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Best podcasts about allison hare

Latest podcast episodes about allison hare

Little Left of Center Podcast
Dying for Sex with Executive Producer Nikki Boyer

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 49:53


What would you do if you were told you were dying?When Nikki Boyer's best friend, Molly, got a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, she didn't shut down—she blew her life wide open. And Nikki, an Emmy-winning producer and host, recorded all of it.In this episode, we talk about Dying for Sex—the wildly popular Wondery podcast and now Hulu series starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate. But this is way more than a story about death and sex. It's about reclaiming your voice, healing old wounds, and choosing to fully live—even when the clock is ticking.We cover everything from kinky adventures to the kind of grief that cracks you open in the best way. Nikki's perspective on loss, friendship, intuition, and making space for joy will stay with you long after the episode ends.If you're craving deeper conversations, better friendships, or just a little more life in your life—this one's for you.

True Grit and Grace
From Idea to Impact: The Power of Podcasting with Allison Hare

True Grit and Grace

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 55:27


In this episode of the Amberly Lago Show, Amberly welcomes podcast launch strategist Allison Hare, a powerhouse in the podcasting world. With over 23 years of experience in corporate sales and marketing, Allison is dedicated to helping ambitious leaders not just launch podcasts but create impactful movements. She shares her expertise gained from working behind the scenes on some of the world's most beloved podcasts, as well as her journey with her own award-winning show, The Reinvention Room, which ranks in the top 1.5 percent of podcasts. Allison emphasizes the importance of clarity, purpose, and strategy in podcasting, making this episode a must-listen for anyone dreaming of launching their own show. Tune in for valuable insights and actionable tips to elevate your podcasting game! Follow Allison Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allison__hare/?igsh=MWpiYnN0eXl5MXRkZg%3D%3D# Website: http://allisonhare.com/ Thank you for joining us on The Amberly Lago Show: Stories of True Grit and Grace! If you find value in today's episode, don't forget to share the show with your friends and tap that subscribe button so you don't miss an episode!  If you are ready to leave your mark by discovering your message and sharing it with the world, you've come to the right place!! Let's work together to build your influence, your impact, and your income! Join the tribe you have been waiting for to activate your highest potential and live the life you deserve!  Get your copy of my book, Joy Through the Journey on Amazon with one click here: amazon.com Order here and get your FREE bonuses: go.amberlylago.com/joy Join the Joy Sparkers book club here: go.amberlylago.com/book-club Join the The Unstoppable Mastermind to start growing your personal brand and business: go.amberlylago.com  Head over to my website to join my newsletter and access free downloadable resources that can help you elevate your life, business, and relationships: amberlylago.com  Connect with me on Instagram: @amberlylagomotivation  Join the discussion on Facebook: @amberlylagospeaker 

Little Left of Center Podcast
Cult of Perfection: Ruby Franke, Mormon Culture, and Non-Mormon Utah Life

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 60:23


This episode is a deep cultural exploration of Ruby Franke, the Mormon mommy vlogger whose shocking story of child abuse captivated—and horrified—the world. Joined by mental wellness coach and Utah resident (and non-Mormon) Janelle Devlin, we're unpacking the disturbing Hulu docuseries Devil in the Family, discussing perfectionism, the powerful draw of cults, and what life is like as an outsider in the heart of Mormon country. If you're fascinated by the intersections of faith, social media fame, and human psychology, this conversation is a must-listen.Notable Timestamps:(02:15) Introduction to Ruby Franke and the Hulu docuseries(09:45) Mormon exceptionalism and the pressure to perform(21:30) The dark side of family vlogging and lack of child consent(34:00) Non-Mormon life in Utah and navigating local culture(47:15) Psychological insights into Ruby Franke's narcissism(59:00) Impact of social media on parenting and personal identity(1:15:30) "Jack Mormons" and cultural nuances in Utah(1:25:00) Is Kevin Franke guilty or brainwashed?Links & Resources:Connect with Janelle Devlin and learn more about her retreat: Instagram @DevlinWorldwideBook a FREE clarity call with Allison Hare: allisonhare.com/freecallHulu Docuseries: Devil in the Family Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.Sign up for the free Reinvention Roadmap weekly emailAllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
The Money Breakthrough You're One Bold Move Away From

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2025 52:00


"Your level of income will never exceed your level of self-worth." - Elyse ArcherMaking more money doesn't have to mean doing more.Elyse Archer was stuck in the endless hustle—working hard, playing by the rules, and hitting a ceiling she could not break. Until she made one decision that changed everything. Within six weeks, her yearly income became her monthly income.And she's handing you the exact shifts that made it happen.In this episode, you'll walk away with:

Little Left of Center Podcast
The Career Hack You Haven't Tried Yet with Erin Hatzikostas

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 39:14


You ever feel like you're doing all the “right” things at work—showing up, working your ass off, saying all the right things in meetings—yet you still feel invisible? Like success is just not happening the way it was supposed to?Enter: The 50% Rule. My guest today, Erin Hatzikostas, former CEO, bestselling author of books You Do You-ish and 50% Rule, and sought-after keynote speaker and executive coach, is breaking down how ditching half the advice you're given (yes, even from the experts) might just be the key to getting ahead without burning out.In this episode, we're talking about:✅ Why following the playbook is keeping you stuck✅ How to stand out without playing office politics✅ Why “just be yourself” is the worst career advice ever✅ The fastest way to make your work feel meaningful againIf you're tired of doing everything right and still feeling like something's missing, this episode is for you.Notable Timestamps02:00 | Why working harder isn't the answer08:30 | The 50% Rule—what it is & how to use it17:15 | How to get ahead without following the corporate script29:45 | Why energy (not effort) is the real game-changer42:00 | The tiny tweak that makes people actually listen to you at work54:30 | How to stop overthinking and take action today

Little Left of Center Podcast
Podcast Launch Secrets: Allison Hare's Success Blueprint for Coaches & Experts (Rebroadcast from the Coaching Equation Podcast)

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 57:00


What if the world doesn't need another perfect podcast? In this episode of The Reinvention Room, Allison Hare shares her secrets to launching a meaningful, sustainable, and game-changing podcast. Featuring a conversation with Ryan Lang from The Coaching Equation podcast, this episode explores how podcasting can transform your business, build your personal brand, and create opportunities you didn't know existed.You'll learn:Why podcasting isn't as crowded as it seems—and the surprising stats to prove it.The biggest myths about starting a podcast (spoiler: technology isn't the hard part).How authenticity and imperfection are your greatest tools for success.The simple, step-by-step process to take your podcast idea from dream to reality.Resources Mentioned:Join the Podcast Launch Waitlist: www.profitablecoach.io/podcastlaunchDiscover Empire Partners - Helping coaches become profitable business ownersFollow Ryan Lang on The Coaching Equation Podcast.Schedule a free call with Allison re: your podcast and lifeConnect with Allison on Instagram @allison__hare.Take Action:If you've been waiting for the right time to start your podcast, this is it! Visit www.profitablecoach.io/podcastlaunch to sign up for the waitlist and turn your idea into something impactful. Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.Sign up for the free Reinvention Roadmap weekly emailAllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

The Coaching Equation
Podcast Launch Secrets: Allison Hare's Success Blueprint for Coaches & Experts

The Coaching Equation

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2025 55:17


Episode Highlights[00:00] Introducing Allison HareRyan welcomes Allison Hare, a podcast expert, award-winning podcaster, and longtime collaborator, as they discuss her journey from broadcasting aspirations to podcasting success.[02:52] Discovering the Power of VoiceAllison shares how she found her passion for podcasting and why helping others amplify their voices has become her mission.[10:26] Pursuing Dreams After SetbacksEncouragement for those revisiting shelved dreams, with Allison offering advice on rediscovering purpose and building a meaningful podcast.[18:31] Lessons From Five Years of PodcastingAllison reveals her biggest lessons, from embracing imperfections to crafting authentic content that connects deeply with audiences.[28:00] Authentic Connection Through PodcastingWhy podcasts are powerful tools for creating trust, building relationships, and engaging listeners in a meaningful way.[38:49] Busting Podcast MythsAllison dispels common misconceptions about the podcasting world, emphasizing its untapped potential for coaches and experts.[45:08] Introducing the Podcast Launch ProgramRyan and Allison unveil their Podcast Launch Program, a step-by-step guide designed to help coaches and experts successfully launch their podcasts with clarity, connection, and confidence.Links Mentioned:Podcast Launch Program Waitlist: Join the waitlist at www.profitablecoach.io/podcastlaunch

Little Left of Center Podcast
From Woo to Whoa: Manifestation That Actually Works with Jen Mazer

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 47:43


What if manifestation wasn't just a trending buzzword but a practical tool for redesigning your life? In this episode of The Reinvention Room, Allison Hare sits down with Jen Mazer, affectionately known as the “Queen of Manifestation.” Together, they unravel the myths around manifestation, dive into its science, and explore how intuition and action play a pivotal role in achieving your highest potential.Jen shares her personal journey, from living rent-free in NYC for 10 years to starting a green school in Africa, offering inspiring stories and actionable tips to manifest your desires. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, this episode will leave you with practical tools to shift your mindset, embrace obstacles, and create a life that feels expansive and intentional.What You'll Learn:Why mainstream manifestation myths miss the markThe surprising role of obstacles in the manifestation processHow to focus on feelings over specific outcomesTools to harness intuition and co-create your lifeHow to shift from “victim” to “participant” in your journeyNotable Timestamps:[03:15] – The pitfalls of starting the year strong but losing momentum when obstacles arise.[06:30] – Why vision boards are the "preschool" of manifestation—and what works better.[11:45] – Jen's story of living rent-free in NYC for 10 years and how it shaped her manifestation journey.[16:20] – The science behind manifestation: how your imagination taps into intuition.[21:10] – Overcoming skepticism: the difference between intuition and wishful thinking.[28:50] – The importance of focusing on feelings, not specifics, to shift your vibration.[33:35] – How obstacles are an essential part of the manifestation process—and why they often signal you're close.[41:00] – Practical tools to elevate your mindset and intuition starting today.[46:15] – Manifestation myths debunked: Why “fake it till you make it” is misunderstood.[52:40] – How Jen turned a simple book idea into a Simon & Schuster deal—and what it taught her about co-creation.Resources Mentioned:Jen Mazer's Website: http://www.queenofmanifestation.com/Create a Life of Pure Magic GuideManifest 2025 WorkbookJen's book: Manifesting Made EasyThe board game SparkedJen's Manifestation Masters Program and Club Free guide: Create a Life of Pure MagicLinks:Connect with Jen: Queen of ManifestationJoin Allison's brainstorming session: Book a Call hereShare this episode with a friend who needs a mindset refresh! Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.Sign up for the free Reinvention Roadmap weekly emailAllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Don't Die - Controversial Netflix documentary deep dive!

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 40:04


n this episode of The Reinvention Room, Allison Hare and guest Danielle Laughlin dive into the provocative Netflix documentary Don't Die, chronicling Bryan Johnson's $2M-a-year mission to stop aging. This live, unscripted conversation explores the ethics of biohacking, the rigidity of Johnson's lifestyle, the cultural obsession with longevity, and the societal standards of aging for men and women. With sharp opinions and plenty of laughs, this episode will have you questioning everything you thought about living—and dying.Notable Timestamps0:00 – 1:45: Allison sets the stage with Bryan Johnson's background and the Don't Die documentary.1:46 – 6:30: Bryan Johnson's journey from suicidal tech entrepreneur to anti-aging pioneer.6:31 – 12:00: Johnson's strict protocol: Scheduled sex, 11 a.m. dinners, and other wild dating rules.12:01 – 19:45: Ethics of biohacking: Can you play God and still have a meaningful life?19:46 – 24:00: Is perfectionism killing joy? The dangers of rigidity in a hyper-measured life.24:01 – 30:20: Gendered perspectives: Why anti-aging is marketed as beauty for women but optimization for men.30:21 – 34:15: The cult of longevity: Connection and community in Johnson's movement.34:16 – 39:00: Reimagining aging: What could the future look like if we lived longer, healthier lives?39:01 – End: Visionary or narcissist? Final thoughts on Bryan Johnson and the anti-aging movement.Resources MentionedNetflix Documentary: Don't DieBook a free brainstorming call with Allison Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.Sign up for the free Reinvention Roadmap weekly emailAllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Reinvention Room TRAILER

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 1:41


Welcome to The Reinvention Room! I'm Allison Hare, and this is the podcast for high-achieving women like you who are ready to reimagine your life—without blowing it all up.We'll talk about the cultural forces that got us here, like why the trad wife trend is everywhere or how self-help culture keeps telling us we're broken (spoiler: you're not). With a mix of pop culture insights, real talk, and expert advice, let's create your own brand of freedom, take up more space, and design a life that actually fits—on your terms.If you've ever felt stuck, burned out, or like you've outgrown where you are, this is your spot to rethink everything. Hit subscribe and let's do this—because the problem isn't you. You're just in the wrong room.Oh, and the more you talk about these groundbreaking conversations in your own circles, the more our lives change for the better! Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.Sign up for the free Reinvention Roadmap weekly emailAllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Scared Confident
Strategies to avoid burnout with Allison Hare

Scared Confident

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 41:24


Are you ready to turn burnout into a breakthrough? In this episode, Tiffany talks with Allison Hare about the connection between burnout and not being aligned with your personal values. By sharing her personal story of struggling with burnout, Allison shares a transformative framework designed to energize, create margin in your schedule, and redesign life through creative experiments. Tune in if you want to learn how to make essential changes without giving up on your dreams. If you're looking for more advice on how to achieve balance in a two-career home, sign up for Tiffany's newsletter where she shares tips, how-to's and encouragement for those living a Life of And. Connect with Allison LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonhare Website: https://allisonhare.com/ Resources Free PDF download for finding what lights you up: https://allisonhare.com/energy Late Learner Podcast: https://podcast.allisonhare.com/podcast Timestamps: [00:00] Intro [04:30] Burnout and misalignment [05:24] Gaining the confidence to explore [06:34] Finding what lights you up [18:01] A framework for avoiding burnout [26:05] How Allison navigated family dynamics [39:05] Reflecting on positive memories [40:24] Positive illusions in relationships

Little Left of Center Podcast
Piece by Piece: a colorful solo TWIST from the new film about Pharrell Williams

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 41:51


Pharrell Williams' new biopic Piece by Piece was just released - and it got me thinking that there are three MASSIVE lessons learned that I needed to tackle some serious convention-breaking norms in a very fun and colorful way. I can't wait for you to hear this one. I've been really experimenting with new formats and sharing some big confessions of why this has been so hard and why I think it might be harder than it needs to be for you, too.Notable Timestamps:[00:01:44] Cultural deep dive on innovation.[00:07:22] Synesthesia and creativity in music.[00:09:00] Feeling different as a child.[00:15:12] Outgrowing your emotional container.[00:20:51] Shifting podcast format and focus.[00:24:57] Curiosity as a key trait.[00:27:27] The burden of being a fixer.[00:30:41] Break up with hard.[00:38:49] Creative experimentation for personal growth.Resources mentioned:Piece by Piece Official Trailer (big thank you for the audio clips)Get your free Reinvention Roadmap delivered weekly to your inboxBook a free 1:1 reinvention strategy call with meDownload your free energy guide (BOOM!) Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.Sign up for the free Reinvention Roadmap weekly emailAllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Instant Impact with Elyse Archer
353 - Reinventing Yourself After 40 with Allison Hare

Instant Impact with Elyse Archer

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 40:47


Today, I get to bring you an absolutely phenomenal woman and human being. I'm interviewing one of our very first graduates of the $10K Club and it's incredible to hear her story and learn about what she has built in just a few short years.   Allison Hare is a former corporate sales executive who left the corporate world to coach women - especially high-performing working moms - to redesign their best lives without burnout. As an executive consultant specializing in sales, personal branding, podcast coaching, marketing, and personal transition strategy, she's the host of the award-winning, top 1.5% globally ranked podcast, Late Learner and a keynote speaker. She founded the Effective Collective membership designed to connect high-performing women that want to powerfully live, work, and play in full alignment. Show Notes: [2:13] - Allison looks back on feeling the pull to work with Elyse and how it changed her life. [3:53] - It's incredible to see someone put aside the reasons not to and start reinventing themselves. [4:56] - Allison shares what she learned as a child that impacted her career in later years. She explains her background and how she found herself in corporate sales. [7:12] - She suppressed her creative side to choose what she thought would bring her financial stability. [9:30] - It got to a point where she could feel that things were out of alignment. She had to get to the bottom of burnout. [11:04] - Giving a platform to the thing that lights you up the most opens up everything. [12:03] - For many people, it is somewhere around mid-life where they feel the pull to make a big shift. [14:09] - Where do we even start? It can be scary to make big changes, especially “later” in life. [15:48] - There is grief that comes with outgrowing the familiar. [16:53] - Grieving needs to be normalized. Pain is the price of evolution. [19:09] - There is a misconception and belief that many people have that they are not good enough. [20:52] - Allison describes the framework called Boom, Room, and Bloom. [24:57] - Give yourself some room to experiment but think of it like a playground. [27:01] - Limiting beliefs will hold so many back. Allison explains how she reconciled this within herself. [28:19] - Success is a patchwork of creativity and accomplishment that are all in alignment. [31:41] - We don't have to wait for the event that knocks us down so hard and so far to make a change. [34:54] - Life is the sum of your relationships, not your achievements. When you invest in the relationships that you want to cultivate, life gets richer. [36:28] - The wrong people may derail you. [38:25] - Check out the resources on Allison's website as well as her podcast at https://go.allisonhare.com/energy    Links and Resources: Instagram  |  LinkedIn  |  YouTube She Sells with Elyse Archer Home Page Abundance Mini Course Join the $10K Club Apply for the $50K Club Mastermind Money Mindset Live Event  

Little Left of Center Podcast
Rethinking Perfectionism: What type are you with Katherine Morgan Schafler Replay

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2024 72:18


Where are my fellow control freaks? Such an interesting and way more helpful perspective to rethink and redefine perfectionism. You know when you read a book and it's so groundbreaking and helpful, you can't help but tell all your friends, post about it? Well, I was the recipient of essentially being attacked on all sides that I needed to read this award-winning book, The Perfectionists' Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler. Katherine is a seasoned psychotherapist and former in-house therapist for Google, with a BA in psychology from Berkeley and 2 masters from Columbia University and I've got her incredibly refreshing and game-changing approach broken down today. We talk about self-punishment vs. discipline. We talk about adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism and why restoration and resting feels like failure to perfectionists - and my favorite, control vs. power. I really am super excited for you to hear it and can't wait to hear what type of perfectionist are you!Timestamps:[00:10:01] Redefining Perfectionism[00:13:14] Gender bias in language.[00:17:22] Perfectionism and power seeking.[00:23:10] Five types of perfectionism.[00:27:21] Parisian Perfectionists and Relationships.[00:31:26] Knowing your type of perfectionism and collaborating with others[00:34:10] Self-worth and self-esteem.[00:39:03] Rethinking self-punishment and discipline.[00:42:14] Emotional education and self-compassion.[00:50:07] Resisting rest and restoration[00:54:12] Restoring and emptying out.[00:58:37] The Power of Play.[01:02:07] Presence and Power.[01:07:37] Gray rocking techniqueKatherine Morgan Schafler - Guest Links:The Perfectionists Guide to Losing Control - A Path to Peace and PowerWhat kind of Perfectionist are you? Take the QuizKatherine Morgan Schafler - IGReferences mentioned:Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact Research Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

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Little Left of Center Podcast
Stereotypes, social identities, and belonging with Dr. Jay Van Bavel

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 48:08


Allison continues her series on belonging, talking to Dr. Jay Van Bavel about social identities, stereotypes, and exploring the truth behind our deep need to belong. How do we identify with others? What groups do feel safe with and which ones are considered threats? These are all questions that are important to our lives, our views on the world around us and our own views about our ourselves. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:Social identitiesPolitical identitiesThe impact of feeling excludedAre our thoughts really autonomous?The "7 Days Adventists" experimentStereotypes: a double-edged swordTIMESTAMPS:[00:03:40] Influence of social groups.[00:06:38] Social identity concept explained.[00:11:08] The power of social groups.[00:13:58] Political partisanship and biological predisposition.[00:17:24] The power of linguistics.[00:20:43] Cult-like dynamics in organizations.[00:22:49] False beliefs in cults.[00:27:35] Stereotyping in the political realm.[00:29:15] Finding common ground for interaction.[00:32:10] Stinky clothes experiment.[00:36:15] Psychological safety in teams.[00:39:25] Political identity affecting beliefs.[00:41:55] Thanksgiving dinner polarization impact.[00:46:37] The Power of Us.GUESTS LINKS:Dr. Jay's websiteThe Power of Us bookFollow Dr. Jay on Twitter Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Psychology of How Minds Change with David McRaney Replay

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2024 80:20


Allison talks with author and researcher David McRaney about the nature of changing minds and how to get through to someone who seemingly won't bend their beliefs.EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:What happens in our brains when we change our mindHow opposite opinions can connectWhat to do when you want to change someone's mindDifference between attitude, beliefs and valuesPersuasion techniquesImpact of social identities in changing mindsSHOW LINKS:Visit David McRaney's websiteFollow David on Instagram  Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
School is IN! Can you raise your kids like Stranger Things? with Cindy Robinson (replay)

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2024 55:30


What if you rewound the parenting clock back to the 80's TODAY? A recent article has gone viral about a healthier universe not only for our kids, but for us as parents if we adopted the "let go of the reins" and let the kids rule their world. Our favorite unconventional, yet surprisingly logical (and always right when I try her methods IRL) parent and teen coach is back, Cindy Robinson, for us to battle it all out and consider an alternative approach.Timestamps:[00:01:39] Old School Parenting Approach.[00:06:03] Parenting in Stranger Things era.[00:08:29] TV show creators' movie inspirations.[00:12:49] A Stranger Things Childhood.[00:16:23] Online grooming and sex trafficking.[00:21:06] Teaching independence to kids.[00:24:46] Safety plans for children.[00:29:31] The importance of making mistakes.[00:33:38] Childhood adventures and mischief.[00:36:19] Teenagers making poor decisions.[00:41:15] Free range childhood.[00:42:23] Conscious parenting journey.[00:47:24] Mourning lost potential in children.[00:52:30] Maya Hawke & shrinking character list.[00:54:16] Parenting tips for mental health.Cindy Robinson's Links:WebsiteIGResources mentioned:Sign up for the Allison's weekly newsletter here. https://allisonhare.com/blogSchedule your free 1:1 brainstorm strategy call here: https://allisonhare.com/schedule Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Disrupting an industry - groundbreaking photographer Jeremy Cowart

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2024 37:42


When you get your picture taken, you probably think about being happy, polished, put together, you at your best self. You might even groan at the thought of getting new obligatory head shots for work or LinkedIn or social media or even have some stress over how you look for something celebratory like a graduation or wedding. But what if you got your picture taken when you were at your very lowest? Not to wallow in it or be really depressing, but to capture your strength and essence and a moment in time that probably will reshape you forever. Today's guest is world-famous celebrity photographer, inventor, and innovator, Jeremy Cowart. Huffington Post has named him “the most influential photographer on the internet.” He's photographed Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, and some of the biggest names on the planet blending the most futuristic and groundbreaking technology to capture moments…in a minute. And now he's made his process available to the public and it is so innovative, groundbreaking, genius, and not to mention, completing moving - I couldn't wait to bring this perspective-shifting conversation to you about disrupting an industry, innovating, making a living as a creative, and relentless learning with Jeremy Cowart.Timestamps:00:00:01 - Introduction to Late Learner Podcast00:00:12 - Mission and Purpose of the Podcast00:00:23 - Challenging Outdated Norms00:00:33 - Topic of the Day: Photography at Your Lowest00:01:05 - Introducing Jeremy Cowart00:01:37 - Jeremy Cowart's Achievements00:02:10 - Jeremy's Innovative Photography Process00:02:22 - Relentless Learning and Curiosity00:02:32 - Jeremy's 60-Second Portraits00:03:06 - Sharing the Episode with Creatives00:03:16 - Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (STUFF)00:04:10 - Beginning of the Interview with Jeremy Cowart00:04:26 - Jeremy's Innovation and Daily Creativity00:05:01 - Working with the Public vs. Big Clients00:05:14 - The Portrait Lab: Origin and Process00:05:31 - Evolution of the 60-Second Photo Shoot00:06:02 - Business Model and Workflow00:07:11 - Disrupting the Photography Industry00:07:22 - Building New Systems and Workflows00:07:54 - Handling Big Ideas and Innovation00:08:16 - Risk-Taking and Overcoming Challenges00:09:08 - Personal Challenges and Overcoming Adversity00:10:11 - The Origin of "I Am Possible"00:10:51 - Aptitude Tests and Self-Perception00:11:43 - Humanitarian Work and Celebrity Projects00:12:04 - Managing Creative Ideas and ADHD00:12:32 - Pursuing and Evaluating Ideas00:13:34 - Overcoming Overwhelm and Starting New Projects00:14:16 - Handling Overwhelming Ideas00:14:35 - The Purpose Hotel: Concept and Journey00:15:42 - Social Good and Market Fatigue00:16:36 - Pivoting the Purpose Hotel Concept00:17:35 - Blending Past, Present, and Future in Photography00:18:19 - Capturing Essence in Portraits00:18:34 - Emotional Reactions to the Portrait Process00:19:06 - Unique Aspects of Jeremy's Work00:20:35 - Common Client Concerns in Portrait Photography00:21:04 - Clients Flying in for 60-Second Portraits00:21:53 - The Deeper Meaning of Portraits00:22:27 - Capturing Life's Highs and Lows00:23:00 - The Story of Dukes of Hazzard's John Schneider's Viral Portrait Session00:24:26 - The Importance of Documenting All Seasons of Life00:25:16 - Trust and Vulnerability in Photography00:27:33 - Challenges of Freelance Creative Work00:28:17 - Embracing AI in Photography00:29:00 - Love-Hate Relationship with AI00:29:41 - Using AI as a Tool in Photography00:30:03 - Concerns About AI in the Creative Industry00:30:57 - The Future of Photography and AI00:31:46 - Collaboration and Sharing Knowledge00:32:35 - The Importance of Continuous Learning00:33:08 - Keeping the Photography Process Fresh00:33:59 - Customizing and Personalizing Photo Shoots00:34:31 - Themed Days at the Portrait Lab00:35:15 - The Impact of Creativity on Family00:36:03 - Encouragement to Book a Session with Jeremy00:36:35 - Moving Towards Goals and Dreams Jeremy Cowart's Links:InstagramWebsiteResources Mentioned:Schedule a free 1:1 Brainstorming CallSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (STUFF) Source  Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
The Matriarchy [Special Episode Replay]

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 21:54


My mother died on June 11, 2021. On the 3rd anniversary of her passing, I am re-releasing the most personal episode I've ever done that captured the moment and the biggest life lessons I learned in her last 6 months.Also, I did a follow-up episode with Kris Jones after the passing of her mom where we discussed how complicated relationships are with our moms. You can listen here.xo,Allison Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
3 ways to enjoy summer when you're burned out

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 29:47


Work + summer + vacations + kids + pool trips + parties + camps + + + + aaaaahhhh! Summer is a LOT of work! I don't want you to miss the best parts of it by being too depleted to actually restore.You've done everything to make sure your kids have all the best moments this summer - but in the meantime, you're missing ALL the moments because you are so overloaded. In this episode of Late Learner, here are 3 non-obvious strategies to sloooow down summer and make it lassssst!Resources Mentioned:Schedule a free 1:1 Brainstorming CallFREE fun idea worksheet for more energy and best memoriesSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (STUFF) source Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Why High Performers Struggle with Relationships with Jason VanRuler

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2024 36:19


Why do high performers seem to struggle with their personal relationships? Our guest today is Jason VanRuler, a licensed therapist and author of "Get Past Your Past." Jason provides eye-opening insights into why high performers often struggle with personal relationships. He explains that while high performers excel in business by applying certain success strategies, these same strategies can fail in personal relationships. Jason emphasizes the importance of vulnerability, identifying safe people, isolation vs. self-isolation, and the need for intentional and consistent relationships (and grieving the ones that no longer fit).We discuss the concept of "max awareness" in therapy, where people are more aware of their issues but often fail to take actionable steps to improve their relationships.Notable Timestamps:[00:02:42] Relationships for high performers.[00:06:40] The impact of self-isolation.[00:09:16] Seeking healing versus seeking comfort.[00:11:55] Three Levels of vulnerability.[00:15:02] Deep conversations at parties.[00:19:15] Evolving friendships in midlife.[00:28:34] Vulnerability in relationships.[00:29:17] Love shouldn't be a secret.[00:34:23] Redefining values for happiness.Jason VanRuler Links:InstagramGet Past Your Past BookWebsiteResources Mentioned:Schedule a free 1:1 Brainstorming CallInterested in starting a podcast? Schedule a free 15 minute call to discussSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (STUFF) source  Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
To Podcast or NOT to Podcast: when is it a dumb idea?

