Podcasts about workshops

In this episode of Workday Playdate, Erin sits down with Yana Carstens, an integrative executive coach, to explore why high performers often burn out faster than anyone else—and why the solution isn't always to simply lighten the workload. Yana makes the case that burnout is often a reflection of our internal operating system: the beliefs, identities, and patterns that shape how we respond to pressure, achievement, and success. If you've ever wondered why you can know you need better boundaries and still struggle to set them, this conversation is for you. Yana shares how somatic awareness, mindset recalibration, honest communication, and authentic connection can help you recognize the patterns driving exhaustion and create a more sustainable way to succeed. Inside This Episode: Burnout Is More Than a Workload Problem: Yana explains why burnout isn't always about having too much on your plate. For high performers, the deeper issue can be the internal wiring that tells us we need to be responsible, perfect, useful, or constantly achieving in order to feel worthy. Your Body Is Giving You Data: Physical signals like neck tension, shoulder aches, and anxiety aren't just inconveniences to push through. Yana shares how these signals can act like a dashboard, revealing when we're operating from old patterns or beliefs that no longer serve us. Your Strengths Can Become Your Blind Spots: Traits like responsibility, high standards, and a strong drive to help others can be powerful strengths—but they can also become “anchors” that keep us stuck. Yana explores how hyper-responsibility, perfectionism, and people-pleasing can quietly fuel burnout. Recalibrate Your Internal Operating System: Instead of automatically reacting to stress, Yana offers practical ways to pause, notice what's happening internally, and question the beliefs driving our responses. She shares tools for shifting from autopilot into more intentional, values-aligned action. Use Your Values as Your Wind: Yana uses the metaphor of a boat, anchors, and wind to explain the difference between disempowering beliefs that hold us back and core values that help us move forward. The goal isn't to eliminate stress, but to make sure we're navigating it in a direction that actually matters to us. What to Do Now: Notice Your Signals: The next time you feel tension, anxiety, irritation, or exhaustion, pause and ask what your body might be trying to tell you before you automatically push through. Question the Belief: When you notice yourself overworking, people-pleasing, or striving for perfection, ask: “What am I believing I have to do or prove right now?” Find Your North Star: Identify one core value that matters most to you right now, then consider whether your current habits, boundaries, and decisions are moving you toward it—or keeping you anchored. About the Guest Yana Carstens is an integrative executive coach who helps high-performing leaders understand the internal patterns that influence how they work, lead, and respond to stress. Through a combination of mindset work, somatic awareness, and practical coaching tools, Yana helps people recalibrate their internal operating systems so they can pursue meaningful success without sacrificing their well-being. Her work centers on helping leaders build greater self-awareness, healthier boundaries, authentic connection, and a more sustainable relationship with achievement. Your Freebie Networking doesn't have to feel performative, transactional, or awkward. Download our Networking Without Feeling Weird toolkit for practical strategies to help you build genuine connections while staying confident, clear, and grounded.  Whether you're walking into a conference, meeting new colleagues, or simply trying to expand your circle, this two-part resource will help you network in a way that actually feels like you. Connect with Yana Carstens Yana's LinkedIn Yana's website Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it! Leadership Playground online membership community Erin's website Erin's Instagram Erin's TikTok Erin's LinkedIn improve it!'s website improve it!'s Instagram Connect with Erin Diehl

332 / How can you craft vivid, sensory-rich books set in places you've never visited while thriving as a modern author? Action-adventure writer Luke Richardson shares insights on transporting readers around the globe and balancing the art and business of writing.Incorporating travel and sensory details into fictionTips for writing about locations you haven't visitedDeciding how much personal travel experience to includeThe benefits of slowing down productionIn-person travel event with readersPodcasting for readers✨ This week's sponsor is Bookfunnel: bookfunnel.com

