Best Work/Best Life From Kathy & Mo

NY Times bestselling author and Harvard researcher, Shawn Achor describes the ways happiness can be created, expanded, and leveraged in your work and life. If you want more happiness, success, and reward, Shawn offers a new pathway to it, with practical steps and tools.

Holiday 2016 PICK:Mo and I get real! We share in a raw, authentic and very open way all about our own vulnerabilities, and walls we now realize we’ve put up all our lives that stop us from deep connection, effective communication, and experiencing the help, love and support we long for.

Bringing love to us is a deep need for all humans, and a necessary part of a fulfilling, connected and enriching life. Kathy and Mo zero in on vital behaviors and habits that connect us with love, and shed light on thoughts and behaviors that block us from giving and receiving love. This time of year, find new ways to open your heart more fully to the love that’s all around, and let it in! Giving and receiving love is a most cherished gift in life.

One of Kathy and Mo’s top pick for the Holidays, this powerful interview with Mike Dooley shares his life-changing insights on how the Universe gives us real messages to listen to and pay attention to, to access the genius and wisdom inside and all around us. Enjoy this podcast as our Holiday treat!

Kathy and Mo share their personal, coaching and therapeutic insights about what supports powerful manifesting and how we can transform our visions and dreams into real-life experiences. Goal setting is essential to accomplishing your life purpose. Heck, it is essential to completing any worthy action. For decades, people have been setting S.M.A.R.T. goals in the corporate world, but what about in our personal lives, regarding our most desired personal goals? Goals must have traction in both the organized, tangible physical realm and in the world of dreams and desire. Find out how to use all these forces to turn your dreams into action and achieve what you long for most.  

Knowing and honoring the true, raw and compelling story of your life, and making full use of it to help others and the world, is the key to connecting to your deepest power.  In this revealing episode, Kathy and Mo share how we all can own our stories more fully - including finding new ways to shine a light on and heal your “dirty little secrets” that make you feel vulnerable and ashamed, and reframing your story to see more clearly the amazing talents, passions and gifts that have always been a part of you and your life.

Unconscious bias affects everyone on the planet, not just a select few. International HR Leader Kristen Pressner shares her powerful personal revelation about her own surprising bias (against women like herself), and a critical new strategy she learned to help her uncover, and correct, her biases.

Held in Vietnam as a prisoner of war for 5 years, Lee Ellis learned so many deep truths about leadership, courage, honor and accountability. He joins us to share his amazing lessons learned, experiencing being beaten and tortured, and watching his colleagues rise above unbearable treatment to lead with honor. Retired Air Force Colonel Lee Ellis describes his most powerful leadership lessons which inspired him to write his riveting book, “Engage With Honor”.

Living and working in ways that clash against our core values generates pain, suffering, and a sense of alienation, from ourselves and others around us. On the other hand, recognizing what you value deeply, and shaping your life, work and relationships to support those essential values, is key to our happiness and well-being. Karen Kimsey-House shares how to identify your core values and honor them, and at the same time, build positive, collaborative, “co-active” relationships that nurture all involved.

Most of us resist change fiercely, and experience deep discomfort and even paralyzing fear when we contemplate launching into new territory or taking a new direction, even if it’s something we think we want. But it’s that very resistance that holds us back from living life full-out, and experiencing our deepest potential and happiest lives. Listen in as Mo and Kathy share candidly about the experiences that stretched them the most in their lives, and the dramatic realizations and growth that they gained from stretching far beyond their comfort.

Life may be scarred with opportunities missed, loves we never went forward with, or “mistakes” we have made. We have all heard the biggest regret is not doing something. Life is bound to hand us a few stones in our backpack called regrets. The time we wasted? The bully boss we stayed with way too long! What we do with these stones? Do they weigh us down or do we polish them and learn about ourselves and life in new ways? Listen in as we dive deeply into what we have learned from our regrets!

