Move Mountains Podcast

  Welcome back to Messy Adventures in Mindful Leadership with Charlie White. Today, we're joined by Lizzie Harbin, who offers invaluable insights on leading amidst life's unpredictability. Lizzie emphasizes the importance of embracing life's messiness as a leader. From giving meaningful feedback to fostering open communication, she underscores the need for authenticity and resilience. She encourages leaders to celebrate challenges with humor and humility, creating an environment where innovation thrives. Lizzie also highlights the value of accepting failure as part of personal growth. For Lizzie, leadership means being comfortable with uncertainties and focusing on service to others. By doing inner work and embracing their own imperfections, leaders can better support their teams. Join us for more inspiring conversations on Messy Adventures in Mindful Leadership. Stay tuned for insights that transform how you lead.

Yosi Amram joins host Charlie White for an enlivening conversation about converging leadership with spiritual intelligence in episode of 49 of 'Messy Adventures in Leadership.' Yosi has coached over a hundred CEOs in the past twenty years. Serving as both a confidant and coach, he offers a sounding board for CEOs, providing guidance and coaching on building and managing companies, teams, investors, and boards. Yosi supports CEOs in developing more inspirational leadership, enhancing their leadership power by tapping into and nurturing their purpose, passion, and authentic presence, and creating deeper meaning through their work. "My mission is to awaken greater spiritual intelligence in myself and the world. And my hope is that twenty years from now spiritual intelligence is as broadly permeating our culture as emotional intelligence."  Yosi's latest book 'Spiritual Intelligent Leadership' is now available.  Spiritual Intelligence (SI) is our ability to draw on and embody qualities from the world's wisdom and spiritual traditions that have been shown to enhance functioning and wellbeing. To learn more about my research into Spiritual Intelligence and to receive your free Spiritual Intelligence profile highlighting your strengths, areas for growth, and curated tips for development, click here. For more on Yosi check out www.yosiamram.net and his YouTube channel: Awakening Spiritual Intelligence.     

Join Move Mountains Charlie White and Chris Yount as they discuss the struggles and growth of running a business. Chris is all too familiar with leading teams, guiding entrepreneurs, and finding self-actualization through serving others and leadership development. His advice for those in business dealing with the ups and downs: "Do your best to find a peer group where you can share your struggles that are unique to you." Chris Yount

After losing her husband suddenly at 30 years old with a 1-year-old son and pregnant, Amanda Bauer Frisch has navigated life with incredible grace. So, what is a Participation Trophy? Amanda emphasizes that we need to redefine what a participation trophy really is. First place isn't the same as showing up, but we still need to recognize that as a society, most people are dealing with silent battles that we don't see. It's important to acknowledge and applaud their participation. "When I lost my husband, I needed people to tell me to keep going and to keep trying." Amanda Bauer Frisch

Join Move Mountains and Jane Burkhart and Lizzie Harbin. This jaw-dropping and inspiring conversation with Mother and daughter is full of hope and empowerment. Listen as they share their story in a candid conversation about their experience of domestic abuse and their journey and inspiration in healing. This podcast has inspired Move Mountains to partner with the local family advocacy organization Sierra Community House, which helps families in Truckee and North Lake Tahoe. Join us on May 11th at Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe to meet Jane and Lizzie as they share their inspiring strength and story.  All are welcome to come listen and share in this collective yet difficult healing journey. Enjoy the beautiful view of Lake Tahoe from the Lakeshore Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort and Spa. Join us from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 11. Contact the Move Mountains Team for more information on how to get involved.

In this podcast, Rosie Hackett shares her experience as a mindful leader and her recovery journey. She emphasizes her love for coaching and teaching, offering both services to individuals looking to enhance their lives. The Move Mountains Atlas Hub is a platform where Rosie will be sharing her wisdom and skills to help others improve their lives. Charlie White and Rosie discuss the importance of self-coaching and how it can help individuals improve their lives. Rosie emphasizes the need to pay attention to one's thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions and how teaching tools can be helpful in this process. She highlights the role of a coach in helping individuals find their own thoughts and stories, but also encourages self-coaching for long-term growth and personal development. Rosie's energy is contagious, and she has some world-class stories. Join Rosie starting May 1st for 3 months for her transforming group coaching cohort, 'Live the life you love.'

