and teach others all about leadership and wellness. Jennifer graduated with her Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. During her college time, she was an athlete and achieved All-American status. After a few years of working for others, she founded h...

Actually, he is so much more as you will hear in our episode. Brian started life in New Jersey. Over his lifetime he has traveled quite a lot, worked successfully in the Supply Chain industry and, for the past seven years, he has been an incredibly sought-after business coach and entrepreneur now living in Orange County California.   Brian offers us so many life lessons in our 70 minutes together...

Our guest on this episode is Lawrence Eichen. Among other things, he is a self-employed attorney, a speaker, and a coach. While he has been successful he endured internal conflicts he will discuss with us. He has over 25 years courtroom experience dealing with civil and criminal matters. He also is quite skilled at conflict resolution as you will discover. Wait until he tells us about his negotiat...

Carynn Rudolph is a disabled Marine Corps veteran who has a fascinating set of broad experiences that, at first glance, might seem paradoxical. On the one hand, she is a strong proponent of keeping guns available for all without restrictions as to type, size, or capacity. She also is a strong advocate and heavily involved with the concept of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, JEDI. During...

This episode offers us the opportunity to meet a fascinating and thought-provoking person, Jessey Manison. Jessey has been an accomplished rider from the time she was five. Along the way she worked as an assistant therapeutic instructor and still, as she begins a new part of her career, has as much love of horses as ever. We talk this week a lot about horses, people, and all in between. It is quit...

Yes, all three in the title are correct and there is even more. Marnie Vincolisi was born in Chicago in the 1950s. She and her older brother were raised by her mother and her grandmother as her father left the family and was not heard from for forty years. Marnie did not attend college in part due to the challenges of having dyslexia, although she did not realize her specific circumstances until l...

Our guest this episode is Anthony Poponi. He says about himself, “At my core, I am focused on reducing suffering at the levels of the individual, the workplace and the community”. As you will hear, this is exactly what he does. In 2016 Anthony started his consulting and speaking company, Focus On The 40. As he will tell you he is committed to helping focus on achieving the full %40 of happiness ov...

Our guest this week is Vicki de Klerk-Rubin. She is the director of the Validation Training Institute and a certified Validation master teacher. What is “Validation” and the “Validation method”? Listen in to see. Validation as Vicki and her mother developed and refined the concept is a better way to interact with and help people with diminishing cognitive skills. Our discussions are far ranging an...

This episode is a bit unusual for us in that we interviewed our guest, Kristina Mand-Lakhiani, in February, but she asked that, if possible, we didn’t publish the episode until much later. So, here it is July 11 and the episode is finally going live. Why? Because just this week Kristina’s book, " Becoming Flawesome " is published and available for purchase. Being a NY Times Bestselling a...

Victoria Cumberbatch describes herself as “a passionate facilitator and community developer”. Because she has traveled extensively throughout the world she has gained some insightful and fascinating views of community and how all of us live and function within the community arena. We had a great discussion about how people view themselves and how they all too often permit others to control how the...

Over the lifetime of Unstoppable Mindset, we have had the opportunity to hear from many leaders, consultants, and experts on the concepts surrounding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Donald Wood, our guest this time, brings a totally refreshing and very different set of observations to our conversation. He will first tell us about the problems with “diversity”. He will discuss many aspects of the...

Our guest in this episode, Rie Algeo Gilsdorf, describes herself as someone who believes in “seeing and integrating the big picture”. She believes in the whole person and integrating us all. She comes by this attitude honestly as you will hear. From attending a number of different schools while still living in the same house to how she learned through the years to live her life, Rie has made it he...

Our guest this week is Sarah Trocchio, the founder of the Square Peg Club, LLC. When I asked her about the organization name she explained that all too often in academia and elsewhere people are encouraged and even pushed hard to fit into “round holes” that do not fit them nor their personalities. Square Peg Club LLC is Sarah’s career and personal coaching program. She will tell us all about it an...

Alan R. Garcia was born in Mexico and relocated to New York City with his mother and sister when he was but four years old. His move to the U.S. was memorable as he will explain. It was a year later that his father was able to rejoin the family.   Alan grew up curious about the differences between peoples. He also learned that it is not so much our differences but our similarities that count.   To...

Joseph Stephen is indeed a software engineer. However, he is much more which is why I say he is unstoppable. Joseph also not only happens to be blind, but he operates a farm in Northern Tasmania. He has been married for 27 years and has nine children. More importantly, he is successful at all these activities. Among his software jobs, he has been a force in coding for the leading screen reading pr...

What is a “Learning Experience Designer”? Listen to our episode with Ashley Dunn and see. Ashley is a first-generation West-Indian American with parents from Grenada and the United Kingdom. She grew up in a world where many people were different than her. While her elementary school days did include more black people than white people, she had the opportunity to and chose to attend a high school p...

Maria Putnam is originally from Bogota Columbia and grew up there. She has had opportunities to study in places like Switzerland and France and finally ended up here in the United States where she did her college studies. While in college she met her significant other who became her husband. Now, long after college, she and her husband have two children and live in Colorado.   Maria says she alway...

On this episode, we get to converse with Rashidah McCoy. While her background is in communications, she also has put her knowledge to use in addressing issues concerning Diversity Equity, and Inclusion. However, first, she wants us to know that, coming from Pittsburg she is a fan of all things Pittsburg. Good to be loyal. Like so many, she learned to survive, thrive, and grow, in spite of her envi...

During our many episodes of Unstoppable Mindset, we have had the opportunity to meet and talk with a number of people who have, in one way or another, been involved with the topic of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The reason it is fun and relevant to speak with all these guests is that each one brings to our studio their own personal and specific life experiences. Often our guests came to the D...

CICOA? “What”, you may ask, “is CICOA”? Stay tuned. When I lived in Marin County in Northern California, I had the honor to be asked and chosen to be on the board of directors for an organization called The Marin Senior Coordinating Council, aka Whistlestop Wheels. During my tenure on the board, I learned a great deal about seniors, senior living and what was at that time called “the silver tsunam...