Life and career change can impact our most fundamental needs and desires, so understandably we have fear around making change. But in order to build happy lives and careers, we need to proactively “pivot” or we will get pivoted. As best-selling author Jenny Blake shares, “If change is the only constant, let’s get better at it.”  Jenny joins us to explore her latest book, PIVOT, gives us a new framework to help us understand how to embrace positive that draws on our strengths and assets while identifying new opportunities that will be the bridge to important new directions we’ll love.

Life’s lessons are often handed to us on a platter of pain and confusion. Sometimes, when we’re in the middle of them, we can’t quite see what’s unfolding. How we go through dark times and come out of them affects our lives forever. Finding your true strengths, your real needs and learning that your strengths can also reveal blind spots are the valuable lessons that come. Kathy and Mo explore their dark experiences including Mo’s breast cancer journey. Listen in to this intimate discussion shared with vulnerability, openness and soul.

Saying “Yes” is an easy thing to do (often too easy). Many of us are trained to accommodate, assist and oblige others’ needs and wants. But this pattern becomes a runaway train for so many, when we’re not able to stand up for ourselves, or even identify our deepest wants.  A chronic habit of an unexamined “Yes” brings us to a never ending list of to-do’s, “shoulds” and resentments. Eventually “yes” can lead to “I’m utterly exhausted and drained” and filled with the anxiety of too many distractions. Listen to what we have learned about how to authentically say “YES!,” and when to walk away.

Kathy and Mo are thrilled (and amazed!) to celebrate their one-year anniversary of producing 51 Best Work/Best Life shows. In this episode, they take a look at what they’ve learned throughout the process - about their styles, their mindsets, fears and blocks, and making a big dream a reality, together.

Spiritual healers and sisters Lacy Young and Kayla Floyd share their awe-inspiring work in shifting energy and empowering individuals to move into new ways of thinking and being to experience a richer, fuller and more joyful life. Throughout our lives, many of us have become blocked -- in our energy, our beliefs and our actions -  holding onto to negative energy and pain which causes  sadness, depression, limitation and disease. Our spirit session with these soulful sisters shares practical strategies we all can use do to overcome our blocks, pain and limits.

Mo talks with Kathy about her new work, TEDx talk and upcoming training and book focused on the 5 life-changing ways to call up the bravery  required to create the lives we long for.  Based on Kathy’s research and work with over 10,000 women, she’s seen that without doing this transformational inner work – to rise up, speak up and stand up boldly for ourselves -- we continually fall short of our dreams and visions, and fail to reach our highest potential. 

Kathy and Mo explore the top six reasons so many people stay stuck - in careers that fail them, relationships that are unsatisfying, habits that hurt them, and in life experiences that keep them from feeling the love, joy, peace, impact, and fulfillment they deeply long for.

Mo and Kathy discuss the powerful belief “Everything always works out for me” and explore how it colors and impacts our total life experience. They share personal stories of how our programming and deep-seated beliefs inform what we see, and influence what our hearts, minds, and spirits retain. They explore how possessing an unwavering positive belief in oneself -- and a commitment to fostering the energy of love rather than fear -- can open a new pathway toward a more fulfilling and brilliant life.  

Filmmakers Erin Bagwell and Komal Minhas are a dynamic duo who used their powerful experiences of being harassed and caught in the corporate world into a visionary film and artful story for all to be inspired to accomplish anything you can dream! They have taken the best stories of women entrepreneurs and crafted a wonderfully uplifting film for people of all ages. Listen in as they tell us their stories and inspiration!

So many of us are taught to believe we have to be perfect in everything we do. This creates a habit of self-criticism, correction and a down-right constant focus on what we aren’t doing well. We are graded, evaluated and told how to “win” all our lives. But it’s a crushing experience to live life racing after perfection. Listen as Peter J. Reding shares a revolutionary feedback approach he developed in his Coach for Life and Inspired Learning model, based on an intensive focus on fulfilling and enriching the human spirit.  Peter advocates focusing on what’s working, spotlighting the amazing job people are doing, and highlighting all the ways we ARE hitting the mark. Learn how to give the kind of feedback that transforms people’s lives.