In this episode of 'Messy Adventures in Leadership,' Charlie White and Amanda Simonton dive into the influence of work on personal life and vice versa, which is more complex than it may seem. Influential components of your work world, such as people and experiences, can drastically influence your free time activities. Serving in the Army National Guard for six and a half years provided Amanda with a helpful perspective on sacrifice, determination, and resiliency. Amanda Simonton is a professional development expert and co-leads Revolution Retreat, a holistic wellness project. She spends time in a corporate setting, running wellness and professional development programs for a technology company. She also co-leads Revolution Retreat, which is a personal project focused on holistic wellness and inclusive retreats. Amanda discusses the limitations of the work-life balance dichotomy and the importance of viewing all aspects of life as overlapping and interconnected.

Join Charlie White and Brian Williams in this incredible podcast focused on Kindness. Brian Williams is the founder of Think Kindness, a nonprofit organization that aims to inspire positive change by conducting massive kindness takeovers in schools, communities, and corporations. The organization was founded in 2009 after Brian's mother asked him to conduct an Anti-Bullying Assembly at her school, which led to the idea of focusing on kindness instead of negativity. Think Kindness began with a challenge to document 5,000 random acts of kindness in just 15 days, which inspired other schools to join in and led to the organization's growth. “In the workplace, kindness and promoting a healthy environment can lead to increased trust, collaboration, and engagement among employees. This results in higher productivity, better conflict resolution, improved well-being, increased retention, and overall better outcomes for the organization.” Brian Williams

Join Move Mountains Founder Charlie White as he chats with Jeremey Lawson of the Focused Warrior System. Learn how Jeremy overcame a major head injury by using his mindset and focus. With a master's degree in kinesiology, Jeremy Lawson has 22 years' experience training elite athletes who went on to national pro leagues like the NFL, the NBA, and the PGA Tour. He's also a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist. His background includes: Mindset Coach for Nordhoff High School Football Team Strength & Conditioning Coach at UCLA & UC Berkeley Golf Specific Strength & Conditioning Coach - Los Angeles County As Jeremy's career expanded he started to realize that while an athlete has a limit on how physically strong and fast they can get, the strength of their mind has NO LIMIT! Jeremy saw time and time again that the athletes that go the farthest have the strongest mindset, not necessarily the strongest physical body. An athlete's focus, confidence, and ability to perform under pressure will never stop improving if practiced. The FOCUSED WARRIOR system takes athletes to a higher level. A level most of their competition doesn't attain. Practicing only sports skills and conditioning isn't enough anymore. The mind must be fully strengthened like everything else. “Be here right now, what do I have to do to be my best right NOW!” Jeremy  

“I am a Masterpiece and a hot mess at the same time.” Rosie Hackett After surviving an avalanche in Canada's Backcountry, Move Mountain team member and results coach Rosie Hacket sits down with Charlie for a great discussion on the mindset behind dealing with injury.  ‘I'm here, I'm open, and I trust.' Rosie Hackett is a results coach in South Lake Tahoe, a Professional skier, and overall incredible athlete. It's difficult to deal with downtime from a season-ending injury. During these times, we have to deal with ourselves and teach ourselves perspective in life.  What about people that have to talk all the time… That comes from not being enough. You are enough!! “Every day and every way, I am getting better.” Rosie Hackett

Part 2 with Bill Bryan and Nora Behren's of the Bryan Group. Listen in as Bill, Nora, and Charlie break down how we all have Decision Making personalities. Finding where our team thrives is imperative to having a balanced business.

This month we dive into Meeting Culture with Charlie White, Bill Bryan, and Nora Behrens. Have you heard these questions in your organization? "We have way too many meetings." "Nothing gets accomplished in these meetings." "The same people do all the talking, and nothing changes." Bill Bryan and Nora Behrens have joined Charlie White to define what creates an efficient meeting based on clarity of agenda, objectives, debriefing, and team culture. "If you want to change the culture of your company to be more accountability oriented, then you change your meeting culture."  - Bill Bryan