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2024 30:13


Podcasting is great and all but it's NOT for everyone. Have you been on the fence about starting yours? Or started and got stuck or overwhelmed along the way? I put together 3 major reasons NOT to podcast so you can be clear either way and move ON or move FORWARD. Timestamps:00:00:35 - The Appeal of Starting a Podcast00:01:59 - Podcasting's Growth and Potential00:02:53 - Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (The Good S.T.U.F.F)00:04:28 - Why podcasting might be a DUMB idea00:05:12 - Podcasting's Accessibility and Popularity00:06:16 - The Importance of Consistency in Podcasting00:09:16 - Personal Journey and Motivation for Podcasting00:12:29 - Monetization Strategies for Podcasts00:16:35 - Realistic Expectations for Podcast Monetization00:19:09 - Using Podcast as a Marketing Tool00:22:12 - Strategic Planning for Podcast Success00:24:19 - Revamping and Offering Podcast Coaching00:27:19 - Invitation to Join Podcast Coaching ProgramResources Mentioned:Schedule a free 1:1 Discovery CallInterested in starting a podcast? Schedule a free 15 minute call to discussSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (STUFF) source  Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Moms in Charge: Redefining Motherhood & Community with Boss Mom's Dana Malstaff

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2024 50:27


Sheesh! As moms who are juggling our families, our selves, our businesses, and everything else under the sun, the state of motherhood is shifting in a new way. My guest, Dana Malstaff, founder of the big and beloved Boss Mom community, podcast, book, and business has a very unique perspective that will change everything for you.Building a community of support (and joining communities that just feel like a big warm hug)  involves several key elements. Dana emphasizes the importance of facilitation, a shared vision of the future, and a sense of belonging within a community.Notable Timestamps:[00:01:29] Importance of support systems.[00:15:38] Community and belonging among mothers.[00:20:31] Building Engaging Online Communities.[00:21:42] Rethinking female independence and motherhood.[00:25:33] The pursuit of money vs. self-development.[00:33:29] Unity in gender roles.[00:36:19] The desire to be useful. (this was WHOA!)[00:41:28] Evolving views on parenting.[00:44:39] Embracing aging with confidence.[00:47:23] Mom empowerment and entrepreneurship.[00:49:38] Lifestyle change and burnout.Dana Malstaff and BossMom Links:InstagramBoss Mom+ CommunityBoss Mom WebsiteResources Mentioned:Schedule a free 1:1 Discovery CallInterested in starting a podcast? Schedule a free 15 minute call to discussSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (STUFF) source Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
A new social media strategy for Gen X with Chelsea Peitz

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 42:56


Social media for Gen X? More heart and humanity, less hacks and hustle? YES PLEASE! Chelsea Peitz is my guest today and she's flipping everything we know about social media on its head and creating a MUCH more productive space to connect and create meaningful relationships. I can't wait for you to hear this! She's SO refreshing and real. Timestamps:[00:06:35] Social media challenges and fears.[00:10:11] Navigating social media algorithms.[00:12:52] Less contenting, more commenting.[00:16:01] Building relationships on social media.[00:20:42] Personal Branding in Social Media.[00:25:25] Quality over quantity in content.[00:29:43] Building Authentic Community[00:31:56] The TRUST framework.[00:34:23] The power of relatable storytelling.[00:38:47] Knowing your content goals.[00:42:07] Lifestyle change and self-care.Chelsea Peitz Links:InstagramWebsiteResources Mentioned:Schedule a free 1:1 Strategy Consult CallSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (STUFF) source Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Late diagnosis, high-functioning, high masking ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2024 60:08


Genius or ASD? In this episode of the Late Learner Podcast, Allison Hare and guest Cindy Robinson discuss being diagnosed later in life with ADHD and ASD. We explore topics like high masking, setting the record straight on why we shouldn't say high or low functioning, and as always, bringing a fresh perspective. We are challenging old paradigms and bringing practical advice for late learners navigating ADHD and ASD diagnoses later in life.Timestamps:[00:03:09] Undiagnosed cases of autism spectrum.[00:05:30] High masking in neurodiversity.[00:08:42] Understanding neurotypes.[00:14:53] Masking and deficits identification.[00:17:04] Getting diagnosed with autism.[00:23:34] Identity and self-discovery.[00:26:17] Masking and feeling like a fraud.[00:30:48] Unmasking complexities in adulthood.[00:36:42] Intelligence and autism correlation.[00:37:25] Prioritizing internal functioning over productivity.[00:42:33] Accommodations for high masking individuals.[00:46:13] Embracing multi-dimensional thinking.[00:49:24] Embracing natural rhythms.[00:53:40] Evolution of creative expression.[00:57:20] Hyper fixation on human emotion.Cindy Robinson's Links:Instagram - it's hilariousWebsiteBright Girl, Lacks Focus - Cindy's neurodivergent memoirResources Mentioned:Schedule a free 1:1 Strategy Consult CallSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (STUFF) source  Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
To cut or not to cut: Plastic surgery and culture with Dr. Louis DeJoseph

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2024 33:40


What do you do when you look in the mirror and gravity has stricken your once very youthful high and tight face? Not gonna lie - it's a beeeyach. It can really mess with you. And it's no secret that our society for centuries and centuries has put premium value on youth as a moral imperative to beauty. And wherever you may stand on plastic surgery, fillers, injections - it can also make a world of positive difference when done right and for the right reasons. So the question is - to cut or not to cut - and today, I got one of my favorite people ever on the podcast to unpack some of the beauty trends, understanding when it makes sense for surgery or less invasive options, what are some of the less effective trends that have really good marketing, how to find the right surgeon for you, and social commentary. Today's guest is Dr. Louis DeJoseph, TRIPLE board certified award-winning renowned facial plastic surgeon based out of Atlanta. He is a Castle Connolly Top Doctor, voted Best Rhinoplasty Surgeon by Best Self, Best Facial Plastic Surgeon by Jezebel Magazine and featured in the Atlantan Magazine.Notable Timestamps:00:00:03 - Introduction to the Late Learner Podcast00:00:25 - Today's Topic: Aging and Beauty Standards00:00:46 - Societal Value on Youth and Beauty00:01:07 - To Cut or Not to Cut: Plastic Surgery Decisions00:01:28 - Demystifying Beauty Trends and Surgery00:02:01 - Introducing Dr. Louis DeJoseph00:02:44 - Fun Fact: Top Beauty Tips to Boost Mood00:04:04 - The Importance of Specialization in Facial Surgery00:05:55 - Dr. DeJoseph's Background and Passion for Facial Anatomy00:07:30 - Natural Approaches in Facial Plastic Surgery00:08:01 - Trends in Non-Invasive Treatments and Shift Back to Surgery00:10:53 - Marketing Influence on Beauty Trends00:12:17 - Dr. DeJoseph's Practice Evolution and Patient Observations00:15:06 - The Zoom Boom in Plastic Surgery00:17:15 - The Great Deflation: Dissolving Fillers00:18:03 - The Longevity of Filler Results00:21:31 - Choosing the Right Surgeon and Injector00:24:12 - Managing Patient Expectations and Obsessions00:27:17 - Dr. DeJoseph's Personal Interests and Fellowship Program00:29:08 - Marketing Trends and Trickery in Plastic Surgery00:32:02 - Learning More About Dr. DeJoseph and Premier ImageDr. Louis DeJoseph's Links:Instagram - Premier ImageInstagramPremier Image Cosmetic and Laser SurgeryResources Mentioned:Schedule a free 1:1 Breakthrough CallSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact (STUFF) sourceBe sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff. Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Better Together: 5 Uncommon Love Tips for a rock solid relationship

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2024 27:52


Everything we've been taught about relationships is totally outdated and can even create more unnecessary shame. Host Allison Hare shares relationship secrets that are not commonly known and discusses how they can work like magic. This episode is a powerful guidebook for those looking to revive their relationship or set a totally new standard for a rock-solid partnership.Timestamps:00:00:38 - Valentine's Day and relationship Expectations00:01:10 - Relationship Struggles and Divorce00:02:02 - Relationship Secrets and Advice00:02:46 - Focus on Home Life Over Career00:04:33 - Allison's Relationship Pride00:05:07 - Sharing Relationship Insights00:06:12 - Challenging Conventional Wisdom00:07:15 - Cringe Culture Fun Fact00:08:19 - Allison's Dating History00:09:02 - Undercurrent of Unworthiness00:09:44 - Marrying Chris: The Best Decision00:10:07 - Five Non-Obvious Relationship Practices00:10:39 - How Well You Fight Matters00:13:16 - Positive Illusions in Relationships00:15:26 - Prioritizing Your Partner's Needs00:19:14 - Avoiding Public Trash Talk00:20:51 - The Role of Sarcasm00:23:41 - Bonus Relationship Tip00:25:07 - Strengthening Home Life Foundation00:26:01 - Invitation for a Free Exploratory Call00:27:07 - Free Energy Boost Worksheet OfferResources mentioned:Surprisingly True Useful Fun FactFighting Well ResearchThe Science Behind Happy Relationships Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

The Boss Mom Podcast - Business Strategy - Work / Life Balance - -Digital Marketing - Content Strategy
Attract the Energy You Want: How to Build a Circle That Elevates You w/Allison Hare

The Boss Mom Podcast - Business Strategy - Work / Life Balance - -Digital Marketing - Content Strategy

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2024 42:10


As women, we often find ourselves woven into the company of people who may not be of our choosing. The energy they bring, their perspectives, and their influence can significantly impact our well-being.   But what happens when we crave control over the energies we absorb, and want a circle of individuals who truly align with our essence and aspirations?   As strong and capable women, the question remains: how do we take charge of the energies we invite into our lives? How do we say no to things that don't serve us?   In this episode personal coach for professional mothers and keynote speaker Allison Hare joins me to talk about finding people who we are comfortable with, why we should surround ourselves with people who give us energy as well as how to find people who align with our values.   We want to live in a world where every woman feels whole. -Dana Malstaff   3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode   -Find your tribe When we find our tribe, we get comfortable and don't have to hide who we are. How does this help us protect the energy around ourselves?   -Coaches vs. therapists Why do some people prefer coaches over therapists?   -Laying the armor down What does it look like to lay the armor down as a strong woman and find someone we can open up to and trust?   Guest Bio   Allison Hare is the former sales executive turned lifestyle entrepreneur. She's the host of the award-winning, top 1.5% globally ranked podcast, Late Learner and a personal coach for professional mothers and a keynote speaker.   40 Ways to Add Energy to Your Day Guide - https://allisonhare.com/energy Private coaching/mastermind: https://allisonhare.com Follow Allison on Instagram @allison__hare  Find Allison on LinkedIn @Allison Hare  Find Allison on Facebook Allison Hare  Listen to Allison's podcast https://youtube.com/@latelearner   

Little Left of Center Podcast
Rethinking Perfectionism: what kind are you? Katherine Morgan Schafler

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2024 72:18


Where are my fellow control freaks? Such an interesting and way more helpful perspective to rethink and redefine perfectionism. You know when you read a book and it's so groundbreaking and helpful, you can't help but tell all your friends, post about it? Well, I was the recipient of essentially being attacked on all sides that I needed to read this award-winning book, The Perfectionists' Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler. Katherine is a seasoned psychotherapist and former in-house therapist for Google, with a BA in psychology from Berkeley and 2 masters from Columbia University and I've got her incredibly refreshing and game-changing approach broken down today. We talk about self-punishment vs. discipline. We talk about adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism and why restoration and resting feels like failure to perfectionists - and my favorite, control vs. power. I really am super excited for you to hear it and can't wait to hear what type of perfectionist are you!Timestamps:[00:10:01] Redefining Perfectionism[00:13:14] Gender bias in language.[00:17:22] Perfectionism and power seeking.[00:23:10] Five types of perfectionism.[00:27:21] Parisian Perfectionists and Relationships.[00:31:26] Knowing your type of perfectionism and collaborating with others[00:34:10] Self-worth and self-esteem.[00:39:03] Rethinking self-punishment and discipline.[00:42:14] Emotional education and self-compassion.[00:50:07] Resisting rest and restoration[00:54:12] Restoring and emptying out.[00:58:37] The Power of Play.[01:02:07] Presence and Power.[01:07:37] Gray rocking techniqueKatherine Morgan Schafler - Guest Links:The Perfectionists Guide to Losing Control - A Path to Peace and PowerWhat kind of Perfectionist are you? Take the QuizKatherine Morgan Schafler - IGReferences mentioned:Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact Research Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

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Little Left of Center Podcast
EP203: Do Gen X women get the worst of both worlds? Dr. Whitney of Modern Mommy Doc

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2024 45:29


In this episode of the Late Learner Podcast, host Allison Hare dives into the topic of hustle culture and its connection to Generation X. She discusses an article she read about Gen X women getting the worst of both worlds and invites Dr. Whitney Casares, also known as Modern Mommy Doc, to share her insights on the subject. Dr. Casares, a Stanford-trained pediatrician and wellness expert, offers practical advice on how to stop overfunctioning and embrace a healthier, balanced lifestyle. The episode also includes a fun fact about Americans ditching resolutions and an invitation to join a New Year Challenge for small, attainable goals. In this episode of the Late Learner Podcast, host Allison Hare dives into the topic of hustle culture and its connection to Generation X. She discusses an article she read about Gen X women getting the worst of both worlds and invites Dr. Whitney Casares, also known as Modern Mommy Doc, to share her insights on the subject. Dr. Casares, a Stanford-trained pediatrician and wellness expert, offers practical advice on how to stop overfunctioning and embrace a healthier, balanced lifestyle. The episode also includes a fun fact about Americans ditching resolutions and an invitation to join a New Year Challenge for small, attainable goals.Timestamps:[00:00:04] Hustle culture and Generation X.[00:04:48] The pressures on Gen X women.[00:08:24] Struggles of balancing expectations.[00:12:31] Setting stronger self boundaries.[00:14:49] Building a centered vision.[00:18:42] Control and response to adversity.[00:22:58] Shifting the hustle culture paradigm.[00:24:34] Practice of self-acceptance and self-care.[00:29:30] Female friendships and mental health.[00:34:47] Opting out of traditional circles.[00:35:55] Different people, different needs.[00:39:17] Mental health and generational change.[00:42:54] Pre-order bonuses and app.Guest Links for Dr. Whitney Casares (Modern Mommy Doc):InstagramWebsiteDoing it All - Stop Overfunctioning and become the mom and person you were meant to be References mentioned:NEW New Year Challenge - Join us and get 31 free ideas to kick off the year RIGHT!AllisonHare.com - You actually WANT to hang out here.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Launch Your Podcast in 8 weeks BETA - For more info, text PODCAST to 404.999.1418 or email allison@allisonhare.com with PODCAST in the subject lineSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact Research Be sure to rate, review, and follow this podcast on your player and also, connect with me IRL for more goodness and life-changing stuff.AllisonHare.comFollow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Ambition, Motherhood, Bold Moves, and Balancing it All with Cherylanne Skolnicki

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 40:53


Women are in a moment right now. Juggling the hustle, high expectations, perimenopause, post-pandemic chaos, kids' hormones, changing relationships, work demands – it's overwhelming. Cherylanne Skolnicki, CEO, founder, and podcast host of Brilliant Balance, has the insights to help you masterfully balance it all.Timestamps:[00:01:20]The Good STUFF: Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact[00:07:07] Emotional disconnect and overwhelm.[00:08:09] Will someone ever rescue us?[00:13:00] How to do less for higher return[00:15:13] The crushing weight of expectations and Choices[00:23:31] Quitting job to pursue passion.[00:30:53] Creative experiments[00:34:22] How to reframe overcoming Judgment[00:38:46] My thinking on this has evolved.Connect with Cherylanne Skolnicki:WebsitePodcastIGReferences mentioned:NEW WEBSITE IS HERE!Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!DOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Launch Your Podcast in 8 weeks BETA - For more info, text PODCAST to 404.999.1418 or email allison@allisonhare.com with PODCAST in the subject lineSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact ResearchALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - New and imptoved!Instagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
200 EPISODES! Exciting announcements and unexpected late learnings

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2023 34:09


In this episode of the Late Learner Podcast, host Allison Hare celebrates the milestone of reaching 200 episodes. She shares her journey from being a corporate executive to launching her own podcast and the lessons she's learned along the way. Allison encourages listeners to pursue their passions and make a meaningful impact in the world. She also announces a beta case study program for aspiring podcasters and invites listeners to check out her new website. References mentioned:NEW WEBSITE IS HERE!Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!Apply for the Effective Collective Mastermind - Mastermind for high-performing working momsDOWNLOAD the free PDF - 40 Simple Ways to Add Energy To Your Day- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!GET the Effectiveness Booster - Shift your priorities to what matters most in less than a minute!Launch Your Podcast in 8 weeks BETA - For more info, text PODCAST to 404.999.1418 or email allison@allisonhare.com with PODCAST in the subject lineSurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact ResearchALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - New and imptoved!Instagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Achieving Fantasy-Land Success (yes, seriously) with Jess Williamson

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2023 45:56


In this episode of the Late Learner Podcast, host Allison Hare explores the idea of refocusing on big, audacious goals, no matter your age or circumstance. She introduces Jess Williamson, a five-times entrepreneur and world-renowned business and mindset coach, who shares her insights on achieving wild success through fantasy land success, iconic leadership, and unrealistic goals. Allison encourages listeners to be bold and not wait for New Year's to start pursuing their dreams. Tune in for inspiration and practical advice on making your dreams a reality.Timestamps:[00:01:34] Wild success and unrealistic goals.[00:05:02] Fantasy land success.[00:09:53] How do you know if your goals that are too small?[00:12:30] Deep mindset shifts are crucial for success[00:13:23] Subconscious patterns and beliefs.[00:19:11] Wrestling with relatability[00:22:01] Hiding Success Creates Safety.[00:26:55] Sharing successes publicly.[00:31:06] Fantasyland goals and limiting beliefs.[00:36:14] Dreaming bigger without limits.[00:40:05] The problem with labeling hobbies as side hustles.[00:43:13] Embracing introversion as a superpower.Get in touch with Jess Williamson:WebsiteIGReferences mentioned:Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!Apply for the Effective Collective Mastermind - Mastermind for high-performing working momsLight Up List FREE DOWNLOAD- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Get on my email list These are the emails you can actually WANT to open. BTS on how I went from burnt-out to audaciously aligned and how you can do it, too!Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact ResearchCreating the Perfect Woman Article/Blog PostRejection Sensitive Episode with Candin Phillips, EP195ADHD Tips with Cindy RobinsonALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
It's my birthday AND huge life updates

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2023 56:10


Hey! I'm Allison Hare. In this raw and deeply personal episode, I'm sharing some big life updates on my 49th birthday. Yep, it's today! I've been hesitant to discuss it publicly, but it feels like the perfect time to share it. And I get the feeling that this episode could be the catalyst for you - that could change it all in the best possible way.Timestamps:[00:02:11] Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact[00:06:23] Stay-at-home mom's advice. [00:09:28] Unconventional paths and exploration[00:13:18] Feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. [00:19:12] Normalizing the pain. [00:23:18] Recharge, Release, Redesign. [00:30:11] Self-doubt and intelligence. [00:32:06] ADHD diagnosis[00:39:59] Burnout and its consequences. [00:42:06] Masking and societal expectations. [00:46:10] Outgrowing societal expectations.  [00:55:24] Nothing changes until something changes.References mentioned:Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!Apply for the Effective Collective Mastermind - Mastermind for high-performing working momsLight Up List FREE DOWNLOAD- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Get on my email list These are the emails you can actually WANT to open. BTS on how I went from burnt-out to audaciously aligned and how you can do it, too!Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact ResearchCreating the Perfect Woman Article/Blog PostRejection Sensitive Episode with Candin Phillips, EP195ADHD Tips with Cindy RobinsonALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Fashion, beauty, and the emotional connections under it all: Jessica Papineau

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2023 37:49


What is the feeling you get when you walk into your closet? Is it exciting? Is it dread? Our closets and our wardrobe hold so much emotion and judgment - WAY more than we think. I have been wanting to do a More than Beauty series where we start to look at how our outward expression can reflect how we feel inside and sometimes can mask and hide our inward insecurities. I got the perfect person to talk about it - I'm so glad you are here to hear this - Jessica Papineau of CSJ Styling is here, giving us not-well-known advice on budget shopping, getting the best fit in your jeans, styling your own body, and underneath it all, worthiness and how it's showcased in our outward expression.[00:00:42] Emotions in our closets. [00:07:31] Drawing attention to your best body features. [00:10:38] Dressing up for yourself[00:13:21] A transformative story[00:22:28] Budget-friendly fashion options. [00:24:27] Creating a versatile wardrobe. [00:29:34] Understanding personal style and worthiness. [00:33:11] Plus-size clothing in retail. References mentioned:Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!Apply for the Effective Collective Mastermind - Mastermind for high-performing working momsLight Up List FREE DOWNLOAD- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Get on my email list These are the emails you can actually WANT to open. BTS on how I went from burnt-out to audaciously aligned and how you can do it, too!Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact ResearchConnect with Jessica Papineau and resources mentioned:WebsiteIGCustomized Styling by jessica Facebook GroupALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Say goodbye to triggers forever: Accelerated Resolution Therapy with Laurel Wiers

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 43:18


Get ready for an absolute game-changer. I'm your host, Allison Hare, and today we're introducing the revolutionary and incredibly effective therapy called Accelerated Resolution Therapy (A-R-T), with therapist and educator, Laurel Wiers. Get this Accelerated Resolution Therapy has the power to REMOVE some of the deepest triggers that you might struggle with in as little as ONE session. Yes, I'm serious! Laurel's been part of amazing transformations from working with veterans, First Responders, and those who've endured unimaginable loss. Plus, she's tossing in some epic strategies for tackling those difficult folks in your life.WATCH episode here: https://youtu.be/b2b09hPxDtE[00:00:42] Effective therapy for trauma triggers.[00:06:57] Reactions rooted in past trauma.[00:10:31] Allison's triggers get processed in real-time![00:17:01]  What is Memory reconsolidation?[00:19:21] The power of bilateral stimulation.[00:24:41] Ways to calm our nervous system.[00:26:43] Processing traumatic episodes.[00:33:15] How to reset after a negative event.[00:38:52] Healing from trauma.[00:39:18] How to find therapy options.References mentioned:Schedule a FREE breakthrough call with me Want to take these ideas and apply them to your life? Let's do it!Apply for the Effective Collective Mastermind - Mastermind for high-performing working momsLight Up List FREE DOWNLOAD- get a quick burst of energy right now and KEEP IT!Get on my email list These are the emails you can actually WANT to open. BTS on how I went from burnt-out to audaciously aligned and how you can do it, too!Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact ResearchConnect with Laurel Wiers and resources mentioned:LinkedInWebsiteAccelerated Resolution TherapyALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

The Active Atlanta Podcast
Ep110 | Allison Hare: Finding Possibilities Even When It Feels 'Too Late'

The Active Atlanta Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 34:38


In this episode of the podcast, host Doc Jake Swart sits down with Allison Hair, the founder of the Atlanta Wellness Retreat and host of the Late Learner podcast. Allison shares her journey of breaking away from her corporate job to pursue her passions and create a business that aligns with her lifestyle.With a broadcasting degree under her belt, Allison spent over 20 years working in technology sales. However, her interest in public speaking never wavered, and four years ago, she started her own podcast to inspire change through unique perspectives. Feeling that the corporate life was no longer fulfilling, Allison decided to transition slowly by building a side business. But life doesn't always go according to plan, and last year, she and her husband made the bold decision to leave her job and bet on herself to find her next path.The Late Learner podcast is dedicated to serving burnt-out professional women and explores the idea of trying new things and finding possibilities, even if it feels "too late." Allison herself found joy in pandemic dance classes and even became certified to teach. On the other hand, the Atlanta Wellness Retreat aims to provide a sanctuary for people to find calm amid chaos. Through practices like mindful walking, tea ceremonies, and guided non-ASMR meditation, Allison hopes to equip participants with the tools to stay connected and grounded.To learn more about Allison's work in promoting self-discovery and wellness, she invites listeners to connect with her through her website or Instagram. So if you're looking for inspiration, guidance, or just a fresh perspective on life, this episode is a must-listen.Reach out to Allison: Via Instagram: @allison__hareVia Website: https://www.allisonhare.com/

Little Left of Center Podcast
Psychedelics, brutal solo hike, and overcoming fear and doubt - a SOLO healing journey

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2023 32:49


Hey there, I'm Allison Hare, and in this episode of the Late Learner podcast, I'm getting personal...again! I'll be sharing some massive events in my life, big changes, and the lessons I've learned along the way. From going on a challenging solo hike to embracing the power of allowing and trusting the process, vulnerability, personal growth, and some big ass life lessons will be learned.Timestamps:[00:01:35] The good STUFF (Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact)[00:05:09] Restlessness and growth. [00:09:50] Could us getting up early be a form of oppresion?[00:14:06] Is the personal development industry completely effing us up?[00:15:14] Carb loading before hiking. [00:21:39] My body starts to break down [00:21:46] The August of Allowing [00:25:10] Letting go and trusting. [00:27:32] Loneliness as an epidemic. [00:31:08] In order to go UPWARDS, you must go INWARDS. References mentioned:Apply for the Effective Collective - Mastermind for moms with too much on their plate to get what they truly desire (only a few spots left; starts in September)Apply to Work with Me 1:1: Ready for the UPGRADE for your future? Taking 3 people to their next levelGet on my email list These are the emails you can actually WANT to open. BTS on how I went from burnt-out to audaciously aligned and how you can do it, too!EP150: Psychedelic-Assisted Ceremony - Part 1EP168: Psychedelic-Assisted Ceremony - Part 2EP185: Father Dennis episode - Marginalization in ChristianitySurprisingly True Useful Fun Fact ResearchALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
How to FINALLY go for your dreams (even when you're busy AF)

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2023 36:10


Hey there, it's Allison Hare, your go-to hype woman! Guess what? Your dreams are right there, waiting for you to grab 'em! I just dropped a no-BS podcast episode that'll shake you out of that "I can't" mentality. Let me tell you, those big dreams of yours? They aren't impossible – it's all about the micro changes, baby! So stop overthinking and waiting for the perfect moment – the time is NOW! I'm here to push you past those excuses and self-doubt. Say goodbye to that guilt, it's time to prioritize yourself and unleash your potential. Trust me, it won't be easy, but together, we'll ignite that fire inside you and make those dreams come ALIVE. Ready to step up? Book a call with me and let's make it happen!

Freakin Blessed™
59. Leaving Her Corporate Career & Embracing Authenticity with Allison Hare

Freakin Blessed™

Play Episode Play 15 sec Highlight Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 36:16 Transcription Available


In this episode of the Revolutionary Freedom podcast, host Adam Kasix interviews Allison Hare, a former sales executive turned lifestyle entrepreneur. Allison shares her journey of leaving her corporate job and starting her podcast, Late Learner, which focuses on helping busy professional women reconnect with their true selves. She emphasizes the importance of finding activities that light you up and nourish your soul. Allison encourages listeners to unlearn societal conditioning and make choices that align with their own voices. She suggests simple actions to promote personal growth.--Support the showDid you know in Proverbs it says, "The desires of the diligent are fully satisfied"?Let me show you the 4 steps I've learned to end the frustration of not being where we want to be in life.Get the Manifestation Map right now athttps://map.revolutionaryfreedom.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Confronting Conflict: The Power of Tough Conversations with Renee Bauer

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2023 44:58


Avoiding some tough conversations? Let's get you the tools, approach, words, and mindset needed to confidently address the most challenging topics. Joined by guest Renee Bauer, an experienced divorce attorney and speaker, we help you tackle soured friendships, support loved ones in abusive relationships, talk to aging parents about finances, and face marital difficulties with grace and strength. Timestamps:[00:02:54] Tough conversations. [00:06:09] Unlearning cultural expectations[00:09:43] Not every relationship needs saving[00:11:38] Feeling worthy and taking action[00:15:08] Handling conflict and name calling[00:19:05] Recategorizing friendships[00:23:15] Protecting yourself and setting boundaries[00:25:17] Boundaries and self-care[00:29:29] Tough conversations and family dynamics[00:32:11] Confronting mental illness or substance abuse[00:35:07] Lessons from past relationships[00:39:31] Choosing happiness after divorce[00:43:08] Surprisingly True Useful Fun Fact #2Renee Bauer's Contact:WebsiteIGReferences mentioned:BOLD Challenge - 4 days, 4 prompts, FREE, and effectiveGet on my email list for series on time, energy, and relationshipsEffective Collective - Mastermind for overfunctioning/high-performing mothers to go from over-functioning to audaciously alignedLowering blood pressureRoad trips and snacking studyALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Real Estate by Relationship™
Ep. 62: Unmasking Your Potential: A Conversation with Allison Hare

Real Estate by Relationship™

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 43:16


Join us on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth with our guest, Allison Hare. Allison shares her inspiring journey of finding her superpower, connecting people, and using her voice to inspire others. From feeling like an average kid to discovering her passion for teaching through a voice addiction class, she has been a source of inspiration. Together, we examine the pandemic's impact, pushing us to outgrow old ways and explore new paths.Allison Hare is the former sales executive turned lifestyle entrepreneur. She's the host of the award-winning, top 1.5% globally ranked podcast, Late Learner and founded the Effective Collective membership designed for high-performing mothers that are ready to be audaciously aligned.Allison Hare Facebook: @allisonrizkhareInstagram: @allison__hareLinkedIn: @allisonhareIn this riveting discussion, we navigate the murky waters of burnout and fulfillment. In this insightful discussion, Allison guides us in identifying fulfilling activities, transforming engagements into teaching opportunities, and embracing change. We delve into understanding ourselves, vocalizing our dreams, and the role of a supportive community in pushing our boundaries. Listen in as we unpack these powerful insights and so much more!Join our exclusive email list and unlock even more valuable insights, expert advice, and bonus content to enhance your relationship superpowers. —sign up HERE today!Connect with Barb BettsInstagram: @barbbettsFacebook: @barbarambettsYouTube: youtube/@barbbettsWebsite: www.barbbetts.comLet's Stay in Touch!https://www.liinks.co/barbbettsBarb Betts is a sought-after keynote speaker, seasoned real estate expert, passionate educator, and the CEO of The RECollective, a thriving boutique brokerage in Southern California. Barb has delighted countless stages including, Inman Connect, WomanUP!, and at the National Association of REALTORS® Annual Conference. Whether she's teaching on referrals, authenticity or leveraging relationships, Barb brings an honest, compassionate, and transparent approach to every single stage. As a real estate professional, with over 20 years experience, Barb has mastered the ever changing real estate landscape and the balance of running a vibrant brokerage. Through her signature course, Real Estate By Relationship®, Barb educates business builders on the exact systems, proc...

Little Left of Center Podcast
What to do when you're not measuring up

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2023 29:30


What do you do when you don't feel like you measure up? This solo episode is CHOCK full of stories and resources that you'll relate to around feelings of inadequacy - even when you're a strong high-performing woman - and navigating a more powerful stance to recenter and ground yourself.Timestamps:[00:04:11] Overcoming Self-Doubt. [00:09:23] Women in business insecurities. (00:10:44) Self-discovery requires discernment[00:12:23] Inventing insecurities. [00:17:11] Loneliness at the top.(00:19:51) Use your own experiences to help others and prioritize what lights you up [00:21:30] Healing generational wounds around friendships and money. References mentioned:BOLD Challenge - 4 days, 4 prompts, FREE, and effectiveGet on my email list for series on time, energy, and relationshipsEffective Collective - Mastermind for overfunctioning/high-performing mothers to powerfully recenter themselves"Mirrors in the Earth" - Asia Suler bookLate Learner Episode - "I'm Hurting"Most beautiful mountains studySenior citizen studyALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Do you have a personal brand and don't know it?