Most of us have in our hearts that dream that, when fulfilled, will make our lives richer and fuller, and will help our souls come alive. Our dreams can be fragile in their early days, and they need to be nurtured and protected with tender loving care. When you want to change something important in your life, or find a new way to expand, stretch, and do something bold and exciting, you need a certain kind of input and feedback - the kind that bolsters your dreams, shapes them powerfully, and keeps them from being crushed. Kathy and Mo explore six simple steps to ensuring you get the positive, empowering support you need to make your dreams a reality.

Scared silly to speak in public? If so, you’re not alone - it's the #1 fear among adults. Tracy Goodwin, Founder of Captivate The Room and expert in voice technique, presentation and storytelling skills, shares powerful strategies and insights on how to step up to your full potential and your authentic spirit every time you speak. In this episode, Tracy shares insider tips from her years as a professional actor and in her vocal coaching work on how to bring your words to life, overcome your fears about your voice and speaking, and finally recognize what's holding you back from finding your most authoritative and powerful voice. She explains the true value being authentic and using your “real voice,” and offers other practical tips and tools that will help you master your speaking approach, and power up your engagement and connection with others.

Are you experiencing a crisis experience that has you overwhelmed, devastated, and confused as to how to move forward, wondering if you’ll ever recover? Mo and Kathy talk about the hardships and crises that have brought them to their knees, and the amazing info and insights they learned from these experiences. They also share empowering strategies, solutions and tips from their coaching work with thousands of women regarding what they’ve found to be the critical DOs and DON’Ts to follow during crisis periods --  the specific behaviors, mindsets and practices to embrace -- and those to let go of -- in order to heal, recover, find yourself, and craft a wonderful new “me” that will thrive and grow after crises and setback.

We all need momentum to fuel our ideas, projects and life. Shama Hyder, CEO of the Marketing Zen Group and author of the new book, MOMENTUM: How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age, shares insider secrets on how creating consistency, trust and customer focus can turn an idea into a viable market mover. Named by Forbes as a 30-Under-30 mover and shaker in 2015, and “one of the top voices in marketing and social” by LinkedIn, Shama explains her 5 critical principles for propelling your marketing forward, and creating BIG momentum for your business, products and messages in a busy and crowded marketplace.

Avril McDonald, author of the Feel Brave Series of books (little stories about big feelings for 4-7 year olds) and founder of www.feelbrave.com, shares with us her immense and powerful vision of helping children around the world better cope with their fears and anxieties, and also help adults heal in their own journey of becoming brave, confident and excited to follow their passions and visions for doing something meaningful in the world.

So, you’re embroiled in a toxic work culture, a political nightmare, backstabbing colleagues who hurt you or a boss who’s incredibly tough on you. What do you do? Kathy and Mo share their deepest and most empowering tips and strategies (hard-earned from their own personal and corporate experiences) for effectively dealing with “politics” that crush you down in the workplace. From shifting your own energy, to visualizing a more positive outcome, to being able to identify when a culture is simply too “sick” to thrive in, and learning how to communicate very clearly and calmly what you need and want, you’ll learn important new behaviors that will help you evaluate what you’re facing, and navigate through it in an empowered way, to a happier, more fulfilling outcome.

Agapi Stassinopoulos, author and inspirational speaker share her secrets of life’s wins and losses and how she found each episode in life to reveal to her a new way to open and unbind her heart. Her Greek upbringing and seemingly magic mother brought a deep sense of enjoyment to her that she struggled to find herself until her unbound her heart.