Joining Charlie in this episode are two extremely accomplished and confident individuals with resumes that have taken them on adventures into the mountains and wilderness of our planet and bold, scientific walks outside the space shuttle.   John Herrington is a retired Naval Test Pilot and NASA Astronaut who was the 143rd person to walk in space and the first Native American in history to do so.  He recently worked on an IMAX film entitled "Into America's Wild" by MacGillivray Freeman, released in 2020.     Returning guest, Sue Purvis, is a wilderness medicine and avalanche instructor, author of the book 'Go Find,' and owns Crested Butte Outdoors International in Montana.  They met on one of her mountain courses, and the universe saw fit to bring these two extraordinary humans and leaders together.     This fascinating and wide-ranging conversation explores what drives us to solve problems for ourselves, to build or fix things with our own hands, and how to balance the enjoyment with the wellness needs of being.   They discuss leadership, confidence, and the people who've inspired them along the way. They share stories of the people John and Sue have inspired with their work and examples.   In one particularly powerful part of the conversation, they reflect on our need to focus internally on ourselves and not just on constant external distractions. They draw parallels to humanity's dream of finding new habitats in space while we can barely take care of the world we already have.  

What does it look like to show up as your authentic, vulnerable, messy self at work and in life, and engage in real dialogue about the most difficult, divisive, and polarized issues of our times?  Charlie and Nico Page, an HR Business Partner with LinkedIn, have a deep conversation about the last few years of racial identity politics, leadership responses, policy creation, power structures, privilege, and discomfort.  Beginning with a personal anecdote about giving a speech in which Nico had real emotions rising yet felt a need to ‘perform and be on brand', the conversation takes in the George Floyd case, how and for whom identity policies are made, a riveting explanation of what D.E.I. actually means, and what it might take to bring real healing and reconciliation to communities. 

Russell takes us on a fascinating journey through his family's bold and life-affirming decision to move from Seattle to Costa Rica for a year, inspired by a Tony Robbins question: “What is your plan?" He and Charlie explore the mindset of possibilities and serendipity, choosing to live as you want to and breaking free from the stories and setbacks that constrain our hopes and dreams.  What does it mean to invest in life experiences, and to grow the trust that you'll be ok rather than retreating to what is known and safe and always manifesting the other shoe dropping?  Russell & Charlie explore the 5 steps to get into a life design mindset including grounding stories with facts and finding your guiding principles, and end by asking listeners where in their lives they feel most alive and present. 

What is Functional Medicine and why isn't it the norm in our health care system?  Charlie speaks with Dr. Renee Prescott, Pharmacist and Director of Education for PCCA, a compounding pharmacy business based in Houston, about her passion for the more holistic and grounded approach of Functional Medicine and her journey to start her own health coaching business.  Renee discusses what it takes to move beyond ‘just the next diagnosis or pill', and what it takes to find the root causes of the disease that is afflicting the whole body.  They make connections between health coaching and mindful leader coaching and the role of mindfulness and finding your ‘why' in charting a new path to four-directional good health.  Renee also muses about the challenges of starting her own business and why she still loves and balances the new venture with her full-time job. 

Take a fascinating journey to Guatemala with Greg Jensen, Founder and Director of Cultiva International, a humanitarian organization working to eradicate extreme poverty one relationship and one garden box at a time.  Greg's story is not just about his work on an urgent and complex global issue but is also about rethinking how to solve and define problems and their root causes, how to inspire true empowerment so people can lift themselves up out of dependence, and the value of giving and receiving.  From a bold move to Guatemala with his family 10 years ago in a Honda Minivan to start a trail running tour business, Greg's focus shifted to exploring external and internal poverty.  His organization works on the visible, tangible, and external lack of basic needs and resources, but also the internal shame, and interwoven dynamics of motivation, confidence, hope, worth, and purpose that can hold anyone back.  He explores the difference between acute and chronic problems, the power of just starting something even if you think you're not really ready for the next thing, and the leadership lessons he's learned along the trail.  

Sue Purvis joins Charlie for a deep, thoughtful, and metaphor-rich conversation exploring the possibilities and fears of speaking your truth at home, in romance and relationships, at work, and in life.   Sue is the award-winning author of the 2018 book "Go Find." She is also a writing coach, public speaker, and wilderness medicine and avalanche education specialist who has taught on all 7 continents and is based in Montana.  Speaking your truth brings up a lot of fear and risk for many;  the risk of losing friends, jobs, relationships, and more.  "Until I spoke my truth, my story wasn't quite right," explains Sue as she reflects on truth-telling within her ongoing spiritual and emotional journey.  The conversation delves into our relationships with parents, time management, check-ins with loved ones, setting boundaries, personal survival, when to say yes and how to say no.     