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2023 34:09


In this episode of the Late Learner podcast, host Allison Hare talks with Bob Wheatley, a former pro athlete, bestselling author, podcaster, and a director of sales at Brand Builders Group, about personal branding. Allison and Bob discuss the concept of personal branding, why it's important, and how it can help individuals make a bigger impact in their careers. They also share tips on how to identify and leverage one's personal brand, and how to make a business out of what one is already doing. The episode concludes with "the good stuff," a segment featuring surprisingly true and useful fun facts about entrepreneurship.FREE PERSONAL BRAND STRATEGY CALL - Brand Builders Group[00:02:25] Lowering burnout risk.[00:05:03] Bob transitioning out of former career to a totally different one.[00:09:57] Finding purpose beyond personal best.[00:13:23] Loneliness epidemic post pandemic.[00:15:25] Finding your brand DNA.[00:19:32] Imposter Syndrome and Expertise.[00:22:37] Finding your passion and purpose.[00:25:26] Giving Yourself Permission to Explore.[00:32:31] Hand washing habits.[00:33:31] Struggling with ambivalent friends.References mentioned:Brand Builders GroupFree Personal Brand Strategy CallBob Wheatley's IGBob Wheatley's book, Our Heart's DesireBob Wheatley's podcast, That Singles ShowEffective Collective - Mastermind for overfunctioning/high-performing mothers to powerfully recenter themselvesLate Learner Episode - "I'm Hurting"Entrepreneurs and burnout studyWeird handwashing studyALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com 

Little Left of Center Podcast

I wasn't going to even record this episode - it was waaaay too personal. But something in my gut said "do it." The truth will set you free. My relentless efforts to produce perfect, clear, concise content gave way to shining a light on my personal life that I couldn't ignore and must address.So here goes nothing. I may NEVER do this again. But an important message: check on your strong friends - they have trouble asking for help when they are hurting.[00:00:44] Public Speaking Anxiety.[00:05:15] Solitude and mood improvement.[00:09:10] Abandonment in content creation.[00:14:05] Rebranding a podcast.[00:18:47] Outgrowing your container.[00:26:52] Aging and Perfectionism.[00:33:33] Check on your strong friends.[00:36:37] Toxic ambivalent friendships.[00:40:00] Showing up honestly.[00:46:36] Moms as driving force.References mentioned:EP184: Gwyneth Paltrow's teacher takes me to school on AGING with Elena BrowerEffective Collective: The MOTHER of all mastermindsEP140: Do I Friend of Do I Go?Adam Grant: Ambivalent Friend StudySolitude studySupermom studyALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Understanding ADHD: tricks and tips you haven't heard with Cindy Robinson

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2023 67:47


In this episode of the Late Learner podcast, host Alison Hare and guest Cindy Robinson discuss ADHD and share tools and tricks for navigating it. As a parent of a recently diagnosed child, Alison shares her personal experience with ADHD, while Cindy provides expert insights from her work as a parent and teen coach. They also address the difference between ADHD symptoms and trauma or shame responses. The episode includes crowdsource questions and fun facts, including the surprising truth that people with ADHD make for great entrepreneurs.Timestamps:[00:02:02] ADHD and Entrepreneurship.[00:04:23] ADHD prevalence and culture.[00:08:19] ADHD and dopamine deficiency.[00:13:55] Fueling productivity with dopamine.[00:17:00] ADHD as a superpower.[00:19:16] ADHD kids and unstructured play.[00:23:47] Compassionate parenting for addiction.[00:27:58] Understanding ADHD brains.[00:31:03] Embracing neurodiversity.[00:34:17] Parenting kids with ADHD.[00:39:30] ADHD scheduling tips.[00:41:17] Neurodiversity and goal orbits.[00:45:55] Emotional intensity in ADHD.[00:49:30] Gene testing for medication responsiveness.[00:53:24] Nutrition and ADHD.[00:57:27] Anxiety and ADHD.[00:59:39] Embracing Your ADHD Brain.[01:06:31] Dogs with ADHD-like behavior.Are you a mother and ready for a new chapter? The Effective Collective mastermind can help you get there! Book a free exploratory call here.LINKS and resources mentioned:Cindy Robinson's WebsiteHuberman Lab - ADHD Medicines episodeCindy's previous appearances on Late Learner Podcast:Understanding your AdolescentsCould you Raise your Kids like Stranger Things (Surprising Benefits)Dealing with Emotions that annoy youTeens and screensFixing Dysfunctional FamiliesFalse prophets and Teal SwanReparenting YourselfThe Laziness LieWhere Belonging BeginsI Hate Playing with My KidsCindy Robinson - The Kid FactoryThe Good STUFF (Surprisingly True Useful Fun Facts) Research Sources: #1:  Entrepreneurs and ADHDhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/dalearcher/2014/05/14/adhd-the-entrepreneurs-superpower/?sh=7267e56159e9https://studyfinds.org/adhd-entrepreneurs/#2: Dogs and ADHD:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352673416300178?via%3Dihubhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01626-xALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Fitness & Sushi
D73. From burnout to nourished with guest Allison Hare

Fitness & Sushi

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2023 44:38


On today's solo episode, Deanna interviews special guest Allison Hare on her harrowing journey from fear of obesity to nourishing herself and her dreams. You will learn: How fear of obesity led Allison to an unhealthy obsession with food and body dysmorphia How a tarot card reading began her path to healing How nourishment has replaced discipline in Allison's life How to come back from burnout and live a nourished life Allison Hare is the founder of Atlanta Wellness Retreats, the Effective Collective mastermind, and award winning host of the top 1.5% globally ranked podcast, Late Learner. She's interviewed hundreds of unconventional and sought after thought leaders including Seth Godin, Mariel Hemingway, Jesse Itzler, and Heather Monahan to name a few. As a former high performing sales executive for 20+ years, Allison generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue for numerous Fortune 500 Tech Companies including Salesforce, Docusign, and ADP. Connect with Allison: https://allisonhare.com Late Learner Podcast https://instagram.com/allison__hare https://instagram.com/late.learner —------------------------------------ When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you… 1) Read Tony's Book for Free His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it. 2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join. 3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

Little Left of Center Podcast
Marginalization Within Christianity: Breaking down church barriers with Father Dennis

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2023 68:24


In this episode of the Late Learner podcast, Alison Hare, a former corporate executive talks about her journey to explore her relationship with God through a year-long program called Re:new, with her mentor Marilyn O'Neill. They host Father Dennis Dorner, a young Catholic priest in Atlanta, to help answer tough questions about faith, Christianity, and hypocrisy in the church. The episode also features a list of the top five most beautiful churches in the world ranked by travel experts.Timestamps[00:03:09] Catholic traditions and the environment.[00:04:55] Unexpected path to priesthood.[00:07:45] Marginalization within the Catholic Church.[00:13:45] What is faith? [00:15:11] Fear of God[00:18:51] Marginalization and pridefulness.[00:22:33] Love and Homelessness.[00:25:39] Helping the homeless.[00:29:42] What is a good Christian?[00:32:51] Caring for each other.[00:39:44] Identity and self-discovery.[00:40:52] Gender identity and faith.[00:44:11] Gender affirming care importance.[00:47:57] Inclusivity in church.[00:51:29] Cultural Clash at a School.[00:54:16] Diversity in Gathering.[00:57:47] Teaching in College.[01:01:25] Learning and growing older.[01:07:33] Meat-free Fridays and the environment.Are you a mother and ready for a new chapter? Book a free exploratory call here.LINKS and resources mentioned:Father Dennis on Late Learner Podcast- EP12; Catholic Priest Breaking Convention and  Building on LoveEP55: Father Dennis Living with Intention in a Time of CrisisFather Dennis Dorner, Jr on IGCatholic Shrine of the Immaculate ConceptionRe:New Mentorship through Buckhead ChurchThe Good STUFF (Surprisingly True Useful Fun Facts) Research Sources: #1:  Top 5 Most Beautiful Churches in the World#2: Catholic tradition can help save our planetALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MOTHER MASTERMIND: Schedule a free exploratory call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with this link.Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
Tough lessons in aging, beauty, and self-acceptance with Elena Brower

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2023 39:37


What does it mean if you let yourself age as nature intended? No more botox. No more hair coloring. No injections. For me, this could send me in a full-blown panic attack. And it's a larger conversation over how beauty and youth take up so much real estate in our minds. And for what? My guest today is world-renowned and celebrity favorite yoga and meditation teacher, best-selling author, and mindfulness coach, Elena Brower. She's the host of the chart-topping Practice You podcast and boy, this conversation took a very unexpected hard-left turn.APPLY for the Effective Collective here (only a few spots left): https://allisonhare.com/collectiveBook a Free Call with Allison - if you're a mother that knows you are made for more, let's talkELENA BROWER'S LINKS and resources mentioned:Elena Brower's WebsiteIGElena's New collection of poems Softening Time (releases 5/16)Healing Heart - Elena Brower's spoken word from Above & BeyondAsia Suler - author of Mirrors in the Earth episode of Late LearnerSTUFF #1 StudySTUFF #2 StudyALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MASTERMIND: Apply and schedule a no-risk call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with code: ahare under Instructor ReferralPersonal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
The Biggest Lesson I UNLEARNED after Leaving the Corporate World, EP183

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2023 32:43


Allison Hare shares the biggest lesson UNLEARNED after leaving the corporate world one year ago this week. APPLY for the Effective Collective here (starts SOON): https://allisonhare.com/collective Book a Free Call with Allison - design your life to wake up from burnout! Atlanta Wellness Retreats: Get on the wait list for the next bespoke experience ALLISON HARE'S LINKS: EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MASTERMIND: Apply and schedule a no-risk call here. AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, dance Instagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor) Late Learner IG YouTube Channel Blog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribe TikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a time Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with code: ahare under Instructor Referral Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss. Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Little Left of Center Podcast
Personal updates, Two Big Announcements, and a yoga fart

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2023 38:46


Allison Hare welcomes listeners to Late Learner podcast and shares her journey from a corporate sales executive to a lifestyle entrepreneur. The podcast promises to bring new ideas for a new way of thinking and Allison shares some personal updates. The episode ends with two big announcements. And a funny story right up top! Two big announcements Podcasting is a weird business Authenticity in Podcasting Finding fulfillment in work Burnout and work life balance Mastermind program for mamas: EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE Changes to the podcast APPLY for the Effective Collective here (starts 4/17): https://allisonhare.com/collective Book a Free Call with Allison - design your life to wake up from burnout! Atlanta Wellness Retreats: Get on the wait list for the next bespoke experience ALLISON HARE'S LINKS: EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MASTERMIND (beta starts 4/17): Apply and schedule a no-risk call here. AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, dance Instagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor) Late Learner IG YouTube Channel Blog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribe TikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a time Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with code: ahare under Instructor Referral Personal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss. Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

7:47 Conversations
Allison Hare: Fun Februarys and Life Learning

7:47 Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2023 40:51


As Host Chris Schembra reminds us at the close of this episode of Gratitude Through Hard Times, it's never too late to learn something new – IF we're willing to take a pause, step back and offer ourselves grace. And few people embody this practice more vividly than his guest, Allison Hare, who is redefining what it looks like to be a so-called late bloomer. As the host of “Late Learner,” a popular podcast (formerly known as Culture Changers) that explores what it means to open up to new things at any stage of life, she encourages us to embrace spontaneity, authenticity and the unexpected. Having grown up programmed from childhood to be hard-charging, self-supporting and financially aspirational, Allison spent many years as a highly successful sales executive. Problem was, over time, the path she was on was depleting her – and burning through her creative energy. It wasn't easy to shake everything up and risk her secure status quo, but the outcome is undeniable. This is a woman who radiates joy and positivity. Today she is sharing that source of light by helping her clients, seminar participants and podcast listeners to get similarly unstuck. “It was an insane leap of faith when I made the decision not to make any decisions for the foreseeable future, until I could hear my own voice,” says Allison. She's inviting us to much the same: Pause, get quiet and make space for that inner knowing and the integration of gratitude. Are you ready to celebrate not just goals achieved, but the journey itself? This conversation will give you great ideas and tips for doing exactly that!Check out Allison's upcoming Calm in the Chaos retreat experience or book a free discovery call with her at this link.If you'd like to learn more about Chris and his 7:47 Virtual Gratitude Experience, please visit this link. And click here to listen to previous episodes of Gratitude Through Hard Times, featuring Fortune 500 CEOs, Academy Award winners, Grammy Award winners, Superbowl champions and more! KEY TOPICS:Love/Hate: Allison loves being a host and invites guests on her show based on a gut instinct. What she least likes? When she comes across as … less than her sharpest!Mirroring as a Tool to Create More Meaningful Connection: About the neurological impact that occurs when you repeat the last three words spoken by the person with whom you're in conversation. It makes them feel authentically heard!Signature Question Time: If you could give credit or thanks to one person in your life that you don't give enough credit or thanks to – that you've never thought to thank – who would that be? Herself! It feels self-indulgent but it's true, and a source of struggle.Cultural reasons why we can be so resistant to feeling gratitude towards ourselves:Gendered upbringing that emphasizes modesty for women.Biblical emphasis on not being boastful.Social norms that frown upon being “conceited.”I'll-Be-Grateful-When Syndrome: By tying our ability to feel gratitude and be happy to achieving certain metrics we set for ourselves tends to undermine good feeling available to us all along the journey.Comparing your success to the success of others is a recipe for perpetual ingratitude.Allison's Gratitude Inventory:Rest, pause and reflection.Taking the time and space to get quiet enough to hear her own voice.Consciously detaching from deeply ingrained messages that did not serve.Claiming freedom.The No. 1 Testimonial from Participants in Chris's Gratitude Experience: This was a space for me to pause, reflect and connect. Clarity is self-empowering!Words of Wisdom: Let it be easy! Move towards places with the least resistance.Allison's New Direction:Her successful “Culture Changers” podcast has been rebranded “Late Learners.”She's leaning into sharing her journey out of corporate America and into self-discovery and lifelong learning.The new roadmap is a work in progress whose DNA is a sense of wonder.It's all about the question: What can happen when you head in a new direction?A focus on teaching herself and others to take a brand new path – or embark on no path at all and just see what comes along!A sense of wonder and surprise prepares the way for unexpected delight.Feeling Stuck? Try This Simple Exercise: Break out of routine and instead pursue an “unplanned plan,” opening up to something new or spontaneous! (Chris and Allison share a very recent such adventure and how it lit them up!) QUOTABLE“The thing that once got you in trouble is also the thing that helps you out so much – being a good mirror of what's happening.” (Chris) “In my head, if I'm not further along (my entrepreneurial journey) then I don't have a right to trust me yet … and in the process give up my own power.” (Allison) “What an interesting thing that we as a society as a whole are so bad at giving ourselves gratitude.” (Chris) “It's very easy when you have big goals and big dreams … to measure your progress or happiness or gratitude on whether you've achieved that or not.” (Chris) “My value was truly wrapped around my productivity, my earning, my ability to stand on my own two feet without a man … and it was an insane leap of faith when I made the decision not to make any decisions for the foreseeable future, until I could hear my own voice.” (Allison) “One of the biggest lessons over the past (almost) year is that the harder I run, the harder I get yanked back … It's almost like I'm trying to microwave something that requires baking.” (Allison) “Money and prosperity and all of those things don't have to be exclusive to something that I hate. It's just finding the right combination and giving myself freedom and space to figure out and listen to my body.” (Allison) “My mission has always been, If you feel like you're stuck, it doesn't mean that you have to quit your job … but it does mean taking a new path, a new pivot, a new direction.” (Allison) RELEVANT LINKS/FURTHER RESOURCES:"Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended On it,"by Chris Voss."Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones,"by James Clear.Perfect locale for an “unplanned plan”: Just Add Honey. ABOUT OUR GUEST:Allison helps Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Business Professionals Disrupt the Status Quo so that they can create a better tomorrow. She's also a podcast host and producer, most recently at the Late Learner Podcast, which is ranked top 1.5% worldwide and was voted the Top Podcast in Atlanta Magazine of Dec 2022. She also authors the Allison's Journal blog,  FOLLOW ALLISON:WEBSITE | LINKEDIN | TWITTER|INSTAGRAM ABOUT OUR HOST:Chris Schembra is a philosopher, question asker and facilitator. He's a columnist at Rolling Stone magazine, USA Today calls him their "Gratitude Guru" and he's spent the last six years traveling around the world helping people connect in meaningful ways. As the offshoot of his #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling book, "Gratitude Through Hard Times: Finding Positive Benefits Through Our Darkest Hours,"he uses this podcast to blend ancient stoic philosophy and modern-day science to teach how the principles of gratitude can be used to help people get through their hard times. FOLLOW CHRIS:WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | LINKEDIN | BOOKS 

Phantom Electric Ghost
Phantom Electric Ghost Interviews Allison Hare

Phantom Electric Ghost

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2023 56:12


Phantom Electric Ghost Interviews Allison Hare Biography Allison Hare quit her corporate career in technology sales to become an entrepreneur, podcaster, and blogger. But she quit without a plan and is documenting her journey inward by boldly creating a gutsy and full throated “hang onto your seats!” adventure in her second career. She's a wife, mother of 2, and inviting others to come along for the ride. Website: https://allisonhare.com/ Support PEG by checking out our Sponsors: Download and use Newsly for free now from www.newsly or from the link in the description, and use promo code “GHOST” and receive a 1-month free premium subscription. The best tool for finding guest for your podcast: https://podmatch.com/signup/phantomelectricghost Subcribe to our YouTube to watch our latest podcasts and musical endeavours. https://youtube.com/@phantomelectricghost Subscribe to our Instagram to get exclusive content: https://www.instagram.com/expansive_sound_experiments/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phantom-electric/message

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP170: WELCOME TO LATE LEARNER! EP1, really

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2023 43:45


Formerly known as Culture Changers with Allison Hare. AAAAH, Welcome to LATE LEARNER!!!! This has been SUCH.a long time coming. With your feedback and the evolution of this brand, I couldn't think of a more fitting title than Late Learner! I've packed the episode with personal stories, promises, and hope for the future. My sweet spot is to help you find the magic between practical, spiritual, and emotional growth. When these three aspects are in harmony, it leads to a better you. Mostly, I am doing what I love the most - dissecting the most provocative, taboo, and relevant topics with an open mind and a personal spin with the most unconventional and wisest of guests. My goal is that you will always learn something new, something unexpected, and have you feeling empowered, fresh, and NOT ALONE after every episode! Challenge and Upcoming Wellness Brand: Sign up for the NEW New Year Challenge (it's free!) Take a 1 minute survey about upcoming wellness brand (AND THANK YOU!) New LL Links and content: Late Learner IG YouTube Channel ALLISON HARE'S LINKS: Atlanta Wellness Tours Patreon for Late Learner - Support Late Learner Podcast by becoming a valued patron and getting all episodes ad-free plus bonus content and community! AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, dance Instagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor) Blog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribe TikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a time Reb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with code: ahare under Instructor Referral Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Moped Outlaws
The Journey is the Journey

Moped Outlaws

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2022 61:35


Episode Eighty finds us graced with special guest, Allison Hare. She jumps right in with a fun antidote about her last 24 hours – that fits perfectly with our essence of our podcast. In her own words: “I am a proud wife, a mom of 2, a creative behind a mic, resigned from my position […]

The Friendzy with Melissa Carter & Jenn Hobby
Culture Changers with Allison Hare

The Friendzy with Melissa Carter & Jenn Hobby

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2021 65:15


Tired of the same old, same old? It's time to change the status quo! Melissa & Jenn talk with Allison Hare, an entrepreneur and Host of the podcast, Culture Changers. She talks about her conversations with trailblazers who are flipping convention, as well as her own vulnerable journey to motherhood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Podcast On Podcasting
Ep79: The Four-Part Course In Starting Your Podcast - Allison Hare

The Podcast On Podcasting

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2021 35:16


If you are planning to launch a podcast, check out this episode with Allison Hare as she outlines her four-part course in starting a show and which platform is best to use.    WHAT TO LISTEN FOR How to overcome podcasters' hang-ups Common equipment mistakes  Zoom versus Riverside A clever way of creating content Marketing, monetization, and analytics Two things in finding guests to interview   RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONED Riverside.fm Squadcast Streamyard Calendly Zoom Chartable   ABOUT ALLISON HARE Allison Hare is a co-founder of the Weekend Podcaster Audio Agency helping entrepreneurs launch, market, and grow their podcasts and Clubhouse social media presence. As the creator and host of both the Culture Changers Podcast and The Podcasters Journey Podcast, Allison has been helping new podcasters connect with their coveted target audience so they can grow their influence and their business. She built the successful Press Play Podcasts interactive course. Since then, she has helped ambitious creators launch podcasts that resonate and have gone on to shoot up the podcast charts and build powerful and engaged communities, and it's become her mission to help others use their voice to be a force for good.   CONNECT WITH ALLISON Website: Allison Hare Podcast: The Podcasters Journey Podcast: Culture Changers with Allison Hare Instagram: @allison__hare , @thepodcastersjourney Clubhouse: @allisonhare   CONNECT WITH US Thinking about creating and growing your own podcast but not sure where to start? Visit GrowYourShow.com and Schedule a call with Adam A. Adams!

Next Stop Crazytown
Episode 77: Love What You Do with Allison Hare

Next Stop Crazytown

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2021 23:34


"Running late is my cardio." -Allison Hare My next guest has not one but two successful podcasts! Allison Hare is the co-founder of 'Weekend Podcaster'. This three-day intensive course takes your podcast idea and turns it into a published podcast!  You have got to check out all of Allison’s work links below!   WEBSITE www.allisonhare.com   SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: @allison_hare Instagram: @thepodcastersjourney Clubhouse: @allisonhare   Connect with me on Instagram! @nextstopcrazytown Learn more at: www.nextstopcrazytown.com

Freewheelin with Carden
Hey it's me, your host Carden interviewed by Allison Hare of Culture Changers Podcast

Freewheelin with Carden

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2021 52:26


Hey it's me, your host Carden interviewed by Allison Hare of Culture Changers Podcast Who is Carden Wyckoff? Carden Wyckoff is an Atlanta native, disability advocate, wheelchair roller, change maker and adventure seeker. She is known for bringing strategy to organizations and she does this most frequently by being able to come up with innovative ideas which leads to creating efficiencies. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the FSHD Society and works in the city for a Fortune 500 company. Local advocacy orgs she is aligned with include Atlanta Bike Coallition, iAccess Life, Illimitable, MARTAarmy and PEDS. Diagnosed at the age of 8, Carden has a form of muscular dystrophy (FSHD) which is a progressive muscle wasting disease. Instead of letting the disability define her, she instead transforms the community to be a more accessible place. Her strengths are ideation, strategic thinking, activation, relationship building and learning. Carden is a force of nature! When Carden has an idea, she will turn it into reality. During her free time, Carden works day in and day out to make the world a more accessible place and break down barriers for individuals with disabilities. She contacts local business management to provide feedback on accessibility and has turned into making the Atlanta community more accessible. She provides awareness for the able bodied community to be supportive allies. She documents traveling with a disability to empower those who are hesitant to face the unknown. You may have seen her family piggyback her on the Appalachian Trail, advocated to make the University of Georgia’s Arch wheelchair accessible at graduation, or her brother competing on American Ninja Warrior for her disease. Her most recent initiative has been launching an accessibility podcast called “Free wheelin with Carden” to share stories of people with various disabilities and educate the public on accessibility related topics. Together we can build a more empathetic community and break down barriers. What makes her disability unique is that she has experienced a variety of mobility challenges throughout her life. From being able to run and play competitive sports then only walking then avoiding stairs and long distances then using assistive braces to walk then using a scooter for mobility then transitioning full time to a power wheelchair. She sees the world thru a wide lens and can relate to a vast number of disabilities. She’s always thinking what can I do to make the world a better place. While she operates at 100mph and always is go go go, she makes forming deep relationships with her community a priority. She is compassionate, trustworthy and quirky, yet calm. Resources Allison Hare https://www.allisonhare.com/ @allison__hare @thepodcastersjourney Follow Carden on Instagram @freewheelinwithcardenFind Carden everywhere Special thanks to my producer Jonathan Raz on Fiverr.com Use referral code 'Carden' when downloading iAccessLife mobile app.

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP89: Is There Hope For The Left and Right? Esther Joy King

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2021 59:15


 With the 2020 election guaranteeing a full bonanza of chaos, will Thanksgiving dinners be safe again? Left-leaning host, Allison Hare interviews Republican Esther Joy King running for US Congress representing the 17th district of Illinois. Esther served in the US military, was an aid in Afghanistan, an entrepreneur, and an attorney – and has a fascinating background. The conversation took an unexpected turn and we worked through a difference of perception in real-time. It was both exhausting and liberating – and hopeful. Keypoints: Challenge your own way of thinking and see you  can perceive something from an opposite point of view, just to double check what you believe and just to soul search about it. Elections should be about who’s going to give better representation, and not political parties.Politics is often reflective of our worldviewQuotes:  –“Politics are contentious, but everybody wants better” – Esther Joy King -“I’m trying to be responsible myself, but it’s a daily accountability.” – Esther Joy King -“ I don’t think it is a good idea to not talk about politics or religion or money. And I think that because we have not talked about it is why we are having so many problems” – Allison Hare Get in Touch with Esther Joy King:Website | Twitter | Instagram Get in Touch with Allison: Culture Changers | Allison Hare Website: https://allisonhare.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/allison__hare Start, Launch, and Grow Your Podcast With Me: https://allisonhare.com/podcasts Join the Sticky Notes Blog: https://allisonhare.com/blog Download Your Free Equipment and Software Guide: https://allisonhare.com/equipment Text me: 470-242-6311  

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP87: BYE, 2020! Don't Let the door hit ya...

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2020 10:57


In Allison's final nod and flip-off to 2020, she's sharing some personal news, and announcement, and what's ahead in 2021.Show breakdown:Allison’s personal confessions [2:15]What’s coming in 2021 for Culture Changers [3:50]A second podcast: The Podcasters’ Journey [4:51]New courses and workshops [8:10]Quotes: “2020 has given us an opportunity to connect with people in a way we have never done before”  - Allison Hare“Everything in podcasting is always a draft” - Allison Hare“2020 was as terrible as a year as it was beautiful” - Allison HareAllison Hare's Links:Culture Changers | Allison Hare Website: https://allisonhare.comSneak peek of The Podcasters Journey: https://anchor.fm/podcastersjourneyInstagram: https://instagram.com/allison__hareThe Podcasters Journey FB Community: https://facebook.com/podcastersjourneyThe Podcasters Journey IG: https://instagram.com/thepodcastersjourneySign up for Press Play Podcast Course  www.allisonhare.com/mmbetaJoin the Sticky Notes Blog: https://allisonhare.com/blogDownload Your Free Equipment and Software Guide: https://allisonhare.com/equipmentText Allison: 470-242-6311

Discover More
49. 2020 in Review: A Collective Reflection

Discover More

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2020 19:33


2020. What an unforgettable year it has been.To wrap up this wild year, we’ve decided to share a never-done-before episode - a collection of personal reflections.12 of our Discover More guests come together with co-hosts Aidan and Benoit, to share their biggest lessons learned from the year of COVID-19 and quarantine 2020.Throughout the year, we have realized that the pain reveals purpose, so we believe that there are powerful lessons buried in the collective struggle of 2020.We’re so excited to share these reflections with you and hope that you find clarity and value in these ideas.We’d really appreciate it if you could leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, as it really helps the podcast grow.Thank you for listening, learning, and continuing to Discover More.Happy New year.Please check out the featured guests on Instagram:-Anna Robinson (@annarobic_fitness)-Allison Hare, M.D. (@allisonjhare)-Andre Llewellyn, MSW (@andrellewellyn)-Jorge Requena (Linkedln)-Kitty Knorr (@kittyknorr)-Monica Anderson (@m.anderson212)-Matthias Wuest (@mattsantos95)-Meleki Wamalume (@iammeleki)-Natalie Brown (@natbrown12)-Rob Carney (@wholehealthconnections)-Tu Pham (@tupham918)-Paris Gramann (@parisgramann)     

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP86: Soul Candy with Anne Alexander

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 53:52


Anne Alexander has a successful career as a best selling author and former editor for National Geographic & Mindful Magazine. Today Anne is focused on Soul Candy, her new personal project were she shares all she has learned Show breakdown:Anne’s background [3:30]Soul Candy [6:20]Time to make your mark [9:40]Anne’s new formats [11:30]Mindfulness = Being aware of your thoughts and feelings [14:20]Finding your purpose [19:29]Writing as a way to communicate [26:45]The type of house Anne grew up in [33:00]The intention behind Soul Candy [38:01]The practice of Mindfulness [43:40]Quotes: “Soul Candy is in some ways this sort of voice that says you can do it, you’ve got something inside or a view that you can give birth to…”“Weight loss is a metaphor... It’s like, what do you need to let go of in order for your real self, that self that you see inside of you, to emerge”“It’s a way of disservice if you don't hand people also the tools… A core element of Soul Candy has to be providing people with insights, tools and practices so they can adopt whatever is they need to”“So often we are being driven by our thoughts and our feelings and we are being reactive and it takes a while to sift through”“I think purpose is something that evolves over time and it also itirates”“We grow up and we ask children these ridiculous questions: what do you want to be when you grow up? How is a kid going to know that… Better to say what do you enjoy doing? What problem do you want to solve? Or what do you like to do? What draws you towards it?”“When we're not struggling is almost when we've gotten a little dead or we're too far in our comfort zone”“Moving bands go both ways… You can try things, maybe they will work out or maybe they won't, but just try” Guest Links:Anne Alexander Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulCandyFounder/Follow Anne Alexander on Instagram: @soulcandyfounderSoul Candy Website: https://www.soulcandy.comAnne Alexander’s Articles on Mindful Magazine: https://www.mindful.org/author/annealexander/Allison Hare's Links:Culture Changers | Allison Hare Website: https://allisonhare.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/allison__hareStart, Launch, and Grow Your Podcast With Me: https://allisonhare.com/podcastsJoin the Sticky Notes Blog: https://allisonhare.com/blogDownload Your Free Equipment and Software Guide: https://allisonhare.com/equipmentText Allison: 470-242-6311QZ60UtlqQPgpvixa6jXg

Gift To Shift
Episode #12 Allison Hare: Podcasting - A Voice to Create

Gift To Shift

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 46:59


Allison is podcaster, podcast coach, public speaker, advocate, and activist and one of the reasons why I decided to pursue podcasting.  She is curious, inquisitive by nature and a constant student of life always recreating herself.    We talk today about creating, recreating yourself, over and over again and what that process looks like.  We use podcasting as the springboard in this conversation . Allison Hare is the host and producer of CULTURE CHANGERS PODCAST where she interviews culture-changers.She also has  a podcast program called Press Play Podcasts where she takes you step-by-step from concept to “go-live” for your very own podcast. This is the program I took in the Summer os 2020.  Allison will be launching a new podcast, Podcaster's Journey in 2021. Allison HareAllisonhare.comPress Play Podcasts: https://www.allisonhare.com/press-play-podcasts/---Visit Aissa Hillebrand - Coach (Business and Personal Development)www.gifttoshift.comhttps://www.facebook.com/GiftToShifthttps://www.instagram.com/gifttoshift  

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP83: Cannonball Mindset with Chad Sanschagrin

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2020 55:52


Host Allison Hare interviews Chad Sanschagrin, international keynote speaker, marathon runner & CEO. Join them as they  discuss the "mindset " and motivation it takes to turn adversity in to advantage and how knowing your self-worth changes the game forever.Show breakdown:Chad’s early life and schooling path [3:15]A marriage: Chad’s shift moment [11:20]The process vs. the results [23:55]Going from a speech on a stage to running a marathon [27:05]What Chad has learned from all the people he has interviewed [35:15]Knowing what you are worthy of [45:00]What’s next for Chad [50:45]Quotes: “Your mind really does determine where you are going to go in life” - Chad Sanschagrin“I was created limitless and it is 100% up to me to not squander a day, an opportunity or a moment to get better” - Chad Sanschagrin“Shift (in perspective): See How I Found Truth” - Chad Sanschagrin“People are so result driven and focused that I think it is screwing everything up” - Chad Sanschagrin“Don’t worry about the results, worry about the process” - Chad Sanschagrin“The score will always take care of itself if you are driven by the right things” - Chad Sanschagrin"If people were in awe of themselves as much as they are in awe of other human beings  the world would forever be changed” - Chad Sanschagrin“In life you don’t get what you want, you get what you believe your are worthy of” - Chad Sanschagrin“True suffering for me is knowing what you are capable of, what you are worthy of and settling for less” - Chad SanschagrinChad Sanschagrin's Links:Cannonball Website: https://cannonballmoments.comChad’s Linked-In Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-sanschagrin-02b012a7Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cannonballmoments/Allison Hare's Links:Culture Changers | Allison Hare Website: https://allisonhare.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/allison__hareSign up for Press Play Podcast Course  www.allisonhare.com/mmbetaJoin the Sticky Notes Blog: https://allisonhare.com/blogDownload Your Free Equipment and Software Guide: https://allisonhare.com/equipmentText Allison: 470-242-6311

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP79: A New Twist on Gratitude w/ Chris Schembra

