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Assessing your team's culture is an important step for your culture's future development. Jason discusses best practices for assessing the culture and leading real change. View Full Show Notes Here: https://www.jasonvbarger.com/podcast/assessing-your-team-culture/ Jason breaks down the critical architecture of a comprehensive cultural audit, explaining how elite teams can move beyond superficial surveys to actively calibrate their organizational environments. Please rate and review the podcast to help amplify these messages to others! Summary: Why do so many organizations excel at collecting workplace data yet consistently fail when translating those metrics into meaningful execution? In this episode of The Thermostat, Jason V. Barger breaks down the structural gap between simply "taking the temperature" of a workforce and actively "setting the temperature" for future growth. He explores why standard digitized employee engagement surveys often fail when deployed in isolation, and details a holistic methodology designed to map pain points and optimize organizational workflows. Moving past automated human resources checklists, Jason defines a robust, three-angled strategy for a comprehensive cultural audit. This framework blends organization-wide quantitative surveys with deeper cross-functional interviews and executive vantage point discovery sessions. By constructing a participatory assessment process rooted in active listening and clear forward plans, leaders can avoid employee cynicism, secure long-term buy-in, and successfully position corporate culture as a non-negotiable strategy. Essential listening for C-Suite executives, operations directors, and culture transformation advocates committed to leadership in teams, this episode offers a practical blueprint for turning baseline diagnostics into an active, high-performance roadmap. Episode Notes & Timestamps: [00:00] Intro: Jason introduces the essential requirement of evaluating your current corporate state before designing a future trajectory. [00:01] Calibrating the Thermostat: A milestone reflection on 335+ episodes and the ongoing commitment to breathing good oxygen into global workforces. [00:02] Authentic Algorithms: Why genuine human feedback is critical in the age of automated bots, and how listeners can help amplify positive leadership messages. [00:03] The 6 A's Framework: An overview of change management theory and the circular roadmap of Assess, Align, Aspire, Articulate, Act, and Anchor. [00:05] The Survey Trap: Examining why many companies get stuck in a passive loop of "taking the temperature" without ever building a real operational strategy. [00:08] The Cultural Audit Blueprint: How to design a holistic evaluation process using quantitative surveys to isolate trends across all departments. [00:09] Cross-Functional Layers: The power of structured qualitative interviews with multi-tiered representatives to extract deeper frontline insights. [00:10] Senior Leadership Vantage Points: Leading discovery sessions with the executive tier to target pain points and align baseline data with macro visions. [00:11] Core Values as Tools: Parallels between precise, actionable cultural language and utilizing assessment data as a living mechanism rather than a decorative poster. [00:13] Pillar 1 - Participatory Inclusion: Ensuring every employee feels their voice is an essential building block of upcoming operational pivots. [00:14] Pillar 2 - Active Listening Posture: Overcoming survey fatigue by transparently synthesizing, contextualizing, and sharing assessment results back with the workforce. [00:15] Pillar 3 - Decisive Action Plans: Activating the remaining 6A phases to turn qualitative benchmarks into sustainable corporate habits. [00:16] Strategic Inquiries: Jason outlines strategic closing questions to ponder for leaders preparing to gauge their team's current landscape. Key Takeaways for Leaders: Move Beyond Metrics: Avoid institutional cynicism by ensuring that every culture or engagement survey is instantly paired with a visible strategy for operational action. Holistic Diagnostics: Build a multi-angled cultural audit that checks automated survey data against deep cross-functional focus groups and executive roundtables. Foster Active Ownership: Build a highly participatory assessment process where frontline teams realize they are active co-creators of the target organizational temperature. Listen to the full episode and access show notes at: Bio: Jason Barger is a husband, father, speaker, and author who is passionate about business leadership and corporate culture. He believes that corporate culture is the "thermostat" of an organization, and that it can be used to drive performance, innovation, and engagement. The show features interviews with business leaders from a variety of industries, as well as solo episodes where Barger shares his own insights and advice. Connect: Subscribe to our channel: Make Your 2026 Effective!  Book Jason with your team at https://www.jasonvbarger.com Like or Follow Jason

Vance sits down with data engineer Rob Long — self-described as scoring near zero on the agreeableness scale — to dig into what professional AI use actually looks like. Rob walks through his work at Bayer building "Sales Companion," an iOS app that lets sales agronomists dump field notes, photos, and voice memos after customer visits, then uses an AI agronomy agent to surface product recommendations and flag crop disease issues the salesperson might have missed. It's a grounded, unglamorous look at how enterprise AI actually gets built and deployed.The conversation ranges widely, from the local optima problem (why hill-climbing strategies trap you on foothills instead of mountains) to how AI has turbocharged both of their understanding of history — Greek empires, Byzantine splits, the hard fork of the Protestant Reformation. Rob also makes a sharp case that English is simply the next layer of abstraction above high-level programming languages, the same way C replaced assembly — and that most "software engineers" are quietly becoming software engineering leads managing agents instead of writing code.As Bitcoin joins the conversation, Rob explains that his view is simple — figure out how to get paid in it, and stack what you can. He and Vance also trade takes on AI surveillance fears, driverless cars, the cost of keeping underperforming employees, and the surprisingly good lesson hiding inside every embarrassing work story.https://Articulate.Ventures/IBC/https://LegacyInterviews.com/

Are you stuck in a cycle of giving too much—or never quite feeling your needs are met—in your relationships? So many of us find ourselves trapped in unspoken agreements, repeating old patterns of imbalance, and wondering why our closest connections leave us feeling depleted and resentful. It's all too easy to slip into roles and routines that quietly erode intimacy, joy, and our sense of self. In this episode, listeners will discover the underlying dynamics of these "relationship contracts" and how they silently shape the balance (or imbalance) in our partnerships and friendships. Through insightful discussion, practical examples, and actionable tools, the conversation explores how to raise awareness of hidden patterns, reclaim personal agency, and foster healthier, more reciprocal connections—all while learning to have empowered conversations that turn resentment into collaboration and lasting growth. Elizabeth Webb is The Practical Priestess™ and an expert in positive psychology and human behavior. For over two decades, she's helped top leaders, celebrities, and change-makers break free from life's shackles, make empowered choices, and live a life they're excited to wake up to. Elizabeth brings her signature wisdom and wit to her debut book, Made for Magic.   Episode Highlights 05:56 Spotting the early signs of relationship imbalance. 07:08 Resentment, overgiving, and the dynamics of reciprocity. 11:08 Lovability, self-worth, and patterns of giving and receiving. 16:11 Changing unhelpful contracts: Willingness, ability, and conscious relating. 21:20 Reflecting on past patterns: Awareness and co-creation. 25:59 Clarifying needs vs. preferences in relationship dynamics. 28:54 Strategies for addressing and rewriting unspoken agreements. 35:05 Understanding the root of complaints. 38:00 A roadmap for empowered communication and requests. 40:32 Building collaboration and navigating negotiation in relationships. 45:16 When to untether: Facing unmet needs and setting boundaries.   Your Checklist of Actions to Take Reflect on your current or past relationships to notice any recurring patterns where you feel depleted or resentful due to an imbalance in giving and receiving. Ask yourself if your concern is a fundamental need or simply a preference before addressing it with your partner. Acknowledge the ways you have participated or co-created the current dynamic before approaching the other person. Choose a time when both parties are calm and receptive to discuss the issue, beginning by seeking consent for the conversation. Use neutral language to share your observations and feelings about the dynamic and avoid accusatory statements. Articulate exactly what you would like to change and how you would like it to look, so your partner understands what you need. Invite your partner to share their perspective or any adjustments they'd need to fulfill the new agreement, fostering a sense of co-creation. Observe whether your partner is both willing and able to make the necessary changes; if not, consider what choices and boundaries may be needed for your well-being.   Mentioned Made for Magic (*Amazon Affiliate link) (book) Alison Armstrong ERP 056: Secrets To Sex Even When No One Is In The Mood With Alison Armstrong Shifting Criticism For Connected Communication (free guide)   Connect with Elizabeth Webb Website: PositivelyElizabeth.com Instagram: instagram.com/positivelyelizabeth  

Joscha Bach is back on the show, and Vance opens by asking the question almost everyone is asking right now: should we be afraid of AI? Joscha's answer is no, and his reasons are not the usual ones. AI is creating more jobs than it removes, it's already the most equitable technology ever built (a $20-a-month plan gives anyone in the world access to a thousand Einsteins), and most of the fear is a media reaction to a business model under threat — not a reflection of what's actually happening in the economy.From there the conversation moves through the strangest version of an AI episode you'll hear. Joscha frames hallucinations as the natural state of a “dream machine” not coupled to reality, dreams themselves as fine-tuning on synthetic data, the history of why neural nets won over symbolic AI (Rich Sutton's “bitter lesson”), and why every modern model — including Grok — inherits the same biases from the same training data. He and Vance then turn to religion as the same problem from another angle: why modern secular thought is structurally a form of Protestantism, why Harvard became its Vatican, why birth rates are collapsing in liberal societies, and why Joscha worries we are badly underprepared for a coming religious conflict.The episode reaches its philosophical core when Joscha lays out what he calls cyber animism — the idea that spirits are real, and that they are literally self-organizing software running on physics. Your “self” is not your cells or your electricity; it's the pattern that keeps the cells coordinated, the same way a religion keeps a civilization stable across generations. Vance, who has heard Joscha describe this idea for ten years, says this is the first time it has actually landed. They close on Joscha's upcoming inaugural machine consciousness conference, MC001, hosted by the California Institute for Machine Consciousness: https://machine-consciousness.ai/ .https://Articulate.Ventures/IBC/https://LegacyInterviews.com/

Matt sits down with world-renowned therapist Marisa Peer to dismantle the self-sabotaging loops that keep us stuck. If you've ever felt like your brain is working against your recovery, this conversation provides the ultimate manual for reclaiming control.We explore the "Ladder of Looping Thoughts" and the powerful truth that you weren't born broken, you learned it. Marisa explains the link between creativity and addiction, showing how high suggestibility can lead to deep-seated shame. Healing is framed as stripping away these learned layers to reactivate your original sense of self.This discussion also provides practical tools like the AAA Method (Aware, Accept, Articulate) and simple language shifts to resolve internal conflict.This episode covers the following themes: Language, Beliefs, Worth, Addiction, and Self-Awareness.Marisa Peer's new book 'Your Mind, Your Rules,' is out now: https://amzn.eu/d/08ebrG3YNeed Support?Samaritans: Call 116 123 or visit samaritans.orgNarcotics Anonymous: na.orgAlcoholics Anonymous: alcoholics-anonymous.org.ukMental Health Mates: mentalhealthmates.co.ukShout: https: giveusashout.orgIAPT: https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/adults/nhs-talking-therapies/Better Help