You've been the strong one for so long it started to feel like your whole personality. Free to Be Mindful Season 8 launches with a new trailer, and this one's for the high-achieving woman nobody's checking on, the one everyone counts on at work, at home, in every group chat. This season we get honest about ambition, identity, and mental load, no filler, no 45-minute episodes, real talk you can actually fit into your day. Free to Be Mindful was named the #1 Latino Mental Health Podcast of 2026 by Feedspot. Season 8 starts September 1, 2026.CHAPTERS00:00 Who This Is For00:33 Meet Vanessa00:40 Podcast Milestone01:01 The Hidden Load01:36 Weekly Real Talk01:56 How To Listen02:06 Subscribe And ClosingSend us Fan MailSupport the showGRAB AN OFFER

Bevor Ben Schwarzmaler zur Maschine gegriffen hat, hatte er die Dose in der Hand. Graffiti in Frankfurt, Wände in Kassel, Workshops mit Kids aus Vierteln, die man gerne „sozial schwach" nennt – „Kanalarbeiter" haben sie sich damals selbst genannt, weil es darum ging, Frust in etwas Produktives umzuleiten. Eine Ausbildung zum Mediengestalter hatte er auch, nur war ihm der Job zu unehrlich: einem Teufel eine Maske bauen, damit ihn alle für einen Engel halten – das wollte er nicht. Heute, gut zwölf Jahre und etliche Studios später, macht er Black & Grey Realistik und Lettering, führt zwei Läden im hessischen Nirgendwo und bildet aus, weil er das Lehrersein ehrlich feiert. Seb und er reden über Freehand und Stencil, über KI als Werkzeug statt als Feindbild, über die Frage, wo Inspiration aufhört und Klauen anfängt, über Conventions von der familiären Invite-only-Runde in Dublin bis zum Testosteron-Backofen in Rom – und über die Sorte Kollegen, die die ersten zwei Google-Seiten „kleine Tattoos" ausdruckt und damit Häuser bezahlt.Dabei wird es auch unbequem: übersättigter Markt, zerfressene Preiskultur, Studios, die niemanden anmelden, und ein Publikum, das kein Unikat will, sondern einen Look, den schon jemand anders trägt. Bens Prognose ist trotzdem erstaunlich versöhnlich – der Markt siebt sich aus, übrig bleibt, wer es liebt. Eine Folge über Handwerk, Haltung und die Frage, was von einem Tattoo bleibt, wenn der Hype weg ist.@ben_schwarzmaler⁠⁠⁠[ WERBUNG ]Bei unseren Werbepartnern könnt ihr richtig sparen - darunter bei Neonsfeer, Murostar, Killer Ink, Cheyenne Tattoo Equipment, CoalBlack oder Caos Nero! Alle Infos auf ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.tftn-podcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In this podcast episode replay from a few years ago, you'll meet Cora, a pet business owner navigating the impact of depression and anxiety on her pet business and her life When feeling well, Cora is high-energy, responsive, and prompt with billing. However, during depressive episodes, she feels physically and mentally blocked, causing client communication and routine business tasks to stall for weeks at a time. As you listen, I want to emphasize that I, Kristin Morrison, am a business and life coach – not a medical professional or therapist – the session is designed solely to help Cora manage her business operations during low periods, not to diagnose or treat her condition. Anyone struggling with anxiety or depression is strongly encouraged to seek help from a medical professional. This episode highlights the reality of running a business while living with a mental health condition. Thank you to Cora for her courage in speaking up, to give a voice to the many pet industry entrepreneurs facing similar challenges while also helping all listeners build deeper empathy for invisible struggles. Visit the show notes page: www.ProsperousPetBusiness.com/podcast178 Find out more and sign up for the online breathwork circle for stress and burnout relief. Try the stress-relieving exercises in the TRE video. Get the How to Recover from Pet Business Burnout book. Find out more about the monthly Pet Business Webinars and Workshops. Click to apply to be coached on the Prosperous Pet Business podcast. Book a pet business coaching session with Kristin Morrison. Connect with Kristin Morrison on Instagram. Copyright © Prosperous Pet Business and Kristin Morrison www.ProsperousPetBusiness.com

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... Why Distributed Leadership Fails (And What Actually Makes It Work) Most nonprofit leaders I talk to already know they can't make every decision themselves. They've read the books. They've heard the term "distributed leadership." They've said out loud, in strategy meetings and board retreats, that they want more decisions happening closer to the people doing the work. And then, a year later, they're still the bottleneck. The story I hear is almost always the same. "I told my team they had authority. I told them I trusted them. But nothing changed. Decisions still come to me." What looks like a resistance problem is actually a systems problem. Distributed leadership is being announced instead of built. The word gets used. The system underneath it does not exist. When the system doesn't exist, people keep doing what the old system taught them to do. They ask permission. They wait for the meeting. They send the email up the chain. Not because they don't want authority. Because nothing around them has been redesigned to make holding that