This week on the podcast, we are joined by Mike DeLisio, the North American Sales Director for PCCA (Professional Compounding Centers of America). He and Charlie discuss the intricacies of communication amidst the challenges of first adjusting to business via zoom, and then readjusting as the world re-opens. Mike stresses the importance of taking yourself out of the equation when figuring out the best ways to communicate, rebuild, and work together. He focuses on adjusting relationships to be mutually beneficial to all parties, and the importance of actively listening and recognizing your “why.” Mike also believes in the importance of making time for reflection and celebrating small successes. Oftentimes, the learning doesn't come from the experience itself, but rather taking time to reflect on the experience afterward. “Keeping yourself accountable is the hardest part,” says Mike, but it is where you find growth.

Today on the Podcast, Charlie is joined by two guests, and they dive deep into leadership skills as relationship skills. Joree Rose is a LMFT, Author, Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher, and Podcast Host of Journey Forward with Joree Rose. Dr. John Schinnerer holds a PhD in Psychology, and is an Executive Coach and Podcast Host of The Evolved Caveman. The three of them discuss how the culture of masculinity influences leadership, and how your actions as a leader influence all the relationships in your life. John and Joree stress the interconnection of self-awareness, cultural socialization, and boundaries in your skills as a leader, as well as how those skills translate across all your personal and professional relationships. If you're interested in learning tools to become not just a better leader but lead a happier, healthier, and more meaningful life, than this episode is for you.

Today on the Podcast we are joined by Mia Kyricos, who manages her own small business strategically advising leadership teams who want to bring wellness to life. She specializes in the hospitality industry and brand strategy, and has worked with various companies to help them identify their brand values and align them with the company goals. She knows that once the core values have been established, the company and the employees will flourish, and it is an essential piece in bringing any wellness to life. She insists that there is not enough space in the business world for fostering creativity and allowing questions to be part of the discussion. By bringing mindfulness and core values to forefront, leaders are inevitably creating a workplace that allows employees to show up as the best version of themselves, and lets them continue to be the best version of themselves throughout the day. “The role of mindfulness in the business setting is to stop the spinning."

Today on the Podcast, we sit down to talk with Todd Steele, CEO of active-wear clothing brand Lolë, whose mission is to help people connect with the outdoors and bring well-being to as many aspects of their lives as possible. He speaks candidly about his journey into leadership, and how essential flexibility has been for him in this role. He realized early on that leadership is not something that simply comes to you, but rather it is a skill that you need to work on like any other. Like many leaders and businesses in the past year, Lolë was forced to change at a pace that was not normal for any business due to COVID – but at the end of it all, Todd recognizes that there were some positive attributes that came out of the crisis. The challenge now, he thinks, is going to be trying to retain those good things: “nimbleness, efficiency, openness to new ideas, and the idea that small teams can accomplish big things.”

Melissa Eisler has been a leadership and executive coach, mindfulness facilitator, yoga instructor, and hosted leadership retreats – and she credits much of her success to her meditation and mindfulness practices. Join us today as she shares her journey, including her struggles learning to meditate, overcoming the overwhelming feelings of grief and anxiety, and working to silence her inner critic. She shares thoughts on the importance of self-reflection, and how to first capture and then review those thoughts. And she delves deep into the importance of discernment as a leader; she believes the best quality a leader can possess is the ability to adapt. “Developing self-reflective practices and paths to expose your blind spots and learn from them is so important," she says. "It's about having a growth mindset.”

We're back! After a brief hiatus, we catch up with Charlie and Erika Fisher, Chief Administration Officer & General Counsel at Atlassian. As a leader of many teams who have shifted to working from home, Erika shares insights on the pursuit of a work/life balance over time, zoom fatigue, and leaning into personal discomfort in an effort to continue to become a better leader. She is proud to be part of a team and a company that are looking for ways to continue to move forward and create a better work environment for their employees, as well as challenging herself to have the hard conversations that arise in her place of leadership. She continuously asks herself, "How uncomfortable am I making myself? Because I have a responsibility here to not just fall into the norms and accept it. [...] If I'm not changing the conversation, than I am probably only reinforcing it."