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2020 44:56


If you could give credit and thanks to one person in your life, that you DON’T give enough credit or thanks to, who would that be? My guest today is Chris Schembra.  He is part best-selling author, part-dinner host, and part-Chief Question Officer. USA Today named him the Gratitude Guru.  His book Gratitude and Pasta: The Secret Sauce for Human Connection was ranked #2 book of 2020 by Forbes.  Recently, he was honored alongside Michael Phelps, Chris Evans, Kid Cudi and several others as “6 Successful Men Smashing the Mental Health Stigma” by Good Men Project.  We hear a lot about gratitude being the key to happiness – and there’s truth in that – but he flips it in a way I have NEVER heard before.  And it’s changing lives.  Bringing REAL connections.  Inviting radical empathy.  And even doing it not only in a personal setting, but also in corporate settings.  And could you imagine the power of that in a time of absolute chaos – in an election year – as the world has gone virtual – amidst a global pandemic – how can we connect and not feel so alone?Quick Links: DOWNLOAD BYLR RADIO APP: http://onelink.to/yb962eGratitude and Pasta: The Secret Sauce for Human Connection7:47 Club: www.747Club.orgChris Schembra Instagram: https://instagram.com/chris.schembraForbes Article – DinnersForbes Article – Gratitude Get in Touch with Allison:Culture Changers | Allison Hare Website: https://allisonhare.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/allison__hareStart, Launch, and Grow Your Podcast With Me: https://allisonhare.com/podcastsJoin the Sticky Notes Blog: https://allisonhare.com/blogDownload Your Free Equipment and Software Guide: https://allisonhare.com/equipmentText me: 470-242-6311

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP78: Seth Godin: The Practice

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2020 41:14


Have you ever dreamed of tapping into your creative side and letting it fly?Host Allison Hare interviews a giant in the world of ideas: Seth Godin: entrepreneur, global teacher, speaker & author of 19 best-selling books including The Dip, Purple Cow and his new book, The Practice. Through his books, blogs, altMBA & Akimbo Workshops Seth is teaching people all around the world how to see things in a new way and make an impact.Show breakdown:The voice of a community [3:30]Discipline as the start point [5:10]Teaching in parables  [10:30]Cultural upheaval [13:50]Seth Godin’s topics [17:40]Perfectionism or fear? [24:32]What is school for? [32:04]Hardwired to fit in [37:58]Quotes: “When you give people a microphone they are going to do something with it” - Seth Godin“We do the work and then we feel the flow… we feel inspired” - Seth Godin“Find your practice, find your discipline and put it in a place where the rest of the world isn’t trying to stop you” - Seth Godin“Social Media is engineered to make us feel bad” - Seth Godin“We need your bad ideas because then the good ones come out” - Allison Hare“The way we shift attitude is by doing something, not taking a test about it” - Seth Godin“I believe that when you start acting like the person you hope to be is the only way you become the person you hope to be” - Seth Godin“The practice is what’s missing from people; Not lightning, not the muse, not any magical power… Just the practice” - Seth GodinSeth Godin’s Links:Seth Godin’s Website https://www.sethgodin.com/Seth Godin’s Blog https://seths.blogInstagram & Facebook: @sethgodinFlagship Workshop “The altMBA”: www.altmba.comAkimbo Workshops: www.akimbo.comAkimbo Podcast: www.akimbo.linkAllison Hare's Links:Culture Changers | Allison Hare Website: https://allisonhare.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/allison__hareStart, Launch, and Grow Your Podcast With Me: https://allisonhare.com/podcastsJoin the Sticky Notes Blog: https://allisonhare.com/blogDownload Your Free Equipment and Software Guide: https://allisonhare.com/equipmentText Allison: 470-242-6311

Stories Connect People
MindBodySoul365 - Tim Smith

Stories Connect People

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2020 54:44


My guest on Stories Connect People podcast is Tim Smith. Tim's faith, personal health and wellness journey and his amazing voice led him to starting The MindBodySoul365 Podcast. Tim shares a lot of personal stories about his life as an educator, coach, administrator and pastor. Hear what led to him starting MindBodySoul365 and what it has brought to his life and the lives of others. You will love Tim's real, transparent and caring style. I admire so much how he investing time in helping others strengthen their walk with God and their wellbeing! Also, I am so glad you are listening to the podcast. SCP podcast is reaching people around the world every week just to name a few….France, Switzerland, Ireland, Finland, Mexico and London and of course all over NA. I just love it! Please reach out and engage with me! Follow SCP podcast on Facebook and Instagram. I would love to hear from you what you think of the MindBodySoul episode. Now join me in welcoming my friend, Tim Smith! Tim Smith, MindBodySoul365 Tim is a former educator, coach, school administrator, pastor and weight loss consultant. He is the host and producer of The MindBodySoul365 Podcast. Pictured here with Tim is his dog, Ruby. Hear Tim share what the 365 means in the podcast based on Luke 9:23 Connect with Tim: https://www.mindbodysoul365.com/ https://www.buzzsprout.com/860491 https://www.mindbodysoul365.com/tims-blog 365timsmith@gmail.com A few podcasts mentioned during this podcast: Allison Hare's Press Play Podcast program (www.allisonhare.com) Leah Jantzen on MindBodySoul365 A Memorial Day special… lessons from Dad on MindBodySoul365 Giving Back, Austin Sacks on Stories Connect People podcas Stories Connect People Podcast Subscribe to Stories Connect People podcast on any podcast platform Visit my website at www.storiesconnectpeople.com If you enjoy the show please Like, Rate, Review and Share Engage with me on Facebook & Instagram @ Stories Connect People To potentially be a show guest, share feedback, or make recommendations email me at polly@storiesconnectpeople.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP76: BYLR Radio Big Announcement

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2020 12:27


Hear the big news on today's episode.  As you may know, Culture Changers Podcast will also be heard on the brand new innovative app, BYLR Radio.  But there's more!It will launch a live stream on BYLR Radio App 24/7, starting this September 4, 2020.More voices will be heard, more people will learn, and more lives will change. Build Your Life Resume (BYLR) is a community of athletes, coaches, entrepreneurs, teachers, well-known personalities, and lesser-known folks pushing themselves to be better in these three buckets: Business, Mindset, and Wellness, led by the legendary Jesse Itzler.Download the BYLR radio app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bylr-radio/id1526372038Culture Changers | Allison Hare Website: https://allisonhare.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/allison__hareStart, Launch, and Grow Your Podcast With Me: https://allisonhare.com/podcastsJoin the Sticky Notes Blog: https://allisonhare.com/blogDownload Your Free Equipment and Software Guide: https://allisonhare.com/equipmentText me: 470-242-6311See you on September 4!

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP75: Can Positive Psychology Help in the Pandemic? Tallia Deljou

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2020 49:12


Are you struggling with how to find happiness amidst all this chaos?If you aren't struggling with this, you may be the 9th wonder of the universe and need to bottle up whatever you've got and sell it!My guest today is Tallia Deljou. She is a positive psychology expert and transformational life coach helping people connect their power and purpose. As an international speaker and podcast host of "Sincerely, Me," she has shared her insights on how to create and manifest a fulfilling life alongside the likes of Deepak Chopra, Jen Sincero and Adam Grant and has been featured by Forbes, Fortune, Well & Good, and Real Simple, among others.You’re going to get so much out of our chat.  She gave simple and practical guidance on how to truly re-engineer your thought patterns to really regain your power. Episode Highlights:•The Hole in the Heart Theory •What does lead to a high quality of life?•How do we define ourselves?•How practical is it to practice self-awareness?How does she help people through "new neural pathways"?•how do we balance like the ups and downs of the pandemic?•On Pandemic: every moment presents an opportunity to practice something 3 Key Points• The dark side of happiness is when it becomes a goal, it often leads to disappointment.• Self-awareness comes from thoughts and the stories and the judgments your mind has created. How should you handle it?• Reengineer your brain to look at negativity as a piece of information. Tweetable Quotes:• "Everybody does know exactly what they want. It's just buried under layers of self-doubt." Tallia Deljou• "Negative emotion is about having a certain level of detachment and looking at them as information" Tallia Deljou• "Create a vision around what could be instead of what is, and start believing that that can be your reality" Tallia DeljouConnect with Tallia here:Tallia Deljou: https://talliadeljou.com/Tallia's IG: https://www.instagram.com/talliadeljou/Culture Changers | Allison Hare Website: https://allisonhare.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/allison__hareStart, Launch, and Grow Your Podcast With Me: https://allisonhare.com/podcastsJoin the Sticky Notes Blog: https://allisonhare.com/blogDownload Your Free Equipment and Software Guide: https://allisonhare.com/equipmentText me: 470-242-6311

The Cannonball Mindset
67: Host of Culture Changers Podcast - Allison Hare

The Cannonball Mindset

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 57:14


Allison Hare is a wife, mother of two, sales pro, podcaster, podcast coach, public speaker, advocate, and activist. She is the creator and host of the incredible Culture Changers podcast where she interviews extraordinary people who veer off the path of convention and change the way we all live. https://www.allisonhare.com

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP74: Jeanine Wright Interview: How To Launch and Grow Your Podcast with COO of Simplecast

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 39:05


Host Allison Hare sits down with the Chief Operating Officer, Lawyer, and one of the first investors of her favorite podcast platform, Simplecast, none other than Jeanine Wright.  (If you are a podcaster and podcast want to be, hear what she has to say about Simplecast, a platform you might use.) This makes Jeanine Wright a great trifecta of an image of an empowered woman in the industry of tech or tech investments. Given that there's not so much attention and investment is given to women. In Silicon Valley, only 2% of women are being invested.  But how did Simplecast started? Jeanine will share her story from being a talent-side entertainment and media attorney half a dozen years to being an angel investor in tech and eventually meeting the CEO of Simplecast, Brad.  Resources:Planning to start your podcast soon? Culture Changers listeners get 50% off for the first 2 months using this link and code: ONSIMPLECASThttps://simplecast.com/#_r_allison20Culture Changers | Allison Hare Website: https://allisonhare.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/allison__hareStart, Launch, and Grow Your Podcast With Me: https://allisonhare.com/podcastsJoin the Sticky Notes Blog: https://allisonhare.com/blogDownload Your Free Equipment and Software Guide: https://allisonhare.com/equipmentText me: 470-242-6311Episode Highlights:Simplecast was bought now by Sirius XM, Pandora.Her calling to move to the next chapter of her career life after her 3rd child.What is it like to be the 19th woman in the tech company she worked for? Plus, being pregnant at that time.The analytic data content creators can get on the platform. What device do listeners use? What part do they skip? How long will they listen to ads? What's the future of podcasting?Beginner podcasters always want to see the analytics, Jeanine and Allison say, put up a good show and be consistent.Grow your podcast audience by using pop episodes or gateway episodes.Momentum carries you success. Key PointsTo grow podcast audience, focus on high-quality content and high-quality sound. Means invest in the right mic.Be consistent! Don't deprive your listeners of something to get addicted to you. Tweetable Quotes:Podcasts content consumers tend to be bingers if you don't give them something to go to next. It's like you deprive them of an opportunity to get addicted to you.- Jeanne Wright They start with the momentum, and the momentum carries them through longer.- Jeanne Wright Try not to put too much into the analytics, have a great strategy, have a great show.– Allison Hare Planning to start your podcast soon? Start your free 14-day free trial here! https://simplecast.com/#_r_allison20The plan starts at $15 a month 

6 Feet Above with Megan Armstrong
18: Allison's Story: Advocating for Yourself

6 Feet Above with Megan Armstrong

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 69:39


When we think of disordered eating and body image issues we usually think of girls and women in their teens and 20s. But, it wasn’t until 41 when Allison Hare struggled with her relationship with food and severe body dysmorphia. In this episode we learn what happened to Allison to trigger this trauma and how she learned to cope with her disorder. As a mother of two, loving wife, podcast host & coach and technology sales badass, Allison Hare gets real, vulnerable and even flips the script on host Megan Armstrong in this week's episode.  @allison_hare

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP70: Style, Psychology, and Your Self-Expression: Lillian Charles

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 68:59


Host Allison Hare talks to Lillian Charles, Style Therapist, Fitness Instructor, and Wellness and Spiritual Advocate, in talks about helping people own their body through clothing, wellness and acceptance, and aiding people through deep trauma, teaching SPIN classes, scaling her business, and her work with intentionally Gray. Episode Highlights:Allison Hare introduces Lillian CharlesWhat was it like growing up as someone who didn’t always fit in a box?  Lillian has always been intuitive and able to feel when things weren’t right.The theme of the class Rise and Release Lillian taught was ‘we are not crazy.”Lillian Charles has psychic visions. How do we get past the negative stories we tell ourselves? Why are we beating ourselves up about things we can’t wear?  Are societal norms making women feel bad about their bodies? What, as an empath, how does she protect her energy?Where does she feel the most alive?    How does she do the work she does virtually online?How does she scale her business? How does she get with the right clients What is her goal for 2020?3 Key PointsPeople need the license to let go of things like clothes that no longer fit. There is nothing wrong with your body. You are just choosing the wrong things. We all should be living to our full potential instead of getting sidetracked with negativity.Tweetable Quotes:“I take the shells away. This is you as your soul. Like, how f**king beautiful is that? That you are recognizing how incredible you are, how incredible we all are? That you can look at yourself and be like, yes this is what I deserve.” –Lillian Charles“Mindfulness, as we know, gives us the pause between reactivity, which can look crazy and the way that we react is just a conditioned response.” – Lillian Charles Resources Mentioned:Text me at 470.242.6311Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison’s Linktree.Lillian Charles website: lilliancharles.comLillian Charles social media: Linkedin Instagram

MINDBODYSOUL365

Wife, mother, business person, pod caster, podcast coach, exercise enthusiast, advocate, and activist, this week on the MBS365 podcast.

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP69: 9 Tips To Nailing Your Podcast Interview

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2020 20:37


So much goes into a GREAT interview.  And it truly is an art and interviewing is an important life skill that can cross into every area of your life.  This requires sharpening your own emotional intelligence in the process.  There’s no such thing as a perfect interviewer.  The best news is that you are always continuously evolving and improving.  As someone who interviews people not only for this podcast but also unsuspecting strangers by nature, I’ve noticed some cardinal mistakes people make that instantly turn the listener off when I listen to other podcasts - and also some small tweaks that can make your podcast interview so irresistible that your listeners will be posting it, sharing it, and sending it to all their friends.I break down 9 Tips to Nail Your Podcast Interview.Resources Mentioned:Find me everywhere at Allison’s Linktree.Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/allison__harePress Play Podcasts - Launch Your Podcast in 6 weeks! https://pressplaypodcasts.coSign up for Sticky Notes Blog: Simplecast - Hosting platform Squadcast - Remote audio recordingClick for a free Podcast Equipment and Recording ChecklistIn full disclosure, some links may contain affiliate links which means I may get compensated.

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP62: Let's Get Metaphysical: Kelley Knight of Modern Mystic

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2020 48:19


[fusebox_track_player url="https://episodes.castos.com/5e3aa627bb42e8-95594950/EP61-Kelley-Knight-CC-Interview-Final.mp3" artist="Culture Changers Podcast" title="EP62: Let's Get Metaphysical: Kelley Knight of Modern Mystic" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_linkedin="true" social_pinterest="true" social_email="true" permalink="https://allisonhare.com/62" tweet_text="Listen to this amazing episode about spirituality on Culture Changers Podcast" hashtag="culturechangers" twitter_username="allison__hare" ] How often do you consider metaphysical explanations when the world seems upside down? In this time, when the world seems to be spinning off its axis and all the life maps have mysteriously been thrown out, I thought it was a good time to revisit this conversation with Kelley Knight, the magnetic CEO and founder of wildly successful Modern Mystic Shop. Host Allison Hare talks to Kelley Knight, CEO, Founder, and Owner of Modern Mystic Shop, a female-founded resource for intentionally made, small-batch metaphysical goods and services in Atlanta, Georgia. Kelley Knight talks about what brought her into embracing her spiritual journey, integrating her spiritual life and her business life, ways to elevate as a society, and what it means that we are now entering into the Aquarian Age. Episode Highlights: Allison Hare introduces Kelley Knight. Kelley Knight explains who she is and how she got where she is today.How did her marketing ideas come to her? How did you start Modern Mystic? Kelley talks about entering the Aquarian Age. Allison Hare talks about a highly successful reading she had with Kelley Knight. Kelley discusses normalizing spirituality and balancing that with business. Who does her dad represent in her psyche?What does it take to be open to a spiritual transition? Many millennials are going to spiritual readers as opposed to therapists. How has her business changed and grown? How does she remain generous with her time and productive at the same time? What does the world need right now? What are her current goals? Kelley Knight talks about how her mind works with making connections and her book “Spells for the Modern Mystic”: A Ritual Guidebook and Spell-Casting Kit.What is next for her and how can people reach out for her services? Kelley discusses how the impact and expansion have been for Modern Mystic. 3 Key Points First healing and then honing are the steps that led Kelley Knight to strengthening her intuition abilities. Normalizing spirituality takes discernment, self-regulation, and analyzing the ways we have associated spirituality with religion in the past. Kelley’s big spiritual awakening happened in 2012 when she began seeing dead people and the Aquarian Age began. Tweetable Quotes: “I believe that the best way that I can be impactful is to fill a space, to scan the horizon and see where there is a need that my gifts and talents align with and fill that need, as opposed to creating something and making people come to you.” –Kelley Knight“I think that’s why I’m a good tarot reader is because I can see all of the cards and all of the pieces laid out and then it clicks in very quickly how they all work together, and that is how my mind is working with marketing too.” –Kelley Knight“Everyone has their own Spidey sense or super sense, right? So, the more that we normalize it and we make it not special, the more that people are going to use it, and the more that we can use it to work together and be together.” –Kelley Knight Resources Mentioned: Text me at 470.242.6311. Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison’s Linktree.Kelley Knight Social Media: LinkedinModern Mystic: modernmystictarot.comModern Mystic: Instagram Book: Spells for the Modern Mystic: A Ritual Guidebook and Spell-Casting Kit by Kelley Knight

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP59: Pregnant? Tips for Giving Birth from Famed OB/GYN Dr. Bootstaylor

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2020 52:37


[fusebox_track_player url="https://episodes.castos.com/5e3aa627bb42e8-95594950/EP59-Brad-Bootstaylor-Re-EditBTW.mp3" artist="Allison Hare - Bright This Way Podcast" title="Bringing Birth Back: Famed OB/GYN Dr. Brad Bootstaylor" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_linkedin="true" social_pinterest="true" social_email="true" ] Are you pregnant? Do you know someone who is? Anticipating childbirth can be scary! Dr. Bootstaylor is giving tips for giving birth, how to ask the right questions to your provider, and keeping your power in the delivery room. Host Allison Hare talks to Dr. Brad Bootstaylor, the award-winning double board-certified OB/GYN and perinatologist of See Baby Practices in Atlanta, Georgia helping empower pregnant mothers with their critical birth decisions. Dr. Brad Bootstaylor is also the author of the book Shared Decision Making. Dr. Brad Bootstaylor talks about his professional mission, maternal mortality, positioning birth choices for mothers-to-be, and also questions for people to ask providers in order to advocate for themselves.  Episode Highlights: Dr. Brad Bootstaylor shares his background being double-boarded. Allison shares her own personal pregnancy experiences and how she was introduced to Dr. Brad Bootstaylor. He discusses birth discussion issues patients have had. What is his professional mission? Serena Williams and Mark Cuban have invested $3 million in a start-up app called Mahmee for real-time access to providers. What are some good questions for people to ask providers in order to advocate for themselves? Dr. Brad Bootstaylor shares the benefits of empowering patients with data. How did he choose this path? What has caused C-section rates to increase over the last 40 years? What are the things he sees being recommended to patients? Dr. Brad Bootstaylor talks about the 10-question provider app. What are the benefits and guidance for making better pregnancy choices? Is he seeing any trends with older moms coming in? What is next for Dr. Brad Bootstaylor?Allison Hare and Dr. Brad Bootstaylor discuss pregnancy myths. 3 Key Points Dr. Brad Bootstaylor uses information technology, decision-making, neural networks, and artificial intelligence to develop a real-time platform or mobile app that allows the mother to have a balanced conversation based on real information versus the provider’s preference. Dr. Brad Bootstaylor was voted Atlanta’s Best Doctor for the 9th year in a row. In 1970, C-Section rates in the United States were 10%. Now the rate is over 31%, and even higher in the state of Georgia. Resources Mentioned: I’d love to hear back from you. Text me at 470.242.6311. Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison’s Linktree.Allison Hare’s Blog: Sticky Notes BlogDr. Brad Bootstaylor Social Media: LinkedinSee Baby: seebaby.orgBook: Shared Decision Making by Dr. Brad Bootstaylor

Go Get Mom
*RE-RELEASE* The Kid Factory - Cindy Robinson is Interviewed by Allison Hare

Go Get Mom

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2020 41:21


In our first re-release from last season, I am sharing a podcast interview I did with Allison Hare for the Little Left of Center podcast (now called Bright This Way!). Allison did a phenomenal job of asking me the right questions and I think it's a great way to get to know this project a little better!

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP56: No Experience Required to Serve Your Community: Jenny Levison of Souper Jenny

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2020 34:17


[fusebox_track_player url="https://episodes.castos.com/5e3aa627bb42e8-95594950/Souper-Jenny-EP56-BTW.mp3" artist="Bright this Way with Allison Hare" title="No Experience Required To Serve Your Community: Jenny Levison of Souper Jenny" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_linkedin="true" social_pinterest="true" social_email="true" ] Host Allison Hare talks to Jenny Levison, owner of beloved Atlanta restaurant Souper Jenny and the founder of the foundation The Zadie Project. They discuss serving your community, following your purpose and passion, adventures in entrepreneurship, healthy cooking, and more. Episode Highlights: Jenny grew up in Atlanta, but moved to LA with her mother when her parents got divorced, and that led her into acting.As an actor, she always also worked in restaurants, making her way through management and eventually ending up in the kitchen for a friend’s restaurant.Jenny and her husband at the time traveled around the world for 18 months, visiting 24 countries, and during that time she collected recipes from anyone she met, later realizing they were almost entirely soups.Jenny founded The Zadie Project 3 years ago as a 501(c)3 after coming together with her whole Souper Jenny team and realizing she wanted to expand the ways she was serving the community in Atlanta.Through The Zadie Project, they donate food from Souper Jenny to Title I schools, homeless shelters, and other at risk populations.Jenny is dedicated to being intentional every day, even if that means being intentional about relaxing and watching Netflix.The Zadie Project also holds a free drive-through grocery for those in need, especially with the effects of COVID-19.Souper Jenny is lucky to have already been a take-out only restaurant so they have not had to close, but it’s been hard on the employees.Jenny wants to open another location and is bidding to get into the airport.Souper Jenny sells 3 cookbooks that you can buy on their website, or get other recipes off Jenny’s blog. 3 Key Points If you’re driven to do something and you feel it is your purpose, then you don’t need experience to get started.COVID-19 has brought out so much kindness in people that perhaps we can make this a permanent change for the better.Franchising would mean not having your hands on every aspect of the business anymore, so deliberate, intentional growth is crucial. Tweetable Quotes: "I look at the end like it’s already happened. All the things that you need to think about—how am I going to pay for it, how am I going to get time off work—all those things come later for me. I see that picture of what I want and everything else is secondary.” –Jenny Levison“My purpose is just to know that I didn’t waste my time here. That I created something that people enjoy, it’s not gonna change the world, maybe, but I truly love what I do.” –Jenny Levison Resources Mentioned: Text me at 470.242.6311. Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison’s Linktree.Subscribe to Allison’s blog, Sticky NotesOrder Souper JennySouper Jenny InstagramBuy Souper Jenny cookbooksJenny’s blogJenny’s TED Talk

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP52: What's Next For Your Career? - Expert Help from Karen Yankovich

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2020 36:46


[fusebox_track_player url="https://episodes.castos.com/5e3aa627bb42e8-95594950/Karen-Yankovich-Interview-Final.mp3" color="Ff5682" title="What's Next For Your Career? - Expert Help from Karen Yankovich" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_linkedin="true" social_pinterest="true" social_email="true" ] Since we are in such an unprecedented and isolated state, we are in a position where we are FORCED to really examine what happens next. Will your employment status be stable? How will you make money? Is this a wake-up call to do what you’ve always dreamed of doing? Or is it a wake-up call that maybe you are forced to stop doing what you love and pivot? Some of you may be in a position where you’ve lost your job or have been furloughed - and maybe you haven’t put a resume together in a long time. With unemployment claims well over 10 Million filed just in the past couple of weeks, we’ve really got to position ourselves in a way to bounce back and protect our income - and do it by leveraging where our own genius lives. These questions have been swirling around my brain and why I tracked down the legendary Karen Yankovich to help us navigate these unchartered waters. Karen Yankovich is a sought-after LinkedIn marketing consultant, keynote speaker, and marketing strategist. She also hosts the popular podcast Good Girls Get Rich. What I didn’t realize is how powerful a platform LinkedIn is. You may not know this but Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook’s algorithms are so oversaturated that it’s hard to make a dent. But LinkedIn’s algorithm is still organic. So the way you connect with people on LinkedIn is so much more effective and powerful than the other mediums - and Karen’s going to break down how and also some important things to know to position yourself. And also, she has a very special offer for my listeners to do a free review of your LinkedIn Profile!! Make sure you tell her you are referred by Allison Hare and Bright This Way Podcast. Also, WELCOME to my newly branded and named podcast, BRIGHT THIS WAY! Karen Yankovich | LinkedIn | Good Girls Get Rich Podcast | Email I'd love to hear back from you. Text me at 470.242.6311, Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison's Linktree.

Discover More
29. Serving Patients and Finding Purpose with Allison Hare

Discover More

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2020 47:21


“I’m just so grateful to be in the position that I am, so that I can meet people like her and take care of her, and just feel like I found my calling. Because that honestly how I feel. I’ve connected with his flow of purpose, and it’s the best feeling in the world. And it makes all of this struggle worth it.” This week, we continue our conversation with Penn medical student, Allison Hare, who has an immense passion for caring for and connecting with others. In this episode, she shares the powerful story of a past patient’s miraculous recovery which helped her identify internal medicine as her true calling. Additionally, she provides insightful advice for new medical students, which is arguably applicable to anyone adventuring down a new path. This portion of the episode evolves into an enlightening conversation around exploration, self-discovery, and the balance of intention and surrender. Lastly, we dive into the importance of examining personal motivations, reframing situations, and ultimately, starting with why. We’d really appreciate it if you could leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, as it really helps the podcast grow. We hope you enjoy this episode of Discover More, with us and Allison Hare. Thank you.

Discover More
28. Babies on Netflix and Care through Music and Medicine with Allison Hare

Discover More

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2020 59:11


Allison Hare is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, who has an immense passion for caring for and connecting with others. In this week’s episode, she tells the story of the identity crisis that occurred in high school, when she was told she wasn’t good enough to be a professional cellist. This crisis brought her to a pre-med track at the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in psychology, and worked in a research lab that was just featured in the Netflix documentary, “Babies.”

