Mindful Social Business

In her new book, “Out Of Love, A Daughter's Journey With Her Mom To The End” she shares her story of 6 years as she cared for her mom with ovarian cancer, and how that experience transformed her in so many ways. In the book, she shares her story with heart and honesty but also her knack for problem-solving and organization that will help you navigate your own journey. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Audio excerpt from my talk at TEDxPurdue University in February 2022. It's time for a change from transactional work culture to a culture that recognizes the value of care and compassion. One that increases resiliency, creativity, productivity, and well-being for all. See the video and more tips on JanetFouts.com. How can I help you? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

When I first heard about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) It really resonated with me. An approach that helps us to change our thinking patterns for the better? Skills to cope with anxiety, stress, dependencies, and depression? Fascinating. So of course when I read the CBT Workbook for Mental Health I had to learn more. Today's guest is Sarah Fader, co-author of the workbook with Dr. Simon Rego. Have a listen, I know you're going to find this interesting too. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Whether you are going back into the office or the workplace after parental leave from work, from caring for a loved one, or because of the pandemic, how can you put your best foot forward and integrate without losing yourself in the process? My guest this week, Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD believes in empowering working parents, and in the coming months, many of us are heading back into the office for the first time in a while. How can we as leaders help everyone during this transitional time? Learn more about Lori on the blog. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

When we come to a real meeting of the minds, it can transform the relationship and the perspective that each brings to the table. So how do we learn to have these transformational conversations? I recommend you start by reading Toi B. James” book, of Talk About It: 12 Steps to Transformational Conversations…Even When You Disagree. Note: Mindful Social listeners will receive a discount on the soft copy of Talk About It: Website (only): https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Talk-About-It Discount: $4.99 off (excludes ebook) Discount code: thankyou Dates: Nov. 4 – Nov. 30, 2021 Get more details on the blog. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

If we want everyone to come out of those challenging conversations with positive feelings and a clear idea of their action items, we need to set up that successful conversation for the best possible outcome. That's just what Roberta Matuson's new book Can We Talk? Seven Principles for Managing Difficult Conversations at Work addresses. Have a listen to the podcast, and be sure to stay to the end for a special offer from Roberta! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

The massive disruption we've been through the last few years has caused a paradigm shift in how we live and work. Employees are no longer satisfied with the autocratic leadership and stilted engagement strategies that used to be the norm. People are looking for jobs where they really feel respected, encouraged, and where everyone is part of creating and supporting a corporate culture that nurtures productivity rather than drives it. I'm chatting with my good friend Mark S. Babbitt, co-author with S. Chris Edmonds of Good Comes First - How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This week's guest, Laura DiBenedetto founded Vison Marketing, an award-winning marketing agency at the age of 19, and took the marketing world by storm. Today is known as America's Happiness Coach and the #1 Bestselling Author of The Six Habits. Practical Tools for Bringing Your Dreams to Life. Listen up and leave a review! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

How do we truly be our best selves in the workplace? You'll find hope, encouragement, and support to further your leadership career in “Your Best Self at Work: Aligning Strengths, Emotional Intelligence & Resilience. Listen to my chat with the authors, Drs Benjamin Dilla and Joel Bennet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This week I chatted with Dr. Diana Hill about her new book, Act Daily Journal: Get Unstuck and Live Fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, co-written with Dr. Debbie Sorensen. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a powerful type of therapy that embraces mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based living, encouraging people to not shy away from difficult feelings. Listen to the podcast and find all the links on the blog! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Brett Hill has such a delightful approach to teaching mindfulness and meditation. His degree in interpersonal communication and a fascination for technology lead to a career as a technical story-teller, author, blogger, and speaker for companies like Microsoft, Adobe and others. It was great fun chatting with Brett and I think you're going to love listening too. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Are you “mindful curious” or maybe a bit "mindful skeptical"? Listen to Author Clif Smith on the #MindfulSocial #podcast about his new book 'Mindfulness Without the Bells and Beads'. Jump on the blog for show notes, links to the book and learn more about Clif Smith. https://janetfouts.com/clifsmith/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

For some it takes years of work, or even an existential crisis to learn our real, deep truth. Our one thing that brings us joy. In Authenticity Reawakened, Author Vicki Znavor walks us through some of the signs to understand how we really feel, and how we might not be as connected to our work as we thought we were. Then she helps us face our fears and embrace our own truths with curiosity, courage and grace. Leave your comments here or on the blog! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