“It took me like a hard 16 seconds…but I got it down…I swallowed all of it…”   Released April 10, 2026, DEAD TO RIGHTS, the 14th studio album in 40+ years from the mighty METAL CHURCH, features a new line up and a return to the power metal infused thrash style that made them a force to be reckoned with back in the 80's, during the heyday of the (then relatively new) thrash scene.   “I was proud of myself…that I finished that much…in so little time…”   Featuring David Ellefson (formerly of Megadeth) on bass, Ken Mary (currently of Flotsam and Jetsam) on drums, and brand-new vocalist Brian Allen, DEAD TO RIGHTS contains all of the best elements of “The Dark” and “Blessing In Disguise” with the added blessing of modern production quality. This album is chock full of great riffs and catchy hooks that maintains the classic “flavor of Metal Church” with some upgraded, present-day refinements.   “He's got great gear…he's got really nice gear…I kinda wanna play with his gear…”   Find out why “Splitting The G” is an essential St. Patrick's Day event for every holiday, get yourself a tiny sample of the brand-new Venom album, “Into Oblivion” (featuring Cronos), and find out why “the Metallica of the WCW” likes to enjoy “the Evil Bean with the Mean Gene” when you JOIN US as we embrace the power and the fury of METAL CHURCH with their latest offering, DEAD TO RIGHTS.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can't be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “I'm not a beer chugger…there's a thing called ‘splitting the G'…”/ #SplittingTheG /  “I guess they do it in Ireland or something, where #Guiness is big…”/ “I'm not usually a big beer chugger…”/ “We practiced ALL night…”/ “It took me like a hard 16 seconds to get it…but I got it down…I swallowed all of it…”/ “It was creamy and foamy…OMG it was too much…”/ “We got The Mean Bean…wait, wasn't that the dude with The Hulkster? ‘The Evil Bean'…that's Mean Gene!”/ “The Hulkster's got a show on #Netflix…it's a #documentary …”/ “He was like the #Metallica of the WCW I think…”/ “He was part of…WCW, WWF…was he in the whole N.W.O. thing? That was when he got The Black Beard, right?”/  “He was drinking the Evil Bean with The Mean Gene, brother…” ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** (03:26): “That's where that comes from…”/ “Someday…a selfish part of me wants to see Bill like…FAT…and like us…or like me…”/ #TheAntiBill / “It's not gonna happen…”/ #highschoolfashion / #baremidriff / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST and THE BUNKERPOON CENTER FOR METAL EXCELLENCE!!!*** /  “That's right…I like that…”/ ***PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast ***/  “Mine'll be the smallest…”/ “I showed somebody The Twiddler files the other night…”/  “OMG, you didn't see The Twiddler Files!? Duuude…”/  ***SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook and #TikTok / #viralaf / ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com *** / #TripSix (Shoutout to Grandmaster Vag Destroyer!!!) / #TwoHotDogs / #blessyou / #Shart / ***VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!***   (9:56): “A little #ActusReus ???”/ “He's got really nice gear…”/ #ActusReus TENSION /  “It's the cowboy hat that gives him the power, dude…”/ #markthetime / #thickness / “Maybe a little bit of the new…Venom…the Godfathers of Black Metal…they've got a new album out…they're like the Black Sabbath of Black metal…”/ #BlackSabbath #BlackMetal /  #IntoOblivion / “The titles look badass…”/ “It looks like the A.I. ‘Black Metal' version… (re: the Into Oblivion album cover vs the Black Metal album cover)…”/ #Venom KICKED OUT OF HELL (Into Oblivion – 2026) / “This is also with #Cronos by the way…”/ “You wanna grab one more on that…?”/ #thebighitsingle / LAY DOWN YOUR SOUL / “That's the line from ‘Witching Hour'…” (NOTE: That's actually from Black Metal, NOT Witching Hour) / #RussellsCigarReflections / “He's like the Ozzy of black metal…or Lemmy…”/ #powerburpASMR / “That's why we're here…to support the commitment for Metal Excellence…”/ #keepgoing / #Pentagram /  “That's what it's all about…if you can do that…”/ “Whether you're a painter or, y'know, a writer…a whittler…”/ “That's NOT stopping…”/ “Real quick…can you pull up ‘Black Metal' by Venom?”/ “It's the AI face of that dude…” / “Jamie? Sorry, I know it's a lot…sorry Jamie…”   (22:11): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: METAL CHURCH – DEAD TO RIGHTS – BRAND SPANK ALBUM DIVE!!! / “If you wanted a cool t-shirt…that's it!”/  “What was #MetalChurch to you…when you were discovering…the thrash scene?”/  “Sorry, I cupped a little bit that time…I half cupped it…”/ #InsideTheMetal / “What was your first Metal Church experience?”/ “Was it the name or the artwork?” / “They've got power metal elements…” / “It was darker…heavier…faster…” / #allgoodthings / “I've still got a big boner for metal, dude…rock hard…like 11:00…”/ BRAINWASH GAME / Released April 10, 2026 / “It's like a nice blend of David Wayne and Mike Howe…PLUS…”/ “It still sounds like old-school metal…elements of “bolth” power metal and thrash   (29:58): F.A.F.O / #FAFO / “I just think it's rad that David Ellefson is now part of Metal Church…”/ “They're trying to outdo each other…and we ALL win!”/ “I think there needs to be ‘Eric Cartman does The Smashing Pumpkins'…” / #Cartman #SouthParkASMR #BillyCorgan #SmashingPumpkins / #CaptainCritical / DEAD TO RIGHTS / #titletrack / “That guy's gonna destroy the old stuff…perfectly.”   (38:24): DEEP COVER SHAKEDOWN / “It's got grunt to it…”/ “That's a hooky riff, dude…”/  “If you've got two guitar players, they need to be doing some different shit…don't be doing the same thing…”/ “It forces you to listen…”/ FEET TO THE FIRE / “That's a different mix…it's softer, it's not as grunty…70's-ish…”/ “Ken Mary is the drummer…”/ “Like 70's power metal…yeah I can see that…”/ “That's cool…I like the textures…”/ “Oooh, I like that…I don't know what's going on there…”/ THE SHOW / “That's a meat and potatoes tone right there…”/ #DaveMustaineASMR / “C'mon, let's do some Winger…”/ “Oooh, yeah, dude! We should do some Slaughter…”/ #edibles    (48:40): HEAVEN KNOWS (SLIP AWAY) / “Are they touring yet?”/ “Nobody ever comes to Atlanta…you know why? Because we're the rap capital of the world, dude…”/  #RapNerdery / “I can totally do that dude, it's America…I think…”/ NO MEMORY /  “That's probably the cleanest he's sang so far…”/ “They got some hooks in there…hooks are good…”/ WASTED TIME / “That's kinda got an 80's feel to it…”/ “Here's everything I love about this album so far…”/ “Articulate grunt crunch…”/ “Flotsam!?”/ #flotsamandjetsam /  “That's the vocal equivalent of that dude…”   (58:28): MY WRATH / “Whoa!”/ “That was super nice…”/ “It's still the flavor of Metal Church…”/ BONUS TRACK / BLOOD AND WATER / “I still wanna hear it…”/ “Wait a minute…is this a cover?”/ “That's got Dio vibes to it…”/ “This is two things I love about this podcast and metal in general…”/ “This is REAL PEOPLE doing REAL SHIT with REAL INSTRUMENTS…”/ #HailToMetalChurch / “That dude's a fuckin' dude, man…”/  “That's metal…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel

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AI can write your design doc. It can build your storyboard. It can draft your script, your rubric, your assessment, your video outline, and half of your e-learning module before lunch. So what's left for the instructional designer?According to Jonathan De La Cruz, everything that actually matters.Jonathan is an instructional designer at a supply chain company and at a Plano, Texas startup building an AI-assisted learning management system. But before all of that, he was a music educator. He worked at DePauw University and Indiana University. He played mariachi on weekends, jazz combos, cathedral gigs, Costa Rican punk reggae, full symphonies. He didn't know "instructional designer" was a job title. He just knew he loved video editing, building websites, and figuring out how learning actually happens.In this conversation, Jonathan and I talk about the parts of instructional design AI is genuinely making faster and the parts no model will ever touch. The language you use when you collaborate. The way you receive feedback. The relationships you build before you ever press record on a training. The reason someone will or won't watch what you built.Jonathan also breaks down the custom AI agent he trained on his reviewers' feedback patterns to cut his iteration cycles from version 5 down to version 2. He shares how he manages a tech stack that includes Articulate, Camtasia, Arcade, Figma Make, Claude Code, Gemini, NotebookLM, and Perplexity, and why he just bought a Claude Code membership last week.If you're an instructional designer wondering where you still fit, an educator thinking about transitioning into ID, or anyone trying to figure out what the human in the loop actually does, this episode is for you.

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When Vance Crowe learned he needed half his thyroid removed, it sparked a deep question: what does it mean when your body's clock gets disrupted? In this candid and wide-ranging conversation, Vance brings on geneticist and light researcher Kate Crosby — someone he talks to almost daily — to explore the science behind the body's hidden timekeepers.They dig into how the thyroid regulates hormones and why losing it might put you on "synthetic time," why vitamin D and magnesium are so tightly linked, how intense exercise can unlock forgotten memories, and the surprising ways your ancestral latitude shapes everything from your seasonal diet to your fertility. The conversation takes unexpected turns into sunlight exposure, skin hardening, the Protestant vs. Catholic divide mapped onto geography, and whether modern life has knocked our biological clocks permanently off course.This is the kind of conversation Vance wants his daughters to hear — honest, curious, and willing to follow ideas wherever they lead.Guest: Kate Crosby is a geneticist and researcher specializing in light biology and light recipes for plant growth and human health.Articulate.Ventures/IBCLegacyInterviews.com

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Why is it so hard to articulate your value, even when you know you have it? In this episode of Your Passion, Purpose & Personal Brand, Lisa McGuire explores the hidden reason so many leaders, entrepreneurs, and high performers struggle with personal brand clarity, self-worth, and authentic self-expression during seasons of growth and reinvention. The issue is not a lack of talent, expertise, or value. More often, it is the internal pattern of still trying to prove what is already true. This conversation is part of Lisa's Identity Evolution Series and speaks directly to anyone navigating an identity shift, leadership transition, career reinvention, or personal brand transformation. If you have outgrown a role that once defined you, feel successful but unfulfilled, or find yourself over-explaining instead of clearly owning your value, this episode will help you understand what is happening beneath the surface. Lisa introduces the concept of the Category of ONLY™, a powerful framework for recognizing your unique value proposition. Rather than focusing on competition or forced differentiation, she explains how true clarity comes from identifying the intersection of your lived experience, learned wisdom, and the insight only you can bring. This is not about creating a better image. It is about reclaiming your identity and trusting what you already know. Through personal reflection and clear teaching, Lisa names the subtle habits that keep people stuck: self-editing, softening their perspective, shaping their message for acceptance, and continuing to seek external proof. She also reveals the deeper shift that must happen before you can confidently communicate your value, strengthen your personal brand, and fully step into your next chapter. In this episode, you'll learn: Why articulating your value is difficult when you are still trying to prove your worth How identity shift affects confidence, clarity, messaging, and leadership presence The signs you have outgrown a role, title, or version of success Why high achievers often struggle with self-worth and authentic expression What the Category of ONLY™ means and how it helps define your unique value How to stop over-explaining and start communicating from ownership Why personal brand clarity starts with identity, not strategy What it looks like to reclaim your voice during reinvention and transition How to trust your own perspective without waiting for more validation Why the next level of your work begins when you stop negotiating with what you know is true This episode is especially relevant for: Entrepreneurs building a personal brand Leaders in transition High performers navigating reinvention Professionals seeking clarity in their next chapter Anyone ready to stop proving and start owning their value If you've been searching for answers around how to articulate your value, personal brand clarity, identity evolution, authentic leadership, or reclaiming self-worth, this episode offers a grounded and powerful starting point. Notable Quote: "You don't need more proof. You need more trust in what you already see." CONNECT WITH LISA LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-mcguire/  WEBSITE: https://lisamcguire.com Beyond the Transaction Mastermind -  Apply to join the group: https://beyondthetransactionmm.com/register Sign up for Lisa's "so much more" newsletter: https://www.thediyframework.com/so-much-more-subscribe  Freedom Reset: Your Next Steps to Realignment  Register: https://go.lisamcguire.com/freedom-reset  Human Design Masterclass Waitlist: https://go.lisamcguire.com/human-design-masterclass-waitlist  Ideal Client Workshop Waitlist: https://go.lisamcguire.com/ideal-client-workshop-waitlist-icww785155  Get your free Human Design Bodygraph: https://lisamcguire.com/get-your-free-chart/ 