And Then Everything Changed
Here All Along featuring Allison Hare

And Then Everything Changed

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2020 38:18


After facing complications delivering her first child including an emergency C-section and being separated from her newborn son during his 9-day hospitalization in the NICU, Allison Hare began to lose her way.⁣⁣⁣A DJ and a public speaker who had always been comfortable expressing herself, she now struggled with her confidence and sense of self. Soon she began searching for relief through shopping, diet plans, a hyper-focus on her BMI and, as her body dysmorphia* became more acute, cosmetic surgeries to satisfy her new determination to become flawless.⁣⁣⁣After the birth of her second child in which she was able to advocate for the experience she wanted, she attended a seminar that awakened the powerful, dynamic part of her that she had forgotten. Now a podcaster and a podcast coach with a Ted talk on her bucket list, Allison is determined to be true to herself and to help other women find their voice.⁣ ⁣⁣*Body Dysmorphic Disorder affects 1.7% to 2.9% of the general population — about 1 in 50 people. This means that more than 5 million people to nearly 10 million people in the United States alone have BDD.  It’s possible that BDD may be even more common than this, because people with this disorder are often reluctant to reveal their BDD symptoms to others.⁣⁣⁣

Little Left of Center Podcast
EP43: Monitoring Your Kids Screen Time? Titania Jordan of Bark

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2020 62:02


[fusebox_track_player url="https://episodes.castos.com/5e3aa627bb42e8-95594950/Titania-Jordan-Interview-BTW-Final.mp3" artist="Allison Hare - Bright This Way" title="Keeping Your Kids Internet Safe: Titania Jordan of Bark US" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_linkedin="true" social_pinterest="true" social_email="true" ] Titania Jordan - CMO / Chief Parent Officer of Bark Are you struggling to keep your kids screen time in check? Quick Links: Bark US App : 20% Off Discount Code: LITTLELEFTViral Medium Article - I am a 37-Year Old Mom - I Spent 7 Days Online as an 11 year Old Girl - Here's What I LearnedBark US | Bark InstagramParenting In a Tech World Facebook Group Technology and Kids is a whole new ballgame: Social media and phones have pioneered new terrain for parenting of which there is no roadmap.   And as a parent, it keeps me up at night. I’m so afraid I’m going to screw this up. Do my kids have too much screen time? Is YouTube safe? When they get older, my kids are going to beg for a phone. Should I give them one? Their friends all have Tik Tok and Instagram accounts. Should I let my kids have one? They are exposed to Violence. Suicidal tendencies. Sexual predators. School shootings. Porn. Bullying and so much more. As if teenage years weren’t hard enough. The big question is: Is my kid going to be okay??? Am i doing enough to protect them? Today’s episode deals with a heavy topic but also a hopeful one.  I am talking to Titania Jordan, CMO and Chief Parent Officer of Bark Technologies.  Bark is a parental control monitoring app to help keep your kids safe. Bark has thwarted multiple school shootings, saved kids from suicide attempts, reported sexual predators, all using AI, algorithms, and provided guidance and alerts for parents.  Bottom line: this could be one of the most important episodes I have ever done. I hope you listen, download the app and use discount code LITTLELEFT and share this episode far and wide. I’m not going to mince words here: It could save your kid’s life.Any feedback or stories to share with me, please text me at 470.242.6311.  I will repeat, this information could save your kids’ life.  Download Bark : Discount Code: LITTLELEFT for 20% off I’d love to hear back from you. Text me at 470.242.6311 Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison’s Linktree.Allison Hare’s Blog: Sticky Notes Blog

Little Left of Center Podcast
Bully Reform School: Michael Zed Johnson

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2020 53:01


We hear a lot about bully prevention and usually think of the kids who are getting bullied.  But what about the bully? My guest today WAS the bully. His name is Michael Zed Johnson, and he is the Author of Bully on the Bus, he is a Speaker, Businessman, and Mentor and has committed his life to speaking directly to the kids and inspiring a new path.   We talked about what it feels like to have suicidal thoughts but not want to die.  And he shared the stories that are coming from students all across the nation - and how we can provide proper support. Do you have a story about bullying?  Text me at 470.242.6311. Michael Zed Johnson Instagram Donate/Purchase Bully on the Bus books Transcript:   Hey, I'm Allison Hare and welcome to little left of center, the podcast that interviews culture changers that are reshaping our world and breaking new ground. We hear a lot about bully prevention and usually think of the kids who are getting bullied, but what about the bullying? My guest today was the bully. His name is Michael, said Johnson, and he is the author of bully on the bus. He is a speaker, a businessman and mentor and entrepreneur and has committed his life to speaking directly to the kids and inspiring a new path. Ooh, the stories I hear of bullying in schools is so frightening, especially when you think of the digital bullying as well as physical bullying. And we talked a lot about my own experiences at school, not only being bullied well, duh. I grew up in New Jersey, but embarrassingly how I was an infant offender too. And we both got really vulnerable in this chat. Do you have a story about bullying? Text me at (470) 242-6311. And before we get into my chat with Michael, I always like to give you a quick [inaudible] the scenes look at what's going on with the podcast. Podcasting is a really unique medium. It's powerful in a very effective platform, but it is very one sided from the host or hosts. You don't always get the benefit of instant feedback and some weeks you might get a ton and some might be crickets and many people listen and most listen passively. For instance, I have shows I've listened to religiously. I think they sound great. I've learned a ton. Like I'm literally being changed from these shows. I follow them on social media. I've told my friends to listen. I may have even quoted them on this show, but I've never left them a review on Apple podcasts. So I'm making more of a conscious effort to do that now because I always ask my listeners to subscribe, rate and review my show. So I need to be a little more mindful of it. But when you have the chance to please make sure you text me at (470) 242-6311 so what happened last week is after my interview with Kristin ODA of stat wellness, I've been getting some really heartfelt and thoughtful notes about my show and about my growth as a podcaster and interviewer and some really encouraging notes about my guests. I just felt so grateful to have my feedback and know that people care about the content and the truth be told. This show is really just one long therapy session for me and I take the position that if I'm feeling a certain way, I know I can't be alone. And that's one of the reasons why I added a text line for the show to make it a little more bi-directional, a little more communicative. Again, the number is (470) 242-6311 and I want to hear from you what moved you. Are you inspired to do something different or think about something in a new way? What are you curious about? What suggestions do you have for me? All of those comments help me make a better show. So text me at (470) 242-6311 and let's connect and Oh yes, please subscribe, rate and review. My show on Apple podcast is really nice to know you're listening and it helps others find me too. And now to my chat with Michael Zed Johnson [Inaudible]. So where are you here with Michael Zen Johnson. Michael Johnson. Michael's ed Johnson is, I imagine that is probably a good way for you to differentiate yourself from all the Mike Johnson's in the world. What I think is interesting is that, you know, we talk a lot about mental health and the suicide rate, especially with young kids growing and growing and growing. And a lot of that is attributed, not only does social media specifically around bullying and so there's a lot of focus from a bullying perspective on being bullied. And you were the bully. Yeah, I was, it's funny how this whole thing started. I used to speak at schools about my journey from the projects to own in a business and meeting a mentor. And I would go and I would tell that story. Look at me, I'm awesome. I did it. If I can do it, anyone can. And last year, my little girl, when she was in the third grade, asked me if I'd come speak at her school and I said, I'll be happy to, but that's not really a third grade conversation. And she said, daddy, what about those two girls used to make crown the bus? And so I decided I would go speak at it. It's the one person in this world I don't want to let down. So I decided to go speak at her school and write a book about it, a children's book called bully on the bus about my experiences with bullying. As I shared the story with people, what I've learned is what was really going on with me. And it was a coping mechanism. I was extremely ashamed of being poor. And if I'm making fun of you, then no one else can be making fun of me. And and Guy, when you were growing up, were you make, how did, how did a rewind all the way back? Right. So if I go all the way back, it's when I was five, my mom and dad separated and I could remember early, like in third grade, and my mother teaching me the same lessons that everyone's mothers taught them, the kind of treat people the way you want to be treated. If you don't have anything nice, they don't say anything at all. And I thought then she was fussing at me when she would get onto me about it. All she was doing was building my character. But we moved all the time. In sixth grade I come home to find my mom throwing everything we own in trash bags and in a U hall and she's like, we're leaving and we move in. 10 days later we move again. So it was very difficult for me to make friends and for me to learn. So what I ended up doing was just going to the crowd that would accept you. And that was the people that were making fun, the class, all that kind of stuff. And they would accept you in. And I didn't have quality friends. But what I've come to realize is because quality friends look for quality and I didn't have that to offer at that time cause I didn't know if I'd be here next week. And we ended up, I started my first business at 14 to help my mom pay the rent cause she couldn't find a job and she said come to me and said we're about to be homeless. So my brother and I sold it or bikes, we started our first business and that worked through the summer. Then school started, we moved into the projects and, and just there was these two girls that lived there. We would pick on them on the bus and call them gruesome Tucson and we would cha gruesome twosome need to lose some and these girls would go home crying every single day. And as an adult, I wanted to apologize cause I started changing the way I thought, my circle of influence and that kind of stuff. But I couldn't apologize because I couldn't remember their names. All I could remember was Gruesome Twosome and what we called them in the way we acted. But no, and for me it was, it was more coping. And if I'm picking on you and you know, nobody's picking on me, never wa never got into fighting and tough guy, stuff like that. And my mom always taught me to protect people, protect the weak, stand up for the week, respect women, protect them when you can. And, and I did some my fair share of that, but I also thought at 14 or 15 when this was going on, I was making fun of the week. What I realized at 40 was I was the week when I could have stopped it. I chose not to. What made you realize that 40 where did, where was that turning point for you? You know, I think, again, it goes back to a change in kind of my circle of influence. And I was just doing a lot of reflect and at that time in my life, and I was, I was just thinking, and it, it got me to where I could have stopped it and I chose not to. It was easier for me to pile onto these two girls then do the right thing and do what my mother had taught me my whole life. And it was, I mean, it was kind of heartbreak. I can remember one time and then I remember videos coming out to, there was a video that came out of a mother filming her son and he's crying about why do people bully? Like I had to pull over on the side of the road. I'm crying because it's cause I wanted to apologize to these girls. And unfortunately, last December I had that opportunity. You did. So how did you remember what their names were and how did you get reconnected? So I found an old friend that lived in the the projects with me and I sent her a message. I said, Hey, do you remember the two girls that I used to pick on? On the bus and make cry the twins. And she said, yeah, I think their names were Sarah, Sarah and Sally. And I'm like, Oh my God, that's it. And so I tried to find them on Facebook. Apparently they're the only the only women on Facebook that don't use their maiden names. But I found her brother track them down through their brother and cinema messaging. I was terrified. Like my palms were sweating. I was scared to death was now I've got to do what's right. Make my little girl proud of me and my wife proud, my mother proud and just kind of get this off my chest. And I sent him a message and Hey, is this Sarah and Sally from holiday Hills apartments, Kingsport, Tennessee? And they're like, yeah. And one of them come back and said, yeah, and I was just talking about you last week. And my heart sank. Wow. They haven't forgotten and water fits. I hate you. You ruined my life in the, in the, in the thing I dreaded the most was the simplest question of all. And that was why, why did you do this to me? And that's not at all what I got. I'm laying in the bed, my phone beeps and I'm too scared to look at it. Cause if it was those dreadful faults or dreadful expectations, I wouldn't be able to sleep. And the next morning I woke up and by that point they both responded and they said the same thing. For the most part they said, I'm sorry you've had to deal with this for so long. And I don't really remember you like that. Wow. But it goes back to, to me, talking about me being weak in these girls being courageous is, I mean even today they're apologizing to me and I stole the ride home. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah, It's, it's, it's really bizarre when I sit back and I think about it and, and the journey and even speaking at schools has changed. It was all about bullying. And now when I speak to the older students, middle school and high school, I do another exercise and it's really turned into a mental health conversation. So it's kinda come full circle. So, if I'm reading between the lines, you said, you know, you, you kind of were transient, you didn't grow up with a lot of money. It sounded like your mom was really scrappy, but she was very conscious of teaching you the right things and you know, people, people go off path. Right. And, you know, I was thinking about my own journey that I remember there was this kid and I used to bully him and I would, he was like this kind of a, a weird dude. And I used to call him Greek geek. We all called him Greek geek. And I I feel awful still. I don't really remember his name. And on the on the same token I was bullied that, you know, so I grew up in New Jersey and in New Jersey, word loud or louder in general. And there were these girls that just hated me. And and, and I feel like if people from my high school are watching this or listening to this, they might remember, but there was like a group of girls that just hated me. And I remember when I was a freshman, they came up to me and they said we don't like you and we're going to pick you up. We're going to take you to Newark, New Jersey. We're going to beat the shit out of you and we're going to leave you for dead. And my mother was like, beside herself, you know, and we got into a fist fight and got the suspension. And to this day, I hate that girl and I don't even know her. I'm not friends with her on Facebook, you know, every once in a while it'd be like friends you might know and I'll see her. And and it's amazing, you know, like how, how those things really, really stick with you. And you know, whether or not she remembers it or is even thinking about me or you know, did it really make a huge, but I think now the stakes are so much higher and high school in social media. And so you've been on a speaking circuit, you've written this book bully on the bus, and you've been speaking and giving your bugs and having people donate to help support your cause. What are you finding? I looked at your social media and you were sharing these, these unbelievably heartbreaking stories. Oh my God. So tell me more about how this really turned around for you. So I think the most important thing to know is two things. What I've really focused on lately is number one, your current situation isn't your fault. If you're poor divorce family, your parents are addicts. That's not your fault. Like I carried that with me for a long time that, that we moved into the projects because at 14 the first business I started wasn't sustainable to provide for my family is in CDU. Started 14 I started the landscape business and I told my little brother, so my mom, we moved from Oregon, she had $1,700 and we were moving back to Tennessee and we didn't, we couldn't take anything. We didn't. So we literally took our bicycles. My brother and I took our dirt bikes and I remember taking a deep freezer and tools like we had no furniture when we got there. And my brother and I built bunk beds out of plywood and we slept on air mattresses or floats from a swimming pool. Were you guys just super industrious, you know, like how did you figure it out? We were always like that. You know, my uncle was a huge male role model in my life and he was kind of my hero and smartest guy I'd ever met kind of thing. And he was very hands on and, and taught us that stuff. But that's what we did. My brother's still like that to this day. I'm not so much, but we did that. Then a couple months after we moved there, my mom come to me with a different story. And this time there wasn't a water money. It was, I still can't find a job and we're about to be homeless. So my little brother and I, we got together. I told him, I think we need to sell our dirt bikes to start a business. And that's what we did. We started brother's yard service. Still one of my favorite pictures. I, I keep it everywhere with me. I share it with every student I speak to. But at 14, I couldn't spell the word surface. I spelled it with an S instead of a C and apparently my mom couldn't spell it either. And, but I, I haven't, I've never let those things stop me. Like I don't read well and I don't write well and I can't spell well. So when I wrote the book, I found somebody to help me. And, and I use audible as a crutch, you know, to, to take in content, a lot of YouTube and videos. But for me the change was when, probably when I'm, when it started, was when I met my now wife 26 years ago in high school and she started kind of teaching me a reaffirming the, the character building that my mother had done. And then I met a mentor and a mentor changed my life. And then I realized I kind of put two and two together and started changing what I call circle event flow. So started slipping into my mentor circle. And then what I really realized lately is what we were sharing earlier was if you surround yourself with people that refuse to allow you to fail, you can do anything. So like what I used to tell the story of going from the and starting that first business to own in my business and selling it last year was it was me, me, me, me, me. And what I realized is it wasn't, none of those can have done any of it myself. It was everyone. I surrounded myself with the people that don't get credit, that's what got me through it. And, and so their current situation, you know, it's not their fault and you're not alone. Whatever's going on in your mind, you're not alone. And so I do an exercise with middle school and high school students. When I go to the schools to speak, I'll send a video to the school before I get there. This is, Hey, I'm super excited about showing up. I want this to be interactive. I want you to take away from it. I want you to be vulnerable. I want you to take a piece of paper and write down something that was heavy on your heart. Something you're not proud of. You're ashamed of something you want to get off your chest, something you need help with, but don't well know how. Keep it anonymous unless you want help. And then write your name on it and I'll give you three examples. Number one is my family. My mother's a drug addict, my father is an alcoholic and my brother doesn't speak to me. Number two is I'm 44. I don't read, write or spell well at all. And number three is I've battled suicidal thoughts for the last 10 years because of medicine. And so I go through my whole life journey presentation and towards the end of it I asked them to take the paper and wadded it up and throw it on the floor. Just throw it at me and the floor gets covered with hundreds of pieces of paper. And then not just show them visually that you see all this paper laid around me. You're not alone. 90% of the stuff that's written down here I've dealt with, I just shared with you in my journey and my story and and I'll pick them up in our, read them in the first time I did this exercise, the fourth one I picked up was I want to kill myself. And these were middle school students. Four of them at this one school that had 900 students, four of them said they'd been raped. Probably three dozen. Yeah, probably three dozen said they wanted to kill themselves as a father. The one that had the biggest impact on me was just three words. And all it said was my dad's existence. That floored me. And then I could remember one, a young lady again, this is middle school. She comes up to me, she has tears in her eyes. She had been crying, her eyes are all red. She told her best friend's hand and she just looks at me, not with desperation but, but something else and says, how did you get rid of the thoughts? And I just gave her a big hug and whispered in her ear and told her, I haven't, but I know I don't want to die and that I'm stronger than my thoughts and you're stronger than yours and I'll help you get help. And so the, the mission has changed, or the, the journey has, has evolved into speaking to more of the older students. And let's get this stuff out there. Let's get the stigma of mental health out. I tell them, I'm like, I've seen a therapist, I'm a big burly guy and I'll stand up here and tell you, I'll stand in front of him and cry. I'm like, it's okay. It's not your fault. And it's been life changing. Have you seen a difference in gender and what affects them? Because I'm listening to what you're saying and I'm thinking about That documentary. The mask you live in. Have you seen it? It's unbelievable. And it is about how boys. And there's a girl, one called misrepresentation, but the mosque you live in is about how boys are socially conditioned to be the man, to not cry to man up to, you know, to never show emotion. And, and what happens is as they get older and they've never been able to fully express how they feel, they've always been shamed for that, that they, it ends up in fits of rage or suicide, suicidal thoughts or just not being able to kind of access the emotions that they might have. And it's a really powerful documentary for me. It was life changing and it kind of helped us. I've got a little boy who is seven and a little girl who's four and it has kind of shaped, you know, how we raise our kids and the words we use. So I'm wondering, do you see any difference with genders or any trends? So I do, and as was going to tell you is a male student wrote on his piece of paper, I'll read it to you. My emotions are assigned that I'm weak. I never show my emotions that much. And that's exactly right. That's cause that's the way we were kind of taught our whole life is, is you don't cry. You don't show emotions. That's weakness. And even when I started seeing a therapist, I knew that I needed to go see a female because I didn't feel like I could be honest and open up of another male. But again, at 44 or whatever, I knew that same thing with the suicidal thoughts. I knew it was side effects from medicine, but I wouldn't expect a 12 year old to understand that. So, but, but the girls I feel are more open. But a lot of the stuff that gas talk about their different you know, girls are talking about fake friends and being bullied and, and daddy issues and stuff like that. And boys are, are talking more to me about my brother is having suicidal thoughts and it scares me. I remember that standing out. I'm afraid that my parents are going to jail. You know, they're more open about kind of other people in their life is what I feel like we're girls are, are more kind of looking in the mirror and talking about what's really bothering them. But it's been crazy. Like I broke down that day. Like now I have all these papers and I don't know what to do with them. You take, you keep these papers that people crumble up and throw at you. What do you do with them? So one of them I've got lay in right here beside me. I want to have it framed. Cause it was a letter. This child wrote literally a letter and, and it was all this terrible stuff. And then the last line was, but it's getting better now. So I'm going to keep that. I think ultimately what we'll end up doing is probably using it in some kind of book. Not like it, not like a book of chapters, but almost like a photo book of the stuff I've been posting online to where maybe on the left page we have of these horrendous things on the right page is something positive, you know, kind of, kind of balanced, ying and yang each other. But it's tough. You know, I'd give the ones back to the schools that if they ask about any abuse or suicidal thoughts, especially if children write their names on it, always give those back or at least let them know what's going on. Yeah, you probably have a responsibility if they're saying things like that. I was torn on what happened at the first school. I did it at I was just walking around afterwards with the principal and I was picking them up and reading them. And one of them said that this, this young lady said she had been sexually abused and she put her name on it and the principal immediately said, I want that. And I was torn because I didn't want to give it to them because I was afraid this child opened up to a complete stranger and you can't just call her on the assist on the PA and say, Hey, come to the office once this, tell me what's going on. Because now It seems like a violation and a, Yeah, well, but she may never open up again and although it needs to be investigated in should, how's this child gonna feel if dad or uncle or whoever now goes to jail, let's say it's dad, they go to jail. Now it's single mom trying to raise them. They had their life completely changed as they move into the pro. Like now she's got to carry all that as well as being abused and I just, I just encourage the school to really be careful about how you handle this. It needs to be Hannah and what, what kind of was the turning point for me to, where I decided to give them all back was one of them. One of the children had written that they had all these horrible things going on and didn't know how to get help. And to me that was a cry for help. And the schools can do that. So now I ask them to keep it anonymous unless they won't help if they won't help it, don't know how to get it right. Your name on it. I had the schools have guidance counselors on staff right there in the presentations, but it's been extremely powerful and life changing for me. Yeah. So I love how you make it very experiential. You get them involved. I think it's powerful because it seems like you're giving these, these kids a voice for whatever it is. And I'm wondering how you use your platform to get them help. So I'm sure they feel heard and they feel seen in the moment. But how do you get them on a path to healing? So whether it is mental, mental health, or even just confusion and just puberty. Yeah, so, so that's the challenge. And I was, I was having this conversation earlier with a great friend of mine is because once I'm gone, I'm gone. You know what I mean? They can bring me back next year and we could have the same talk and get more people open up. But the key there is really you leveraging the schools and the counselors at the schools to get the schools involved to where they can help these children find help. I immediately talked to a therapist friend of mine did a podcast with her. Those assets and those resources are available through the schools. But it's tough and that's why when the first day I did it and I had all these papers, I called one of my great friends who's the number one speaker in education in the world and I sent him a text. I'm like, Nathan, I need you to call me and pray for me because I like, I don't know what to do with these in that way. I was really torn with now what, like these kids open up, I've got hundreds of these papers and what do I do with them now? And so he called me and gave me his advice and he prayed. And I mean, it's just, it's, it's been a crazy, crazy road. It seems like it's since last year. So I've been speaking on and off at local high schools about my journey from start, my first business to selling my last one. And I again, how awesome I am. I'm an entrepreneurial, you know. Yeah. You don't pull yourself up by the bootstraps. I did it. You can do it. Anybody can do it. Don't let somebody tell you, you the speaker. How did you get up? And I stunk at it as well. And then, you know, when my little girl asked me to do it and we got into elementary schools and then we just started speaking it at other schools. But I don't know, I just, I was terrified, especially as a child standing up in front of the class. I couldn't read whales. I was always afraid I'd get called on to read. And then just one day I just got to do it. And Hey, I've noticed, you know, in hindsight, everything I ever started, I didn't belong there. When I started selling baseball cards, I didn't belong there. I just had 50 cards and the guy beside me had 50,000, but I didn't stop. I didn't let them allow me to stop. So I just kept pushing through. And when I started speaking, I thought it was the greatest. I could remember telling friends, I'm going to do a Ted talk and I'm doing this. And I looked back at that stuff and it was terrible. I didn't story tale at all. And I went and I'm a guy from the group said, Hey, have you ever heard of Nathan Harmon? I might know who's that. He's like, he's the number one speaker in the space that you want to be and you probably need to get to know him. So I cold email Nathan and said, Hey, I need some help. I'm trying to break into the space. I'm having a lot of troubles. Here's what I'm wanting. Here's the story I want to share. And emailed me back. He's like, let's set up a call. I'll give you 30 minutes. And he called and gave me all kinds of advice that, Hey, I'll help you do anything I can. And he felt really genuine. And I texted him a couple of days later, I'm like, Hey man, I'd really like take you out to dinner and kind of pick your brain. Can I come see you speak and take you out to dinner? And he's like, absolutely. And we lined it up. I was wanting to go to Portland to meet him and it was his anniversary tree that kind of fell apart. He's like, I've got a better idea. I'm speaking in Indiana where I'm from, come there. All you gotta do is drive me. So it turned out better because I got two hours each direction, two days with him. And from Nathan, I learned kind of the art of storytelling because you still, I would say my mom and dad got a divorce it when I was five and then this happened and it was just a linear line of facts and there was no engagement, there was no emotion, there was no anything. And then once I, I learned kind of the artist's story telling to start the story off completely different and, and I add the details that, that, that engage the students that, that they see their sales in me. I see myself in them and, and that was it. And I love it. It's, it's, I I still got to get a lot better but I really, really enjoy it and what I've got to do now is tying in some of the positive stuff and, and help these kids down their own path. After I tell them, you know, kind of my story. So I'm wondering, you are one guy and the, I just thought yesterday that the number two cause of death for kids nine to 19 is suicide and it's an epidemic that's not going away. And I have a girlfriend, I was texting her this morning and she has committed like her passion is to, is because of that stat is to find antidotes and ways to help prevent and expose parents that a lot of parents will turn a blind eye because they don't know how to help. I don't know that it is even as stigma against therapy, but they don't know how to help or identify or what, you know, how do I figure out what's right? Is my kid, excuse me, is my kid okay? And I talked to my girlfriend and she said, you know, I'm really going through some stuff right now. My, my son's friend just committed suicide. Like her worst nightmare is kind of still happening. So how do you how do you help parents identify? How do you help kids speak up? Because I've, you know, I, my very first episode of little left of center was with a 16 year old girl who's like this amazing industrious activist and you know, she, we were talking about suicide and depression and she said, you know, so many of my friends are depressed. She's like, I've suffered from depression and thoughts of suicide and anxiety. And you know, so many of my friends parents that, you know, like they won't, they're afraid to talk about it cause they're afraid that their parents will just put 'em on drugs and that's not what they want. So you know, where is, is there any answers, are there any guidance or advice that you can help that you've seen? I mean, I can speak from my own personal experience. My mother has battled depression her whole life and I always looked at depression as it's just life, suck it up. We live in the projects, our apartment's full of cockroaches. We're on foods cause that life sucks right now and that's what it is. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Until I got on that medicine. Then I realize firsthand that when brain chemicals get out of whack, you have no control over that. You're just along for the ride. And even like all the struggling that I did with it, as much as my wife and I spent time together and she loves me to the moon and back, she didn't understand it either. And like I would like it was all consuming for me, The medicine or the depression. Tell me when you add a little context. Yeah, the, the suicidal thoughts from this medicine. Like I would sit in my office for hours if thyroid. Yeah. So I've got hyperthyroidism and I, and, and, and let my customers in my old business, it was out a two way radio shop, a shop. So it was police, it's city managers and education. And I called my doctor's office and I was like, look, I'm having these terrible side effects. I can't, I'm in a fog. I'm thinking about killing myself all the time. I need to get in and get this medicine changed. And the response from the doctor was, that's impossible. And so I start typing into medicine into Google and it auto possible that you'd have a suicide from this medicine. And I start typing the name and took Google and it immediately comes up with suicide, autofill suicide. And so I've just, I just knew what it was and I quit taking the medicine and got on some different medicine and it cleared it up. But I wouldn't, again, I wouldn't expect a 12 year old to realize what it was. But it took that life lesson for me to realize that depression is a real thing. It's just not somebody having a bad day that things are out of whack. You're just kind of along for the ride. You have no control over it. My wife noticed a change in me, my colleagues, my business partner, everyone noticed a change. But when I kind of connected all the dots, I went back to all those people and told them that there's something going on. And I know it's the medicine, so if you notice me acting strange or weird, it's a side effect from this. But it was, it was brutal and they still, I don't know if it's kind of created [inaudible] the permanent situation will be or whatever, but they still pop into my head all the time and like combat it. I just know I don't want to die. I mean for me that's what it is. What does that feel like? What does it feel like to have suicidal thoughts and not want to die? It's, it's really, it's really strange. Like today I was thinking about it and I don't know why. Like it just pops into my head. I'm driving down the road, I'm leaving a school from speaking to to elementary students today and hang and myself just popped up. And so then I'm like, but I don't want my little girl to find me. Like I have these conversations in my head all along, no one that I don't want to die. Like I love my life and I love the mission I'm on and my family and friends and that kind of stuff. But it's really bizarre and difficult for me to explain because it just pops up. But like when it was all consuming, I'm like, I've got to die, but I need my wife and family to collect life insurance money. So how am I going to make this look like a burger? Or I'm like, I know what I'll do. I'll just put my, my workout weight vest on, go rent a jet, ski up and go on the ocean and jump in with a 40 pound weight. This that'll, you'll never find me. And I'm like, those are crazy. And like I realized that, but, but that's like you're watching your own movie while this is going on. Do you that kind of, I mean it was really, really weird and then it would clear up for a couple of days or a couple of hours or whatever and then it would be right back into, I just, I don't want to say hear voices cause I don't think, but I mean you could just kind of get your own thoughts and it'd be like, Oh, I've got to kill myself, but you know, I don't want some mass. And that sort of thinking about if I kill myself in the house and how's my wife and kid want to come back here. And, but all while knowing that I didn't want to die. And as soon as I got off the medicine, it really helped it. But like I said, there's some, there's still some lingering thoughts, but I just know that that's not me. And, but again, I wouldn't expect a 12 year old child on some kind of medicine having side effects to realize that that's exactly what it was. And, and like, that's why that little girl that came up to me crying and when she asked how you got rid of them, that hit me so hard because I like that statement. Let's see. You're not alone to that statement. That statement lets me know that she doesn't want to die. Right? She just wants to get rid of this stuff in her head. And so I told her that, that I didn't want to die and I'm stronger than my faults and I know you're stronger than yours. And you know, there's people that can help. And just talking. So back to the Paris stuff is, I think you need to communicate. But again, my wife would ask me what's wrong and I didn't want to burden her with it, right? So I would just tell her I'm nothing. I'm, I'm just, you know, I'm just going to function. Everything's fine. When really I had spent hours trying to figure out how I was wanting in my own life. So I, I think this will be very tough for parents. I think you need to encourage your children to speak to you about, no matter what it is, whatever it is, are dealing with struggling with, I think we really need to encourage our children and young people to, to just communicate with us and that it's going to be okay. And that I can get the helper, I'll do everything I can. And but it's, it's, it's a, it's a big challenge. So I think, I think what I'm hearing is, is offering your support unconditionally. Yeah. It's gotta be hard though when you have teenagers that are really rebelling and pushing back as they should, you know, like as part of a Rite of passage. But I'm really curious to learn more about your daughter who is a, as far as I can tell your only child she's in third grade. It's clear you love her. What are you teaching her? You know, like, it sounds like your intentionality and your consciousness over this is it sounds like it, you're not hiding from her. So what do you teach her? How do you, how do you kind of IM, you know, embed these better thoughts or at least not better thoughts, coping mechanisms? Cause I think that's what we're lacking today is we lack the ability to cope because what we're taught is take a drug or you know, numb it out, whatever. How do we cope? So how do you teach your daughter how to cope? So with my daughter, my relationship is we talk all the time and she can talk to me about anything and I don't hold her back. Even like music she listens to or whatever, I'm sure some of the music she listens to at nine is inappropriate, but she's going to listen to it. Right. And I don't want to do an interview. I want her to feel comfort. I want her to feel comfortable around me. Th th th th like she doesn't call me dad at nine years old. She calls me Michael because dad's babyish. Oh, that's crazy. But that's what, again, I think it's crazy too. And every time I tell people that that's what they say. But if what she wants to do, then I'm fine with it. I don't care. And I kind of started it because when we would go out and have our adventures, I'm like, if you need help, don't yell dad. All kids sound the same. Yeah, Michael said Johnson and I know it's you. And so the Michael thing kind of stuck with her, but we just communicate all the time and now I teach her to be kind. I'm a teacher too, and actually she's taught me stuff, you know, my daughter has, has never described somebody by the color of their skin and I'm so proud of that. How would you describe people? So I'll give you an example. Last year in third grade, she had two children of color in her class and the little boy, every time I'd see him he'd look at me, he'd be like, give me some money. Mr. Johnson gave me some money and I couldn't remember his name. So I asked her and she said, daddy, you mean that boy with a real curly hair? I'm like, yeah, him. And she saidJ and so the girl was the same way. I couldn't remember her name. And I was asking about the young lady. She said, daddy, you mean that girl with a real long pretty hair? And I'm like, yeah. And I didn't even tell her how proud I was because I didn't want to influence her. You didn't want to make it other, other, other, that person, the influence is going to happen and, and I, and I can kind of see it now. You know where it's coming in from school. And I'm really, and that's sad. It's not the right word cause I know it's coming, but you know, I just, I hate it because she's not raised like that. She, she, she's always looked at every one. It's just friends. And that's what's so special about, you know, especially elementary age students is they're just friends and good friends and they love each other and they look past all that stuff that as adults we've been kind of programmed to see. So I teach her to be got a teacher to talk like tolerance to Oh my God. Yeah. And everything. And also try to try to teach her to be aware like my child doesn't have the life that I have. Like my child doesn't have the life that probably 90% of the kids in our school have. We're always out doing stuff like, like this summer I use them. One of the things I learned in BYO or to have them be where your feet and remember tomorrow and I teach that stuff to my little girl and I share a picture with every, every group of kids. I speak to them. It's my family standing on the skywalk at the grand Canyon and I'm terrified of Heights. [inaudible] Walking on glass is not for me. And that nine year old girl, I'm standing at the door looking at him, that nine year old girl yelled at me, daddy be where your feet are. And I had, I had to muster up the courage to walk out there to have that picture made with her. But like that, that week that we were in Las Vegas, she's like, daddy, I want to, I want a Lambo. So I went and rented a Lamborghini for the two O's for they like her. Yes. There's not a missile. She's got a picture of it on her phone and we're getting on the plane coming in and the pilot's like, what's that? She's like, Oh, it's just the Lambo, the politics really. And so I, for her, like this weekend we went to a hockey game and that's just a normal Saturday for her. That's a once in a year event for it for other kids. So I really want her to be conscious of the life she has and we try to share. It's like we took her best friend with us and we go to amusement March. We take her friends with us and we want to share those experience with others. But I want her to learn and realize that, that it's not common and it is special and you don't want to go to school talking about it, making other children feel bad. And it's not her fault, you know, it's, it's just a Saturday for her. But I want her to be very conscious of that and, and, and we help out every way we can. My wife is just doing some stuff for backpack buddies with work. We always give to underprivileged students. Last year we were out of school for three weeks for hurricane and my wife and I went and got a trailer full of food they brought to the school because they were wanting to to pack up 1500 bag lunches for the students and we got a lot of credit for bringing this trailer food. But we didn't do anything. We went to the bank, we got some money out, we went to Costco. The people that deserve all the credit are the people that made 1500 sandwiches and delivered 1500 lunches. I did, I did the bare minimum there. But that's the kind of stuff. And that all came from my wife, you know, trying to be selfless. That's, that's, that's three things for me is seek happiness, be selfless and surround yourself with the right people. And let me, I don't think you can go wrong with this stuff. Yeah. I've had a lot of challenges though to be in poor, really affected Mesa. When I first started making money, I started buying stuff to try to impress people. Like you see these motorcycles, this means I'm made it. You see this big giant house for all you people that said I couldn't do with this means I made it. And I'm very open. I, I went as far as when I was 40 to buy a fake Rolex to try to impress people that didn't even know me. Like how ridiculous is that? You know, I'm, I'm your age. I just turned 45 and I think that there is a moment that happens. [inaudible] Excuse me. I don't know if it's in your forties where you're like, this is all bullshit. I felt like we could spend so much time where you realize that just to peel back the layers, but I think something does happen in your forties where you've got enough runway behind you where you start to realize what's important and what's not. And it sounds like, you know, you and your family have really committed your life to service. And how can I serve, you know. And I did want to pause for a minute about build your life resume because some people may not know what that is, but that's how we know each other. Ms through build your life resume and it is a community that was launched and started by Jesse Itzler. Jesse Itzler is a serial entrepreneur and ultra marathon runner. He happens to be that has been of Sarah Blakely of Spanx. And he's done amazing things, but he started this community called build your life resume. And it is, you know, how can you refocus what your time on not titles are not just getting an actual resume, but how can you push your self whether it's through your body or through your mind in a way where you focus on experiences and by nature, by pushing yourself in always being in a community of kind of pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone and looking for what can I conquer next kind of thing, or what can I experience, what can I share with my children? By nature you're going to do better in life. I don't know if I've explained that properly, but I'm curious to know of how you got involved. And it's, you know, like I've looked at your Facebook feed and it looks like you're signing up for crazy stuff like here and there. So tell me, you know, you have hyperthyroid. He says hyperthyroid, hyperthyroidism. So tell me more about your experience with build your life resume and what it's done for you. So I found Jesse through David Goggins and all that, started at a dinner, a business dinner one night, and we were talking about stuff. In some ways I think I was talking about I wanted to run a marathon at 40. I wanted to earn something. I'm not a runner. I'm not going to do it. It's not that important to me. I won't put in the work and effort and discuss like, have you ever heard of David Goggins? Who's the David Goggins? So I immediately started searching out David Goggins found ICH slur and then heard about the class. I signed up for three of them in a row. Because of the community. The community building those relationships were very important to me. So I signed up for three of them in a row. And, and like the last two, I didn't even take the, the classes or what the videos. It was all about community and building real relationships. And then I signed up for camp with the camp and that was a life changing experience when I wanted to to quit the endurance challenge a half a mile in and made it 12 point something. I'm like that's a half a marathon. So this was the very first camp. Build your life resume that happened a couple of weeks ago. And it was part camp, part restoration and part endurance challenges. Yes. Yeah, there was an endurance challenge. There was a cold plunge. We had seven or eight. You do the Copeland, I didn't, I took the chance, the opportunity to spend some time with, with Mark Brown of ex NFL player and was talking to him. But I mean we had amazing mindset speakers. The endurance challenge, I wanted to quit. I wanted to quit that thing a half a mile in and you would pass people and they'd say, keep going. You're doing great. And my, my legs were hurting and I just wanted to quit and give up. And midway through it I ran into a young lady that had to take a break and was crying in her hands and it hit me that if you quit, I quit. And then as, as I continued on, I was like, I can't quit because awkward in does is to give everybody else that wants to quit permission. It's okay to quit at 100% of the people that started it, finished it. I'm 100% of the people that did the cold plunge state in the two minutes. It was, it was really, it was so much fun. Like I can't explain, it's difficult for people that haven't been, that that's not part of the community to understand it. Cause I kind of get the, yeah, that's cool. Move on. Attitude from, from people that, that aren't in it. But I've signed up for 2,929 which is another, yeah, I'm doing an item. I'm in June. Oh my. Yeah. And three days before that I'm going to climb Mount hood in Oregon. Good Lord. Like I'm 240 pounds. Can't walk up a flight of stairs without me and I'm climbing two mountains in six months. Great role model for your daughter. I'm doing it for me, but I'm also doing it to show these kids that I speak to like I want that summit picture on Mount hood to say the picture pre the picture on the summit of if you surround yourself with people that refuse to allow you to fail, I'm telling you can do anything. And and, and that's it. And then again, the community at 2,929 will be the same as camp. And I want to earn something. I've had a ton of experiences that you can buy with a credit card. It's time to earn something and, and, and, and that's what, that's what I'm doing. 2020. It's going to be Epic. That is going to be Epic. A new decade. What a great way to do it. Well, how do people contribute to your mission? So the easiest thing to do right now is purchase books to donate to elementary students. It was, it's weird the, the plan was to sell books to schools that went very slow than it was to sell books to students. And one little boy at the first school I went to, Josh paid for his book with a bag of quarters. And that took me back to my childhood and the sacrifices my single mother had to make, you know, was that laundry money or was that money Josh's mother was saving for Christmas or birthday or maybe it was Josh's own money. And he just didn't want to feel left out and, and like, I wouldn't have carried that baggy at quarters in the school. I know I w I would've been too ashamed. That bag of quarters just said, you don't have a $5 bill. And so I left a book for every student at that school and every student at the next several schools, my wife and I've donated over 3,500 copies. And the response has just gotten larger than we can financially take care of ourselves. So the easiest thing, the easiest way to help out is, is donate books for elementary age students. And you can do that@bullyonthebus.com and just pick, I mean one book, a hundred books, anything helps. But these kids, like the pictures I get with these students that want books and can't afford, I had one child come up to me with a dollar bill and I was like, what's that for? He's like to buy my book. I mean, I didn't have the heart to tell him that needed four more dollars. Michael will take care of this. And I just gave him a book and I give books to kids all the time. How can you not, it's unbelievable to me to even be considered an author or to even think about like kids wanting this or looking at it. I mean there's 4,000 copies that are out there. If this little book that we wrote last year and shared this experience with kids, it's, it's can it be offered on and in the plans as well? Like how do you feel what you do? So I've talked about, I've talked to my people, I've got one lady that helps me out and she just is again in that circle of influence about, you know, getting us set up to where we do it on him. Cause we did every bit of it. We self published, she wrote it, she found a way to go I think in last year. Yeah. And again, it's a, it's a, it's a K through three or fourth grade books. So I don't know that process and I'm not going to let somebody tell me it's not good enough. I'll just do it myself. That's kind of the way I've always done things. We need to get it on Amazon, we need to do all kinds of other things. But again, the focus for me has kind of shifted away fromK through five. I'll still go speak at those schools. I love talking to those kids, but, but the, the focus for me has really moved toward a middle and high school in the mental health aspect and let these kids know that they're not alone, that there's help out there. That current situation is only temporary. Uand just encouraged them to chase their dream and to surround themselves with the right people. And if I did it as cliche as it is, if I did it, anybody can. And it's not easy, but it is simple. It's simple to surround yourself. The thought of finding the right people to surround herself with is simple. It's not easy. It's caused me family. Like my brother doesn't speak to me to this day. Yeah, that's why you said I was wondering what happened. He came to work for me. I'd been recruiting him forever to come to work for me and when I sold my business he's never told me, but I think what happened was he lit jealousy and envy fill his heart and I didn't give him money. And so he got mad. [Inaudible] That always it. Yeah. And I'm, I'm wondering what, you know, are there any advice you can give parents, adults, [inaudible] things to look out for if there was an option for us to intervene or educate people, you know, any, anything you know, that you've discovered on your travels that could help us? Yeah, so I think what we needed to do for kids is just pay attention, communicate, look at what they're consuming online. Look if they're hanging out with new friends and what's going on there. And look, we all had friends growing up that our parents couldn't stand right. And in hindsight, my mom was right. You know, she knew that hanging out with whoever was a bad idea. But, but I think communicating again for any relationship, right, it all kind of boils down to communication and letting these kids know that it's okay. And I had somebody tell me the other day that they, they weren't anti therapy, but they felt like kids think going to therapy's cool now. So everybody wants to go to therapy, not to me, that was the most bizarre statement. That's amazing. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, I like to ride that line. Yeah, right. Like, like you should, I mean, if your kid wants to go to therapy, then you, you need to start having conversations with them and talking to them and just let them go talk to somebody. Like when I was going, my therapist finally told me, she's like, you don't need to be here like you're fired. I just, I'm just like, I enjoy coming in and getting stuff off my chest and there's no judgment and it's not like talking to my wife and, and you know, she's had a day at work and you know, she don't want to hear, be griping about seeing racism in the world. And my therapist like, yeah, bring it in here, we'll talk about it. So for me, that's kind of where it just turned into as a way to to vent and talk and communicate and you know, that's what I'm hoping all for these kids at these schools with this exercise to just let it out, Get it off your chest. Let's talk about this stuff. I love what you're doing. So how can people find you? Everything is Michaels, ed Johnson websites, Michael's ed, johnson.com. All social media is Michael's ed Johnson will get you there. Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube. I'm too old for Snapchat. Take talk is where it's for all the kids. So that's what I tell them. Oh my God, I just sound so old. I'm like, you're too young for LinkedIn and I'm too old for Snapchat. Well, yeah, Michael Zaid, Z E D Johnson is where everything's at. And Bali on the bus.com. Well thank you so much. This was great. I love what you're doing. I'm thankful for what you're doing. If there's any way that I can help support you, I'd be glad to do it. Ah, this is a huge help now. We're just trying to get the word. I really appreciate the opportunity. I'm always honored when I'm asked to share my story. And one last question. So do you, you're in Myrtle beach, South Carolina. I saw that you just had a news story done on you on TV and it sounds like you're traveling or speaking in South Carolina. Are you traveling the nation or are you available for speaking at schools? So how do, how do people get in touch with you for that Website? Michael Zed Johnson.com is the best way to do that. But yeah, I've, I've got one of the guys from BYOR trying to get me to New Jersey to come speak at his children's school district. I was speaking in Nashville earlier this year. I went to Portland to speak. But yeah, anybody that'll, that'll listen to my story. I'll be happy to come speak. That sounds great. Well thank you so much Michael Johnson. I'm so glad you are a culture changer and thank you for [inaudible] being here tonight. You can't help but be so grateful for the self awareness and commitment that Michael's, that Johnson is made to really talk about bullying in a way that actually changes the culture. Thank you for all you do Michael. And as for a little left of center, these podcasts are available not only on your favorite listening app, but also on Decatur FM and on sales force radio. Text me or feedback get (470) 242-6311 go on. I'm serious. And if you haven't subscribed yet, my podcast, do it. Please leave a five star review. And most of all share this episode with all your friends and bullies. Culture changing is really a movement but only works when the ideas are shared. Thanks for listening and I will see you next week.

