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“I’m never going to do business.”*Goes and works at an aviation company and expands the business.“I heard about this concept called Business School. Harvard has one? Cool!”*Gets into HBS.“I had 6 job offers during MBA campus interviews.”*Takes the lowest paying job, with pretty much the worst interview experience, ever.“I wanted to move to a country where they speak French or German”*Gets transferred to a country where they speak neither.Careers are built not by meticulously planning every detail, but by embracing unexpected and unimagined opportunities. If you are looking for lots of laughs and lots of learnings, this is a conversation you cannot miss.The episode is called: Embrace the UnexpectedMy guest today: Brenda Bence has built mega brands for Fortune 100 companies like Procter & Gamble where she headed multi-million dollar brands, first based in the U.S., then in Europe and then in Asia.Then in 2002, at her career peak, Brenda made the leap, and started her own coaching business, which now has offices in Asia and the US. There’s so much in this chat:-How Brenda got hired right out of university, and how she turned a NO to a YES-How she got hired by P&G (lots of giggles guaranteed)-How she got hired by her very first paying clientEach story is unforgettable and the 51 minutes fly by!Join Brenda and me in the unexpected and fascinating journey through her very successful and very squiggly career. You won’t fail to be inspired!Brenda's new book The Forgotten Choice can be purchased here. If you'd like the companion guide, send your proof of purchase to books@brendabence.comFollow Brenda Bence on LinkedIn here.For all other social channels as well as to sign up to Brenda's newsletter: www.BrendaBence.comEnjoyed the show? Tell three of your closest friends!And please leave a great review on Apple Podcasts, as it would mean a lot to me and hopefully help others discover this resource for Job Seekers !https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/how-i-got-hired/id1536817985And finally, connect with me on LinkedIn, I'd love to hear from you: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalbahl/
Think about why you became an entrepreneur, why you became a speaker, why you decided event planning was for you...if you’ve been around Inside The Greenroom long enough that should be a pretty easy answer. Establishing your why is a pivotal foundation of all that you do. Can the people you lead say the same thing? On today’s episode, we have two incredible speakers and entrepreneurs, Brenda Batista-Mollohan and Joe Lau. Brenda is the founder and owner of Inspiring Company Culture, a business dedicated to helping leaders create workplace environments where every employee feels valued, heard and appreciated. Joe is a self-made entrepreneur who after creating several businesses and selling them making seven-figure profits is now a speaker, influencer and ‘quality of life’ coach, he emphasizes the importance of aligning yourself to create a more harmonic life both inside and outside of the workplace. Learn from Brenda as she talks about the process of establishing high-performing teams, leading by example, understanding when someone isn’t a good fit for your company, and how integral it is for employees to find a place within the business. You’ll hear from Joe on how to bring rest, and harmony within yourself before bringing it to the workplace, why it’s so important for those you lead to find their own why, and even the amazing shifts that can happen when your employees align with themselves and the company’s values. Join us as we talk about allowing those you lead to make the choices that are right for them so that your culture - whether its an event, company, or project - can reach its goals exponentially faster. Event planners learn how you can create an event culture that will have people not just learning but actually having fun and enjoying their time so that they come back again and again. Speakers you’ll hear about the importance of enhancing an event’s culture and why you should take the time to dive deep into the gigs you get. This is an episode you may want to listen to twice because you’ll want to remember this insight from both of these incredible speakers. For more resources or to get in touch with either Brenda or Joe check out the links below! Here’s what we cover: How Inspiring Company Culture began The importance of engagement with your teams Setting a challenge and offering support The biggest indicator of who you are What makes up the culture of a business Giving employees space to see if they align with the culture Creating a good culture for your event Finding measurable outcomes to find and fix weak areas Taking technology out of the equation to get to the root of the problem Why speakers are important for an event’s culture And much more! LINKS: Connect with Joe: Website: https://www.therealjoelau.com/ Email: joe@therealjoelau.com Facebook: @therealjoelau Insta: @therealjoelau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therealjoelau/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg2pd10GGpS5hyYBkIDc5QQ Connect With Brenda: Website: https://www.inspiringcompanyculture.com/ Email: brenda@inspiringcompanyculture.com Facebook: @inspiring-company-culture Insta: @inspiringcompanyculture LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-batista-mollohan/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnJAK_hyMYhEHcFEUo4JPmg Connect with Blair: blair@advanceyourreach.com Connect with us: Facebook: www.facebook.com/advanceyourreach Website: advanceyourreach.com stageagency@advanceyourreach.com Email: info@insidethegreenroompodcast.com Book Speakers for your next event! We are the only agency where you can book free and paid speakers, no bureau commissions! Learn More https://elitespeakersagency.com/ Influential Speakers in Joe’s life: Jesse Itzler Sarah Blakley Influential Speakers in Brenda’s life: Barack Obama Oprah Winfrey Tony Robbins Episode