In her new book Own It. Love It. Make It Work she reveals why you don’t have to rely on your company, your coworkers, your boss, or anything other than yourself for your professional fulfillment and engagement. Get the links on the blog https://janetfouts.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Hear about core values, finding your WHAT, black sheep, and caregiving on Mindful Social this week with Brant MensWar. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Ayelet Baron is an old friend here on Mindful Social, and I'm honored she asked me to preview her latest book, the first in a trilogy, called F*ck the Bucket List For The Soul- Discover The Wonder Of You. Ayelet walked away from her corporate career to pursue her truth, to face her fears, and to create a life that challenges, fulfills and enriches not only her own life but that of others. As we face so many challenges this year, everything has changed in mere days, and now is such a perfect opportunity to take a good look at the hows, whys and why not in our lives and make a choice to see the opportunities we may have been blind to until now. Listen up to hear more from Ayelet, and get the book! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Expectations have changed in so many ways. This week on Mindful Social, I'm with Roshaunda Green. She shares her perspective on some fresh ways to look at leadership and culture in this new normal, and some tips to network and the hunt for a job that fits the way we want to work going forward. Have a listen and visit the blog for more info and contact. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This week on Mindful Social I talk with Heather Gwaltney, author of Be Kind and Take No Sh*t: A Woman's Guide to Balance, Power & Joy Visit the blog post to grab a free chapter of her book. We covered a lot of ground in this chat! We covered some of the challenges women face as leaders in our current work culture, with different management and styles than their male counterparts, and touched on the importance of setting boundaries for ourselves, the way women approach problem-solving, collaboration with colleagues, and how the typical archetypes of female leadership are changing. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

As responsible and conscious marketers we are taking a closer look at how marketing is handing issues of culture, diversity, and inclusion, especially on social media (this is mindful social after all!). This week Janet facilitates a conversation with 4 individuals who have their fingers on the pulse of the issues, to offer insights into what's been going right, as well as what we can certainly be working on as conscious, mindful, and engaged marketers. Be sure to visit the blog post to learn more about our panel! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

What's the first thing you think about when you hear the words "Diversity and Inclusion"? Is it unconscious bias tests? Maybe you've worked somewhere you had to take diversity and inclusion training in order to move up in the company and it was just another box to check off? Or maybe you'd LOVE to find a company that took diversity, inclusion, and equity seriously? This week on Mindful Social I'm talking with Lesley Slaton Brown, the Chief Diversity Officer at HP, Inc. to hear how drawing from diverse points of view improves the products and services as well as the corporate culture at HP. Listen up! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

At the moment it is even more important that our teams feel safe, heard and working together isn't it? In Mike Robbin's new book he addresses core principles include fostering an environment of psychological safety, fostering inclusion and belonging, addressing and navigating conflict, and maintaining a healthy balance of high expectations and empathy. Listen in and learn more about Mike and the book on the blog! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Empathy, Emotions, vulnerability, these emotions are a part of all of us. This week I'm chatting with Non Wels, founder of the podcast You Me Empathy and the Feely Human Collective, a safe space for us all to learn about ourselves and our emotional lives. Just what we all need right now! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

On the show this week my guest is Julie Kratz, an inclusive leadership trainer and founder of Next Pivot Point. We talked at length on what it's like to live and work through this pandemic while having smart conversations about how we want to be now and going forward. How can we be in the driver's seat deciding the path we take through and beyond the crisis? What do we want more of? Less of? How do we make smart decisions and choices as we pivot back to unknown territory after this is over? Listen in! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

These days the more we can put our focus on the good in the world the better! Gina Biegel is the author of “Take in the Good- Skills for Staying Positive and Living Your Best Life”. The book has some of my favorite positive coping skills, to help us move away from destructive or harmful patterns and towards ones that can make us happier, healthier and a whole lot better human beings. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

In today’s episode I talk with Christine Clifton about advocacy for ourselves and those we care for when working within the medical system. Being a voice for ourselves or someone else is absolutely key whenever we are engaged within these systems. Christine and I talk about our own experiences with learning to practice self-advocacy and her journey navigating Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Get her free training, “Ignite Your Inner Leader” at www.ChristineClifton.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This week on Mindful Social, my guest is Michelle Tillis Lederman. She’s a real human connector, not one of those people who connects with their own end result in mind, but someone who puts the relationships first and really connecting on a personal level. That’s what makes her one of Forbes Top 25 Networking Experts, and she’s the author of four books including the bestselling The Connectors Advantage. That’s what makes her one of Forbes Top 25 Networking Experts, and she’s the author of four books including the bestselling The Connectors Advantage. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

If you are wanting to bring empathy forward and open to clearer communication with others, listen to this week's guest on Mindful Social, Oren Jay Sofer, author of Say what you Mean- A Mindful Guide to Nonviolent Communication. You're going to love this one! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Michael Brenner shares with us what’s really at the root of being disengaged and miserable in our jobs, and spoiler alert, sometimes it’s US, our attitude, expectations or even our victim mindset. Get the book today : Mean People Suck: How Empathy Leads to Bigger Profits and a Better Life, --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Maria helps us see what makes people successful is not just the most intelligent person in the room, Not necessarily the best concepts, but the teams who have the best soft skills, the best collaboration, empathy and how we are starting to see more data and proof that soft skills really do make a huge difference in how success happens. Want to hear more about that? Listen up. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

On the show this week is Bryan Kramer. We’ve been friends for years, and seen the changes in social media marketing from what used to be seen as a marketing tool to people actually want to communicate with each other, and how moving from the hustle of a marketing agency has changed his outlook on work and life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