CEO Podcasts: CEO Chat Podcast + I AM CEO Podcast Powered by Blue 16 Media & CBNation.co
IAM511- Podcast Host Delivers Perspective-shifting Conversations

CEO Podcasts: CEO Chat Podcast + I AM CEO Podcast Powered by Blue 16 Media & CBNation.co

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2020 16:58


Allison Hare is the creator and host of Little Left of Center podcast, and has been a high achieving high tech sales professional for 15 years. Allison's insatiable curiosity and obsession with helping entrepreneurs, executives, and business professionals disrupt the status quo, led her to sharing the compelling stories of culture-changers through her podcast. Little Left of Center delivers perspective-shifting conversations with the most fascinating CEO's, founders, entrepreneurs, doctors, political leaders, religious figures, educators, comedians, authors, artists, seekers, and change-makers. Website: http://littleleftofcenter.co/   https://www.instagram.com/llocpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/allison__hare/

Forties Stories
Living Out Loud: Allison Hare, 45

Forties Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2019 47:52


I hope that today’s conversation and past episodes on this show will leave you inspired to live out loud. By sharing our stories, we feel connected. We feel seen. We feel less alone. And that’s my mission.   Allison Hare and I talk about being multipassionate, how women too often suffer in silence, and how she regained her voice and power on the birth of her second child. Allison shares a very personal and poignant story about how she became obsessed with her post-baby body and how one simple question brought her back to reality. You’ll also hear about her 2020 goal and a great productivity hack that’s helped her to be more creative.   Allison Hare is high tech sales professional, speaker, and activist. She is the host and producer of the Little Left of Center podcast, where she interviews culture changers and the most fascinating people who veer off the path of convention and change the way we live. She is launching a new podcast course called Press Play Podcasts in January.   Please head over to www.fortiesstories.com for the show notes and to connect with Allison. Every episode has a comments section, so please check it out and share your thoughts. You can also email me or find me on social media.   Finally, I am always looking for news on what 40-something women are doing and achieving, so please send me any stories, news pieces, or leads. If you are enjoying the show, I hope you will forward it to a friend and get a conversation started.   Thanks for listening!

Little Left of Center Podcast
Changing the Work Culture: Chad Hickey of Lucky Forks

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 45:57


If you are going to attract and keep the best talent, what does your company actually stand for? There has been a growing shift in the importance of work culture. Pay, benefits, 401K, snacks in the break room have all become table stakes. Today’s guest on Little Left of Center is Chad Hickey, founder and CEO of Lucky Forks. Lucky Forks is an organization that helps companies implement a social responsibility strategy. We discussed the impact to companies’ bottom lines as well as what multiplying social good can do for a global impact. Also, Chad was super fun and smart!  Transcript below. Lucky Forks Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook The New Voice of the Employee Podcast As for Little Left of Center, in addition to streaming on your favorite podcast app, these episodes are also broadcasting on DecaturFM and Salesforce Radio. If you haven’t hit subscribe yet, please make sure you do so you never miss an episode of these perspective shifting episodes. Leave a review. Share it with your friends and enemies. I’m also looking for sponsors for future episodes so feel free to follow me on the socials and hit me up. You can reach me by email, Instagram, or Facebook. Thank you so much for listening and I’ll see you next week! Allison Hare:                 00:05               Hey, I'm Alison Hare and welcome to little left of center, the podcast that interviews culture changers that are reshaping our world and breaking new ground. If you're going to attract and keep the best talent, what does your company actually stand for? You may have noticed a shift in the importance of work culture, pay benefits, 401k snacks in the break room. They've all become table stakes. And today's guest on little left of center is Chad a Hickey founder and CEO of lucky forks, lucky forks as an organization that helps companies implement a social responsibility strategy. We discussed the impact a company's bottom lines as well as what multiplying social good can do for a global impact. Also, Chad was super fun and smart. Please enjoy. So I am here today with Chad Hickey. He is the founder and the CEO. Is that right? Are you the CEO? Chad Hickey:                01:07               Yes, that's correct. Allison Hare:                 01:08               Of lucky forks. Lucky forks is a social responsibilities service. And I am so thankful not only to have you on the podcast, but it's so funny because I think that the social responsibility that corporations are now I'm starting to think about is kind of like when you are thinking about buying a Jeep or you buy a Jeep and then all of a sudden you see Jeeps everywhere. And and it's funny cause as I was preparing for this interview, I met this woman in Atlanta. So Chad is in New York city, but I met this woman in Atlanta who has a similar organization called social measures. And I thought, you know what, it is the thing, it is a thing. So I want to hear yeah. But I want to hear more from you to tell me more about, about you and how this came about. Chad Hickey:                01:59               Yeah. So you know, I've been in the advertising space for the past 17 years primarily in sales leadership. You know, started my career out in print that the Atlanta journal constitution. So I know you're in Atlanta, so shout out. Yeah. Allison Hare:                 02:13               The AJC. Yes. Chad Hickey:                02:15               Yeah. So I'm, I started my career there. You know, move to New York with a startup, work in various different, you know, technology companies. But you know what, what I was, I think they, you know, as you go through your 20s and your thirties talking about how you land kind of on what I'm doing today, you know, as you go through that, it's a scenario where you learn a lot of things of like what you want out of life and what you don't want out of life. And what I ended up doing was just realizing at one point when was I the most happiest in my career and I kept going back to different experiences that I had where I was doing something socially impactful. And I was lucky enough to work for a company who had, you know, a social responsibility strategy. Chad Hickey:                03:01               And I saw what that did for the organization. I saw what I did for employees, I saw what it did for the culture, those sorts of things. And so when I was saying, you know, what do I want, you know, as I go into my forties, because I'm not a spring chicken anymore, I go into my forties, you know, what do I really, what do I really want? You know, it wasn't necessarily about chasing the paycheck anymore. It was more about like doing something that made me happy. So that was where I landed when it came to social responsibility is it was really that was the catalyst and then it started to spiral into other things. To your point, like doing research on, you know, products that are socially responsible, but then also just the workforce change that's happening with gen Z because there is, I think such a fundamental shift happening that people aren't paying attention to where people want more. You have a generation coming into the workforce that will be 24% of the workforce next year and that's gen Z. You know, that's always grown up with school shootings and social media and they just think completely different. They, I actually get a panel had advertising week this week with a gen Z and I asked them to use words that describe themselves and one of the words that they used was entitled and abs first. Yeah, yeah. And so you probably have a, a reaction like Ooh, kind of a negative Allison Hare:                 04:27               Yes. Chad Hickey:                04:28               To describe yourself. But after thinking about that conversation, you know, what they were really saying is I'm worthy. You know what I mean? And they were saying, I am worthy to have a good clean environment. I am worthy to have a workplace that gives me in a work life balance, I am worthy to work at a company that shares my values and respects me as an individual. And I thought it was just so powerful that that was one the way they defined it and to just how they think so differently. But I mean it will be the largest transfer of wealth the next 10 years. In 10 years, gen Z will represent 75% of the workforce. And I just don't think that employ, like employers are paying attention to how fundamentally different they are. So that that's, you know, a long answer to how I landed on the company. Lucky forks. But you know, it kind of encompasses all of that of getting these companies ready. Allison Hare:                 05:22               And I thought what was interesting is I listen to your, your, I think it was the first episode of your podcast. What's the name of your podcast again? Chad Hickey:                05:30               It is the, the new voice of the employee, Allison Hare:                 05:33               The new voice of the employee. And I was kind of stopped dead in my tracks because I never thought of it this way, but you and a guest were talking about about kind of what the, the playing field is like when you're looking for a job. So whether it is gen Z, gen Y millennial, whether it's whoever is that you, what I remember about looking for a job is you want to make sure that there are good benefits. There's 401k, there's some security there, a ping pong tables, NYSE maybe that they have snacks in a kitchen, but I think that the point was those are table stakes now that when people are looking for a career, they want something that that the culture is going to fit them. And even when I, you know, like I've, I've worked for Salesforce, so Salesforce is real. Like we have social responsibility embedded in our culture and you know, even if I get hit up all the time by recruiters and I always, you know, think about, well, what if I were to go somewhere else? And the culture ; nothing beats the culture of Salesforce. And so I'm wondering from your perspective, why is social responsibility from a corporation so important to their bottom line? Chad Hickey:                06:52               Yeah, because it, it says that you care beyond profitability. I mean, if you look at what happened with the business round table in the 181 CEOs that, that came out and said, look, it's about the stake holder, not just the shareholder anymore. I mean, that was a very powerful statement, fundamentally different from anything that's ever been done in business. And I think that, you know, from that perspective, you know, these, these companies, it doesn't matter if you can play ping pong if you don't have a planet to live on in 30 years, you know what I mean? I don't care if you're like catering my lunch. Yes. To your point it is table stakes. And I'm not saying those things aren't noticed and they don't help, you know, gain an edge or get an employee, you know, in the walls of your organization. But it isn't the differentiator anymore. Chad Hickey:                07:40               And I don't even think having a social responsibility strategies should be used as a differentiation. It should be used as a responsibility. I mean, these companies have a responsibility because you know, there's a fundamental erosion of trust in the institutions that we could depend on in the past government, church, whatever. You know, people do not feel the same level of trust that they, that they have in the past. And so they are looking to their employer to say, listen, help me and build, build a future for me. You know what I mean? Or I'm not going to spend, you know, two thirds of my time at this job. And I think that's a very fair thing to, to expect. Allison Hare:                 08:22               Yeah, I think there's a cultural shift that has happened all across where people are looking at, where do I spend my dollars, where do I spend my time? Or is it going to be where my dollar is, my time, my resources, my intention is going to go to someplace that's going to be doing good. So whether it's things like Warby Parker and Toms and companies that are and even hanky panky, the panties company, you know, there, there are a lot of there are a lot of incredible stories that are going going along there and people have a lot more choices, which is some of the benefits of having a strong economy. And like I said, I work for Salesforce and a company that puts social responsibility in its forefront. But I find that, and again, I'm in the South, so I'm in sales, so I work with a lot of organizations that their companies tend to be stuck in a less socially responsible mindset. So how do you find companies that you work with? Are you looking at companies that are, you know, kind of moving in that space? Or how do you inspire companies that may not have thought that way? Tell me about your strategy for infiltration. Yeah, Chad Hickey:                09:36               No, it's a great, it's a great question. So we primarily focus on well there's two kind of answers to that question. One, we've, we primarily focus on companies within the advertising and tech space. And the reason why we do that is I believe the advertising and technology space can change the world for the better more than any other industry in business. And the reason why I believe that is because from a technology standpoint, we are changing the way people behave on a daily basis. Uber has changed the way we get from point a to point B. Amazon has changed the way we shop. Like we are fundamentally changing consumer behavior. And for you to think that that will not apply to the way that we volunteer or the way that we interact with nonprofits, you know, is just not realistic, you know? And so how do we make those companies realize that nonprofits out there cannot spend money on technology and they cannot stand, spend money on marketing, right? Chad Hickey:                10:40               Because they have to put as many dollars to the, the mission as they can. And so it's what we do every day, right? Like we are constantly focused on those two things. And so they need us as an industry to bring them along. And so I think getting into these organizations and talking to them about that and making sure that they understand that, listen, it's great that you went and planted a tree or it's great that you donated to, you know, this, this homeless shelter. And I'm not saying that you should not do that to be clear, but I do think that you need to authentically work, like lean into what you do on a daily basis as a company to see how you can amplify social good. So that's the first thing. The second thing that you know, when we're prospecting for companies is when I got into the location space in 2012, it really what I'm going through right now reminds me of that time because we were really building and evangelizing the importance of location. Chad Hickey:                11:41               The idea that, you know, where you went in the physical world, said something about you was still pretty new for most people. Right? And so we were out there kind of, you know, the company I was working at the time, which was ground truth. It was formerly known as X ad. You know, we were really changing the mindset and getting people to think a different way. And this past year of launching lucky forks and talking to people about social responsibility, it has reminded me so much of that experience because, and, and I'm thankful for that experience because it's made me realize that you have to meet people where they are. You cannot expect to walk into an organization that has no sort of strategy around social responsibility and say, you know what, you've got to have these policies and programs. You've got to have seven volunteer days, you've got to do all these different things. Chad Hickey:                12:31               It will overwhelm people. And so you've got to speak to them in a way that one I think doesn't feel overwhelming, but then two meets them where they are so that they see it and they feel it. And then they start to understand that. And time and time again, you know, when we work with companies now the first time they have an experience, one of the common comments we get is people will say, I get it now. Like I totally see how we can impact society. And so it's, it's understanding that process and respecting that process. And knowing that, you know, to your point, I'm probably 99% of the time walking into a company that probably doesn't understand its value, meaning the value of social good at the level that they can fully impacted. And so I've got to evangelize and educate that and bring that along the journey. Allison Hare:                 13:24               And I love what you said about it can be very overwhelming. Cause I, I thought about that too. There are so many causes to support. How do you help a corporation narrowed down how to help and what will make the most impact, as I imagine it's probably, you can go so many different ways. Like how do you, how do you narrow it down for them? How do you help them find what's, what works? Chad Hickey:                13:45               No, that's a, that's a really great question. I think it starts with their values. One and, and then two, it starts with who they are, like what they have to offer. And then three, it starts with, you know, what they are in the start, but you know, it is what their employees care about. You know, and I think that if you get those three things you know, at a basic level, you're gonna get, you know, to a strategy that can resonate. But you know, I think people try to boil the ocean a lot where they're like, Oh, you know what, it's so overwhelming. And, and in the company's defense the profits, you know, for lack of, you know, ill intention, you know, they, they are not the easiest to to work with because they're just trying to keep their head above water. Chad Hickey:                14:34               They are running with really lean staff. They don't have time to, you know, answer an email like in 30 minutes. And so, you know, I think a lot of companies kind of get frustrated, you know, with that process and that's understandable. But you know, when you start with the values, you've, you really from the values perspective, what nonprofit aligns with your values and then you dig into really what do they need? They may say, Hey, I need money. But you realize that they really have no sort of infrastructure or system to know when to reengage their donors. Then maybe you have the data and the technology to help them do that. You know what I mean? And so then there's a much more authentic connection between what your company does and then what that nonprofit needs from a corporate partnership perspective. But the, the thing that we say is, listen, social responsibility is not a volunteer day. Chad Hickey:                15:27               You do not go and you know what I love, I'm just going to make it up, habitat for humanity and I'm going to go and volunteer at habitat for humanity and now I am a socially responsible company. That's not how it works. That is, I am a company that has these values. I've found this nonprofit that I'm going to have a longterm partnership with and we are going to help each other and you know, help get to a common mission I think is the, the right way to do it. And then to understand that you've got to create smaller pads for your employees to plug in if they're not passionate about the one or two things that, or your corporation chooses, whether that be volunteer time off or some sort of matching program. So that they have their own personal outlets to then engage and connect. Allison Hare:                 16:15               So do you feel like companies typically do have their values established or is part of your service kind of flushing out what those might be? Chad Hickey:                16:24               Yeah. so that's a good question. I'm, I'm sometimes surprised, you know, when we have conversations, not necessarily that the companies don't know their values, but that Allison Hare:                 16:38               Are they clearly defined. Chad Hickey:                16:40               Yeah. Or there's too many of them or they just can't recite them, you know? I've worked in companies where the values were like drilled in our heads, you know what I mean? And so people would say, what's your values? And it was like, you rambled off. Right. And so I'm always a little surprised when I am, you know, meeting with a company and I say, you know, what are your values? And the people go, Oh, what was it again? What's the five words? Or, or you get into a company where maybe there's like 12 or 15 values and it's like so overwhelming that no one could really remember all of them, but you know what I mean? And so it is helping them kind of narrow that down and really engage the employees to say, what does the employees really care about and how do they describe the organization? And then how does that overall value definition get constructed? Allison Hare:                 17:32               So, and that makes sense to me. And he, you kind of touched on this a little bit, but this is kind of a burning question for me. Do you think that it is important for corporations to take a political stance because when it comes to valuers social, a lot of it so intertwined but so incredibly loaded, you know, when it emotionally loaded. So, you know, what are your thoughts on that? Is that important? Is that part of the strategic direction that you guys can offer? Chad Hickey:                18:02               Yeah, I think that the no longer is it as much of a faux pas to take a political stance where if you would've asked me this three years ago, you know, was recently that I probably would've been like, Oh, you know, like, stay away from certain issues. I think that if you authentically can connect the values of your company with a controversial topic that you want to get behindthat is when I feel like people are much more accommodating then, you just taking a stance to, to take a stance. And I think that you have to be, you know, if you're going to take a stance like that, you do have to be able to explain why. And we have a partner if you are listening to the podcast Teeds that partnered with planned Parenthood or put out, you know, with some other companies like full page ad in the New York times. And I asked that same question. I said, you know, what was there any sort of negative impact of that? And there wasn't because their organization really cares about the diversity and inclusion of all the people within their organizations. So it very much aligned with what their employees care about and they did not see any negative impact from it. Allison Hare:                 19:12               That's what I figured. That's what I figured. And Chad Hickey:                19:16               For a thing, it's a different way for people to wrap their heads around. It's fairly, it's, Allison Hare:                 19:20               This is so new too. Yeah. Chad Hickey:                19:23               Yeah. It's very understandable, you know, for companies to kind of go, Oh, you know, like what, where is the line and what am I going to step over it? Allison Hare:                 19:31               It's kind of like you can, it's not something that you dip your toe in. You kind of have to jump in, you know, if you're going to take a stance that like that. So whether it's political, whether it is a controversial social issue there's so much importance to that too. Yeah. And I'm, I'm curious about hiring practices. So from a cultural perspective, you've got organizations that are, are defining their values, they are defining social responsibility. What is your take, do you feel like companies that you hire to fit a culture or do you hire, do we expand what the culture could be? Chad Hickey:                20:11               Ooh, I love this question. You know what? I one time was interviewing a candidate at a, at a former company, and she said to me, she goes, I want to see not how you're a cultural fit, but how you're a cultural ad. And I love that, right? Like, if you were constantly trying to fit within an organization your organization doesn't evolve, you know, and I, I to to your point, I think that looks, there have to be fundamental values that you align. And one of the things that came out of the panel that one of the panelists said that I thought was super interesting because I said, at what point where do you draw the line that if your employer does something that you say, this is fundamentally against my values and I need to look for another job because you hear so many things around gen Z specifically, you know, really wanting to work for companies like that. And the answer was, you know, when it starts to impact who I am as an individual, you know, and so I think as an organization, as long as you can, you know, continue to you know, allow people to be individuals, you fundamentally stay within the bounds of who your organization is, but you continue to have that flexibility to evolve with different people. I think that's the strategy to take. Allison Hare:                 21:36               I love that. And it's funny cause I heard that question being posed or at least that concept being posed on masters of scale. And I wonder when so much talk is around culture. How do you find the right people? And I think it's interesting. So lucky forks, where did the name come from? And my second part is do good. Be ready. Is your tagline be ready for what? So tell me about your name. My mind is just going like, be ready for what? Speaker 4:                    22:07               Yeah, Chad Hickey:                22:09               I am not, look, while I'm serious about the value we bring to the industry, I am for people who know me also know I'm a pretty I, I liked to play practical jokes. I'm a, I'm a pretty you know, I'm not a super, super serious person. Allison Hare:                 22:25               I heard you do a great version of the Arkansas fight song. I might ask you to do it later. Speaker 4:                    22:31               Oh, Julie Stewart, Allison Hare:                 22:32               Julie Stewart. Speaker 4:                    22:35               But maybe, maybe that is true. But anyway Chad Hickey:                22:40               So you know, from now you've made me forget what the question was. Allison Hare:                 22:43               It was lucky for it, like the meaning of lucky forks and then do good, be ready. Chad Hickey:                22:48               Yeah. Yeah. I was like, Oh God, I started picturing myself in my head. But anyway, Speaker 4:                    22:52               So Chad Hickey:                22:54               You know, I wanted something playful. I didn't want something super serious. Walk is something that brings good fortune, but out of a lack of preparation. And I feel like a lot of the companies are not prepared for this fundamental shift. So that was the luck piece. And then a fork is about a fork in the road. I think it w it's, it was about a fork in the road for me personally to choose, you know, what I wanted to do rather than it just be about money. And then you know, also a fork in the road for these companies. And then a fork is a tool to, you know what I mean, that that feeds some sort of need. And so there were several different things that kind of kept bringing me to those, those two words. And I kind of liked the lightheartedness and ambiguousness of it because when we meet with people, a lot of people will ask that question. Chad Hickey:                23:42               So which is understandable. And then from do be ready, I mean obviously do good is pretty self explanatory, but be ready is, you know, speaking to our clients, like this is not a trend. It's not a fad. This is something that is what I tell people is think about it. Like when you used to go into offices and that they were all closed door offices and really high cubicle walls, you know, and it was just, you would, if you walked into an office in that way today, it would feel stiff or like an outdated culture. Right. That was probably the impression you would have, especially in advertising and tech. And what I, what I say to people is this next workforce shift is not as tangible as that. It's more of a feeling that it is something that visual and people are feeling it. Everyone's feeling it because I, I talked to people and they'll say, something just isn't connecting anymore. Or, you know, I'm not curing cancer with what I'm doing with my job. And it's more than just feeling this intangible workforce change evolution that's happening. And so that's the best way that I've been able to think about it in my mind of change. But the change is emotional. The changes you know, more spiritual or something that's not tangible, if that makes sense. Allison Hare:                 25:06               It does make sense. And I feel like that's happening all over the place where even how this my podcast little left of center has started is how can I do more and how can I be of service? How can I serve as kind of what I, I'm constantly asked myself, how can I serve? And so, and that kind of plays along with your concept of do good, be ready. Tell me about, give me five. Chad Hickey:                25:31               Yeah. So give me five. So, so here's what I'll say, kind of just piggybacking on what you, what you just said and then I'll get him to GiveMe5 is I completely agree and I think that where people overcomplicate it is they think that,uthat being of service has to the like I'm out there planting trees or building a house or whatever. And I, I just fundamentally don't believe that, you know, I think if you talk to any of my friends, I've never been a big like person out there volunteering or that sort of thing. You know what I mean? And so I don't claim to be, but I do think that as business people, you know, we have a responsibility to take those skillsets and see how we can amplify social good from that perspective. You know what I'm saying? I think that you've got to find where you're comfortable with giving back, whether that's just by making donations cause you're a busy person and that's okay. Chad Hickey:                26:27               And that was kind of where I always went, you know, in my direction was more just like in a monetary sense. But you know, kind of landing on one, giving herself that flexibility to really land on what your skill set is, but then to you know, really think about what makes you happy. So I just wanted to say that from a, from a GiveMe5 perspective kind of going into what do you know with, you know, by previous comment, what I knew was how to, how to run sales teams, right? Going into this, you know, I've been a part of the company who did the social responsibility program, but I was like, I know how much money is spent by entertaining clients. You know, there's, in our industry, there's a lot of fancy dinners, there is a lot of baseball games or concerts. Chad Hickey:                27:17               There's buying jeans and all kinds of stuff. Right? And what I'm sort of thinking about, you know, was how much money was wasted or, or not used in a fully beneficial way. And if there was a way to get a company to think about taking 5% of that budget, not necessarily finding new budget, but taking 5% of the budget they already have and utilizing that budget more for social impact and for ways that could actually be entertainment that gave back to community. So maybe instead of the really fancy dinner where you have three or four glasses of wine and forget what you talked about after the [inaudible] or that's what happened to me, Allison Hare:                 28:00               What it was, Chad Hickey:                28:01               Why not take that client out and do something in the community that and use that money that to actually give back. And so that's how GiveMe5 got started. And what I'll say is that the response from the advertising and tech community has been so strong that, you know, we launched that initiative April 1st Allison Hare:                 28:21               Because it's really a challenge to other organizations, isn't it? Chad Hickey:                28:24               You know, it is, it's, I say it's an awareness initiatives because it's really about the message, you know? Yes, it is this target of 5%. And it is a challenge because it's a challenge to think differently. But you know, it is, it's also to raise awareness. I had, you know, an agency CEO you know, say to me, look, we have had to put policies and programs in place because of the ways that we are perceived to be entertained. And he said, you are basically saying would give me five, you know, what we can entertain but do it in ways that actually give back to community so that it's more benefiting the public than it is about benefiting us through some sort of like, you know, more materialistic experience. And so so, so that, that was how it took shape. And you know, I'm happy to say that, you know, in seven months we've had, you know, 14 companies sign up and we have more coming on board. We already have people that are committed into 20, 20. And so, you know, and it's, it's, it's companies like Spotify and Hulu and you know, Outfront media that, you know, they have their own social responsibility arms, but they're saying, we believe in what this message is saying to our industry. Allison Hare:                 29:40               This like a utopian state. It sounds amazing to be able to do that. And even when you were talking before about the agencies or the companies that have the high cubicles and the closed doors, it really is like hierarchy versus collaborative level playing field, which I think is where companies are, are moving towards instead of just, you know, like the hierarchical ARCA goal. The little people don't matter. The big people do trivial. What is it, trivial many vital few where it seems like it's much more level playing field where everybody contributes in a way that's impactful, that's meaningful. So I can't see a loss in that, you know, why people would say no, which brings me to my next question is how do you, how do you measure success? What does success look like to you? Chad Hickey:                30:31               You know, success from, I feel success out of the response I see from people who have a volunteer day with us or you know, our Q3 giving five event. We funded a full year's worth of projects for a school in the lower East side and a silver, a school that is in the lower East side. And the principal and teachers came to our event and talked about for the first time they had iPads and computers and all of these things that they hadn't been able to, you know, afford previously. And we were able to partner with donors choose to at work, which is an amazing nonprofit. If people are not aware of it and fund those projects. And I think it's those, those moments that, you know you start to see your impact. And I think those companies felt their impact. But I will say, you know, being more high level from a lucky forks perspective is it is where the, the mission of the company is. His goal is to create social impact out of the budgets you already have and the time you already spend as an organization. Allison Hare:                 31:45               So it's just re-purposing. It's just repurposing. Chad Hickey:                31:49               It is, it's, it's saying guys, I'm not asking you to do different things. I'm asking, well, the only thing I'm asking to do differently is to think differently. You know what I mean? I'm not asking you to go find different money. I'm not asking you to change a behavior. I'm asking you to think differently about how you act currently and do it in a really easy way. You know what I mean? That actually when you take one company that then becomes five companies, that then becomes 14 companies that really starts to add up and can do some great social impact. And so so, so that's, that's kind of where I've measured success is watching that growth. Allison Hare:                 32:31               Oh, that's so cool. And I'm wondering, you focused on advertising and technology companies, are there plans go outside of that? Chad Hickey:                32:41               You know what? Yes. so we definitely have some plans to expand that with some different projects that I won't speak about right now cause Allison Hare:                 32:50               They're in the works. It's embark. Chad Hickey:                32:52               Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well there's a definitely a focus from everyone, you know, within the team of how do we scale our social impact and how do we find those things that, that can scale very easily and make a really massive impact. And I know that's very ambiguous, but you know, at, at my core, I am a technology person. I have worked in companies where I like data and I like to think about how you impact as many people as possible. So that's always been a goal. So the events, the experiences, all that will remain very fundamental. But I think in 2020, what people will see is that we take it to the next level to say, okay, how do we really maximize impact in a, in a more technological way. Allison Hare:                 33:42               Oh, that's so cool. And I'm wondering, Chad Hickey:                33:45               It's cool. And you don't even know what it is. Allison Hare:                 33:47               I don't even know. Well, it sounds like you're, you're expanding. So that's, that's important too. And it takes a lot of work. It's hard work to launch and run a business like you're doing. What do you do for fun? I know that. So I don't know if I, I don't think I mentioned this before, but my good friend Dooley's steward had texted maintenance. Like, you've got to talk to Chad to Hickey. He is just so up your alley. You've got to talk to him. He's amazing. And so that's how that's how I came to find you. But Dooley told me that you're really great at karaoke. Speaker 4:                    34:22               What do you do outside of work? Did this just sit there? Probably if she, when she listens to this is, I can hear her cackling, but so I do love karaoke. Ain't no way, but I read the Franklin is my go to song. Allison Hare:                 34:38               These boots are made for walking. Speaker 4:                    34:40               Well, you know what, maybe we'll sing together sometime. Chad Hickey:                34:44               You know what, I really love to travel. And, and then outside of that, I mean I could be much better about having a personal life. I think that, look, when you find something that you feel really inspired by and you you know, like you, it doesn't feel like work, if that makes sense. I probably spend a little too much time doing that, but I like it, you know, and so I don't really see that as a negative. Allison Hare:                 35:13               Where do you like to travel? Where is your favorite place? Chad Hickey:                35:15               Oh, Lake Como, Italy by far. So Speaker 4:                    35:21               Hanging out with little league budget anymore when I'm building a company. But yes. Chad Hickey:                35:25               I've been there twice now and that was actually a fundamental spot that, that made me land on the idea of doing, you know, my own company as I was at a, at a hotel there, and I was relaxing and I was traveling alone for the first time ever. And I was reading the book, the subtle art of not giving a sock. If people haven't read it, you definitely should. Yeah, Allison Hare:                 35:47               I think it's hilarious. Yeah. Chad Hickey:                35:49               Yeah. When you listen to the guy, you're like, Whoa, okay. But, but, you know, there's a part of the book that says, what are you feeling to, or what are you willing to feel pain for? And like, I sat straight up when I'd never thought of it that way. You know what I mean? Because look, I, you know, for us in my thirties had had really good jobs that allowed me to be really comfortable financially and I really just wasted a lot of money, you know what I mean? And I didn't know a thing, meaning to media. I didn't do anything meaningful with it, you know, and so it really came down to, for me and my pain point was, you know, are you willing to go back to living on a budget and you know, cooking at home and all those things that I wasn't necessarily doing a lot of if you feel strongly enough that this company, you know, solves a need in the market. And so that's where I just kept going back to that one question. As I really land on, you know, taking the leap and forming the company Allison Hare:                 36:50               And I love that too. And I can relate to that. Like I think when you love what you do, when you're passionate, when you feel like you're serving a purpose, you love it. You know, like you can't wait to do more of it cause it you, you can see the ripple effect of your impact. And I don't know that there's anything more intoxicating than that then knowing what you're doing is making an impact Chad Hickey:                37:13               Well and taking on, you know, it taking a different form than what you've thought. You know, initially it was just to be consulting and going in and forming social responsibility programs for companies. And it's really taken on a much different meaning, you know, for me, one, you know, the first thing was really learning nonprofits and what they needed. But then too and it's been something recently, fairly recently that, you know, someone pointed out to me, I was having a conversation with someone who had listened to the first three episodes of the podcast and they said, it's really interesting to me how many people in advertising don't think they provide value. He goes, I've heard multiple times on your podcast. People say, well, I'm pushing ads or I am, I'm not, we're not curing cancer here. And I was like, I've heard that a million times by friends in the industry. Chad Hickey:                38:06               And what I think is interesting about that perspective that really like made the hairs on my arms stand up is when did we get to a point that we stopped understanding the power to influence culture in a positive way. I mean, people who are in advertising shape behaviors, that's what we do. You know what I'm saying? And so who are we to think that we provide no value? If we take that skillset and use it for purpose, that it can be so powerful. So yes, you may not be the doctor that's in the operating room curing the cancer, but you can at least raise awareness through messaging around nonprofits or causes that you can donate to that then will lead to curing the cancer. Do you know what I mean? We play a significant part in that. And so you know the, the, the piece that is like taking shape is making people understand how we can really impact community if we do it in the right way. The problem is, is that most companies aren't thinking about, Hey, it's what I do all the time. It doesn't have to be something else. Does that make sense? Allison Hare:                 39:15               Yes. I love that too. I hope more people, I hope a lot of people listen to those podcasts because I think it's, it's sparking so much for me and I could imagine it makes perfect sense, you know, for people that run businesses, what if they could do more? But with the resources they already have, just reallocating them, you know, and, and even being able to impact like that ripple effect. And I'm curious, what do you know that you wish people could learn Chad Hickey:                39:44               To decide how to think? Ain't no way Allison Hare:                 39:46               I want to hear it. Chad Hickey:                39:49               I think that it is like take what you know and don't overthink it and find a way to provide the impact that that plays on your skillset. You know what I mean? In that you don't have to do it the same way as everyone else. Like you don't have to be this person that has always been volunteer of the year or those sort of things that really hone in on those skill sets that can create the most impact in the way that feels the most comfortable to you. And you know, I think that just as valuable to me personally as like what the company is also doing. And so I think it's letting yourself go through that process and like stop fighting the current as Oprah would say, and go with the flow. I tell people all the time, I feel more in the float my life, as cheesy as that sounds in my eyes. Wanna roll back in my head. Allison Hare:                 40:43               Right. Chad Hickey:                40:44               I feel more in the flow of my life like then I probably ever have because I'm kind of just going with the flow, which anyone who knows me knows I'm not great at doing. I try to can be a control freak. So, but you know what I mean? It's like, and maybe that's what you know, I would say is do, do what you feel is the right thing and then everything else will hopefully work out. Allison Hare:                 41:09               Yeah. It sounds like it's something that is deep inside you is kind of emanating, you know, like you're kind of living your truth to get all Oprah on you. But yeah, like Chad Hickey:                41:21               I'm going to again, like I'm so not like, you know, a, again, have these conversations. I typically don't do it publicly. But you know, I'm sure it can sound cheesy to some people, but whatever that truth is or whatever that flow is, like find it and then don't put too much scrutiny on yourself to be a certain way. Do it in the best way that, you know, Allison Hare:                 41:40               I love that. I love that. So how can people contribute to your mission? What is the best way? So five listeners, maybe they're in New York, maybe they're in Atlanta, maybe there's somewhere else. How can people contribute? Chad Hickey:                41:51               Yeah, I think that, you know, if you're in the industries, you know, that we've talked about and you have a sales team and you understand the entertainment budgets that are used and they give me five initiative speaks to you, then we'd love to have companies be a part. If you're a company that you know, has done a couple of things but you haven't really formalized a full plan then we can help you. I think that if you have annual sales conferences or company conferences, we're going up to Canada and a couple of months to actually do an annual conference with an entire company. And we're bringing in 300 kids you know, with a different nonprofit, like we can help you from that perspective. And then if you're just interested in learning more about the company in general, then you know, I'm happy to take calls, you know, and, and to talk to people about a little bit more transparency on the, the longer term vision of the company. Allison Hare:                 42:43               Chad, you're doing such awesome things. I love this. How can people find you? What's the best way to read you? Chad Hickey:                42:49               Well, you know, by email, you know. Okay. We give them that out chat at [inaudible] dot com you can find us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. And so, you know, we're pretty much on all the social channels, but you can email me directly. But those are the, those are the best ways. Allison Hare:                 43:06               So I'm wondering too, like how do you guys find the nonprofits or do they reach out to you too? Chad Hickey:                43:13               You know what? So we've spent a lot of time really vetting over 300 nonprofits ourselves. And we use different tools that are out there that we're, nonprofits are rated to see how much money actually goes to the mission and that sort of thing. But most of it is like that's doing our own research or word of mouth. We also have an office in the center for social innovation. And so that is almost like a social impact. We work for a lack of a better comparison and it is all companies and nonprofits and any sort of organization that has a social impact tie to it. And so we've been able to experience some, some really or, or meet some really great nonprofits also through just our office space too. So in fact, our Q4 event is a carnival for homeless children where we're partnering with a nonprofit called knock, knock, give a sock, which we met through our office and they were an amazing organization that does SOC drives for homeless people. And so we're going to be doing a holiday carnival with the companies that have taken the pledge and bring in 250 kids so that they get to experience something at the holiday. So Allison Hare:                 44:26               I love that and I love that employees get to be face to face with people that are facing challenge. I think based on my own experience, it's one thing to learn about it, but when you're kind of in the midst of it, it changes you in a way, in a good way, you know, in a more compassionate, empathetic way. So I love what you're doing. Chad. Thank you so much for, for your work and your impact for taking time with me. You are culture changers. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Chad. I love tugging a chat. Hickey of lucky forks. I'm a little disappointed I wasn't able to get him to sing the Arkansas byte song during our chat, but I loved the impact. Lucky forks is ushering by helping companies define and execute their social strategy. I've linked to Zim foe in the show notes. As for a little left of center, in addition to streaming on your favorite podcast app, these podcasts are also broadcasting on Decatur rep them and sales force radio. 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Little Left of Center Podcast
Ideas, Investors, and Elevating Women of All Colors: Nathalie Molina Niño