Jumping into another week of messiness, we are joined by a different perspective this week: Eric Edelstein, President of the Reno Aces Minor League Baseball Team and Reno 1868 Football Club. Eric and Charlie talk about leadership in sports and navigating the changes to this world during COVID-19. As a young child, Eric realized that being an all-star player wasn't the only way to keep the game he loved in his life; what he lacked in natural-born ability he could make up for in hard work. Embracing a strong work ethic from an early age allowed Eric to focus on achieving his dreams, which has led him to managing professional teams for over 20 years - something he never takes for granted. Staying involved in professional sports as a career takes constant adaptation and personal development. "It's not my birthright to be the president of a professional sports team. It's something I have to continue to earn each day," Eric says.

Ben Schick of the Strozzi Institute joins us today to talk about unifying teams around a strong mission and purpose. As a leadership development professional and leadership coach for over 25 years, Ben loves the challenge of working with people, and enjoys leading strategies based in a strong vision, mission, or purpose. "Whenever you get a group of human beings together [...] to execute a strategy, it's gonna be messy," he notes. He offers tips for maintaining your mindfulness practice during times of dis-regulation and how to lean into the messiness and adjust your focus in your mindset.

It's all about connection. Today we welcome Chris Skelding of the Sales Leadership Team at Hyatt Hotels, and discuss the importance of connecting with individuals to create a more efficient workplace, and how that ultimately translates to a more successful business. While we are often told to separate our personal life from business, Chris reminds us that as a leader, “you have to take care of yourself. If you don't take care of yourself, you can't take care of others and you can't be present.” With a lifelong career in hospitality, Chris has always been surrounded by people who are eager to act and to solve problems. He has experienced firsthand the importance of laying the groundwork with his team and building personal connections that allow them to move forward and achieve a more productive and cohesive work environment.

Greg Skidmore and Todd DeGhetto are back to take last week's conversation deeper. Todd shares his vulnerable leadership learnings that were truly life and death in his line of work as a retired Navy SEAL. These hard lessons allowed him to see that everyone on his team has a purpose, the need (and desire) to make mistakes and the importance of staying focused and clear, despite the fear. As a leader you must be able to identify team member strengths and fit them into the right team or project, know your purpose and take responsibility for your mistakes and grow. Join us for a second round of inspiring conversation.

Charlie rounds up his friends Greg Skidmore, an entrepreneur and Financial Planner, and Todd DeGehetto, a retired Navy Seal, to discuss the significance of flexing your perseverance muscle. We discuss what it looks like from these two diverse backgrounds, and we are reminded, whether in business or the battlefield, you must learn to keep pushing yourself just outside of your comfort zone and get comfortable with the feeling of being uncomfortable. Todd believes we all should fail, otherwise we're going to be afraid to try. If you've never failed, the harder it is to take a risk. Just like we would train our bodies to run a relay race or prepare for a mission, we must train and flex our perseverance muscle in order to achieve greatness and peace.

Professional ultra-runner, Adam Kimble, joins us on the podcast for an inspirational conversation on pushing our boundaries. We've all been gifted with talents in life, Adam reminds us, and while your personal calling may not be running 100+ miles, you can still test your limits and boundaries and achieve incredible things you never thought possible. Adam fills us in how he has applied this way of thinking in his own life and provides insight on how you can adapt this into your own life. Dare to be brave with us.

A fiercely loyal and proud Nevadan, Dana Bennett, talks with us about her experience as President of the Mining Association for the state. Dana gives us a peak behind the curtain and addresses a lot of the misconceptions about mining and just how misunderstood the industry is. Now as a retiree, Dana reflects upon her greatest lesson learned: time is the most valuable resource we have and we must honor our choices of how we decide to use that time. There never is an adverse outcome to taking a vacation or being fully present at your child's birthday party.