https://youtu.be/vmziYo0mPmE David Steele, serial entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of One Wealth Advisors, is driven by a simple but powerful mission: helping people. Whether through wealth management, hospitality ventures, or advising founders and leadership teams, David sees all of his businesses through one lens—service, care, and improving the lives of the people they touch. We explore David's OKR Goal Setting Framework—a practical system for turning intention into results: identify, articulate, share, measure, and execute. David explains why limiting goals to just a few priorities creates clarity, how articulating and sharing them builds accountability, and why consistent measurement and execution are what ultimately drive outcomes. He also shares how this framework applies differently in life versus business, why simplicity beats complexity in strategic planning, and how a hospitality mindset fuels both growth and long-term client loyalty. — Set Goals in 5 Steps with David Steele  Good day, dear listeners. Steve Preda here with the Management Blueprint Podcast, and my guest today is David Steele, a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of One Wealth Advisors. David, welcome to the show.  Oh, thanks for having me.  Well, great to have you. You have a very interesting career and interesting businesses, and you keep a lot of balls in the air. So I'd like to dig in. I was very interested in what I read on your website about your personal mission and why you do things. So would you mind sharing with our listeners what your personal “why” is and how you are manifesting it in your business and businesses?  My personal why—it's always people. And everything I've done in my life is about figuring out ways that I can help people.Share on X I have done so in what is seemingly different businesses. My primary role is founder and CEO of a wealth management financial planning company called One Wealth Advisors, where we work with a little over 400 families, helping them manage their financial lives. But I’ve also created two restaurant companies that are, I think, involved in the conversation around culture. They’re cool, they’re interesting. They currently have seven restaurants combined, with four more opening over the next six months. And these are seemingly different businesses, but for me, it's really about people. The financial planning company, I see as a hospitality business—we serve people. I’m very skeptical of the majority of the financial services industry, which tries to sell their value proposition on their technical wizardry or perspective on investing or tricks or whatever. And for us, it's like—that's commoditized. Everybody’s doing the same stuff. Our value proposition is that there is nobody who will envelop you with more care, love, service, attentiveness, responsiveness, and proactiveness in the industry than we will.Share on X And we can compete on that. And when I describe my financial planning company that way, and I then talk about restaurants as hospitality businesses—which is not much of a stretch—where we envelop people with deliciousness and great service, the common thread comes through. But maybe the deeper common thread for me is my partners in these different businesses. My role in their lives is to help them—as individuals, as partners in our companies—to live happy, peaceful, productive lives and to feel valued. So for me, I do the same thing every day, all day—but everyone else sees these different weird things. I’m the board of a coffee shop company, another restaurant company, a music band management company, and a music production company. And my view on all of those is that I'm there to provide hospitality and service to the founders and the executive teams of those companies. So for me, it's all about people.Share on X Very interesting. I mean, the hospitality angle and the quality-of-life angle—I saw it on your website. You really don't talk about financial performance there at all. You talk about how to improve the life of your clients. That’s kind of the big theme there. And I like the blogs as well—that also comes back to the quality-of-life theme. So anyhow, I don't want to get too deep into this, because what I'm curious about is frameworks. This is a podcast about frameworks, and I wonder—what is the framework that has worked in your life that is simple to explain, maybe three to five steps, that you could share with the audience? Something they could use to help their own businesses or themselves by implementing or thinking about things in a clearer, simpler way. It's so basic. The key to life, in my mind, is so basic. Identify goals—two to four. More than five is probably too many. And I don't care if it's for your business, your life, a relationship—I don't care what it is. Actually identify those goals. Articulate those goals—clear, concise, as few words as possible. Try to apply some type of measurement to those goals. And then once those goals are articulated, you can measure them, whether they succeed or fail. It becomes pretty clear what a strategic plan might look like to achieve those goals. And I think that goal setting is human magic.  I've written a couple of life plans throughout my life, and I never looked at them again after writing them—until many, many years later. And lo and behold, I achieved everything I’d written on those life plans. I usually don’t look at them for 10 years. And I just think the clear articulation of the goal, sharing the goals with people—because then you become accountable, to yourself and to them—it's out in the world. You're going to achieve those things.Share on X Okay, so identify, articulate, share, measure, and execute—is that the framework?  That’s it.  Yeah. Love it. That’s great. Yeah, I mean, goals do have a magic to them, so if you don’t ever look at them, how do you not forget them?  I think that’s the human magic part. I mean, for a business, I do believe goal setting and strategic planning should be a continual process. For life planning, I think it's probably okay to articulate your goals and maybe not look at them again. And I don’t necessarily think for life planning you need to have a written strategic plan. The human magic part is that if you say you want to do something in life, and you articulate it and you share it with people, the human magic part is it’s now present forever in your subconscious. And so energetically, you’re going to, I think, very naturally orient yourself around those goals just simply in your everyday existence. And I think that’s for maybe for life planning. For businesses, I do think it’s best to have a framework for this, and so my businesses use, and I don’t care what the framework is—we use objectives and key results, OKRs. They're pretty commonly used now. And I don’t care if you use KPIs, OKRs, or whatever it may be. You and your team should sit down each year, and ideally you already have a long-term vision for the company, which should be pretty concise and focused. And then your annual goal setting in between and what I’ll call tactical plans or mini strategic plans that you can then look at each quarter. With the objectives and key results, we assign a leader to each objective. The leader understands that they are tasked with organizing the necessary team members to achieve the goal.Share on X We have key results that we define in our annual strategic planning meeting, and then we have quarterly check-ins. I’m the CEO of the financial planning company, so I check in with each leader every quarter to see how they’re progressing on their objectives and the key results for those objectives. And then for the restaurant companies, I am the executive chairman of both of them and a co-founder. I meet with the CEO, and then the CEO meets with the team to check in on their progress of their goals. So the human magic part is this idea that you can just say, “I want to do this thing,” write it down, and not look at it again. But for business, I do think it requires a more consistent, structured, written approach.  So help me with these OKRs. I mean, I’m familiar with the OKRs, but what I've always wondered is, when you have key results for every objective, then is this not too limiting in terms of having to choose the kind of objective which you can measure with the key results, as opposed to—and maybe this is my blind spot here. Maybe there are objectives that don't really lend themselves to regular measurement of key results, but because they are maybe binary. Either we acquired this new location or we didn’t, there’s not really much key results other than it has to be a size, profitability, whatever. So I don't know—maybe I'm rambling here—but what's your view on this?  Well, I mean, I would push back a little bit on that. Let's say your objective is to acquire—through vertical or horizontal integration—another business. I think a key result could be, over the course of the year: what is the process by which you're identifying potential companies to acquire? What is your vetting process? What is the activity around outreach, vetting, and analysis? Maybe sometimes there's a bit of a square peg, round hole problem with this, but I don’t think there’s a negative to articulating the binary objective, even if it’s imperfect key results that you’re going to be using to measure them. Yeah, I think I need more clarity on this. I always thought of the two sides of the coin is you’ve got the easily measurable things, which typically pertain to the business—growing the business, executing processes, doing sales activities, this kind of stuff, which is working on the present. And then you have those bigger—what do you call them—OKRs or Rocks—those big objectives that is going to build more capacity in your business for the future so that you can expand the business. That might be hiring a key executive to own your marketing function, where key results are maybe trickier to define, but it's really important for the future. Do you see any distinction between these two?  I mean, maybe—but let's go back to the original point. What started this conversation was that I think you should have a framework. I don't really care what the framework is. All I'm arguing for is identifying and articulating goals, and figuring out some kind of strategic planning process to achieve those goals. I actually don’t really care what it is. I've consulted with a number of businesses—helping entrepreneurs start businesses, probably close to eight now—and I'm always surprised that something as simple as writing down goals, articulating them, measuring them, and building a plan around them is not natural to most people. I think if people just start with the basics, they're already ahead of most. And this is about as basic as it gets.  Yeah, that’s true. So what drives growth in your business, in the One Wealth Advisors business?  We're in a very luxurious position, and I tell people I'm the richest person they've ever met. And people are like, “What?” And I say, “Well, I have everything I want, and you can't be richer than that. There's no such thing as richer than having everything you want,” at least the way I define it. And where I'm going with this is—I've tried to espouse a philosophy across the company that every team member should spend less than they make, no matter what. And not overextend themselves with commitments—like a mortgage—that causes stress and anxiety and so forth and so on. So there’s a fiscal discipline and that’s espoused across each team member, and most importantly, me and my brother—we started the company together, and we're the major shareholders. If we take that approach, that’s number one. The second thing is—we don't have any sales, marketing, or business development efforts whatsoever, which is shocking to 99% of business people I talk to. But it's grounded in a philosophy that the greatest salespeople we're ever going to have are our clients—talking to their friends and their network. And if we put literally 100% of our effort into serving our clients for free—they'll spread the word. They’ll be so excited about what we do for them and with them that they will be more than willing that if somebody asks them who they should talk to or work with, the answer is us. We've been doing that for almost 20 years now. The practice started 35 years ago, but we've been operating this way for almost 20 years.  And our annual growth rate is about 20% a year, without any business development or marketing whatsoever. We could probably be growing more than that, but we keep our spending in check. We don’t overextend ourselves, so it doesn't force us to stay on that treadmill. The idea of being on a treadmill—having to grow just to keep up—causes me stress and anxiety, and I don't like that. So that's One Wealth. Now, restaurants are a less good business. My financial planning company will do seven and a half million in revenue this year with 13 employees. My first restaurant company will do $30 million in revenue with 350 employees. It's a much more labor-intensive, harder business. And the people I started the restaurant companies with—just to be blunt—for them to build wealth so they can afford to take care of their families the way they deserve to, for their talents and their creativity, et cetera, et cetera, you need to grow. And so the way we define growth in the restaurant company, just frankly, is through building the organizations so they are ready to scale.  That means having leadership that's trained, has mastery, and understands how to lead each level of layers of management, and then opening new restaurants. Or with one of our companies, it's a line of consumer packaged goods. The Flour + Water Hospitality Group is my first restaurant company, and we've launched frozen pizza in 40 grocery stores, and we have dried pasta in 75 stores now. And we're going to really try to grow that. And that’s measurable, right? It's new restaurants, more grocery stores, more revenue. So we're a bit more intentional about growing those businesses.  That’s really interesting. So when you grow an asset management firm by 20% over 20 years, then maybe half of that comes from the appreciation of the assets, doesn't it? No—and I know where your head went, which is the S&P 500 has grown at about 10% a year over the last 100 years. But the truth is, about 55% of our clients' assets are in equities on average, and about 45% are in bonds. If you're younger, you have more equities; if you're older, you have less. But the average annual return for a portfolio like that is probably closer to about 6.5%. So about a third of our growth has probably come through market appreciation. We don't generally lose clients, so your math is clean, right? If we lost clients, we'd have attrition and would need to replace them, which doesn’t really happen for us. So about maybe two-thirds of our growth has come from referrals.  Yeah, that's pretty cool. I mean, I've also learned that if you have a business with high churn, then you have no time to serve your customers.  And if you’re spending a lot of effort on business development, you’re spending less time on serving your customers, and you’re going to have higher churn.  They're not going to refer you, because they're not getting great service—and then they churn instead of referring. So it's very smart.  We do an annual survey of our clients, and we always score above 95% in terms of satisfaction. We also do an annual survey with our team members, and we score really high there as well. The greatest evidence of that is our turnover is damn near 0% since we launched the company. Generally, people who work with us don’t leave us.  That's awesome. So you're doing a lot of things right. It seems like you have a clear plan, you’ve got strategic planning, you understand what you want, what you need, what you don’t need. What is one thing that you are actively trying to figure out in the asset management business? Well, we launched—unfortunately—a tax practice this year. I say “unfortunately” because we had no interest in competing with CPAs. Historically, we referred our clients to CPAs. But there's a problem in the tax business. My assessment is that taxes are becoming more complex, not less. Less people want to become accountants and there’s a supply-demand problem with accountants. And the existing accountants, in my view, have taken on too many clients, and their service has deteriorated. We get more and more complaints about clients dissatisfaction with their accountants than anything else in our practice. So we finally said, “You know what?  We're going to beta test a tax practice.” We're doing tax returns this year for 15 clients. I never wanted to do this type of business. It actually makes sense, because financial planning and tax are deeply intertwined. The fact that they were ever separate disciplines, in retrospect, doesn't make much sense. So I'm glad I'm being forced into it—but it's a problem. I'm not sure how good we are at it yet. I hope we don't mess it up too much this year with these 15 clients, and I hope we eventually really good at it. But it’s the problem for me, and I’m not happy about it.  So you said there are 13 people in the wealth management, so you have a couple of people on the tax side?  Yeah, we have, call it, one and a half people dedicated to tax. And then we've partnered—well, there's one more variable in tax, which is interesting. I believe AI will eventually do 90-plus percent of the work that an accountant does. There's an intersection—or an inflection point—that hasn't been hit yet, which is: fewer accountants, more complex tax work, and AI hasn't solved it yet. My hypothesis is that we can start to develop the muscle memory and mastery around doing tax. Eventually, AI will be such a strong support that we'll be able to do tax returns for all of our clients with a relatively small number of people. That’s our hypothesis. In the interim, we've partnered with a company called April, which is a venture-backed startup that provides the analysis and tax return preparation. So we have one and a half people who organize the tax work for our client base, but then the actual heavy lifting of the analysis is done by April. And if April is listening to this, it's fine when I say we're perfectly happy to replace April with AI once AI is ready—but it just isn't ready yet. So we're just getting started on something that we believe will eventually become relatively easy. But right now, it's still a bit clunky.  I don't know if it was Warren Buffett or someone else—maybe his partner—who talked about how important tax planning is in actually making money. If you do the right kind of tax planning, it's basically one half of the return you can make just by optimizing your taxes. Would you agree with that?  Well, I don't know that I'd be comfortable making a blanket statement like “one half.” I think the wealthier you are, the higher the probability that with advanced tax planning, the net impact on your wealth over time could be more than half. I mean, think about estate planning. We have a client, for example—a taxable estate is one where your net worth is over, I'm going to simplify, about $13 million per person. So for a married couple, $26 million. Anything over that gets taxed at—again, I'm averaging—around a 50% estate tax when you die. Okay, so what can you do? You can, while you're alive, give away some of that $13 million instead of waiting until you die. How can you do that? Maybe you make investments in your kids' names rather than your own, so it's not part of that $13 million. We had a client, for example, who invested in a company that ended up being worth $60 million. But guess what? That $60 million was not in their name—it was in their kid's name. So it skipped a generation. So what is that worth? Fifty percent of anything over $26 million in estate tax—what is that worth in terms of average annual return? I don't know—you can't really calculate it cleanly. But it's millions and millions of dollars. Yeah, so it's very high leverage—that's the point.  Yeah.  That's amazing. I mean, you shared some really great ideas here. I like the framework: identify your goals, articulate them, share them with other people. I like the sharing because it basically creates some peer accountability, right? And also people are then aligned with what your context is. So that’s great. Then measure and execute—that's great. We talk about OKRs, we talk about tax planning, and the philosophy of building businesses—the difference between a business that needs to grow and one that can grow more organically. That’s amazing. Is there anything else you'd like to share with our audience? And then I’m going to ask you, of course, if people would like to learn more about what you do and would like to learn more about One Wealth Advisors, where should they go and where can they learn more? But first, what's your final message to our listeners? Well, you didn't rehash the first thing I said, which is—it's always about people. It’s always about people. Everything one does in life, in my opinion, should be in the service of others somehow. And I think that's what gives us our greatest sense of satisfaction, self-worth, and place in the world. So I really want to leave people with that message. In terms of reaching me, I have a website I built, because I do a bunch of different things. One Wealth Advisors has its own website, which you can easily search, but I also have davidsteele.xyz, which primarily points to One Wealth, but then points to the other stuff I do, including other businesses I’ve started, and the boards I’m on, and the consulting work that we do. Okay, that's definitely worth exploring. So check it out. And if you enjoyed this conversation and you're listening here, don't forget to subscribe and tune in, because every week I have an exciting entrepreneur coming on the show to share their learnings and insights. Important Links: David's LinkedIn David's website One Wealth Advisors website