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2019 58:54


My guest today is the epitome of a culture changer, Nathalie Molina Niño. She is an investor, serial tech entrepreneur, founder of Brava Investments, daughter of immigrants, author of the book LeapFrog, and a fierce advocate for building businesses that benefit women - particularly women of color. When we met, she was down to earth, has a ton of moxie, and is so rich with life-changing perspectives, tactics, and as she likes to call them, short cuts! If you are a person who is thinking about how to make your own impact, THIS is the episode you will want to hang on every word and share with your crew. Please enjoy (Transcript below). Nathalie Molina Niño O3 Outcomes Over Optics Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter Leapfrog Hacks Fast Company: Why is #Finance So White? - written by Nathalie Molina Niño This podcast is built for people who care about making an impact. And it's working! I truly hope you’ll not only subscribe, but leave a 5-star review and continue sharing these episodes. I'm also looking for sponsors for future episodes. You can reach me by email, Instagram, or Facebook. Thanks for listening and I'll see you next week! Nathalie Molina Niño Interview Transcript: Allison Hare: 00:05 Hey, I'm Allison Hare and welcome to Little Left of Center, the podcast that interviews culture change or is that are reshaping our world and breaking new ground. My guest today is the epitome of a culture changer. Nathalie Molina Niño, she is an investor, a serial tech entrepreneur, founder of Brava investments, daughter of immigrants, author of the book leapfrog, and a fierce advocate for building businesses that benefit women and particularly women of color. And we met, she was down to Earth, has so much moxie and is so rich with life changing perspectives, tactics, and as she likes to call them shortcuts. So if you're a person who is thinking about how to make your own impact, this is the episode you'll want to hang on every word and share with your crew. Please enjoy. I am so excited. I'm going to hit like fan girl out on you for a second. Allison Hare: 01:02 But I'm here with, with Nathalie Molina, Niño, am I, am I pronouncing that right better than most. Better than 99% of most my gift. It's mine. One of my gifts is that it's the Jersey thing. Yes, yes, for sure. And so Nathalie is a fact, the founder and CEO of Brava investments. She is a serial entrepreneur and author of leap frog, which is such an amazing book. I'm a fierce advocate of women into theater and arts, like known as the story teller. I mean just the widest myriad a multi-passionate ,I mean you're just, you're just fierce. And this is a little bit of a full circle moment for me because a year ago I had I had an idea and I had an idea for an app. So it was like a crowdsourced app for for women going through up from maternal health. Allison Hare: 02:03 So women that were interested in fertility or pregnancy or postpartum, and it was a crowd source app where people can review and find reviews on their ob Gyn as it relates to birth and like c-section rates and all of this. So I was speaking to somebody that I think you might know and her name is Jen maser. Yeah. and she, she mentioned you and she mentioned brava investments. And I'm like, what? So Brava investments is this VC or this venture capital firm that invest primarily or invest in women and invest in I'm probably screwing this. I'm just gonna interview myself while you're here. You just relax and make sure I'm not screwing anything up. So Brava investments, invest in companies that benefit women and. Nathalie MN:: 02:56 Brava actually is no longer I stepped away from brava. I am the founder of Brava and I'm now working on a next iteration of really my journey as a, as an investor based on everything that I've learned. Allison Hare: 03:10 So this is happening in real time or I haven't done enough research.? Nathalie MN:: 03:14 No, that's okay. So, so brava, you know, I was the founder and I haven't even launched what the next thing is going to be. I'm planning on launching it before the end of the year. So yeah, I mean it, it's real time and the focus of brava came obviously for me and the thesis, while it will evolve and it'll be bigger and even in my opinion, more amazing. Uthe one kernel that won't change is the thread that continues throughout, which is I invest in companies that can prove to me in some measurable way that they're impacting women at scale. Right? So that we're not just talking about creating one woman billionaire, but we're talking about raising up a billion women. Allison Hare: 03:50 Yes. So as I was as I was reading your book and realize the kind of impact that the companies that you touch or that you're interested in and that it that you invest in is so wide and varied and you are born of a multicultural la. What is Latinex? What does that mean? Nathalie MN:: 04:09 I Love that. Latinex it's, it's funny I see it as a group of mostly young people of Latin American descent who are seeing some of the limitations of a language that insists by design, right? Like many romance languages of having the feminine and masculine to everything. And it's a little bit like the one drop rule where it's like you can have a room of 500 women and they're Latinas. But the moment there is one man in that room. Now you have to use the word Latino's because that's the convention in Spanish. Right? And so what's happening with Latin X is a group of people that are saying, we don't like that. Nathalie MN:: 04:49 We understand that. That's how the language has always been structured. And it's been like that for hundreds of years. We know that language evolves. And so we're going to evolve it in this direction. And from now on, we say the non-gendered Latin x, which means it's not Latina, it's not Latino, it's no gender. I, it was an interesting journey for me to even think about that by the way, because I ended up going through the entire book leapfrog and removing all of the places where we were using Latino as the mixed gendered default. Yeah. And I'm trying to figure it out. And then meanwhile, we're super in the weeds. And then you have people that are not even in the community that are going, what the hell is this x thing? Yes. But primarily, and the point is that that 2% of VC funding goes to females and just a fraction of that go to what females of color? Allison Hare: 05:37 Women of color. Yeah. 0.2%. And I can't imagine that 98% of that, you know, that 98%. Nathalie MN:: 05:46 Yeah. That 98.8% of the good ideas, right. Can't, aren't coming from the group that happens to be the most entrepreneurial because it turns out that while in the u s and this is a stat that everybody knows, I think you women are starting more companies than men. And that's been the case for a long time. But the crazy thing is that of those women led startups, eight out of 10 of them are started by a woman of color. So how is it possible that the single most entrepreneurial community in this country is getting 0.2% of the venture capital? It makes no sense. Allison Hare: 06:17 So what are we getting wrong here? Like are women getting something wrong? Is it systemic? And why you like how, what ignited your fire? Nathalie MN:: 06:30 Uh I love that question because I think that a lot of the things that you see out there tackling this problem come from the frame of how are women broken and how do we fix it? Right? And I think that we need to be turning our eye more towards the system that's excluding them in what is clearly a systemic way. When you think about the numbers 0.2% is ludicrous and there's no explanation for that. Right? and, and you know what, what stirred me was, first of all, there's a lot of us, there's a group at Wharton that developed a study called project sage led by an amazing woman named Suzanne Beagle and project sage came out I believe two, two and a half years ago. So like 2017 and they cataloged all of the funds and all of the investment firms that focused on women. And at the time it was over 50 of us. And then they redid the study a year later and now we're upwards of 80. So there are a lot of people in the space. But when I was just beginning brava and really just beginning to invest full time I was coming out of a period of time where I was really focused on educating women, giving women resources and mentorship and all sorts of tools. Um as a part of the Athena Center, which is a center for leadership studies, it sits inside of the women's college connected to Columbia Barnard. And so I had spent years working on women and training them and providing them tools. And then it became really clear to me after working at that point with thousands of women that we were not the problem. Yeah. And that at the root of almost all of the moments when I saw a woman's growth and a woman's company's growth impaired, it was typically a lack of capital. And so I thought, well, if I'm going to get to the root of this issue, I'm going to have to get my hands dirty in the world of finance. So at the time, this was in 2015 I looked around and I kind of took a Cadillac. This is pre project sage. This is pre Wharton. Cataloging any of this. And I did my own catalog of this space and what I found was things that I couldn't quite get behind. Right. I found a couple of things. I saw that the funds that focused on benefiting women were only investing in women led startups. And while I am, no one can argue a huge supporter of women entrepreneurs, if I'm choosing between a company that is, I don't know, building an app to tell you what color lips to wear a lipstick to wear or you know, founded by a woman or I'm choosing between that and say two dudes that have cured breast cancer. I'm not going to invest in the app telling you what color lipstick to wear when I am sitting on the potential for a cure for breast cancer. And do I wish that that company was founded by a woman? Absolutely. But you can fix that. You can fix an executive team that needs more diversity. You can fix boards that don't have women. Those are fixable problems. Something core, like a business model that is working on lipstick versus working on breast cancer. You can't fix that, right. And so I'm always going to go towards the thing that's going to impact the most women, even if that means investing in male founders and then trying to fix their diversity issues. Allison Hare: 09:36 Is that unique to you? Because I feel like in your book you mention Arlan Hamilton who she is like a personal hero of mine and he's like, I don't know if you listen to that Start-up podcast series with her, God, she's amazing. You know, like both of you and Kat Cole who is, you know, she's here in Atlanta. So she is not only a global hero but a certainly a local hero as well for what she's doing,ufor women and women in business. So, you know, my question is how, you know, do you look at the world as things that are broken that you can fix? Like what is it? And like how does your brain organize information or you know, is there some part of it that's like, I can make money off of this, you know, like how does your brain organize where to spend and invest your time? Nathalie MN:: 10:27 I love that because I don't separate them. And here's why. I'll answer your last question first. So I don't think, how do I solve this problem or you know, it's not a choice between how do I solve the problem or how do we, or does this make money? Because I have come to the conclusion, and I came to this conclusion a long time ago, that the way that people certainly in the investment world are super excited about the next new shiny object, whether it be cannabis, whether it be AI, whether it be cryptocurrencies, right? These sexy, novel things that everybody starts pouring money into. The only way that investing in women or in businesses that benefit women is going to become the sexy new shiny object is if we prove to the market that it makes you more money than other categories. Well, that was the other thing that you said that men, people invest in ideas and women, they invest in outcomes and so they have to prove it first. So do you feel like, like how, how do we level the playing field or do you play the game where we've always played this way that you have to work extra hard, you have to prove, you know, and go above and beyond to prove that you can be in the same, you know, on, on the same playing field. How do you break through? I don't, I use this term and I others people have as well, but hustle porn, this idea of like we've gotta be the first one in and the last one out and work as hard and you know, that's a recipe for burnout. And then now amplify that to an entire community and get the word out and tell, you know, entire generations of be that entrepreneurs or just really ambitious career people. That this is how you get ahead and what you get as a whole community of really tired people. Right. And I think that what we also know is that you know what historically the big boy deals happen on the golf course or you know, I mean a lot of things happen in these contexts that aren't actually about working longer and harder than anybody else. It's about being strategic. And so that's really what I focus on. I work on focusing on what are the strategic moves that allow us to shortcut our way to success, not because we're cheating because I think that this is a thing that sometimes happens. Certainly when we tested the term shortcut, which I wanted to be on the cover of the book,usomehow or I would have liked for it to even be the title of the book. Nathalie MN:: 12:46 What we found is that women associate the word shortcuts with the word cheating. And the reality is, is anybody who has gotten success in any way that you define success have done it because they've taken shortcuts and they have been, you know, obviously there's a range of shortcuts that are kind that are illegal and get you landed in jail in the short time that are just efficient. Like, if you have a contact at somebody in a corporation that can get you your kid, an internship that is going to change the trajectory of their whole career, why wouldn't you do that for your kid? Right? And what we have as a whole segment of the population. And I think women oftentimes fall in that bucket that are not armed with those shortcuts because they're not aware of how they're done. Or they're just not thinking in that way where they can come up with their own shortcuts that no one's ever come up with before. Right. Because there's almost this idea of, I've got to go the long way. To your point, I've gotta be perfect. I've gotta be the first one in the last one out. But that's not how people have been successful in the past. And so we just have to be armed with our own set of shortcuts, which is ultimately why my book is basically 50 of them. Allison Hare: 13:45 So, and I love a lot of the shortcuts and my favorite one is Getting to NO, and you know, you're a great storyteller. If you wouldn't mind telling me about people asking you about getting to YES or at least naming a speech of yours or naming. Nathalie MN:: 14:00 Yeah, yeah. I mean that, it's funny, that hack came because of a very specific experience. I was somehow muscled by one of my best friends into doing a talk at this amazing conference called Animus in Puerto Rico, but I had never heard of it before my ignorance. I just had not known what it was about. And so a friend of mine kind of muscled me in and she said, they're getting a two for one deal. I get to speak if you also speak and I already committed you. It's like, great, but I get a weekend in Puerto Rico out of it. So I went,uI didn't think too much of it. They gave me the title of the talk and the title of the talk was the same title as the classic negotiation book getting to Yes. And so I was supposed to come up with some inspirational talk about getting to yes. I honestly didn't put a lot of thought or energy into it. I showed up, I decided the night before to go check out, you know, the space, and I walk into a room with over a thousand chairs. Beautifully organized. Clearly this conference is not a little podunk, you know? No, no one's ever heard of it kind of conference. Yeah, and I think, holy crap. Okay, this is bigger than I imagined. And then I go look at the lineup and I find out that one of my idols, Sonia Sotomayer so it's in my yard, Justice Sonia Sotomayor is speaking before me. Oh my goodness. And I nearly peed my pants and I thought, great, I have this totally mediocre. Talk about a talk topic that I didn't even choose. You didn't even feel like it was yours. You didn't feel like it was resonant with you? Not at all. It was kind of like I was really phoning it in is what I was planning on doing and I thought, this is ridiculous. A, I never phone anything in B. This is just me being tired. This happened by the way, I think a month, maybe even just a couple of weeks before I launched brava. Right. And Brava was fortunate enough to have a launch that was somewhat propelled and helped by the Obama administration. I used to advise the council on women and girls and they allowed me to launch my company with the United State of women at the White House in October before the administration had concluded. And so here I am just a couple of weeks before that preparation for the launch of my new company and I'm in Puerto Rico, kind of phoning it in. If you can imagine when I looked at the size of the venue and then I saw who was speaking before me, I thought, okay, this is, this cannot stand around [inaudible] excuse me. You are being called honey. I know. Excuse me. So I throw my speech away. Obviously I start over from scratch and I realize in that moment that we have been told by the folks who have been functioning in the old school sort of rules that getting to yes is the, is the, is the goal right? The, the default, which is what I think getting to yes means is that the default is no and you have to get people to convert from that no to the yes. And that's how you win. And I'm thinking that's not really the paradigm that women work in. First of all, what do I ha, you know, glass half empty perspective on the world that everything is a no until you convert it to a yes. So I object to that view of the world to begin with. And second, when I think about the talent and the super power that women have, it is not a challenge to get to yes. Women as individuals who have been saying yes to things like getting paid 70 cents or in the case of Latinas, you know, 55 cents on the dollar. We've been saying no to the injustices that we're subjected to every day. And it's actually something that we're really good at both in getting to yes within our families, both in being accommodating like yes is the rule by which we live and how we survive and how we've survived in this society as it is. And if anything, what we need to do is figure out how to say no. And so I ended up writing a speech overnight about essentially how we have to exercise that muscle of saying no. And if there is anything that compliments our super power for making lemonade out of the lemons that sometimes we get, it's actually this compliment of being just as good at saying no to the injustices, no 55 cents on the dollar, no to doing most of the hard, hard work. Um,even in the home, right? No to all of the things that don't make sense and using that muscle because I don't think we use it enough. All of us, myself included. Allison Hare: 18:14 But I think, I think that touches on something cause I feel like it's such a profound concept that, you know, like somebody like me who is scheduled from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed and a lot of it is I have the ability to say no, I just don't want to miss anything. Right. And I W I want to be there. I want to be the reliable one. Yep. And that really resonated for me. And I even think about it as dating, you know, like I met my husband when I was 34 and I had, you know, my first kid at 38, my second and 40, you know and I remember I, there was like a stretch of five years where I was single, you know, and I was like the quintessential single girl and I would go on dates because I should, you know, like even though I wasn't that interested and the moment it was, it was very clear for me was like, the discernment of this is not going to add to my life. I don't feel like it, you know, or this guy, I'm just, it's, you have, it's like almost like an internal trust of what is going to be nourishing. Yeah. And what is not going to be nourishing. So that's kind of how I put yes. But that's kind of how I process that. Nathalie MN:: 19:23 Um that concept of getting to know and it really does feel good in the, one thing that I will say that even though this is, this sounds like the sort of thing that only an investor would need to do in becoming an investor, one of the things that I had to do is I had to come up with my thesis, which industries am I going to invest in? What stage of companies am I going to invest in? And I had to make that decision based on where my superpowers are. Right? And so for example, even though I have worked with a lot of early stage women owned businesses, if you look at my career in tech for 15 years, most of my time was spent working with big companies like Microsoft, big companies like Starbucks, like Disney, like Mattel, MTV, the BBC, and making them bigger or taking a product that was just being launched and taking over the world with that kind of thing. So my background is probably better suited for that later stage company. That is where I have the most experience. And so one by one I went through and I decided this is my thesis. I do later stage investing. I focused on healthcare. It previously was education and consumer. Now I'm doing healthcare, consumer and infrastructure with a climate lens because I'm a former environmental engineer that never worked in her field. And so basically I figured out what are the things where I'm strongest and where my interests are also strongest. And let me figure out that this is my thesis. This is my lane. Right? And what happened is that now based on that, when an entrepreneur comes to me in their seed stage, when an entrepreneur comes to me and they're in the entertainment industry, these are not my industries. It might be an amazing startup that absolutely deserves to be invested in, but not by me because my thesis is clear. Yes. And what's interesting to me is I think whether you are an investor or not, that exercise is a really powerful exercise. And deciding where are my superpowers, where is my time best spent? And what happens is once you have really clearly articulated that saying no becomes so much easier. Allison Hare: 21:17 And the way I process that is, is to stand in your power. And when I was listening to your book, because I don't have any attention span to actually turn pages and read, but I can listen and process information. But as I was listening to it, you had objection after objection after objection that was knocked down and actually not even just knocked down, but just empowered. You know, like I don't have money, I don't have time. I don't know technology, I don't know, you know, like you called it the valley of death. And that's what happened to my idea. You know. So I started that and I'm, I'm grateful to be in this place where I have such a passion for culture to changers, which is how you're just sitting in front of me today. In my, in my husband's weird office. But but I think that standing in your power and not making excuses, but like owning what you're powerful at is probably the greatest gift you can give women. And one of the things I thought about is there are probably in this, this you can probably relate to, you're very multi-passionate you're very multifaceted. So I imagine that the people listening here in many cases are entrepreneurs. They are people who are interested in making a contribution. That's not just, I need to make a lot of money, but like I need to make an impact. Right? So how do you coach women that are either, so multi-passionate to either pick a lane or people who feel like they have gifts and talents but don't know where to start? Nathalie MN:: 22:55 They don't have the idea, right? Like how do you coach women to kind of cultivate their own power? I mean the two things that, cause I feel like those are two problems, right? There's the pick the thing I'm going to focus on, right? I tend to shy away from using the term pick a lane, even though it's one of those terms that comes to my mind all the time as well. Only because I find that oftentimes when people tell me pick a lane, it's really just a way of having me be limited in what I'm doing. Yeah. Right. And so I, yeah, I'd never want to limit these creative spirits. Right. And then there's the, the question of like, well, I don't have an idea. You know, how do I come up with an idea? But I feel like I want to do something entrepreneurial for those people. What I often remind them is that no company is ever taken up and, and you know, created and built and grown with one person. And people forget that entrepreneurs come in many shapes and sizes and introverts and extroverts in every possible, you know, quality and all. A lot of the Times people forget that that number two partner, that co-founder, that third employee, fourth employee, these are essential to making any entrepreneur successful. They are essential to any startup. And I think that if you have that entrepreneurial drive, but you don't have the idea, be someone's number two, find yourself a co founder, hitch your wagon on an idea that you absolutely love that maybe wasn't yours. You're still an entrepreneur and you're still exercising that entrepreneurial muscle. And so that's, that's that one. And then for the person who is deciding sort of where do I focus because I do have, you know, 10,000 interests. What I often remind people is that it's not that you have to choose one, it's that you just have to decide what order you're going to do them in. People make the mistake of looking at Martha Stewart and her empire, right? And think two decades to build that empire. People forget that she built it one component at a time and they look now at the TV show on the magazine and the merchandising products and right. All of these things happened incrementally. So nobody's asking you multifaceted, amazing creative person to pick one. All that the world needs is for you to decide which one you're going to do first. And I'm wondering when you consider investing or do you invest in an idea and a founder, you know what's important to you when you consider, you know, what's going to make the most sense? Cause there are a shit ton of ideas out there. Allison Hare: 25:22 And you're probably a hit from every angle. Like how do you, is it intuition? Is it gut? You know, how do you operate? Nathalie MN:: 25:31 You know, I think you try to process it. You try to create a process that takes some of the subjective out. You definitely try to do that because we all have biases. We all do. There is an amazing Broadway show called Avenue Q. Um, and there's a song that I always, that always comes to mind when I think about this, about everyone's a little bit racist. And the truth is we all are, you cannot live in a society where the bad guys are always black. Oh, we organized information. No, that you just stereotype to move on. We're just flooded. Well, you're also fed the stereotypes when the right, you know, the bad guys always black and the cleaning ladies always Latina. Nathalie MN:: 26:06 I mean, whether you want to believe the stereotypes and you know, these racist tropes or not, they're fed to you every day. Right? And so I think that there is an element of creating a process by which certain elements of selection are blind by which there's more of a democratization to access to information. But to your point about getting the same ideas multiple times, I have gotten the same tampon delivery service pitch to me at least 20 times. Right? It's not to say that it's not a good idea, but what ends up separating the one example of the same business for example that someone like me might choose is ultimately the formula of a great idea combined with a founder or a set of founders who you trust to be able to be uniquely poised to deliver and execute on this idea better than anyone else. Allison Hare: 27:01 How do you know when to take a gamble you mean or not always? All of those, that same time, you know, like how do you know? Nathalie MN:: 27:09 Well, here's the thing. I think sometimes you can't know and so it's time I have taken months. Allison Hare: 27:15 Do you feel it in your gut? Like some type of formula? Nathalie MN:: 27:18 I mean sometimes the, the, the gut to continue a conversation is ultimately the thing, right? But the gut has to be combined with data and sometimes that data is time. I have taken eight months to get to know founders. I have a set of founders who I love and they just happen to be in the middle of an unfortunate piece of litigation at the moment. But it's been a really interesting exercise for me to take the last year, year and a half to get to know them as human beings, to connect them to press when they needed a press, to connect them to other people who might be helpful to them. And so to, in the process of kind of coexisting with them, take in the data of how they react to certain situations and how they respond and you know, how were they in a pinch? Seeing them sort of live in an action. It gives me this sort of data that maybe validates an initial gut feeling because you're right, at first it was a gut feeling that these founders had potential. And then what happens over the course of many months in my case is getting to know them as human beings in his founders and seeing if my gut was right. That is so cool. I'm, Allison Hare: 28:17 And I'm wondering what is when do you get really lit up? Like tell me about the last time that you just were bursting at the seams. So whether it was an idea, like what about what you do? Cause you, you have something very unique that you carry a voice for a lot of people that may not know they have a voice. You have a very heavy responsibility where you are going against not only, you know the VC money and then minorities on top of that. Like you're constantly going against the grain. So what does success look like to you? Nathalie MN:: 28:58 Wow, that's a heavy question. You know, success looks to me, in a way. I think it's ups, it's, it's rendering a lot of what I'm doing obsolete, right? Success looks to me like people realizing that investing in companies that benefit women and especially investing in women isn't charity. It's just smart business. Right. so and, and to me the data has already been proving that out for a long time. And the fact that research after research proves this out hasn't changed the behavior of the investment community. And so it's clearly what's left is culture change, right? Because the data proves it out. If the investors made their decisions based on data, we would be swimming in women entrepreneurs getting VC money in all sorts of other money loans, you know, all sorts of other institutional capital. But what has to be happening now is more the culture shifting. And that's why interviews like this are important to me. Right. The other thing that, to me success looks like is that more investors look like you and me, that we have more women writing the checks, that we have more people of color being responsible for who gets the money and who doesn't. Because I think that once that happens, then we're not asking for anything. Right. I'm a big believer in not even having the conversation about whether we have a seat at the table. I love entrepreneurship because it is not about asking for a seat at the table. It's about creating your own new table. Yeah. Right. And that's why getting the investor community to look like