D.B. Weinke -- sought-after LinkedIn speaker, trainer, consultant and expert -- shares her keen insights on overcoming the most common and damaging mistakes professionals make on LinkedIn. In this probing interview, D.B., a former Chief Marketing Officer and Fortune 500 executive turned LinkedIn authority, reveals insider tips, strategies and critical LinkedIn behaviors that will help you leverage the power of LinkedIn to connect with amazing new colleagues, find a great mentor, publish your writing, market yourself successfully, land great new opportunities, and spread your messages to impact thousands.

Founding President of Starbucks International, Howard Behar, shares critical leadership lessons and business insights stemming from powerful experiences of early childhood in his father’s Seattle market, to building Starbucks Coffee from 28 stores to over 15,000 stores spanning five continents. He shares his memories, insights and thoughts on what needs to change in so many of today’s leadership approaches, and touches on our current political environment, our deep need for truth and trust at work, and the misguided myth that people are “assets” to be owned.

So many people today believe they’re stuck in lack-lustre, frustrating, or what they feel are “dead-end”  jobs. They also think they’re wasting precious time in life. Kathy and Mo turn this idea on its head, and share new perspectives, insights and strategies that will help you fuel your passions - and expand your “highest self” -- in your current job, even when that’s a role you don’t like.

Dr. Neha Sangwan, a dedicated Internal Medicine physician, has practiced medicine for many years in hospitals where patients with life-threatening illnesses, upon their release home, would reveal deep secrets about their health challenges, and what was truly at the root. Her own unique experience with a debilitating condition, and her epiphany that communication (or more accurately - the lack of direct, honest and necessary communication) was at the heart of what ailed her and her patients, she found her calling to become a true communication expert, helping us say what needs to be said in order for health and well-being to be achieved and sustained. Dr. Neha joins Kathy and Mo for a deep and probing conversation about honest communication, why it matters and how it dramatically impacts your health, well-being and your life.  

Finding what you are truly great at and love is a yearning we all have. It is the secret to a life and career well lived. Why is this so illusive? Why do so many of us struggle to find this inside? Kathy and Mo discuss the specific strategies and solutions to uncover the gems inside of you that point to your truest gifts and natural talents and the outcomes you care most about supporting. Listen in and follow along to find your inner bliss and how to get on track with to building a career that matches with your inner self. Live the work and life of your dreams.

Our lives move forward when we are aligned with our inner energy and when our energy is flowing in a clear, unobstructed way. When we are stuck, it is often because we have energetic blocks from our past programming, hurts or limiting mindset and beliefs. These energy blocks are often the reason we can’t move forward to pursue our dreams and desires with success and joy. Lynn Carroll, transformative energy healer and psychotherapist, talks about her energy work and gives powerful tips and techniques to help release our blocks and challenges, including money issues, relationship conflicts, access to joy and success and more. Listen in as Kathy and Mo tap into the power of our energy and what it can do to move us all in the direction of our dreams.

What if the smartest people in the world understand something that the rest of us don’t? (They Do.)  Richie Norton tells us about his stunning take on the momentum of starting something, starting anything. Learn his great take on how to crush fear, make dreams happen, and live without regret.

A cooking show on a podcast? Pati Jinich, renowned PBS cooking show host and Emmy nominee shares her journey from political analyst covering her native Mexico, to highly popular TV chef, author, speaker and cultural “ambassador” of the richness of the Mexican food and culture of her roots. Her focus, drive and passion to build respect and recognition for Mexican culture, and find her own special place in the world, will rivet you. If you have a passion that you want to leverage, here is how to cook it up!

Being able to command top dollar for your work requires an understanding of the value you provide. Learn how to build a mindset and set of beliefs that support you to reach your next level of earning power in a way that is authentically aligned with what matters most to you.

Dr. Lucy Gilson, Professor and Management Department Head at University of Connecticut's School of Business, and the Director of the Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference, joins Kathy and Mo in a fascinating discussion about the impact of gender on the roles women and men play in academia and also the choices they make both personally and professionally. Dr. Gilson shares her keen perspectives as an educator, a leader and a researcher, revealing underlying patterns and trends that unconsciously shape both men and women in their career directions and their futures. (And don’t miss what her 14-year-old son shares as his top tips for a successful life!).