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What is the true product, service and Mission for your team and organization? You might want to reflect on the story of Peloton to be reminded. See Full Show Notes at: https://www.jasonvbarger.com/podcast/culture-lessons-peloton/ Jason examines the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and strategic rebirth of Peloton to reveal critical insights for any organization navigating a shifting market. Please rate and review the podcast to help amplify these messages to others! Summary: What happens when a company's greatest success is tied to a global crisis? In this episode of The Thermostat, Jason V Barger analyzes the fascinating case study of Peloton—a brand that grew from $915 million to $4 billion in revenue during the pandemic, only to face a staggering crash as the world reopened. By looking at their journey from the outside, Jason identifies why the most dangerous period for any corporate culture is often immediately following a period of massive growth. This conversation moves beyond financial analysis to address the core mechanics of mission and focus. Jason explains how Peloton's recovery wasn't found in a better "bike," but in a fundamental shift in mindset. Under new leadership, the company stopped seeing itself as a hardware manufacturer and started seeing itself as a facilitator of human behavior and community. This pivot highlights the necessity of being a "change-seeking" leader and provides a real-world application of the 6A process of leading change. Essential listening for C-Suite executives, founders, and managers, this episode offers a roadmap for identifying your organization's "secret sauce" and ensuring your leadership in teams stays anchored to the true value you provide your customers. Episode Notes & Timestamps: [00:00] Intro: Jason reflects on the strange, isolated times of the global pandemic and the creative ways families maintained their sanity. [00:03] Slow-Motion Dlamini: Personal memories of hibachi nights and family dunk contests as a metaphor for making the most of a forced pause. [00:07] The Meteoric Rise: A breakdown of Peloton's growth from 2019 to 2021—quadrupling revenue as home exercise became a global necessity. [00:08] The Post-Pandemic Crash: Why the world reopening led to hemorrhaging subscribers, massive stock drops, and a loss of organizational direction. [00:09] A Shift in Mindset: Enter Barry McCarthy. How the former Netflix and Spotify CFO challenged the team to view their product through the lens of human behavior rather than hardware. [00:11] Instructors as the Product: Realizing that the hardware was just a tool; the true value was the human connection between instructors and the community of riders. [00:12] The 6A Change Process: Connecting Peloton's pivot to the Harvard Leadership Development Study—how to use Assess, Align, Aspire, Articulate, Act, and Anchor to survive a pivot. [00:14] Results of Recalibration: How redefining the mission led to a 20% revenue climb in just two quarters and what this means for your own "secret sauce." [00:15] Questions to Ponder: Jason leaves leaders with inquiries to help them identify where they might have lost sight of their true purpose. Key Takeaways for Leaders: Focus on Behavior: In a digital world, the most successful products are those that understand and influence human behavior and community. The 6A Roadmap: Use a disciplined process to lead change; don't skip to "Action" before you have reached "Alignment" and "Articulation." Identify the Tool vs. the Mission: Don't confuse your delivery method (the bike) with your true value proposition (the connection and community). Listen to the full episode and access show notes at: https://jasonvbarger.com/podcast/culture-lessons-peloton/ Bio: Jason Barger is a husband, father, speaker, and author who is passionate about business leadership and corporate culture. He believes that corporate culture is the "thermostat" of an organization, and that it can be used to drive performance, innovation, and engagement. The show features interviews with business leaders from a variety of industries, as well as solo episodes where Barger shares his own insights and advice.   Connect: Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JasonVBarger   Make Your 2026 Effective! Book Jason with your team at htt ps://www.jasonvbarger.com   Like or Follow Jason

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What do you say when your mind goes blank in a high stakes moment? Why do some people choke under pressure, while others sound sharp instantly? How do you organize your thoughts fast enough to respond with clarity and confidence? This episode answers all of that, and gets into so much more, including: Why your brain flips into survival mode and how to stay in control when it does How to use simple frameworks like PACE to respond clearly without rambling What actually makes someone sound confident on the spot and why pausing beats filler words every time How to structure your answers so you sound sharp, not scattered How to build a mental library of stories, frameworks, and opinions so you're never caught off guard If you've ever thought of the perfect response 40 minutes too late, this is the fix. Structure creates speed. And once you have it, you stop freezing and start owning the room. Start your newsletter today with beehiiv! Head to https://beehiiv.link/ihss0e and use CODIE30 to get 30% off your first 3 months. ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:13) Why Your Brain Betrays You: The Science of Freezing Under Pressure (00:03:53) The Warren Buffett Framework: How Mental Models Replace Fear (00:05:41) Fast Thinking Is a Myth: The PACE Method Explained (00:09:08) Build Your Mental Assets: The Lattice Work Technique (00:13:40) The Power of the Pause: Why Silence Signals Confidence (00:14:59) Kill the Ramble: The Three Point Rule and Constraints (00:15:41) The Jeff Bezos Brief: Control the Frame Without Speaking (00:18:49) Real-Time Thinking Hacks: Five Tactical Techniques (00:22:57) Train Like a Pro: Compression Drills and Your Story Bank ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL

What does it mean to be a Change-Seeker? The most effective leaders and team cultures may just be intentional about seeking the change they desire. Jason explores the findings of the Harvard Global Leadership Development Study and the roadmap for building a "change-seeking" organizational culture. Read the Complete Show Notes Here including the Harvard Global Leaders Study: https://www.jasonvbarger.com/podcast/change-seeking-leaders/ Please rate and review the podcast to help amplify these messages to others! Summary: In a world where technology, market trends, and workplace expectations shift at lightning speed, how do the most effective organizations move from simply surviving to truly thriving? In this episode of The Thermostat, Jason V Barger examines a critical mandate from the recent Harvard Global Leadership Development Study: the necessity of cultivating a "change-seeking" organizational culture. This conversation moves beyond standard change management theory to address the mindset required to stimulate progress. Jason breaks down his "6 A's of Leading Change"—a disciplined, intentional process that moves from initial assessment to permanent anchoring. He explores why most teams fail by jumping straight to action without alignment, and how executives can use clear language to drive the behaviors necessary for a future-proof corporate culture. Essential listening for C-Suite executives, HR directors, and team leaders, this episode offers a tactical guide for anyone ready to challenge the status quo. Jason provides actionable insights on moving from "busyness" to effectiveness, ensuring that leadership in teams is rooted in a clear, shared vision for the road ahead. Episode Notes & Timestamps: [00:00] Intro: Jason sets the stage for a conversation on what it means to be a change seeker in a rapidly evolving world. [00:03] The Harvard Mandate: An overview of the recent Global Leadership Development Study and its #1 recommendation for organizations looking to thrive in 2026. [00:06] Defining the Change Seeker: Why looking in the mirror is the first step to improving systems, cultures, and team experiences. [00:09] The Trap of "Busyness": Differentiating between being busy and being effective, and why leaders must resist the urge to jump to action without a process. [00:10] The 6 A's Framework: Jason introduces the structured process for leading change: Assess, Align, Aspire, Articulate, Act, and Anchor. [00:11] Step 1 & 2: Assess & Align: The importance of being brutally honest about your current state and building a sense of urgency across the team. [00:12] Step 3 & 4: Aspire & Articulate: How painting a clear vision and using intentional language serves as the primary driver for desired behaviors. [00:14] Step 5 & 6: Act & Anchor: Connecting vision to tangible action and embedding change into the organizational DNA through hiring, onboarding, and development. [00:15] Leading with Intention: A closing reflection on why change is led by discipline and commitment rather than by accident. Key Takeaways for Leaders: Proactive Progress: Shift your team from a reactive posture to a "change-seeking" mindset that looks for improvement in every system. Language Drives Behavior: Utilize clear, articulated values to ensure every team member understands the vision they are being asked to own. Intentional Anchoring: Ensure the longevity of your initiatives by weaving change into your operational habits and leadership development programs. Listen to the full episode and access show notes at: https://jasonvbarger.com/podcast/change-seeking-leaders/ Bio: Jason Barger is a husband, father, speaker, and author who is passionate about business leadership and corporate culture. He believes that corporate culture is the "thermostat" of an organization, and that it can be used to drive performance, innovation, and engagement. The show features interviews with business leaders from a variety of industries, as well as solo episodes where Barger shares his own insights and advice.   Co nnect: Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JasonVBarger Make Your 2026 Effective! Book Jason with your team at https://www.jasonvbarger.com Like or Follow Jason

Go to Go to https://www.learningleader.com/becoming to see the pre-order bonuses for The Price of Becoming This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through Talent or Technical Services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world has the hustle and grit to deliver. My Guest: Scott Galloway is the New York Times bestselling author of books including The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, Post Corona, Adrift, and The Algebra of Wealth.  Notes: Key Learnings Routine speeds up time, novelty slows it down. If you want life to go fast, just spend it alone and have a routine and never bust out of that routine. What makes life interesting is diversity in people, because people are complicated, and relationships are complicated. Lean into your emotions to slow time down. If you see something that moves you, stop, think about it, ask yourself why it moves you, and try to cement that moment in your brain. Otherwise, you're not sleepwalking through life; you're sleep sprinting. "The greatest wasted resource in history is good intentions that don't get articulated." No matter how famous someone is, they love affirmation as much as anybody else. Good thoughts that don't get articulated are wasted. Absorb when you're upset and lean into emotions, good and bad. This sort of marks the day and slows things down. Otherwise, if you get up every morning, do the same thing, eat the same thing, have the same relationship, the week's just gonna go really fast. Reverse engineer your success to things that aren't your fault. What are the things that played a role in your success that you had no control over? Your luck, your good fortune. For Scott: big government, assisted lunch, Pell Grants, University of California, technology financed by middle-class taxpayers, DARPA, the internet, deep pools of capital, and acceptance of failure. His mom told him he had value every day. Scott's mom, every day, implicitly and explicitly, told him and communicated to him that he had value. That builds a basic confidence that manifests in different ways: the confidence to fail, approach strangers, believe you're worthy of love, that you'll add value to a company, and that you can ask for tens of millions of dollars from someone. When good things happened, he used to call his mom. Whether it was getting a bonus at Morgan Stanley or striking up a conversation with a woman at Starbucks and getting her number, Scott used to call his mom. Your parents can bask in your victory, and you can brag to your parents, and it's okay. If there's no one there with you, it's like it didn't happen. Scott travels for business and stays at really nice hotels, and inevitably gets upgraded to the penthouse or the George V in Paris when he's alone. But if there's no one there with you, it's like it didn't happen. Celebrate victories, tell people how much they mean to you. You have to call your friends, celebrate their victories, celebrate your own, and tell people how much they mean to you. Every day, no matter what, tell your kids you're proud of them and love them. No matter how much Scott's kids piss him off, at some point, he finds a way to say, "I'm proud of you, and I love you immensely. You know that, right?" He hopes they have that same kind of base or pillar of confidence he had his whole life. Having someone tell you they believe in you every day works. You don't have to be a baller or successful. Just having someone in your life and every day telling them they mean a lot to you, they can't help but not believe you after a while. Being a leader isn't about being the smartest person in the room. Scott used to think being a leader was being the smartest person in the room, and he had trouble, especially with other men, thinking if he acknowledged someone else was doing a good job, somehow that made him less impressive. You have so much currency as a founder or manager. If you're in a management or leadership role, much less a founder, you have so much currency to pull someone into a conference room and say, "You were outstanding in that meeting" or "I just read this, and I love this paragraph. God, where did you come up with this idea?" You literally see these people just light up. "If you're thinking it, say it." The instant you're thinking something positive about somebody, just tell them, text them, call them. Don't wait. We have a tendency to think other people are telepathic, that they must sense we think they're wonderful. No, they don't sense it. Articulate it. When you're on your deathbed, you're not gonna think "I gave too much praise at work and told too many people how much they meant to me." Young people need watering. If you don't give young people feedback and praise when they deserve it, it's like having a ton of capital and not spending it. Especially with young people, they need watering. Feedback is incredible compensation. Whenever someone does something good, Scott tries to remind himself via email. Then, when he does their review at the end of the year, it's like, " Wow, this dude is paying attention. That is a form of compensation. Give thoughtful reviews that show you understand them. Tell them what they need to develop to get to the next level. Pay for the courses they need. They're a single mom who needs flexibility and wants to make more money. That's compensation. "Become a clip machine." Certain people are clip machines: James Clear, Morgan Housel, Kat Cole, Scott Galloway. These are people who communicate ideas in ways that are instantly shareable and memorable. For leaders, becoming an effective communicator isn't optional anymore. You need to be able to inspire and move people. The ability to write well is the stem of storytelling. It forces you to manage your thoughts and think things through. It's difficult to be a great storyteller if you can't write at a competent level. Rank yourself across every medium and go deep on one. Look at every medium (texting, LinkedIn, short form video, TikTok, long form writing, speaking), rank yourself, listen to yourself, decide what your specialty is, and then go very deep into one. Figure out your medium and commit to being in the top 1%. Challenge yourself to be in the top 10% within a year, the top 1% within three years. Identify which medium you have skills in, then challenge yourself. If you're in the top 6,000 podcasts out of 600,000 that put out content every week, you're in the top 1%. "Social media may make you want to shower after you use it, but it's frightening how powerful it is." In terms of economic power and influence, it's frightening how powerful social media is right now. If you're a young person and you want to be influential or economically secure, you need to master it. Storytelling is the enduring skill to give your kids. Scott's core competence is storytelling. His superpower is attracting and retaining people who help leverage his skills. The most radical act in a capitalist society is not participation. Scott started Resist and Unsubscribe because action absorbs anxiety. He was sick of being virtuous and courageous on a keyboard or a mic and wanted to do something. "Ready, fire, fucking aim on this thing called life." Scott wants to dance like no one is watching. He's gonna be dead soon, and it's all going really fast. He doesn't want to look back and think about losing sponsors or what people thought was stupid. He wants to think, "Right on, I tried to do something." He wants to be that guy who was unafraid, who showed up with a carpool to try and make a difference. Your spending or lack thereof is a weapon hiding in plain sight. The government most quickly responded six years ago during COVID, not because tens of thousands of people were dying, but because the GDP crashed 31%. The president backs away from plans when the bond market or stock market goes down. Even a gnat on an elephant matters. Even if it's just a gnat on an elephant, enough gnats will take down an elephant. If you have economic security and people who love you unconditionally, you have an obligation to speak out. Sam Harris has this great saying: if you have economic security and people who love you unconditionally, then you have an obligation to speak out and speak your mind, because most people don't have that luxury. Do what makes you feel good about yourself. It's not easy being mediocre-looking; it takes real effort. Scott grew up very skinny with bad acne and thinks maybe he's a little too focused or self-conscious about his looks. America is ageist, and looks matter. New York is the ultimate tip of the spear for a capitalist society, and it's optimized for two people: hot women and rich guys. For everyone else, it's a soul-crushing experience. We can talk about the way the world should be and the way the world is. That's the way the world is. Start working out. Scott coaches young men: start working out. It's good for your head. It shows women and employers you're in shape, not just because it looks good (which it does), but because it reflects how you show up, that you have discipline, that you can commit to something. The rule of threes puts you in the top 5% of attractiveness. If you work out three times a week or more, if you spend at least 30 hours a week working outside of the house, and put yourself in the company of strangers (church group, nonprofits, sports league), just by doing those three things, you put yourself in the top 5% of attractiveness of young males. Anyone who's had great yeses has had a shit ton of no's. If you can be in the top 5% and learn how to mourn and move on from rejection, at some point, you'll be voluntarily celibate, which is awesome. There were hundreds of no's for you to get to a top podcast. You get used to no. No one has the right to a living or to reproduce. If you want to score above your class economically or romantically, get out a big spoon and get ready to eat shit. It's what everyone of us has done. "I'm constantly worried about my boys now." Scott didn't worry about his kids when they were little unless they were sick - they were safe and home. Now he's worried about them all the time: are they doing okay at school? Is the quiet one okay? His champagne toast moment would be celebrating his son's first year of college going well - having fun, a good friend group, a couple of dates, football games, and gearing up for sophomore year. Reflection Questions What things played a role in your success that you had no control over? Your luck, your good fortune. How does reverse engineering to those things change your perspective? Who in your life needs to hear that you're proud of them and that they mean a lot to you? When's the last time you actually said it? Rank yourself across every medium you participate in (texting, LinkedIn, video, writing, speaking). What's your specialty? Are you willing to commit to being in the top 1% of that medium within three years? More Learning #578: Scott Galloway - The Algebra of Wealth #492: Scott Galloway - Finding What You're Good At #396: Scott Galloway - Turning Crisis Into Opportunity Podcast Chapters 00:00 Preorder my new book! 02:45 Meet Scott Galloway 04:13 Resilience To Criticism 05:43 Slowing Time With Novelty 08:43 Scott's Mom Building Confidence 14:52 Use Praise As a Leadership Currency 24:27 Becoming A Great Storyteller 31:06 Resist And Unsubscribe Origins 35:35 What Comes Next 37:13 Facing Both Backlash and Support 39:45 Living Unafraid 41:23 Why Sell Prof G? 42:37 Building Enterprise Value 46:46 The Openness of Cosmetic Surgery  48:47 The World's View on the Physical 50:42 Rule of Threes for Men 53:11 Scott's Champagne Toast 56:52 The Belief of Reasonable Politics  58:10 Where to Find Scott Online 01:02:14 EOPC