Alexis Robin is the co-founder of PLink Leadership Executive Coaching and today we discuss the positives of the pandemic and how we can honor the emotions that have arisen, without being swallowed by them. Alexis reminds us to constantly ask ourselves whether the many choices we face each day get us closer to the life we want to have. We explore the notion that you can be grateful for the things you have AND seek betterment, simultaneously. Look within and be brave with us today.   "The more you appreciate what you have, the value of what you do have grows exponentially" - Alexis Robin

Today we catch up with Hakim Jones, the Enterprise and Analytics Portfolio Director at Nike to discuss constructive conflict and coming together, as the diverse world we are, around a common purpose. Charlie and Hakim discuss the importance of having uncomfortable conversations, keeping hope alive amongst the challenges and how we can have better conversations without being triggered or growing angry. "All People should be treated fairly. That's a basic understanding we all can understand." - Hakim Jones

A Gastroenterologist and soon to be dad, Jeff Costanzo, joins us on the podcast today to discuss his viewpoint on the pandemic's effects on the medical community and shares his humbling lessons from residency and experience as a care provider. Despite all of the chaos and unknowns we're all experiencing in our lives, Jeff reminds us to honor the intensity and the authentic fear that arises, but to always seek out humor in those dark times. Because if we can't laugh along the journey, you won't make it out feeling truly alive and connected with one another.

Josh Lieberman works for the Fire Department for the City of Reno and today on the podcast, he dives into his leadership style as a Captain. Josh dispels the belief that you need to have work/life separation as Fire Departments endure 48+ hour shifts where meals are shared and down time can be inevitable. Fortunately, Josh has created a culture where open conversations happen around the ladder truck's dining room table especially at a time when real, honest ones need to happen. Hear how Josh leads from the front and how it's helped him be a true leader to his extended family at the Fire Department.

Today on the podcast the head coach for the Washington State Cougars Football Team, Nick Rolovich, joins us. Nick shares his humbling journey of straying from his path and returning to his “why”. From that journey, Nick shares the lessons he now imparts on his individual athletes to mold a team dynamic that keeps everyone aligned and focused on the task at hand. Nick reminds us that within a team, every player will have their individual goals, of course, but when you step out onto the field or in the workplace, you play hard, smart and understand there is a responsibility to support the greater team. You are not just 11 individuals out on the field - you are stronger as a unit when you look out for your teammates or your coworkers.

Amy Berry, the CEO of Tahoe Fund, a non-profit organization that stewards environmental projects around the Lake Tahoe Basin, joins us on the Podcast. Amy discusses her transition from the bustling corporate world to the slow-paced, "plate-juggling" non-profit space. Amy gets vulnerable and shares her journey of learning her shortcomings as a leader through DISC Assessment, the importance of collaboration and setting aside your ego to get the task at hand accomplished. This podcast was recorded mid-May.   "The most important thing we can do as leaders is leave our ego at the door." - Amy Berry

Sue Purvis is back to discuss the messiness of Mindful Leadership. Like many, Sue has never really identified with the leader title. We all may not lead Fortune 500 companies or even manage a small team of 50 in a "designated leadership" role, but each and every day we must practice "self-leadership" and "active followership". Charlie and Sue discuss their own journeys of getting in the muck, knowing there is always more to learn and having the courage to stand proudly with your purpose and values. "We learn that our best is far better than we thought when we push ourselves. When we get out of our comfort zone, that is when the real work begins." - Charlie White

Molly Dahl is the author of Youth Positive as well as motivational speaker. Molly discusses her own journey of discovering mindfulness as a teacher and gives practical advice on how we can all work towards eradicating those regrettable emotional episodes through simple steps. Through all of the messiness and mucky water we can find along the way, Molly firmly believes the path to mindfulness is always worth the challenge and a feeling of complete freedom that comes when you surrender to this journey.   "When we can surrender our need to control and surrender to what the practice of mindfulness will do for you, your practice will get you there. There is a freedom that comes from surrendering." - Molly Dahl

Long-life adventurer and owner of Zion Guru, Jonathan Zambella, joins us to share his wisdom on how we can all apply sound decision making and mindfulness practices whether you're canyoneering or headed into the board room. Charlie and Jonathan discuss the messiness of leadership, and how those failures and imperfections are exactly what we need in order to handle and thrive in every type of scenario the universe hands us whether that is a pandemic or starting your own company.