Are we selling our lives and careers short because of how we feel inside, and how we?re operating in the world? Kathy and Mo discuss powerful and practical strategies to increase your confidence and play full out, in work and in life. Learn how to show up with more confidence, feel happier, appreciate your value and worth, and build the life and livelihood that reflects your highest visions.

Angie Ruan, Group VP of Global Digital Experience Engineering at American Express, shares her keen insights on what it takes to lead effectively, innovate big, and collaborate powerfully in the tech world today.

Dorie Clark, former presidential campaign spokesperson, Duke University Adjunct Business Professor and author shares her powerful techniques for standing out, sharing your most compelling messages, and making the impact you hope for. And don?t miss Dorie?s tips on making the most of networking and thought leadership as an introvert - they?re inspirational.

Henna Inam, author and CEO of Transformational Leadership Inc, shares her unique perspective on Authentic Leadership - what it takes, what gets in the way, and 7 practices that help us cultivate and expand “our fullest expression of ‘me,’ for the benefit of ‘we.’

Kathy and Mo share their insider insights, experiences and tips on key strategies for figuring out your best next step once you realize your current job is wrong for you.

Social Media Strategist Afton Negrea shares her insider tips on how to leverage social media to grow your business, build your platform and share your messages. Even if you're a beginner and scared to start, Afton shares how to begin today to make the impact you long for using social tools.

Ruth Sherman, CEO & Celebrity Speech and Media Coach joins Kathy and Mo to spare her top “Speakrets” – the secrets to making speaking your best marketing, networking and personal branding tool.

Drawing on the viral popularity of Kathy’s LinkedIn post 6 Toxic Behaviors That Push People Away: How To Recognize Them In Yourself and Change Them (2.9 million views and climbing!), Kathy and Mo discuss what they’ve found to be the top 12 most toxic behaviors they see every day (in their own lives and in the lives of others), and offer their unique tips and strategies for gaining greater awareness of these behaviors and revising them.

James Grant, President & CEO of JGPR, former West Coach Publicity Director of Orion Pictures and Bureau Chief of Life Magazine, shares powerful insider PR tips to expanding your platform, landing great PR for your biz, and nailing your media pitch. Don't miss these helpful DO's and DONT's for getting the publicity you dream of!

Kathy and Mo share their experiences and advice on how to access empowering mentors and sponsors who'll support your growth, and open exciting new doors to further your progress. One of the most talked-about topics in career growth, Mentorship and Sponsorship are essential to your success.

Learn the pros and cons of the multi-generational workplace and world, how to adjust perceptions, engage your team and keep the generational dialogue open to foster a successful and engaged workplace. Dr. Tim Elmore, Founder of Growing Leaders and best-selling author, also shares secrets to better parenting that translate into developing more capable young adults.

In today’s podcast, Mo and Kathy, inspired by the amazing book What To Do With An Idea by Kobi Yamada and Mae Besom, share openly about two ideas they’ve had in their lives which turned their lives and careers on their head, and changed everything. We explore the nature of new ideas, and how to expand, explore and take full advantage of your ideas. Sometimes we need to sit on an idea, other times we want to act immediately and pursue it, but either way, letting your ideas open important doors to new perspectives is a positive experience. Listen and learn what to do with your important idea in 2016.

Cheryl Hunter, bestselling author, speaker and resilience expert, joins Kathy and Mo to share a riveting discussion about how we can overcome pain and trauma, and find new ways to become resilient, thrive, and access our highest power and purpose through our healing. Cheryl shares her personal story of traveling abroad as a teenage, and experiencing being abducted by two criminals who left her for dead. She teaches us how she’s overcome her trauma and abuse, and found a calling in helping others overcome adversity and live their highest and best lives.