authority a real, workable practice. The Difference Between Declaring And Building A pattern I see over and over: a CEO decides the organization is going to be less hierarchical. They restructure the org chart. They rename departments. They talk about it in the all-staff. And then, six months in, nothing has actually shifted. The org chart is new. The meeting agendas are the same, the decision paths are the same, and the CEO is still the person everyone routes to. The chart got redrawn on top of an unchanged system. This is the structural piece that gets missed. An org chart tells you who is in charge of who. It doesn't tell you what actually needs to get done in the organization or who is accountable for making sure it does. And it doesn't touch the two places where the old hierarchy actually lives, which are meetings and decisions. Until those change, you've made a values statement. You haven't built a system. Trade The Org Chart For A Functions Chart The first piece of the redesign is the one leaders skip most often, because it looks like a semantic move and it isn't. Stop leading with an org chart. Build a functions chart. An org chart is about who is in charge of who. It's a picture of hierarchy. And a hierarchical leadership system, by design, consolidates power by concentrating decision-making. Using an org chart is literally a system that moves you in the opposite direction of distributed decision-making. A functions chart, which is the shape of the Leadership Blueprint I've developed with clients, is about what actually needs to get done in the organization and who is accountable for making sure it does. Instead of boxes for roles under other roles, you have named functions, each tied to a specific outcome, each with one person accountable for that outcome getting produced. That single move changes everything downstream. Now people aren't waiting to be told what to do by the person above them. They're accountable for an outcome, and they hold the decisions required to produce it. Distributed leadership stops being an aspiration. It becomes the actual design. One line from my conversation with Jocelyn Wyatt, CEO of Alight, has stayed with me: "I both could hold distributed leadership, but then also had to teach distributed leadership to sort of the next level and the next level and the next level." What I appreciate about this framing is that it explains the mechanism. Once the functions chart is in place and each function has a clearly accountable owner, the work at each layer is to run distributed leadership inside their piece of the chart. That's a system carrying the practice, not a value statement trying to. Rework The Meetings The second piece is meetings. This is the piece I see leaders underestimate the most, and it is where command-and-control reinstalls itself no matter what the org chart says. Meeting agendas are a system. They reinforce whatever model is baked into them. If your leadership team meeting agenda is a series of updates rolling up to you, followed by decisions the group is asking you to make, you are running a command-and-control meeting. It doesn't matter what you call the meeting or what values you name at the top of it. The structure produces the behavior. A meeting designed to reinforce distributed leadership looks different. The agenda is structured around identifying where things are going right and where things are going wrong, and giving each outcome owner the chance to receive support from the rest of the group. Not approval from everyone. Not approval from any one person. Support. The group's job is to be useful to that owner, not to sign off on their work. That one shift, done consistently, changes how the whole organization behaves inside a quarter. People stop bringing their decisions to meetings for permission. They start bringing them for input, and the input goes back with them. Let People Volunteer Into The Outcomes They'll Own The third piece is how outcomes actually get owned, and this is the part most leaders get backwards Distributing decision-making is essentially the same thing as delegating outcomes. The person in a heads role is accountable for an outcome that sits outside their direct control. They can't personally make every donation come in, or every program hit its mark, or every partnership hold. But they own whether it happens. They decide what changes, what scales, what gets paused, what gets killed. The traditional way to fill those roles is assignment. The CEO and one or two senior leaders sit in a closed room and decide who gets promoted, who gets moved, who gets the new accountability. That model has two problems. It's bad for innovation, because people don't do their best thinking when they feel like they need a supervisor's approval for their next move. And it's bad for equity, because every layer of subjective human assessment lets inherited bias operate. The better move is to make the Leadership Blueprint visible to the whole team and let people volunteer into the heads roles they