Send us Fan MailMost people are watching.They're reading, learning, absorbing… but rarely speaking up.If that sounds like you, you're not alone—and you're not doing anything wrong.In fact, research on online communities shows that nearly 90% of people are “lurkers.” They observe, they learn quietly, and they stay on the sidelines while a small percentage of members drive most of the conversation.But here's the question this episode explores:Is staying quiet neutral… or is it quietly costing you more than you realize?In this episode of the Sign & Thrive Podcast, Bill Soroka takes a deeper look at the psychology behind lurking, why it's such a common behavior across platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook groups, Skool communities, training programs, and Zoom calls—and when it's time to move beyond it.This isn't about posting more for the sake of being visible.It's about developing the skill of contribution.Because the professionals who grow the fastest aren't the ones consuming the most information… they're the ones learning how to bring value in the rooms they're already in.In this episode, you'll learn:• Why lurking is completely normal—and why it still has a ceiling • The 90–9–1 rule and how it shows up in real communities like High Performance Notary • What actually counts as an “online community” (hint: it's more than social media) • The hidden cost of staying silent in your industry • The difference between low-impact and high-impact engagement • How to contribute in a way that builds trust, visibility, and real relationships • Five practical ways to bring value without being an “expert” • Why gratitude is participation—and how it strengthens your networkThe Shift: From Consuming to ContributingMost notaries (and entrepreneurs in general) are trained in skills—but not in how to show up in a room.They know how to do the work.But they don't always know how to:Articulate what they know Ask better questions Engage in meaningful conversations Support others publicly Build trust through presenceThis episode reframes every online space you're in as a training ground—not for content, but for leadership.Whether it's LinkedIn, a Facebook group, a Skool community, or a weekly Zoom call… these are all opportunities to practice becoming someone who brings value.The 7-Day Contribution Challenge (Simplified)Instead of overwhelming you with a checklist, Bill shares a simple approach you can apply immediately:• Add real value to one conversation per day • Share one lesson you learned the hard way • Help one person publicly—with detail and intentionThese small, intentional actions can shift how you're seen, how you feel, and how you grow.Want a place to practice this?Join High Performance Notary, a free community of 2,000+ notaries who are building real businesses, supporting each other, and learning how to show up with confidence.This isn't a place to scroll and disappear.It's a place to practice.Join here: https://www.skool.com/notaryKey Takeaway:You don't need a bigger audience.You need to bring more value to the room you're already in.Your next level won't be built in silence.If this episode resonated with you, share it with another notary or entrepreneur who's ready to step out of the shadows and into the conversation.And if you're ready… we'll see you inside.

She was married in a Parisian château, escorted through the Louvre in her wedding dress — and felt like death inside. Five years ago, Sara D Morell was a single mom on food stamps. Today Sara and her Sanctuary Project team have raised over $100 million and are building an eco-luxury, self-sustaining mini city outside Austin. What took her from there to here wasn't what she expected to talk about — until now. In this conversation, Celinne and Sara go into the parts that never make the stage: 16 custody hearings, hair falling out, crying on the laundry room floor while still building, and the moment on food stamps when a voice told her she would teach people to build wealth. Sara dismantles ego-driven manifestation, offers a radical reframe on co-creation, and speaks directly to every woman who has wondered why the outer success still feels hollow. You'll hear how Sara built her discernment muscle to trust the voice that has guided every major move — and why the real secret to everything she's built is this: trust, and go bigger. ON THIS EPISODE: 00:00 The version of Sara's story that never makes it on stage 05:12 Why manifesting from ego gets you a "Miserati" — and what co-creation looks like instead 13:34 How Sara holds grace, shame, and survival terror while still building 19:59 From homeless child to dancing at 17 to channeling a city: the burning ground that forged her 28:25 How to discern the voice of God from your own fear — and build the antenna that tells the difference 40:42 The Paris château wedding where she felt like death inside 49:03 The moment on food stamps when God gave her the ark 51:52 The real data on women and funding (only 1% of VC — and women generate more than double the return) 56:02 Why building community into the architecture of a city is the future KEY IDEAS:

If value comes from solving problems… why do buyers struggle to explain the problems they actually have? In Episode 4 of the Buyer Decision Series, Mark Stiving and Rebecca Kalogeris explore why buyers often jump straight to solutions instead of clearly articulating their problems. But the real value conversation doesn't start with features or products — it starts with understanding the problem behind the purchase. Discover why the sellers who understand a buyer's problems best are the ones buyers trust most… and why that trust increases the confidence needed to say yes.   Why you have to check out today's podcast: Understand why value only exists when a real problem is being solved—and why no problem means no value. Learn why buyers often jump to solutions and features instead of articulating their real problems. See why the best sales conversations focus less on products and more on diagnosing the buyer's situation.   Catch Up on the #BuyerDecisionSeries: Episode 1: Buying Is a Prediction of the Future  Episode 2: Buyers Buy Futures, Not Features  Episode 3: What Buyers Actually Pay For   "If there's no problem, there's no value." — Mark Stiving   Topics Covered: 00:00 – The Question Most Buyers Never Stop to Ask.  Mark opens with a simple but powerful question: what problem are we actually trying to solve? The starting point behind value — and why most buyers skip it. 02:00 – The Rule That Explains Why Value Only Exists When Problems Exist. Mark introduces the second half of the Second Law of Value: value is the result of solving problems. If there's no meaningful problem, there's no reason to pay. 02:28 – The "Drill Aisle" Mistake Buyers Make. Why buyers walk into a store asking for a drill instead of understanding what they actually need — and how jumping straight to solutions leads to bad decisions. 05:12 – Why Feature-Focused Buyers Often Choose the Wrong Solution. From cars to CRM systems, buyers instinctively compare features instead of identifying the deeper problems they're trying to solve. 08:09 – The Question That Instantly Builds Buyer Trust. Why great sellers ask deeper questions about context and behavior — revealing problems the buyer hasn't fully articulated. 09:55 – The Confidence Equation Behind Every Buying Decision. Mark revisits the confidence framework — payoff, probability, and anticipated regret — and explains why understanding problems increases the probability a buyer believes your solution will work. 11:04 – The "Doctor Test" for Great Selling. Rebecca compares great sellers to doctors: when someone clearly diagnoses your problem, you immediately trust their solution. 12:48 – The Next Puzzle: Turning Problems Into Measurable Value. Mark previews the next episode: how companies can help buyers quantify value once the real problems are understood.   Key Takeaways: "Buyers typically are horrible at articulating their own problems."  — Mark Stiving "Nobody cares about your product. What they care about are the problems you can solve and the results they'll achieve."  — Mark Stiving "The better a salesperson is at understanding your problems, the more likely you are to believe that solution solves your problem."  — Mark Stiving "When someone can articulate your problem with nuance and detail, suddenly you believe they can solve it." — Mark Stiving "Confidence changes when someone demonstrates they truly understand your situation." — Rebecca Kalogeris   People / Concepts Mentioned: Theodore Levitt. Referenced for the famous insight: "People don't want a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole." Jobs to Be Done. A framework focused on understanding the underlying job a customer is trying to accomplish.   Connect with Rebecca Kalogeris: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-kalogeris   Connect with Mark Stiving: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stiving/ Email: mark@impactpricing.com  

The Role of Executive Leadership in Shaping Company Culture and Preventing Burnout Source article:  https://www.breakfastleadership.com/blog/he-role-of-executive-leadership-in-shaping-company-culture-and-preventing-burnout In this Deep Dive episode, we unpack a foundational leadership truth: culture is not messaging. It is behavior at scale. And it begins with executive leadership. This conversation moves beyond surface-level engagement tactics and examines culture as strategic infrastructure. If you want to assess organizational health, do not start with the employee survey. Start with leadership behavior. What leaders tolerate, reward, ignore, and model becomes the company's operating system. Culture Is a Leadership Discipline Drawing on research from Gallup and McKinsey & Company, the discussion highlights a critical point: managers account for at least 70 percent of the variance in employee engagement, and organizations with performance-aligned cultures significantly outperform peers. Culture is not soft. It is structural. It is measurable. And it is directly tied to financial outcomes. The episode challenges the common executive mistake of delegating culture to HR. High-performing organizations treat culture as a leadership discipline, not a department function. The Mirror Effect and Emotional Contagion Leaders set the emotional climate of the enterprise. Referencing findings published by Harvard Business Review, the episode explores behavioral contagion. Executive emotional states cascade through teams. If leaders operate in chronic urgency, the organization mirrors urgency. If leaders model accountability, transparency, and regulation, those behaviors scale. A key theme emerges: executive nervous system management is not self-help language. It is performance strategy. If leadership is dysregulated, no wellness program will repair the culture. Incentives Reveal the Real Values Many organizations declare collaboration, innovation, or integrity as core values. Yet compensation and promotion systems often reward individual output at any cost. That misalignment is not a culture problem. It is a leadership integrity problem. Referencing research from Deloitte, the discussion reinforces that organizations with alignment between mission and business strategy demonstrate greater resilience during disruption. Vision, incentives, and modeled behavior must align. Without alignment, culture becomes performative. Psychological Safety as a Performance Lever The episode revisits insights from Google's Project Aristotle research, which identified psychological safety as the primary predictor of high-performing teams. Psychological safety is not politeness. It is accountability without fear. Leaders create this environment by: Admitting mistakes Inviting dissent Responding to failure with curiosity rather than blame You cannot scale performance without scaling trust. Burnout Is a Structural Signal Burnout is often misdiagnosed as an individual resilience issue. The episode reframes it as a culture metric. According to the World Health Organization, burnout is an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. If executives create unclear priorities, constant urgency, unrealistic workloads, and low autonomy, burnout becomes predictable. Sustainable performance requires engineered capacity: Clear priorities Defined decision rights Normalized recovery Sustainable workload design Calm is not passive. Calm is controlled intensity. Top-Down Directional Clarity Building culture from the top does not mean command-and-control leadership. It means clarity. Exceptional leaders: Articulate a compelling vision Model required behaviors Design systems that reinforce those behaviors When executives abdicate culture design, informal power structures take over. Informal culture rarely aligns with long-term strategy. Executive Culture Audit The episode closes with a practical executive checklist: Are leadership behaviors consistent with stated values? Do incentives reward long-term thinking? Is psychological safety measurable? Are burnout indicators treated as operational metrics? Does communication cascade clearly? The organizations that will outperform in the next decade will not simply adopt AI or analytics. They will build resilient human systems. Culture is engineered. Performance is designed. Leadership behavior is the starting point. If this episode resonated, explore further insights in Workplace Culture and Burnout Proof, and visit BreakfastLeadership.com for additional executive-level analysis on sustainable high performance.

Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution argues the administration must articulate that fighting in Iran is essential for securing American freedom and advancing national interests across all global regions. (1)1580 PERSIA

Ever struggle to articulate your thoughts clearly and concisely at work? In this episode, I'm teaching you the 4S Framework - a simple, step-by-step method for organizing your thoughts so you always sound crisp, polished, and confident when you speak. You'll learn: Why concise communication isn't about using fewer words (and what it's actually about) How to instantly capture your audience's attention with the ‘Spark' technique The secret sauce that makes everything you say sound more polished How to use storytelling to make even the most mundane updates feel compelling How to stick the landing so you leave a strong, lasting impression Whether you're presenting to senior leadership, giving a project update, or speaking up in a meeting, the 4S Framework will help you communicate with more confidence and executive presence.   LINKS:   Grab the free Five Phrases worksheet here: Do you ever struggle to articulate your thoughts clearly and concisely at work? In this episode, I'm teaching you the 4S Framework - a simple, step-by-step method for organizing your thoughts so you always sound crisp, polished, and confident when you speak. You'll learn: Why concise communication isn't about using fewer words (and what it's actually about) How to instantly capture your audience's attention with the ‘Spark' technique The secret sauce that makes everything you say sound more polished How to use storytelling to make even the most mundane updates feel compelling How to stick the landing so you leave a strong, lasting impression Whether you're presenting to senior leadership, giving a project update, or speaking up in a meeting, the 4S Framework will help you communicate with more confidence and executive presence.   LINKS:   Grab the free Five Phrases worksheet here:  https://jessguzikcoaching.com/phrases/    Work with me inside the Art of Speaking Up Academy:  https://jessguzikcoaching.com/academy/   

This episode speaks directly to the overfunctioning woman tired of shrinking and sacrificing her peace. Through honesty and gentle clarity, we explore how boundaries are less about control and more about positioning yourself in your truth. If you're ready to unlearn the trauma responses that keep you stuck and build a foundation rooted in self-respect, this is your starting point.Key Topics Covered:Why most women struggle with boundaries and what forces them to overfunctionBoundaries as a form of self-responsibility, not selfishnessThe difference between expressing preferences and taking action to protect your energyWhy your capacity is not a character flaw, it's a human needThe "Name It" boundary-setting framework: Notice, Articulate, Make It Known, EnforceHow childhood environments conditioned us to see boundaries as selfish or dangerousThe power of clarity in relationships. Beth from Yellowstone versus Monica from FriendsReframing belief: boundaries are about safety, maturity, and respectPractical steps: starting a resentment log, communicating boundaries, and enforcing themPermission to say no, change your mind, and prioritize your well-beingResources & Links:Back to Basics Toolkit (free)Book: Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free by Nancy LevinConnect with Lolly:InstagramWebsiteRemember: Boundaries are your permission to show up as yourself;softly powerful, deeply honest, radically responsible. You don't have to shrink anymore. Your peace is worth it.

Articulate was founded in 2002 by Adam Schwartz and has operated as a fully remote organization since inception. With no central headquarters, the company has scaled to hundreds of employees and now serves 120,000+ organizations, including 98 of the Fortune 100. Built around its Human-Centered Organization framework, Articulate prioritizes impact over seat time and hires globally with a focus on autonomy and inclusion. The leadership team has raised $1.5 billion in funding while remaining fully distributed, demonstrating that long-term growth and remote-first design can operate together at significant scale.Looking for Remote Work?Click here remoteworklife.io to access a private beta list of remote jobs in sales, marketing, and strategy — plus get podcasts, real-world tips and business insights from founders, CEOs, and remote leaders. subscribe to my free newsletter Connect on LinkedIn

Marie Poza had a thriving wellness practice, a full calendar, and the respect of her community. What no one saw was the exhaustion underneath — the white-knuckling, the people-pleasing, the inability to say no. For years, she believed that working harder was the only path to creating more. One first session cracked that open. Through the Story Clarity Intensive, Marie began to see that her overdoing nature wasn't strength — it was a childhood survival pattern. What followed was a four-year journey of unraveling: doubling her rates (and watching most clients stay and rise with her), building a team, launching a signature program and wellness app, and transforming her marriage. In this conversation, Celinne and Marie explore what happens when a successful entrepreneur stops thinking her way through life and starts feeling her way through. You'll hear how Marie went from burnt-out people-pleaser to intuition-led leader. And why she and her husband just sold their house to move their family to Spain. ON THIS EPISODE: 00:00 Meet Marie Poza and why this case study had to be re-recorded — too much had changed 08:16 Hear Marie describe the moment she found Celinne — washing dishes, exhausted, and knowing there had to be a better way 11:47 Discover how the Story Clarity Intensive revealed a childhood pattern of overdoing and people-pleasing 20:36 Learn how trusting intuition over strategy led Marie to double her rates — and what happened next 27:23 Witness how Marie launched her Unstoppable program with zero paid advertising by following her inner knowing 34:53 Explore the belief that boundaries mean being unkind — and the radical reframe that changed everything 44:17 Hear the story of selling their house, living in an Airbnb, and preparing to move the family to Spain 48:09 Understand the practice of sitting in discomfort instead of rushing to fix — and why it creates capacity for more KEY IDEAS:

In this episode Claire Bown is joined by Georgia Close and Harriet Body from the National Gallery of Australia, alongside Naomi Zouwer from the University of Canberra, to explore how the gallery co-designed its Creative Learning approach.The conversation traces an 18-month process of articulating a shared pedagogical framework shaped by national context, cultural responsibility, and First Nations-led principles. Rather than adopting an existing model, the team worked through workshops, observation, interviews and iterative “campaigns” to develop a cohesive, values-led approach.A key commitment was centring the artist's voice, placing artist intention in conversation with students' existing knowledge. From this, the team developed a Creative Learning strategy planning tool that supports inquiry-led, multimodal, embodied and reflective practice.Across the episode, they explore:How to develop a context-specific learning approach rather than importing a modelWhat it means in practice to centre the artist's voiceHow small, iterative “campaigns” can embed reflective practice in a teamHow multimodality and embodiment deepen engagement beyond discussionWhy joy is understood as a serious pedagogical commitmentWhat co-design and participatory action research look like inside a museum settingThis episode will resonate with anyone working in museums, galleries or cultural institutions who is thinking carefully about pedagogy, reflective practice, and how to articulate an approach that genuinely reflects their context and values.The Art Engager is written and presented by Claire Bown. Editing is by Matt Jacobs and Claire Bown. Music by Richard Bown. Support on PatreonEpisode Links:https://nga.gov.au/learn/our-creative-learning-approach/ The Creative Learning Project Digital Publication: https://nga.gov.au/media/dd/documents/NGA_The_Creative_Learning_Project_Digital_Publication.pdfZouwer, N. & Hamilton, O. (2026). The Creative Learning Project: Defining the National Gallery of Australia's Creative Learning Approach. 10.13140/RG.2.2.35063.28324Zouwer, N., Hamilton, O., Menser Hearn, N., & Ali, I. (2026). Using Practice-Based Methods to Co-create, Define, and Articulate a New Approach to Art Education in the National Gallery of Australia. Australian Journal of Education, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00049441261421257Georgia Close, Head of Learning, National Gallery of AustraliaHarriet Body, Creative Learning Convenor, National Gallery of AustraliaHarriet Body on LinkedInNaomi Zouwer, artist, teacher, and researcher. Lecturer of Creative Arts Teacher Education and a researcher in the...

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Simon Constable faults Prime Minister Starmer's lack of leadership, criticizing the British leader's failure to articulate vision or direction as the United Kingdom drifts through economic and political uncertainty.1849 MONET

Do you feel "grubby" or "salesy" when you think about marketing your coaching business? You are not alone. In this short episode, Sarah challenges the common belief that marketing requires being "shouty" or "braggy". She explains how marketing is actually just as client-focused as coaching itself, simply requiring a shift in perspective to help your ideal clients find you.Key Takeaways:The "It Depends" Dilemma: Coaches often struggle to define outcomes because every client is unique and the results depend entirely on the individual's challenges and actions.The Visibility Reality Check: Many coaches believe that if their coaching is good enough, clients will magically find them, but clients cannot hire you if they don't know you exist.Marketing is Client-Focused: Just as coaching focuses on the client, good marketing focuses on the specific kind of client you love working with—the ones that make you say "yes" when you see their name in your diary.The "Coach Marketer" Role: To build a financially viable business, you must embrace the role of "coach marketer," which simply means becoming visible to your chosen clients and articulating the benefits of working with you.Memorable Quote:"No matter how wonderful your coaching is, clients can't find you if they don't know you exist." The Simple Marketing Formula:Sarah breaks it down into two simple steps:Become visible to the people you want as clients.Articulate the benefits of working with you.Have you enjoyed this episode? Find out more and take the FREE quiz at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thecoachingrevolution.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the FREE Facebook group at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildacoachingbusiness⁠⁠