Licensed marriage and family therapist and mindfulness and meditation teacher, Joree Rose from the Bay Area Mindfulness Center, joins us on the podcast today to discuss the importance of discovering your own mindfulness practice and flow. Whether you're dealing with cancer, sitting in traffic or now dealing with self-quarantine during a pandemic, mindfulness is now more important than ever. Mindfulness gives us the ability to respond and not to react.   "We all have time for really unskillful reactions, which means we all have time for mindful intentional responses. It takes no extra time out of your day to choose a different response." - Joree Rose

Today on the podcast we have the lovely Sara Schairer on who is the Founder of Compassion It - an organization on a mission to inspire compassionate actions and attitudes. Sara discuses how everyone benefits from compassion and how you can easily put this into action in 3 simple steps. Now that parents are home with their kids more, Sara offers tips on parenting with compassion amidst our new normal in the current pandemic times.   “Compassion doesn't mean that you are a doormat, or that people will walk all over you. Compassion takes a lot of courage, a lot of strength.” - Sara Schairer

Colin Supko, a US Navy Seal and entrepreneur, joins us for episode 7. Like most conversations these days, we dive into our new current realities amidst the pandemic. Colin and Charlie discuss sitting with the ugliness, but not letting it take over and the importance of letting compassion shine through. Focusing on service to others, tactics for coping with stress and prioritizing where your energy goes these days are all covered on today's podcast.

An educator, explorer and author, Sue Purvis has been traveling the world educating people on wilderness medicine and avalanche courses for 25 years. Sue and Charlie discuss the power of sitting in reflection and living simply so that joy doesn't come from an abundance of stuff, but comes from within. Hear Sue's incredible adventures from around the globe and how those experiences have helped her become a Mindful Leader.

Tony Lillios is a serial (and recovering) entrepreneur now turned Executive Coach and he joins us on the podcast for episode 5. Tony discusses his own journey of compartmentalization with work, personal life and athletics and how he ended up shifting towards a "work life integration" approach that he uses daily and with his clients.   "You will always have limited effectiveness if you're holding back and not fully showing up to your life." - Tony Lillos

Brian Williams started Think Kindness, a non-profit organization that inspires measurable acts of kindness at schools and communities around the world. Founded in 2007, they are actively working with 180 schools nationwide to inspire kindness and combat the unfortunate effects of bullying that is prevalent in our schools today. Charlie and Brian discuss the challenges of leadership, discovering your purpose and how we can actively and cognitively perform small acts of kindness to have a big impact on, not only our overall wellbeing, but those on the receiving end as well.   "How we invest in our lives, our skills and our passions is the greatest legacy we can leave." - Brian Williams, Found of Think Kindness

A self proclaimed Steward of Enthusiasm, Rosie Hackett, is a professor who leads the Outdoor Leadership Program at Sierra Nevada University in Incline Village, NV. Rosie discusses how you take self awareness, team awareness and environmental awareness (elements of her curriculum) and tie that into outdoor education and adventure. Rosie teaches us we don't have to summit Everest to gain the values of mindfulness and that learning happens with how to be successful and survive outdoors, but that these skills can be applied to our every day lives.   "I've realized that the best leader is the one that is barely known. At the end, I hope that my students own these lessons and leadership qualities as their own. They don't even realize that you were the one facilitating it." - Rosie Hackett, Professor at Sierra Nevada University.

Greg Skidmore is the Founder and President of Belpointe Asset Management. Within the company, his role includes leading and developing portfolio managers and wealth advisors with mindfulness practices deeply ingrained in his proprietary process. Greg discusses his principles of training your mind through a simple 3 step process of clearing your mind, resetting your brain chemistry and self soothing. Life delivers us a lot of opportunities to become more resilient and our conversation with Greg provides tips on how best to become a stronger, better version of ourselves.   "Just like we need to go to the gym to train our bodies and how we go outside with purpose to use them, we have to do the same thing with our minds. We have to train our minds to become more resilient to discomfort." - Greg Skidmore, Founder and President of Belpointe Asset Management

Nick Visconti, professional snowboarder turned entrepreneur, joins us on our first ever Mindful Leadership podcast. Nick discusses why confidence, grit and tenacity are the keys to entrepreneurship. Hear Nick's personal journey of how leaning into mindfulness, facing unpleasant truths and really taking care of himself has helped him become a better leader for his team.   "The only way I can lead others is if I take care of myself along the way." - Nick Visconti, Owner of Drink Coffee Do Stuff