want to grow toward. The map shows every function, every outcome, and who currently owns each one. In front of the team, you ask: Where does the organization need to grow next? Who's ready for a heads role they've never held? Who wants to add a heads accountability on top of what they're already carrying? That's not chaos. It's not a free-for-all. It's a shift in the question. Instead of "what does my manager think of my work this quarter," the question becomes "where does this organization need to grow next, and where do I want to be standing when it does?" When someone volunteers into an outcome, the accountability lands differently. They chose it. They saw the map, understood the gap, and stepped forward. That's a very different starting point than being told what you're now responsible for. Ownership behaves differently when it's chosen than when it's assigned. The closed-door version of advancement produces one thing: the CEO deciding who moves. The open-map version produces three things at once: better innovation, better retention, and a more equitable system. Then Train Inside The System Once the functions chart is visible, the meetings are redesigned around it, and people have volunteered into the outcomes they'll own, training becomes the thing that lets the system actually run. Training is real work. Workshops, small conversations, direct coaching on what it means to invite the person closer to the problem into the decision, how to synthesize what they say, how to bring insight back and let it change the plan. It teaches people how to operate inside the redesigned system. On its own, though, training can't do the whole job. If the meetings, the reporting lines, and the decision rights still send the old signal, the training won't override them. Announcing a principle is a values statement. Building the system that makes it real, and then training people to operate inside it, is the whole job. Only the second one holds. Curiosity Is The Precondition There's one more piece underneath all of this that I want to name, because it's easy to miss. All of the structural work, all the redesign of the functions chart and meetings and decision rights, all the workshops and small practices, sit on top of a mindset. The leader has to be genuinely curious about what the people closer to the problem think. Not curious in a symbolic way. Not curious in a "we ran a listening tour" way. Curious in the sense that you actually don't already have the answer, and you know that the person in front of you has information you don't, and you want it. Jocelyn put it well: "I would probably say curiosity. I think that curiosity is such important sort of trait to hold, particularly as a leader. Like, I think we so often, as we sort of go up a journey in leadership, are told that we're the experts, that we know all the things, and people ask us all the questions, and we have the answers." This makes sense given the setup. When a leader believes they already have the answers, distributed leadership becomes theater. The information from the people closer to the problem never actually changes what happens. When a leader is genuinely curious, the information starts to move things. That's when the system produces something different. Curiosity is what makes the whole system real instead of performative. Without it, the practice collapses back into the CEO deciding everything, just with more meetings. What Changes When You Build It This Way When distributed leadership is actually built into an organization, a few things start to shift. The CEO stops being the bottleneck. Decisions get made faster because they're being made where the information lives. The people closest to the work feel the weight of it in a good way, they own the outcome and they own the improvement. Programs get better because they're being shaped by the people running them and the people they're serving. Money follows more easily because the strategy is grounded in what the ground actually looks like. None of that comes from the announcement. It comes from the redesigned system underneath the announcement. A functions chart that names the outcomes and who is accountable for each one. Meetings restructured around those functions, not around reporting to the CEO. People volunteering into the heads roles they want to grow toward, instead of being assigned in a closed room. Training that teaches people how to operate inside all of it. The CEO learning to sit on their hands the twentieth time they want to redirect. The point is to become the kind of leader who builds the system that makes the whole organization stronger, instead of the one whose signature has to be on everything. About the Guest Jocelyn Wyatt, CEO of Alight, leads a global team of over 2,000 members, leveraging her extensive strategic development expertise and a strong human-centered approach. Previously, as co-founder and CEO of IDEO.org, she drove collaborations with major global entities like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Acumen, fostering a decade of impactful leadership. Jocelyn's influence extends to her roles as a founding board member of Airbnb.org, board member of IDEO.org, advisory board member of Marketplace, and founding member of Chief. Connect with Jocelyn: Website: https://www.wearealight.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynwyatt/ Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