Where do you see yourself in five years? Does that question fill you with excitement, or a quiet sense of dread? We are wired differently. For many people, myself included, the question is not difficult to answer because we lack imagination. It is difficult because it speaks a different language from our natural way of being. We are not compelled by any outcome-oriented approach to planning, conceiving, or measuring success. And yet this orientation is often treated as a default mode we should all operate within. When the Five-Year Plan Feels Constricting Rather Than Motivating “But everyone has a dream,” we might be told, as if struggling to articulate a five-year vision means we are hiding something from ourselves. I have never been able to articulate a grand plan in the way this question assumes. I struggle to picture the future concretely, because it unfolds piece by piece. It always has. And I genuinely love watching how things emerge across different areas of life in ways I could not have foreseen. What drives me is something quieter and steadier. A creative impulse. A desire to make things, to explore what might happen, to respond to what is in front of me, and to integrate what has come before. My life does not move in straight lines. It has grown around and within my values, with seemingly unrelated dots connecting in unexpected ways. Maybe you relate to this? https://youtu.be/qFqIvsBB9HA “If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.” This quote, inspired by Alice in Wonderland, reminds me of the five-year question. For some, it sounds like a warning. A demand to define the destination so the “correct” road can be chosen. For others, it feels like permission. A reminder that movement itself shapes direction, and that choosing a road does not require certainty about where it leads. Two Approaches to Growing Life There is research that can help us better understand this difference. In an episode about Late Blooming, Kendra Patterson pointed to a study by David Galenson and Bruce Weinberg, who observed patterns in the careers of Nobel Prize winners in economics. They identified two broad orientations to creative innovation. Some people are conceptual innovators. They work deductively. They begin with a clear idea and organise themselves towards it. In the study, these individuals often made their most significant contributions early in life, sometimes in their twenties. Others are experimental innovators. They work inductively. Their contribution emerges step by step through trial, discovery, accumulation, and integration. Their most meaningful work often did not appear until their fifties. Sometimes later. That is a thirty-year difference. Experimental Thinkers and Emergent Direction Experimental lives unfold differently. They need time, space, and patience. Decisions cannot be judged too early, and meaning emerges through lived experience rather than advance planning. These lives are not oriented towards a clearly imagined endpoint, but towards allowing something to take shape over time. Our dominant culture tends to favour the conceptual orientation for obvious reasons. Goals are easier to measure than processes, and outcomes are more reassuring than slow inquiry. So when more experimental people are asked to account for themselves in conceptual language, we can experience a disconnect. The five-year plan. Starting with the end in mind. Being asked to justify movement only if the destination can be named in advance. We might learn to force an answer anyway, for fear of sounding vague and sketchy. Perhaps we adapt our path to fit the question, sometimes tethering ourselves to targets that outlive their purpose. If You Can’t Articulate The Plan, You May Be Asking Different Questions Experimental people tend to better orient around different questions. Not “where do I want to get to?” but “does this path feel worth exploring?”Not “how will I know I have succeeded?” but “what tells me I’m on the right path for now?” This does not mean anything goes. Our values provide an inner compass. A filter through which decisions pass. Experimental consistency grows in relationship with deeper principles, even when they are not fully formed or easy to articulate. We sense them in how something feels. Whether it feels solid, expansive, and quietly right, even in the face of uncertainty. That is very different from hit-and-hope searching. An Unfinished Map The problem begins when we are pressured to live by a map that does not match the territory of our own experience. The Return To Serenity Island grew directly out of this recognition. It was never designed to answer the question of direction. It emerged from understanding the difference between conceptual and experimental ways of moving through life, and from a desire to honour growth and change without forcing myself into a shape that did not fit. The image of mapping an island felt natural. A way of imagining life not as something to optimise along a straight line, but as a living territory. An unfinished map with seasons, weather, history, and forgotten paths. A place where things fall away to make room for what comes next. Where time moves differently across the landscape, and where connections form quietly, often long before they make sense. It has become a counterpoint to directive, outcome-driven models of goal setting. A place to reconnect with intuition, judgement, and possibility. To meet creativity not as a tool for achievement, but as a way of relating to life as something we are growing into, rather than something we are meant to complete. The optional live sessions begin on Saturday January 24th 2026 and run for six weeks. You can find more information at serenityisland.me. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a message. I would love to hear from you if this sounds like something you would find helpful.

Send us a textIf you stopped showing up to work tomorrow, what would actually happen? Would revenue dip, or would your work simply be quietly reassigned? In this episode, I ask the uncomfortable questions that every senior professional needs to sit with. We explore why the job market doesn't necessarily reward the most qualified person, but rather the person who solves the most urgent, painful, and expensive problems. I discuss the 'Candy, Vitamin, and Painkiller' framework and why so many overlooked achievers get stuck in the 'Vitamin' box—seen as helpful and reliable, but not essential. You will learn how to shift your positioning to become a 'Painkiller' and why this is critical for your career acceleration. I also share four powerful lessons from the late, iconic James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vader) on how to turn your weakest muscles into your strongest assets. Book a Game Plan Call: If you are ready to identify the specific pain you solve and position yourself as a painkiller, book a one-on-one session: superchargeyourself.com/gameplanKey TakeawaysThe Candy, Vitamin, Painkiller Framework: Investors and businesses view roles in three categories. 'Candy' is fun but dispensable; 'Vitamins' are helpful and steady but not urgent; 'Painkillers' solve expensive, risky, or urgent problems. To be indispensable, you must be a Painkiller. The Perception Gap: Many senior executives are already solving pain in reality, but they communicate like vitamins. If you describe your work as "supporting cross-functional teams" rather than "eliminating financial leakage," you are underselling your impact.The PPF Strategy: I introduce my Painkiller Positioning Framework. Step 1: Identify the pain you solve (financial, time, or risk). Step 2: Articulate outcomes, not activities. Step 3: Position yourself as someone whose absence would hurt the business. Lessons from Darth Vader: James Earl Jones had a severe stutter as a child and was not the first choice for Darth Vader. His journey teaches us that you don't need to be the first choice to be essential, and sometimes taking a step back (or a lower fee) can lead to a massive leap forward. Episode Highlights01:00 – The Uncomfortable Question: What would happen if you stopped showing up to work tomorrow?02:58 – The 'Candy, Vitamin, and Painkiller' Framework: A breakdown of how businesses value roles, from dispensable "candy" to essential "painkillers."04:53 – Real-World Painkiller Examples: How finance, supply chain, and product leaders solve urgent, expensive, or risky problems.07:02 – The Painkiller Positioning Framework (PPF): A three-step strategy to identify the pain you solve and articulate outcomes over activities.10:37 – Lessons from James Earl Jones: How the voice of Darth Vader turned a childhood stutter into his greatest strength.14:02 – Strategic Steps Back: Why a temporary dip in pay or title can set up a long-term career leap.Enjoyed this episode? Here are three ways to go deeper:Share and review the podcastIf this episode resonated, share it with a colleague who needs to hear it. And if you have 30 seconds, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more high-achieving professionals discover the show.Get my weekly “Charge-Up” newsletterIf you like smart, no-fluff career insights, you will love Charge-Up. Each week I break down lessons from movies, TV, business and real executive career stories that I do not s

1:40:08 Marquett GOES IN ON HATER!!!! (BRUTAL)1:43:20 The Type of N Marquett HATES1:45:18 Tips for Public speaking? (Articulate w/out stuttering)1:47:30 We can't let these false narratives prevail - MDB1:48:40 YOU ARE NOT on The Big Homie's caliber1:49:40 That's how we know you're really DUMB!!1:50:12 Show us how YOU living?!?! (HATER GETS FLAMED)1:52:43 Marquett teaches HATER a SAVAGE lesson!1:54:30 Marquett is lifting other people up (GREATNESS)1:56:48 The Big Homie digs HATER back up from the grave1:58:03 I ain't gon' pretend I have respect when I don't have respect - MDB1:58:54 "You talk like a white guy" - Marquett kicks some game1:59:30 Black Males allowing the Black Female to be Obese2:00:40 This is Black Excellence!! (Shoutout to The Saint!)2:02:01 Marquett explains how much of a Hustler he is2:03:44 Haters will NOT fly to Las Vegas to throw hands w/ Quett2:05:18 No excuses Black Men2:05:49 They Live off of a Female and have NO PLAN2:07:14 Troll claims he wants smoke?!2:09:24 Fake Masculinity 2:11:50 They always hate on someone who's put themself on the other side of the Spectrum2:13:34 TROLL claims he was blocked?! (Scared to come on Camera)2:14:13 These African American Males coming on screen deserve this2:16:24 You are not my people - Marquett speaks2:21:21 Saint is joining the Patreon!! (High Level Game for Members)2:24:10 Saint appreciates this timely livestream (Facts were spoken)2:27:13 Proper English2:28:06 Marquett talks to his Latino's real quick2:30:38 All Haters were once fans2:31:30 Saint comes on Camera and has respectful conversation w/ The Big Homie!2:51:26 Level to knowing one's Self2:54:12 Saint asks if Marquett has ever had a conversation w/ Dr. Umar Johnson2:55:37 The Big Homie has had alot of conversation's w/ ALOT of REAL people2:58:14 Saint asks about the conversation... (Quett is kicking that ISM)3:00:43 First step to get out of the idea stage? (Diabetics)3:02:43 Marquett is showing us things we never seen before!3:03:16 The ones who live a quiet life w/ alot of money & influence make power moves3:07:45 Internet Nerds making "Expose" video's on The Big Homie3:08:31 Make your moves in the shadows!!#blackgirlmagic #blackmen #foundationalblackamericans Support Via Cashapp: @MarquettDavonSupport via Venmo: @MarquettDavonSupport: https://donate.stripe.com/4gM9ATgXFcRx5Tf4rw0x200Become a member: https://thesasn.com/membership-account/membership-levels/Support with Bitcoin: BTC Deposit address: 3NtpN3eGwcmAgq1AYJsp7aV7QzQDeE9uwdMy Book: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Box-Marquett-Burton/dp/0578745062https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-marquett-burtons-training-centerBook Consultation: https://cozycal.com/sasn#Marquettism #FinancialFreedom #Entrepreneurship #Marquettdavon #Wealth #FoundationalBlackAmerican #Leadership #Deen #business #relationships #money

If you can write or speak well, you are one step closer to getting what you want in life.––– Links –––Eden – The AI canvas & drive: https://eden.so/dan-ytRead my letters on similar topics here: https://letters.thedankoe.comLearn a high-value skill: https://2hourwriter.comOne-Person Business Launchpad: https://letters.thedankoe.com/p/full-course-the-one-person-businessThis podcast was originally a YouTube video:⁠ https://youtu.be/DKT6m_8vCkA––– My Books –––The Art of Focus: https://theartoffocusbook.comPurpose & Profit: https://thedankoe.com/purpose––– Socials –––Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedankoeInstagram: https://instagram.com/thedankoeYouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DanKoeTalksLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thedankoe

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TDC 075: How To Craft Your Worldview With AIWhat I learned at Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi's $250,000 private mastermind this week.Episode SummaryIn this episode of The Digital Contrarian, host Ryan Levesque dives into building a comprehensive worldview and why it's your hidden operating system.You'll learn how to surface your existing beliefs, discover the three levels of reality that shape decisions, and explore a six-step AI-assisted process for crafting worldviews that drive real results.Question of the Day

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How to Answer 'Overqualified': Strategy to Secure Senior Roles Today, we dive into the second critical strategy for mid-career success: mastering your value proposition and defeating the biggest biases. 1. Master Your Value Proposition and Relevancy You must deeply understand your unique value and exactly where it intersects with market demand. Define Your Differentiator: What is your signature strength? Pinpoint the one thing that makes you stand out—whether it's crisis management, technical depth, or strategic leadership. Align with Needs: Research the industry's most pressing challenges. Map your history directly to these needs and articulate exactly how you solve their future problems. Communicate Current Value: Avoid telling old "war stories." Articulate the lessons learned from past achievements and explain precisely how those lessons apply to the company's current situation. Make your history relevant and current.   John Tarnoff - https://johntarnoff.com

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A candid reflection on staying grounded while engaging in contentious conversations—and when to take a step back. ✨ Episode Summary In this heartfelt solo talk, host Corey Nathan goes back to the fundamentals of Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other. Reflecting on recent emotionally charged interactions—some painfully personal—Corey revisits five foundational principles that guide his conversations and this podcast's mission. He opens up about the emotional toll of receiving attacks from opposing sides of the political and religious spectrum and how even with years of practice, the work of engaging respectfully remains challenging and ongoing. Here are the five essentials Corey leans into when the temperature rises:

What happens when you put a mic in front of HR leaders and ask them for their unfiltered takes on AI?In this episode, Daniel and Stephen recap their trip to HR Tech — where they recorded 12 quick-hit “AI Confessions” from folks they met on the conference room floor. From agentic workflows and custom GPT chaos to the real blockers slowing down AI adoption, this one's packed with candid insights from the front lines.You'll hear what HR leaders from companies like Lumen, Articulate, and Airbnb.---- Sponsor Links:

The mouth is our superpower. Through it we convey ideas and articulate thoughts. The third way to wisdom is to arrange our lips. This entails using our mouth in a powerful and strategic fashion. This Ethics Podcast was originally released on the Ethics Podcast on Jun 13, 2022 – – – – – – – […]

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