Minute By Minute: 0:27 Welcome Inside The Greenroom 0:38 Get to know Brenda Bastista-Mollohan and Joe Lau 2:28 How Brenda’s entrepreneurial journey began 5:54 Where Joe’s journey began 7:42 Why It is crucial for leaders and employees to grow together 10:46 Enrolling yourself and your teammates 16:11 What happens when your time is not associated with your identity 18:36 Getting your employees to the next level 24:08 Creating an amazing work culture 28:30 3 things that are guaranteed to shift your team culture 33:31 How Brenda and Joe leverage systems to create better experiences 43:23 How to connect further with Joe and Brenda More About Joe: Joe is a self-made entrepreneur. He has founded six companies and sold three of them resulting in multiple seven-figure profits. As a successful entrepreneur, speaker, and quality of life coach, Joe inspires and challenges people to connect with who they truly are so that they can have meaningful relationships and live a healthier and higher-quality lifestyle. Joe’s approach simplifies the process of achieving a harmonic life by focusing on the things that truly matter. He teaches his clients to practice gratitude and appreciation to better all areas of their life from fitness to family to finances. His methods help his clients become the best version of themselves and allow them to play more, live more, and make more. More About Brenda: Brenda Batista-Mollohan is the Founder of Inspiring Company Culture where she helps leaders transform their work environments to be places where everyone is heard, valued, and appreciated. Brenda is an expert in establishing high-performing teams, healthy company culture, leadership, business system analysis, and strategic planning. For the past 25 years, Brenda has focused on performance improvement and how the power of teams helps sustain business results. She helps teams engage and align with desired business outcomes by providing customized workshops, as well as group and leadership coaching either as a standalone or as part of a consulting project. Brenda holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Systems Engineering, a Masters in Health Administration, and a Juris Doctorate
I’m excited to share today’s show with you. My guest has an interesting perspective as an obviously gifted person who has dyslexia. Her experience is fascinating, but there is so much more to her story and work. Join us! Brenda Bryan is a kickass inspirational speaker and The Diviner of Human Potential. As a transformational coach and Mastermind facilitator, she supports women to unmask and nurture their genius, empowering them to live in the strength of their passion. Teaching through the Raise Your Voice Speaker’s Club, one-on-one workshops, and stages around the country, Brenda demonstrates authentic, warm-hearted humor with a deep wealth of knowledge of the importance of communication in feminine power. Brenda began working in her passion of building community and supporting women in the early 70s. Graduating with a degree in communications, she became active in the women’s movement. Through her activism, she acquired lasting skills in group processing, facilitation, and leadership. She facilitates ritual and teaches sacred art through drum-making and other creative works. For the past 45 years, Brenda has continued to build her toolkit to support women’s empowerment. Most recently, she was inspired to be the founder and CEO of It Must Be Said Productions, which is a platform for stories that need telling, a venue for social change. She believes the weaving together of creativity, innovation, and invention invites future visioning. Show Highlights: Why Brenda is intensely passionate about feminism, helping women claim their place at the table, communication, ritual, and loving and nurturing ourselves Why Brenda’s personal brand of intensity involves anger over injustices and inequalities in our social order and environment, along with radical self-care and a questioning of authority Why Brenda wasn’t well-liked as she grew up because she would speak up and call people out Her learning challenges included trouble with reading, spelling, and writing due to dyslexia and being told she wasn’t “smart enough” How Brenda has seen positive outcomes from her journey with new possibilities as a creative thinking problem solver How bigotry and prejudice against gay relationships set a tone for how and where she expressed herself How Brenda had to reinvent how she shows up and expresses herself in a “conscious becoming” How her intensity gets out of control when it’s heightened in relationships when boundaries are violated, but she has learned to manage and direct her passion and anger How Brenda uses her fire to help other women who are looking to become more How Brenda harnesses the power of her intensity with consistency of thought as she evolves as a human who adventures and takes risks in becoming How the personal habits of meditation, drumming, ritual, and spending time in nature help Brenda The best advice she ever received is two-part: “Stand up when you fall down,” and “There are no mistakes, only opportunities to learn.” Books that have influenced Brenda: Learning to Heal Yourself by Louise Hay, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill How Brenda helps others by loving people where they are and helping them go where they want to go Parting words from Brenda: “Embrace your intensity. There is an infinite purpose in who you are and what you bring to the table.” Resources: Connect with Brenda: www.brendarbryan.com Email: brendarbryan@gmail.com Phone: 503-728-8700
How Brenda got her nickname? Learning about Brenda's background Rah Rah was supposed to be a girl Why does Rah Rah have so many pillows on his bed Momma's boys Blue Lagoon Religion Incoming calls from Hanin and Charlie Sex talk
Calm after the storm: Survivorship and other stories, with Amy Syed