“There is enough for everyone. Enough time, enough opportunity, enough resources, enough love, enough patience.” -Tiffany Sauder In this episode of Workday Playdate, Erin sits down with Tiffany Sauder, founder of Life of And, for a conversation about working motherhood, burnout, ambition, and building a life that actually feels sustainable. Tiffany challenges the idea that women simply need to “do more” or “manage their time better” and offers a more practical approach: build better systems, make intentional tradeoffs, and stop treating every season like it has to hold everything. Through her Life of And framework, Tiffany helps ambitious women navigate the tension between meaningful work and meaningful presence. From her “not now” list to her “size of your yes” method, she shares tools for making decisions that honor both your current season and the life you're still building. Inside This Episode: Abundance Over Scarcity: Tiffany shares why her guiding word is abundance and how believing there is enough time, opportunity, energy, and love can change the way we approach career and family. Burnout Is a Systems Problem: Discover why burnout isn't simply about being busy. Tiffany explains how putting in significant effort without feeling meaningful progress can leave high-achieving women depleted—and what to change instead. Every Yes Has a Hidden Cost: A “yes” doesn't just take the time listed on the calendar. Learn how to account for prep, cleanup, transitions, logistics, and emotional energy before committing. From “I Can't” to “I Don't Know How Yet”: Tiffany explains how changing the language we use with ourselves can shift us from limitation and guilt toward ownership, creativity, and problem-solving. The Power of the “Not Now” List: You don't have to abandon a dream just because it doesn't fit your current season. Tiffany shares how parking an idea for later can create peace without closing the door on what matters to you. What to Do Now: Calculate the Real Size of One Yes: Pick one commitment on your calendar and calculate its true time cost, including preparation, transitions, cleanup, and emotional energy. Then ask: Is this still a yes? Create a “Not Now” List: Identify one goal, dream, or interest you've been feeling guilty about not pursuing. Instead of abandoning it, give yourself permission to say, “Not now.” Decide when you'll revisit it. Find One Micro-Solution: Look at one recurring source of stress and ask: Can I outsource it, automate it, eliminate it, or approach it differently? You don't have to redesign your whole life to create more margin. About the Guest Tiffany Sauder is the founder of Life of And, a platform dedicated to helping ambitious women navigate the intersection of career, leadership, motherhood, and caregiving without sacrificing their well-being. A wife and mom of four daughters, Tiffany brings both professional experience and lived experience to conversations about working motherhood. Through the Life of And Podcast, Life of And Program, and live events, Tiffany gives women practical frameworks for making confident choices in demanding seasons of life. Her work helps ambitious women move beyond guilt and perfectionism and build lives where career and family, leadership and presence, and achievement and well-being can coexist. Your Freebie Networking doesn't have to feel performative, transactional, or awkward. Download our Networking Without Feeling Weird toolkit for practical strategies to help you build genuine connections while staying confident, clear, and grounded.  Whether you're walking into a conference, meeting new colleagues, or simply trying to expand your circle, this two-part resource will help you network in a way that actually feels like you. Connect with Tiffany Sauder Tiffany's LinkedIn The Life of And program Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it! Leadership Playground online membership community Erin's website Erin's Instagram Erin's TikTok Erin's LinkedIn improve it!'s website improve it!'s Instagram Connect with Erin Diehl

331 / How can you balance craft and criticism? How do you know when to take feedback and when to reject it? A.A. Sekhon shares insights on filtering feedback, writing historical fiction, and staying creative when you don't feel creative or inspired. Navigating the difference between writing and marketing skillsetsThe role of constructive vs. destructive criticismFinding your first readers and building review momentumLeveraging an academic background to enrich storytellingWhy writing for yourself can unlock creative freedom✨ This week's sponsor is BookFunnel.com.

