Warriors at Work

This week we are bringing back our most popular podcast! My mentor, Amy Gonzales sharing her incredible wisdom about one of the most important skills in business, Presence. What does competence and connection have to do with leadership? What about influence? In this conversation we reveal what it means to be a powerful communicator with our special guest, Amy Gonzales of AG Leadership. Amy has hel...

This week we are joined by Ted Talk Trainer, Key Note Speaker and #1 Best Selling Author Dr. Reesa Woolf. Being an enigmatic speaker herself, throughout her career, she found that she can help others tap into their own talents to become great speakers too. She offers real world tools to help us overcome fears and feel comfortable in speaking situations that might scare us. Confidence is key! Actin...

I am thrilled to bring you part three of my conversation with Elisa Padilla. This week we discuss the idea of “community”; not just physical people in our lives, but also the support that we share with those people. We start off by identifying anchors or themes that can give energy to our conversations and interactions within your community. We also tap into the skills needed to feel comfortable i...

A unique and open conversation with two insightful Warriors, Jeanie Coomber and Elisa Padilla, about some of the big questions that we face in our lives. This week they discuss how to embrace success by defining it internally versus through external circumstances. An exploration into how showing up and making sure your voice is heard is the first step in achieving that success. They share moments...

Part 1 of a 3 part series with a returning guest to Warriors At Work, Elisa Padilla. Who am I? A unique and open hearted conversation with one of my favorite people in my Warrior circle, Elisa Padilla. As I was imagining 2023 and beyond, I started reflecting on things, people and experiences that have influenced my thinking, feelings and my choices. I wondered what it would be like to explore thos...

Two incredible Entrepreneurs, Ashley Golin, Co-Owner and Co-Founder of Fitness by the Sea and Abby Taylor, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Playa Bowls joined me to share their inspirational stories about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. They share with us why they chose this career path, how they built hugely successful businesses and offer us an inside look into what it wa...

This week with Megan Conahan and Libby Rodney we focus on what the future holds and how businesses should embrace trends and change. We learn the importance of seeing into the future and moving past the fear of doing something different which can lead to achieving better results. This is a thought provoking and practical conversation about being a forward thinker and evolving your business to be f...

We bring back the second part of our conversation with Drs. Emily Rowe and Christopher Estes from last year as they share ways that we can take control of your health in the New Year. They share how pairing functional medicine with conventional practices can improve the health of their patients. Emily T. Rowe, MD, AP, IFMCP graduated from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 2004....

We bring back our conversation with Drs. Emily Rowe and Christopher Estes from last year to kick off 2023 – empowerment through our health and wellness. They show us that going beyond conventional medicine can help us learn from our energies and bodies and translate that into a focus on whole-patient care. A deep discussion on how our environment plays an important role in our well being and that...

Jeanie shares her own personal journey as we bring a close to 2022. She shares her own gratitudes, pairing them with the spiritual meaning of “22” that signifies faith, balance, hope and trust. We also learn of her experience with falling forward this year, that helping others should not come at the expense of your own well being and happiness. She shares what she learned from this and how she wil...

Jenica joins us to share her experience this year with her own Gratitude and Falling Forward moments. As the company she worked for grew into a much larger environment, it led her to transition from CEO to student. She harnessed this experience as a chance to grow her leadership brand into something new. She also shares with us how first impressions is often a series of moments for leaders. Being...

Lindsay joins us again to share her own experiences of Gratitude and Falling Forward in 2022. We embark on an insightful conversation how to build lasting contentment and happiness, dealing with grief and loss, while always capturing the small moments in life. As always, Lindsay brings a refreshing honesty to how the past year has shaped her life. Co-founder of Chief, the private network of execut...

This week Lauren Jensen. Head of Business and Customer Impact, US Insurance and Retirement Businesses, Prudential Financial, returns to Warriors at Work to share her own Gratitudes & Falling Forward experiences this year. She shares how her own workplace gives a F.A.I.L. (First Attempt In Learning) Forward Award, helping the team to learn from their mistakes and grow. A wonderful conversation abou...