Two years ago, Brenda was pregnant with twins. A few months prior to her due date, Brenda was hospitalized for 30+ days before being thrust into an emergency C-section. Due to the hospital’s capacity, her twins were transferred to another NICU - away from Brenda for the first few days of their lives. When Brenda met her twins for the first time, they were wearing masks and hooked up to IVs. After Brenda was able to take them home with her and her husband two months later, everything seemed out of place. Nothing was the way that Brenda thought it would be and soon after, she began to realize that something was seriously wrong. About a year later, Brenda was diagnosed with PTSD from her traumatic birth experience, and slowly she began to accept her experience and heal. 1.22 - Brenda’s Childhood3.43 - Life after University and getting pregnant with twins5.07 - The pregnancy7.20 - Pregnancy complications10.05 - Unexpected early birth12.08 - Post-birth in the NICU16.45 - Brenda realizes there’s something off19.40 - Brenda becomes a doula21.56 - Brenda’s diagnosis of PTSD22.32 - Amy’s reflection on Brenda’s story24.08 - Brenda’s treatment 27.46 - Brenda’s attachment to the idea of perfection31.50 - Amy’s concluding thoughts33.14 - How Brenda is doing today37.05 - Brenda’s dedication39.11 - Amy’s key takeawaysSupport the show (https://www.amysyed.ca/calmafterthestormpodcast)
Today’s episode is all about knowing that you are the designer of your life. You will learn that defining your core values is not only necessary for letting go of mom guilt, but also makes setting appropriate boundaries easy peasy, and helps free up time for the things that matter to you most.We also talk about how we manipulate ourselves into believing we're stuck and what it takes to get unstuck. Brenda talks about how, once emotionally triggered, we filter everything through that emotion and can’t see the big picture, let alone see possible solutions. She also shares NLP tools to change from being “at effect” of your life to being in charge of it. What we’re talking about...Why releasing the idea of balance is the first step of reaching your work-life flowHow defining core values helps with setting boundaries and will free up timeHow eliminating a school district’s agenda and schedule can help you create more quality family time.Why our mood is a filter of our reality and how to break out of the negative reinforcementThat in communication, we are responsible for answers we get and how to communicate more clearly.How Brenda’s journey of finding healing turned into her new careerLINKS MENTIONEDBrenda’s websiteBrenda on Instagram Brenda on FB Brenda on TikTokGet my setting boundaries guide on www.myworklifeflow.com
In this episode of the She Finds Joy podcast, life coach and life-long entrepreneur Brenda Florida talks about how her relationship with money—and herself—has evolved over the years. She tackles the heavy topic of money and wealth, and why so many women don’t feel worthy of the money they’ve worked so hard to earn.In today’s episode, Kim and Brenda talk about…How Brenda became more comfortable with money—as well as how to be more financially responsible.Why women need to incorporate self-affirmation in their everyday lives.What “imposter syndrome” really is (and how to know when you’re experiencing it). Brenda’s Top Tips to Reclaim Your PowerCall yourself out! If you realize that you’re suddenly questioning yourself and your abilities, you’re probably experiencing imposter syndrome. It’s important to identify and break this cycle before it spirals. Never be afraid or ashamed to talk about your accomplishments, career highlights, and other exciting things happening in your life. Break the habit of assuming that you’re “doing something wrong” when things don’t always go perfectly in your life. That’s just how life works—it has nothing to do with you.You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community at kimstrobel.com/shefindsjoy. And don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe to the podcast! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
One of the best things to know about your struggle to healing your relationship with food is this: you DON’T have to go it alone. Today Jessi is joined by two FFM alums, Joyce and Brenda. At the start of their journey, the two were total strangers but after joining the program, they became accountability partners and instantly clicked. In this episode, they chat about how the FFM has changed their lives and what it’s taught them about themselves. You’ll hear how they’ve changed their relationship with food, how their friendship has evolved (the two even met each other in person for the first time last year), and their advice for others who are struggling with their relationship with food and body. Brenda even decided to start her own podcast called the RAWing Twenties Podcast which launches February 3rd so make sure you check it out! In this episode: Joyce and Brenda’s experience with food and body before finding the FFM How Brenda found FFM through Instagram hashtags What prompted her to finally reach out to Jessi and join the FFM How Joyce stumbled upon the FFM Deciding to invest in the program and what this did for her Their experience with joining the community How Brenda and Joyce got to know each other through the group and became accountability partners What the FFM has taught them about themselves How healing is a byproduct of connection The process of their relationships with food changing during the program Learning to release rules around food What’s happened with them as a result of regaining so much mental capacity How Brenda’s career goals have shifted as a result of the FFM How their friendship has grown since meeting through the program Exploring the NYC food scene together without pressure Deciding to make the first move in your journey to healing Their advice for those who are struggling with food and body Why the community is such an important aspect of healing from food and body struggles Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again! You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!