Are gaps in your schedule really a case acceptance problem, or are you simply not diagnosing enough of the care your patients need and want? In this episode, Kirk Behrendt and Metric Mondays co-host Miranda Beeson explain diagnostic percentage, why it is an important leading indicator for future production, and how inconsistent exams, assumptions about patients, and excessive “watching” can limit both care and opportunity. You'll learn how to evaluate diagnostic percentage by provider, create greater consistency in your comprehensive exams, and identify opportunities to better serve existing patients without turning treatment conversations into a sales process. To improve your diagnostic consistency and help more patients understand their options, listen to Episode 1087 of The Best Practices Show!Main Takeaways:Diagnostic percentage measures the percentage of patients receiving an exam who are diagnosed or treatment planned with new treatment in the practice management software.A low diagnostic percentage can indicate inconsistent exams, incomplete documentation, communication challenges, or assumptions about what patients will accept.Practices should diagnose consistently and allow patients to decide whether and when they want to proceed with treatment.A strong clinical philosophy and standardized examination process help patients receive consistent information regardless of which provider they see.Reviewing diagnostic percentage by provider can reveal variations that should be explored rather than immediately judged as right or wrong.Miranda identifies 45% or higher as a useful benchmark while noting that percentages in the teens, 20s, or low 30s may indicate missed opportunities.Comprehensive exams for existing patients and regular review of conditions being “watched” can uncover changes in patient needs, wants, and appropriate treatment.Episode Chapters:00:00 Introduction to Metric Monday and diagnostic percentage.02:53 Diagnostic percentage as a measure of consistent patient care.05:51 Avoiding assumptions about a patient's willingness or ability to pursue treatment.07:00 Common causes of low diagnostic percentage.10:18 How consistent standards support stronger diagnosis.12:00 Helping patients plan proactively for future dentistry.14:56 Reviewing diagnostic percentage by provider and using benchmarks.17:21 Re-evaluating existing patients with comprehensive exams.19:00 Using improved skills and technology to better evaluate patients over time.20:00 Untapped treatment opportunities within the existing practice.21:00 Closing thoughts.Guest Bio:Miranda Beeson has over 25 years of clinical dental hygiene, front office, practice administration, and speaking experience. She is enthusiastic about communication and loves helping others find the power that words can bring to their patient interactions and practice dynamics. As a Lead Practice Coach, she is driven to create opportunities to find value in experiences and cultivate new approaches.Miranda graduated from Old Dominion University, and enjoys spending time with her husband, Chuck, and her children, Trent, Mallory, and Cassidy. Family time is the best time, and is often spent on a golf course, a volleyball court, or spending the day boating at the beach.Episode Resources:The Wallet Biopsy: https://www.actdental.com/blog/the-procedure-to-always-avoid-wallet-biopsyMore Helpful Links for a Better Practice & a Better Life:Contact Gina to learn more about ACT: gina@actdental.comThe Best Practices Show: https://www.actdental.com/podcast/Smile Source Community Hub: https://www.actdental.com/community-hubUpcoming Events & Workshops: https://www.actdental.com/events/Smile Source: https://www.smilesource.com/Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.comSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com

A Chicago woman uses her side hustle to support her life, then adapts it to help more than 1,000 children in trans-racial adoptive families. Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.Show notes: SideHustleSchool.comEmail: team@sidehustleschool.comBe on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questionsConnect on Instagram: @193countriesVisit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.comRead A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.comIf you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes.