We continue our Gratitudes & Falling Forward Series with Steve Schloss joining us for an enlightening conversation about how we can turn either receiving or giving a “no” into an important learning experience. Learning from these Falling Forward moments can guide us to develop better business and personal relationships. An accomplished business leader, chief people officer, and graduate faculty tu...

We begin our Gratitudes & Falling Forward Series by having a conversation with Elisa Padilla. She shares an experience that showed her how actions speak volumes and the importance of being grateful for those individuals around us. She also opens up about a troubling experience that opened her eyes and allowed her to self reflect on how to learn from it and move forward. Elisa Padilla has a broad b...

This week we are talking with a workplace transformation expert, Melissa Swift. Melissa believes that we can improve the everyday experience of people at work by combining empathy and capitalism. In this conversation we break down what it means to be more human at work and how we as leaders can address imbalances we feel about our roles and the future of our organizations. An enlightening conversa...

In recent years our work environment has gotten more visibility and attention as we juggle how to deal with a pandemic. Our conversation this week with Dr. John Boudreau will help us navigate and learn from these changes, so we can embrace them to create a better work environment. We discuss in depth how adopting a skills based systems can be a framework to redefine an organization. Instead of bei...

Our conversation this week with Wendy Zajack delves into how we as Gen X’ers are very well positioned to help the future of work. The workplace is going through a transformation as it tries to figure out who they are and what the future is going to look like and Gen X can help! As the bridge between generations, Wendy talks about the attributes of Gen X that are needed in this moment. Being natura...

This week we bring you a conversation from last year with Rodney Salomon and Mychal Mills to explore again the balance of light & dark in our everyday lives. They shared with us the importance of building connections with each other and opening up our inner child space so we can safely accept the shadows that exist around us . We also tapped into how to be mindful and aware of our bodies and breat...

We are sharing with you this week an earlier conversation with Brie Doyle that delves into our dark side and how we can find a way to “alchemize our pain into power”. Brie shares her insight into finding a safe space for those feelings, otherwise they can metabolize in our bodies. Simple things like paying attention to your breath can tell you so much because as she so eloquently shares with us “y...

Jeanie chats with the founder and CEO of Noetic Consultants, Nancie McDonnell Ruder. We chose to replay this episode because you’ll quickly learn that Nancie and her team are so much more than marketing strategy and research and training. She takes such a personal and textured approach to her clients and to the world around her. Jeanie and Nancie dive into the ingredients of a good day, as well as...

This week we are sharing a previous conversation we had with Naketa Thigpen that resonates today as much as it did in 2020. Words like self-care and pause are not common phrases you hear among ambitious, hard charging, forward thinking trailblazers but it should be! Naketa shares her wisdom on the power of the pause and what means to to re-charge your spirit as a strategy. As we continue to manage...

We are bringing our conversation back, from 2020, with Sharon Lipovsky during a time where we can tap into the power of visioning and go beyond our current perspective. Visioning and designing are not just words we use as avenues to self-discovery. They are powerful instruments of learning that help individuals and organizations unlock the greatness within. The talented and creative Sharon Lipovsk...

This week we reflect on our resilience and gratitude as ingredients for positivity and whole-hearted living by bringing back a conversation from 2019 with Maria Sirois. She is an inspirational speaker, consultant, author and Licensed Clinical Psychologist working in the field of wellness and positive psychology for over 20 years. Maria’s work focuses on the resilience of the human spirit and has h...

This week we delve into managing stress, anxiety and learn the power of our thoughts with Laura Depko. Laura’s expertise in CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) helps her teach individuals to navigate the connections between thoughts, feelings and behavior. She will help us to learn to identify potential triggers to stress and anxiety and show us how we can better handle these events in our lives. L...