you and I is probably the most telling for me. Sign of success. Where have you seen the culture shift in the, in the, not just you elevating entrepreneurs but in people saying yes and money flowing to these new companies. Allison Hare: 30:50 What is that needle moving look like for you? I will tell you. And how does that manifest itself? Nathalie MN:: 30:55 I have, I have to anonymize the names because these are startups that people know and their rounds that are highly publicized. But there was a relatively visible round of financing that happened and closed earlier this year. And it was a woman led startup and she was in a place where she had gotten enough traction with her business and enough attention publicly that her deal became a sexy deal that a lot of investors wanted a part of. Right? Not every founder is in that position. So she was in that fortunate position because of a number of factors where she became one of those prize deals. Right. And we, she was in a situation where an investor who approached her, who happened to be somebody that I knew came to me and said, you know, we tried to get a piece of this deal and we were told that the deal was closed, that she had already closed the round. And I said, well, that must be true. And of course, the very experienced investor looked at me and raised his eyebrow and said, Nathalie, you and I both know that if you want somebody in and around, you will make room. So I said, you know what, let me see what I can do. And so I happen to know the founder, she happens to trust me and have we happened to have a relationship. And I said, Hey, I'm calling you because so-and-so investor was really interested in year-round. Is it really closed? And she comes and she tells me, listen, I could make room for an investor if I wanted to, but have you looked at their website and their website is all white men. It was the usual thing that we see a lot of the times in the space now, which you didn't know is that this firm understand that that's a problem, are bringing on new partners and we're in the process of really re-imagining themselves from the ground up with equity in mind. But that is in a work in progress. So you weren't seeing it on the website and part of the work that they're doing was something that I was in dialogue with them about. So I'm basically mentioned to the founder. I said, this is happening. You should know they're actually a really interesting group to work with. You might want to reconsider. And then she made room for them. I love and they ultimately invested in her company. But what I think is interesting about that is look at how the power has shifted. You have a woman founder with a coveted business saying no to a group of all white male investors simply because it's not aligned with her values. And that means I like the voice. This is like this. Imagine the signals, it's sending the market, right? You all white male vcs have a competitive disadvantage because of the lack of diversity in your ranks and you would have been out of this incredibly interesting deal. Allison Hare: 33:30 But you're finding that, but you're finding that the diversity is important. So that is like the needle moving, right? That having a cultural diversity. Nathalie MN:: 33:39 That's an example sample of the culture shift. Now I want to see 50 of those any given quarter. I want to see that sort of dynamic continuing to happen. That is one example. Unfortunately probably in a sea of examples that are the reverse. But when I see an example like that play out, it shows me that we really are starting to see the culture shifting a little by little. Allison Hare: 34:00 That's amazing. That's kind of feel what success looks like. You know, the culture shifting or saying we need, we need more diversity. And you know, like I always say a lot that what you see becomes normal and a lot of that comes from art, right? So, you know, if, if you only see white people around you, you know, and the only black people you see are what you see on the news. You know, like it's, it's very easy to start believing that one is good or one is bad. But when, when art and when culture and what you see is around you. Nathalie MN:: 34:34 Totally. And when it was reality, which is why I often don't use the word diversity because we live in a country where, you know, 17% of the community here are Latin x, but that's not reflected in the media. It's certainly not reflected in who gets invested in. It's not reflected in so many ways. And so when people come to me and say, I want to create diversity, it's like, well, actually what you want to create is reality. You want your workplace, you want your bank, you want your VC, you want your board to reflect reality at the moment it doesn't. Right. Allison Hare: 35:05 That's amazing that you continue pushing that. And one of the things I thought was amazing about you or your differentiator is storytelling and your background in theater and arts. And I think you had shared a story about going to a story telling workshop and some things stuck out at you that having a ritual, a sacred ritual of writing set you apart from everybody else. So I want to hear more about sacred rituals and I like how you, how you position routines versus rituals, right? And what that looks like for you. Nathalie MN:: 35:40 Yeah. there is a an amazing choreographer who of course right now is escaping me, but she wrote a book called the creative habit. Her name is toilet Twyla Tharp. Yes. and I take a lot of my thinking from her and from that book, she's also a Barnard alum. She's amazing. Because I am one of those people who has, by virtue of having been an entrepreneur my whole life, never had routine. And if you had asked me maybe before I came across Twyla's work, what do you think about routine? I would have immediately vomited a little bit in my mouth because the idea of routine has simply never felt right to me. It felt, it felt not thoughtful. It felt mindless. And it felt arbitrary. And then I read this book from Twyla Tharp that says creativity is entirely about something that might appear like routine, but that she instead frames as ritual. And what I love about it, because I am such a brass tacks, like how do we get things done kind of person. Is it the way she communicated it is do you think that I show up every morning at eight o'clock into a room with 50 professional ballet dancers and simply say that today, I don't feel creative rehearsal is canceled. She's like, right, that's not how creativity works. Creativity is a muscle and you need a ritual to basically get you in the right head space to be able to deliver on something like creativity. Nathalie MN:: 37:09 And so what she talks about is how important it is that she wakes up every morning and she makes her a cup of coffee a certain way and she goes to a very specific corner in Manhattan to hail a cab. Like she has her morning sort of opening ritual so that every day when she walks into that studio at eight o'clock in the morning, there is no, I wasn't feeling it today. The creative, you know, Muse didn't show up. No. She shows up every morning like a muscle and delivers on being the most prolific choreographer alive in the world today. And she does it on demand every day as expected. And she delivers every time as the muscle. Yeah, because it's a muscle. And so when she framed it that way, I thought, well, being an entrepreneur is all about creativity and the nervousness of am I going to be able to do this again? Right. Am I going to be able to develop a new product? Am I going to be able to, after I exit this company, start a new one? Or was that last time just to fluke? All of the things that are ultimately imposter syndrome, but fundamentally I think that the thing that we humans and I do think it's male, female, everybody are most afraid of, is the idea that we're not going to be able to be creative again or ever if you don't think of yourself as creative. Allison Hare: 38:21 Do you feel that way as your in between with your next venture? Nathalie MN:: 38:25 Oh yeah. You do? Oh yeah. Wow. The thing I am known most for is starting things and ironically the thing that most scares me is starting things and I don't think that it's a coincidence., I mean it really does. It's when I noticed, I don't, I don't want to believe it's true, but when the voice, the ugly negative voices of Imposter Syndrome are the loudest is in these moments of transition when I'm in between, when I'm launching the new thing, when the little voice in your head has the success of the last thing was a fluke, or maybe if the last thing wasn't successful, well then that failure is going to follow you into the next thing. Those voices get really, really loud in these times. And that's why I don't think that, you know, maybe it's possible. My mentor says it's possible, but I don't think you ever grow out of imposter syndrome. If you're a thoughtful, you know, moderately humble person, those voices will always be there. I think what I have tried to do is to drown those voices out with the other side of the coin, right? With the voice that says in the case of my mentor, these words that have kind of become my mantra, which is you are the source of your own supply. You know, whatever you did before you can do it again. And the well from which you draw is you right. So you are the source of your own supply. And that's kind of become a mantra for me. And so when I hear those voices, all I can do is join them out with these others and it's become almost muscle now so that it's, as soon as those negative voices pop up, these words surface and I hear them really loud and clear and it kind of helps me realize that, oh, this is where I am. Allison Hare: 40:00 And I wonder if the question I asked before about finding your own voice or finding how you can impact, cause I'm a huge fan of Seth Godin and Seth Godin talks about writing every day and as he's published his blog daily, even on Saturday, Sunday, like clockwork for over a decade. And he said, there is no such thing as writer's block because your brain doesn't stop thinking. You just get paralyzed with is it going to be good or not? But it doesn't really matter if you just write what you're thinking. So I saw something recently from Marie Forleo. You can tell him like I'm kind of a student of everything. And Marie Forleo puts put something where every day she will follow her breath for 10 breaths before, you know, when she wakes up and she'll move, she'll do some kind of movement for a few minutes and she'll write. So write for a sentence or two or five minutes before she looks at any screen. And so I've been doing that. And so I thought if I take the Seth Godin thing of just having kind of the creative faucet of just me just forcing myself to just write or reflect whatever it is, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, but by nature it's going to be real and it's going to get better. And if it is just kind of tapping into your creativity, it's your ritual that seems like that Rachel for you, Nathalie MN:: 41:22 Both of them are tapping into where I think they're coming from is there's a book called the artist's way. And in the artist's way, there's something called the daily pages. And the artist's way is one of these books that if you're not an artist and you aren't in the creative field, you might never have heard of it. But if you are, it's like a cult favorite. I mean it is a classic that people swear by and one of the exercises that she does is she says, wake up every morning and just write. Even if you are so uninspired that you write the same word again and again, it doesn't matter. Just wake up and do your daily pages. And it sounds like both of them are inspired by that. And it's the reason that when I looked for an agent for my book, I found the agency that represented the woman who wrote the artist's way because I was not interested in Leapfrog being something that surfaced like many books do for a few months and then sort of went away and disappeared. I wanted it to be this sort of quiet favorite of people who really connect with it and decide, okay, this is a paradigm shift for me and I need my friend who was starting a company to look at this. I need my niece who is thinking that she might be an entrepreneur to read this. I need to have basically a new set of rules. And I want it to have longevity the way that the artist way has had longevity because I do think it's a, it's a shift and if it influences the way that the artist way has influenced Seth Godin or Marie Forleo, that's it. That's winning. Allison Hare: 42:48 Right. Do you feel like the book changed you? Nathalie MN:: 42:51 Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I tell, I haven't told you writing the book, writing the book, not somebody else's book. Your book. No. Yeah, no. Writing the book. Absolutely. Did I, I talk about how, you know, the book is split into four sections. A ready, set, go fund grow and ready is not a chapter or section that I wanted to include it in the book. And the reason is because the rest, the other four sections are really brass tacks, tactical. Like these are very specific hacks that you can use to get ahead. The first section was really about getting yourself ready. Right? It was the inside game of getting my mindset ready. Thinking about imposter syndrome, thinking about all of the things that we need in order to have our head really on straight to be best positioned for success as we defined success. Like this idea of no instead of yes. I didn't want to write that section even though it was very present in my mind. And. Allison Hare: 43:49 Are you afraid of vulnerability do you think? Or just being public with it? Nathalie MN:: 43:52 I was afraid that it would be considered a self help book. Hmm. And I wouldn't be taken seriously and it would be put into, you know, in terms of the category of business books into that sort of ghetto of we don't take this so seriously because it's sounds and reads and feels more like a self help book. And so in my interest, totally I think misconstrued interest of being, you know, taken seriously among the boys who, right. You know, business books. There was this, I think, feminine, not excluded for women only because men and women benefit from this really holistic of what it means to be an entrepreneur that I wanted to leave out. And it was my co-writer, Sarah, who really insisted that these are the building blocks upon which everything else thrives. Right. And so it changed me because it ultimately reminded me that I can't show up without that piece. Right. That the two really complement each other that you can't talk about success in this brass tacks kind of way without making sure that there's a really solid foundation that is emotional, that is, you know, psychological. Allison Hare: 45:04 Cool. That is a whole person though. Like I wonder, did you feel like, you know, you growing up cause you, you left school did start your company at 19 years old. Did you feel like that armor was imperative? You know, back then, did you feel like it. Nathalie MN:: 45:17 Being in tech for 15 years? Yes, absolutely. Yes. I learned how to play the game their way and even to up the ante. So if men who succeed in tech are perceived as cut throat, if men who succeed in tech are perceived as being, you know, having sharp elbows, in order for me to thrive in that context, I felt like I needed to even be more of that more cutthroat, sharper elbows take no prisoners. Allison Hare: 45:47 Right. Like that there is probably a rush in there too for you. You know, like it was probably very thrilling. You get validated, you get plenty of positive reinforcement that that's the right thing to do. Nathalie MN:: 45:58 Absolutely. Until, and I do tell the story in the book until there was a moment where I put ultimately the life of a human beings second after the success of a company and somebody whose life was actually put in danger. And ultimately I was the one responsible. Right. And it was at that moment that it hit me where I had sort of arrived and it hit me that that's not the person my parents raised, right? That I had somehow got caught up in it and lost complete sight of at the core who I was raised to be, who I really am. Who I wanted to be. And so what's funny is people are like, oh, she had this Aha moment and then she's just been, you know, the amazing founder, manager, investor that everyone wants to be ever since, because she had this epiphany. It wasn't that way. The reality is, is when you see that you're capable of something like that, all it does is expose the sort of shadow side and all you can do from there onward is work on sort of climbing your way out. Right? Yeah. But you always know that that shadow side is possible. You always know that in your worst moments you could revert to that. And the work constantly is about making sure that you don't. Allison Hare: 47:14 Right. Do you feel like the way world has evolved over the past 20 years where it's much more acceptable to be more vulnerable and more of a fully whole self? Nathalie MN:: 47:27 I don't think so. Allison Hare: 47:28 You don't! Nathalie MN:: 47:29 But I think that what excites me about how we can get there is seeing the level of entrepreneurship that seems to be rising among women. Right? Because I think that that helps male founders. It helps female founders when we have a different group of people calling the shots, defining the culture of a company. Right. With all due respect to people like Sheryl Sandberg because somebody has to do the work of taking a Google or a Facebook or a Proctor and gamble or these huge monolithic companies and shifting their culture and for people like sit, you know Sheryl Sandberg who are doing that work, God bless. Right. But I really would rather focus my energy on building the new Procter and gamble or the next Google and building it right from scratch. Where the culture shift that you are talking about gets built into the DNA of a company. Allison Hare: 48:21 And I'm wondering what your thoughts are on which is kind of dovetailing off of that is you know, companies like, or people, I should say, like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are banding together to help solve health care and there are 145 CEOs of companies that have petitioned to lobby for gun control. You know, do you feel like the power is more in the hands of a corporation to change? What typically has been, what government is supposed to govern or fix. And do you feel personally responsible to maybe push that forward of, you know, changing healthcare or gun control or border control or things that are that are important and we just seem to be at a stalemate from a government perspective? Nathalie MN:: 49:09 I do think that we have to take a stand as business leaders. I actually had an interesting situation where there was last month a full page ad in the New York Times with a hundred, 280 CEOs who signed a letter talking about how the anti abortion legislation that is popping up in many states around the country is bad for business. And I was on the list of CEOs, I think probably one of the only ones who spoke Spanish. And so I did the Spanish media circuit, right? And I did a piece with CNN Espanol and I got pretty strong heat from Latin x population who are watching a leader in the business world go on national television and talk about how the human rights of our employees is paramount. And any laws and any state that looks to threaten the human rights of our employees is really threatening the health of our businesses because the health of our employees is directly tied to the health of our businesses. And so what I found is that I got a lot of heat for that. But you know what? At the end of the day, it's both who I am. It's what I stand for and every company that I invest in is going to have to reflect those values. Allison Hare: 50:23 And that's part of how we do culture shift. If the leaders of these large corporations aren't standing up for what they believe in and for what's right for their workers in their population or their consumers, then I think that people will start to vote with their wallet. And you see that all the time. If I go to a store and I'm choosing between a north face jacket and a Patagonia jacket, I don't know what north face stands for. I don't have any particular objections against the company. But what I do know is that Yvon Chouinard and Let My People Surf and all of the things that Patagonia stand for and 1% for the earth, these are all things that are embedded into the brand of Patagonia. And so all things being equal, I choose the product made by the person whose value aligns, whose values align with mine. And I'm not the only consumer who who buys that way. Allison Hare: 51:09 I think that is a culture shift to that we want to contribute with our dollars. People are buying TOMS shoes and there's so many more you know, socially conscious companies that are trying to figure out how do I give back? Yup. And it's such a beautiful, brilliant business decision, I think as a company, but it forces CEOs and companies to really consider their political, whether it is political leanings or not, or what their views and beliefs are of, do they put themselves on the line and is it worth it? You know? And I think it's become more normalized now and more socially acceptable where I don't know that that was the case 10 years ago. Nathalie MN:: 51:49 And part of it is because so much of just how we do business has become, or maybe it's become clear to us that the way that businesses are managing their operations actually have a direct impact, not just on our, you know, government, but also just on our day to day life on their ability to pollute the rivers that we're enjoying on their ability to use water when we have a scarcity of it on there, you know, influence, potentially undue influence, influence on the political process. I mean, all of these things start to impact our daily lives. And I think that we start to expect that from the companies that we support. Right? Allison Hare: 52:27 Yeah. So what do you, what do you know you've got a lot on your plate, right? You have a lot of responsibility. What do you know that you wish people could know? Nathalie MN:: 52:40 I am I'm about to publish an article in fast company, maybe by the time this podcast. Allison Hare: 52:45 Breaking News, right on little left of center Nathalie MN:: 52:49 Um that talks about this very thing that I wish more people knew about. And that is that when people watch for example, Shark Tank or the Prophet, we have kind of mythologized the role of the investor, right? The investor seems to be this godlike figure that stands behind a desk and watches people pitch and decides who gets the money and who doesn't get the money. And that so much tied to also self-worth, right? If I get rejected from an investor is my company, no good? Am no good, right? So much, right? We give so much power to these investors and what we forget or what we maybe don't know, and I wish everyone knew, is that investors have investors. And what I've done in this fast company article, as I've kind of broken down how the sausage gets made, because I think a lot of people don't realize how investment funds come together. And the fact that the investor who you meet is just the manager of a fund that was assembled using a lot of other people's money. And those other peoples, those other people are called Lps, limited partners, right? And those lps are the ones that decide who gets to have $100 million fund and who doesn't. And so what I talk about in the article is here's how the sausage gets made. And ps, those Lps, there are people, you know, because a lot of the times there's lps are the endowment at the college that you went to, or the LP is the pension fund. If you're a police officer or a teacher, right? Or maybe it's a vanguard or fidelity where your 401k is being managed. All of these places are places where we have influence. And so for example, if I'm a Latin X police officer in Los Angeles, 60% of the police force in Los Angeles or people of Color, are you picking up the phone and calling the pension that manages your retirement and asking them how many of the fund managers that you're investing in that are essentially managing my retirement look like me and have last names like mine, right? There are so much power in the individual, whether it's calling your alma mater to find out how they're managing their endowment or the nonprofit that you volunteer at, or you know, the 401k manager that is managing your retirement. All of these places are places where you have power. And if people rise up and start to ask questions about, if women represent 51% of the population, why is my retirement half of it not being managed by women investors? Right? I think that if more people understood how that sausage gets made, we would have very different companies being invested in and very different priorities around where money goes. Allison Hare: 55:33 Nathalie, that's so good. So what do you do for fun? Like what recharges and refuels you? Nathalie MN:: 55:41 Uh you know, my, my friends are my family. Even just here, I'm in Atlanta. I could've just flown in and parachuted right out, you know, one day, two days to do a speech. But I'm here for a week because one of my best friends just had a baby four weeks old. I can't think of anything that recharges your batteries more than a newborn. And just the, the sound and the smells and all of the excitement around a newborn. So my friends spending quality time with my friends you know, I try to make sure that my theater roots don't go away. Um so I'm helping with a Broadway show. For example, about Jeannette Rankin, who was the first woman to ever join Congress and be elected to Congress and. Allison Hare: 56:26 You're a playwright is your specialty. Do you act at all? Nathalie MN:: 56:29 No, no, no. In fact, I tried to bribe someone at Columbia University to help basically waive the requirement of making me take an acting class. It was torture. It was obviously like the sausage making. I love the sausage maker. Yeah. Yeah. I want to be the one that helps define how the story gets told. Allison Hare: 56:45 Oh, that's awesome. So how can people contribute to your mission? Nathalie MN:: 56:50 Uh follow me, I am always working on, you know, the last week for example, has been Bahama humanitarian efforts. I obviously get very involved with politics and supports certain candidates. There are all sorts of projects, creative projects like this Broadway show that I'm hoping to shepherd that are always keeping me up and keeping me excited about life. And if people want to get involved in any of these things and especially with the launch of my new company, which will happen within the next few months the best way to know is just to follow me. Allison Hare: 57:22 Oh, that's awesome. And I, and how can people find you? Nathalie MN:: 57:26 Best way to find me is Nathalie molina.com and it's Nathalie with an h and the h is there entirely just to confuse you, Allison Hare: 57:34 I have a cousin named Nathalie with h with the age. Amazing. She's french. She's french. Nathalie MN:: 57:39 My mother would say that exactly. She thinks we call her, she goes, it's a French name. The proper spelling is with an h. Allison Hare: 57:46 Okay. Well thank you so much for being here, Nathalie. This was great. I can't wait to see what you do next and you are a culture changer. Thank you for having me. Thank you. Thank you, Nathalie, for sitting down to talk to me and sharing your ideas of how to move a community and elevate women of all colors. Please pick up Nathalie Malina Niño's book leapfrog, or download it on audible, and I'll link her info in the show notes. As for little left of center. In addition to streaming on your favorite podcast app, these episodes are also now broadcasting on Decatur FM and salesforce radio. I truly hope you'll not only subscribe, but leave a review and continue sharing these episodes. I'm also looking for sponsors for future episodes, so please feel free to follow me on the socials and hit me up. Thank you so much for listening and I will see you next week.

Little Left of Center Podcast
Little Left of Center Podcast Trailer

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2019 0:43


Sometimes expectations are just meant to be broken. Allison Hare, the host of Little Left of Center. will be interviewing culture-changers - the fascinating people who veer off the path of convention and change the way we live. Listen in to conversations with brilliant entrepreneurs, CEOs, founders, political figures, educators, influential leaders, and social change makers determined to make our world a little better. Together we will build a community to explore, be emboldened, and evolve. Little Left of Center is a weekly podcast available everywhere you listen. Launced May 14th, 2019! Please share with a friend or 5 and subscribe now!

Little Left of Center Podcast
Culture Changers Podcast Trailer

Little Left of Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2019 0:52


Welcome to Culture Changers, the podcast that brings you unconventional wisdom by uncommon people. I’m Allison Hare, the host of Culture Changers Podcast.  I interview the fascinating people who veer off the path of convention and change the way we live. And I also give YOU a path to make your own mark. Listen in to conversations with brilliant entrepreneurs, CEOs, founders, political figures, educators, influential leaders, and social change makers determined to make our world a little better.  Together, we are building a community to explore, be emboldened, and evolve.  Culture Changers is a weekly podcast with new episodes every Tuesday available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Castbox, and wherever else you may listen. Please share with a friend - or five - and subscribe now. Click here for the show notes Click here to Listen on Apple Podcasts Click here to Listen on Google Podcasts Click here to Listen on Spotify Click here to Listen on Stitcher

AMSA ad lib
55. Guns, culture and the physician

AMSA ad lib

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2016 28:05


What does cultural competency have to do with guns and gun violence? And what does it have to do with future physicians? Earlier this summer on AMSA ad lib we covered gun violence as it affects the health care workplace: the hospital itself. But, of course, that isn't even the primary way that gun violence will affect physicians. There are many others, from the victims as patients to their families suffering from loss. Medical students will need to be the ones to push for change, since as physicians they will encounter the grim results of gun violence. The change may be public policy, or a community-based program. Or maybe even finding common ground with gun owners. For some insight, community and public health programming coordinator Allison Hare spoke with an expert, Dr. Daniel Webster.

Inside the Podcast Studio
12 - the Real Podcaster's Journey w/ Allison Hare (Culture Changers)

Inside the Podcast Studio

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 1970 56:05


Today's guest is Allison Hare, host of the Podcaster's Journey & Culture Changers.In this episode you'll learn: • How Allison prepares for interviews • How to grab your listeners attention • The key to longevity in podcasting • How to get your audience to share your show authentically • and much more!Allison's Top 3 Favourite Podcasts • Smartless • Armchair Expert • a Slight Change of PlansOther Things Discussed in the Show • Rode Procaster [Mic] • Seth Godin on Culture Changers [Podcast Episode] • the Matriarchy [Podcast Episode] • Weekend Podcaster [Program]Connect with AllisonYou can find Allison over on Instagram @allison__hare or @thepodcastersjourney, on Twitter @allison__hare & you can find her show Culture Changers wherever you listen to podcasts!