My guest on Mindful Social this week is Molly Cantrell-Kraig. Boy, does this woman have a story! She's been through the wringer a few times in her life, yet she's managed to do so much more than survive, she's thrived. Her new book Circuit Train Your Brain- Daily Habits That Develop Resilience is such a great read. You know by now that one of my favorite topics is resilience and when you bring mindfulness and emotional intelligence into the mix it can be golden! Molly has written the book with small bites of information you can pick up and do without straining your brain. It's easy to read yet full of richness. You're gonna love it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

When you ask someone their experience in the world of work, what kind of stories do you hear? Many of us go to work and come home feeling stressed, less than enough, exhausted. Friday is looked forward to. Monday? Not so much. I really enjoyed chatting with Jason Lauritsen this week about his new book, Unlocking High Performance, and his work with leaders, working to improve broken workplace culture and our relationship with work. Listen up and let us know how your experience of work is going! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This chat with Bruce McIntyre covers a lot of topics, from his personal journey as a caregiver for his wife with Parkinson's disease to serving as the Executive Director of the Parkinson Foundation of Oklahoma. He’s been through quite a lot on this journey and has dedicated his life to helping other family caregivers learn how to take care of their loved ones as well as themselves. As a leader, he's learned lessons along the way to bring more kindness and less judgment to how he works with his team, and how to really talk to people to understand what their challenges are. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This week on Mindful Social I talk with Christine Comaford about her newest book: Power Your Tribe. The book hits home on a lot of levels, particularly when we’re talking about creating a safe space for growth, energy, and creativity in the workplace. Lean more about this episode here. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This week I'm speaking with Heidi Sloss, another entrepreneur who has also made some major changes in her life and work. She's taken her experiences owning several businesses and feeling "stuck" and rigid in her life, now she's on a new career path, one that helps people be well. Learn more on the blog! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This week I’m talking with Immanual Joseph, PhD, about compassion. In the workplace, at home, for others and for ourselves. On the podcast, Immanual said: “Courage is fierce. In the workplace it involves standing up to popular opinion, Standing up to your co-workers and friends to do the right thing. It’s also being vulnerable, Compassion is the opposite of weakness. Compassion is courage with wisdom.” Listen in and add your comments. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

In his new book, “Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen” Marc offers an essential guide for leaders of all types, shapes and sizes. Whether you are leading a corporation, a classroom, a family or a country, there is much to gain by spending quality time with this book. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

If you think forgiveness is all about letting someone off the hook? You're wrong. And I forgive you! Find out what it really is in this MindfulSocial chat with Dr. Fred Luskin. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This was a very special episode with Non Wels, creator of the You, Me, Empathy podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This week I talk with Dr. Rick Hanson, Ph.D. about learning to actually change the structure of our brain through positive neuroplasticity and ways we can learn from our experiences to have more well-being, happiness and emotional balance in our lives. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

That feeling of not being good enough, not worthy, self-judgment is rampant in our culture. But we can learn to be kind to ourselves and stop listening to the negative stories we spin for ourselves with a little mindful attention. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

When something happens to an employee outside of work, how that company responds is representative of the company culture. In their newly released book, The ROI of Compassion: Unleashing the Ultimate Performance, Production and Profits with Strategic Caring in Traumatic Times, Lisa and Loren Murfield tells the story of their personal experiences of loss and how one company responded with heart and compassion, while another did just the opposite. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

The people of Rwanda have embraced a policy of forgiveness, love, and reconciliation, even toward those who committed incredibly heinous acts during the civil war and genocide of the 90's. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

How do we show up at work? Is it our whole, authentic self or some avatar we hope will be what people trust, value and engage with? This week's guest, Mike Robbins, is the author of: Bring your Whole Self to workHow vulnerability unlocks creativity, connection and performance. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Are you thinking of how, when, or why you should be mobilizing your employees to get more engaged with sharing and supporting your business online? Are you holding them back just in case it doesn't go well? Listen to this week's show with Michael Brito and maybe you'll see how that old-school thinking is working against you. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

I had the great pleasure of interviewing Leah Weiss on the Mindful Social Business podcast about the launch of her new book, “How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind” . We talked about so many things, including the role of compassion at work, finding our purpose and, of course, how we can find purpose and happiness in our work and how that makes us happier in our life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Listening is good right? But what's your intention for listening to that new client, or even your partner? What if you could make that person feel better, and build rapport with that person by simply listening? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Dorie's new book, "Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive" is an easy yet information packed read. She truly takes a mindful approach to building a personal reputation and how to turn that into a successful entrepreneurial venture. She interviewed more than 50 entrepreneurs in a wide variety of industries to sample their secret sauce and share it with us. We will hear from podcasters, public speakers, coaches, consultants and learn from their struggles and their successes. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

This meditation will help you see other people in a new way, that we all, every one of us wants the same basic things at the end of the day. Just like you, they want to be happy. This helps develop empathy and a new perspective on people who seem difficult to work with. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Stress is so common in our lives and our work. Getting to know how it feels can help us manage it more skillfully. Take a few moments and see how it works for you! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

People kind of freak out about meditation. "Am I doing it right?" is the biggest question I get. Here's my story of attempts at meditation, and a 3-minute meditation for you to try with me. Let me know what you think! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support