My guest today is Brenda, a single-mom-by-choice who had a difficult 4-year journey to motherhood and has made it her mission to help women feel empowered about their reproduction options. She shares her shock at the realization that her OBGYN never mentioned the finite window of fertility. Brenda believes that it is an important conversation to have and encourages women to be proactive in the conversation. Brenda tried IUI (Intrauterine insemination) with no results and ultimately decided to switch to donor egg IVF (In vitro fertilization). Using both a sperm and an egg donor, was difficult and quite mentally taxing decision. We discuss how she conquered her bias toward the double donor path and why she considers it one of the greatest gifts anyone has given her. Sadly, Brenda’s first two pregnancies with donor eggs ended in miscarriage. It was discovered that she had a problem with her immune system that had to be medically treated through shots and a doctor’s watchful eye. She tells me about these painful moments and explains why she kept pressing on to her goal, even when it seemed everything was against her. Brenda says that one of the things that got her through the grueling process was a support group who became a second family for her. She explains how their ups and downs helped put her own struggles in perspective and kept her on the path. Brenda’s story is very similar to my own and I feel a deep connection to her thoughts and feelings. If you are considering the single-mother-by-choice path just remember that education is key to preparing yourself for the journey. That’s why Motherhood Reimagined was created and I want to help you make informed decisions about having your own family. Some highlights of today’s conversation: The pressure Brenda felt when the prospect of marriage was not on the horizon. How a conversation with her OBGYN changed her life plan. The 4-year journey that led to many setbacks but ultimately ended with a child. The misconception that pregnancy is an easy process. The fears that arise when telling your family about your plans. The statistics that pushed Brenda into the double donor path. The immune system issue that led to specialists and difficult treatment. What the road looked like for Brenda after the miscarriages and how she carried on. The support group that kept her going. What Brenda considered in her donors and why she hopes to meet the sperm donor someday. How Brenda approaches the donor-conceived conversation with her son. How her journey has changed her perspective on family and the world around her. Why women need to take more control of their fertility.
Join David Ackert as he interviews Brenda Plowman, Chief Marketing Officer at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin in this episode of the Market Leaders Podcast. Tune in to hear David and Brenda discuss: - How Brenda uses the input from her entire Marketing and Business Development Team to shape firm-wide initiatives - Her approach to the "That's not my job" mentality towards business development that many professionals encounter - How she uses Hackathons for internal process improvement How her team fosters a growing entrepreneurial mindset at their firm
Brenda Davis is one of the most knowledgable professionals about plant-based nutrition I've ever met. With over 8 books to her name and as you'll hear, Dr. Michael Greger's go to for plant-based nutritional expertise, I'm sure you'll learn something from this conversation. Topics that we covered included: How Brenda and her family became vegan How to get a family to buy into changing the way that you eat. The implications of her research in the Marshall Islands. A Detailed look into Type 2 Diabetes Brenda's thoughts on a Paleo diet A recent trip with Dr. Michael Greger Calcium and Osteoporosis risks for those on a vegan diet. I'd like to thank Anthony Cruz as the newest patron of the podcast. Thanks Anthony, I'm glad you're enjoying the podcast. Those of you within the plant-based circles, did you happen to see a movie that was shared from a big vegan page? I'd like to thank and shout out the FB page LiveKindly for sharing a 4 minutes movie I made to highlight the podcast and what living a more plant-centered lifestyle can do for your health. The movie, at the time of this recording, has been shared over 600 times. That's traction for the movement and the podcast. It's exciting and I'm very grateful for their help. I hope you learn something from this conversation on Episode #25, with Brenda Davis. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IanCramerPodcast Website: http://www.plant-basedcyclist.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlantBasedCyclist1/ E-mail: IanMCramer@gmail.com Intro Music Credit: http://birocratic.bandcamp.com
The Drunken Files - Slightly Engorged Edition: Twitter SubTweet Cowardice, Firing the Fact Checker At Least 3 Times, and How Brenda and Candice Came Together Over a Bad Word