Hiring an office manager can add leadership and structure to a dental practice, but the title alone will not solve problems with communication, accountability, or culture. In this episode, Kirk Behrendt talks with Lorie Streeter, a longtime dental office management advocate and MaxAssist team member, about what practices need to have in place before adding an office manager. They discuss when the role becomes necessary, the leadership qualities to look for, how to define decision-making authority, why regular communication matters, and how dentists can protect strong managers from burnout. To better understand what makes the dentist-office manager relationship work, listen to Episode 1086 of The Best Practices Show!Main Takeaways:A practice should consider adding an office manager when greater leadership and coordination are needed between the clinical and front teams.A strong office manager needs leadership ability, business awareness, level-headedness, and the capacity to manage multiple areas of the practice.Longevity in a practice does not automatically qualify a team member to become the office manager.Dentists and office managers should have consistent business-focused meetings in addition to their daily patient and team communication.Dentists need to clearly define which decisions an office manager can make independently, which require discussion, and which remain the dentist's responsibility.Trust between the dentist and office manager should include appropriate oversight of KPIs, scheduling issues, unscheduled treatment, and other important business indicators.Office managers need support, communication, continued education, and clear boundaries to reduce the risk of burnout.Episode Chapters:00:00 What dental practices should know before hiring an office manager.01:37 Lorie Streeter's background in dental office management.05:19 AADOM and Office Manager Support07:00 Why an office manager will not automatically solve practice problems.11:20 Indicators that a practice may need an office manager.13:08 Leadership skills and responsibilities of an effective office manager.16:13 Office manager workload and the risk of burnout.19:07 Communication rhythms between dentists and office managers.21:52 Defining decision-making authority and responsibilities.24:23 Managing communication in multi-doctor practices.27:13 Balancing trust with appropriate oversight.31:00 Qualities to consider in a prospective office manager.31:04 Transitioning from clinical roles into practice administration.35:00 How MaxAssist supports practice teams and tracks team activity.38:00 Final guidance for dentists and office managers.Guest Bio:With nearly three decades in the dental industry, Lorie blends deep field experience with a passion for growth and connection. As a former dental office manager and past Vice President of The American Association of Dental Office Management (AADOM), she understands firsthand the challenges and opportunities practices face. Her focus at MaxAssist is to expand impact through relationship-driven strategy, smart technology, and a heart for office managers.Episode Resources:AADOM: https://learn.dentalmanagers.com/Dental Assistant to Practice Administrator course from AADOM: https://learn.dentalmanagers.com/products/dental-assistant-to-practice-administrator-da-to-pa-curriculumMaxAssist: https://maxassist.com/lorie/https://www.instagram.com/loriestreetermaxedout/linkedin.com/in/loriestreeterhttps://www.tiktok.com/@loriestreetermaxedoutMore Helpful Links for a Better Practice & a Better Life:Contact Gina to learn more about ACT: gina@actdental.comThe Best Practices Show: https://www.actdental.com/podcast/Smile Source Community Hub: https://www.actdental.com/community-hubUpcoming Events & Workshops: https://www.actdental.com/events/Smile Source: https://www.smilesource.com/Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.comSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com

Episode 121: A conversation with pastor, evangelist, and professor Elise Wood. In this episode, Pastor Elise and our podcast host, Mykelti Blum, talk about lessons Pastor Elise has learned being a female in ministry. Pastor Elise is passionate about reaching the next generation for the Lord and training up young people in vocational ministry. She shares about how God is Who calls us into ministry, and He is looking for our obedience—not a perfect performance. Pastor Elise has a lot of wisdom and experiences that we know you will be incredibly blessed by! Learn more about Pastor Elise and the Ripple Effect Ministries at rippleffect.me. Follow @elisewood or @rippleffect.me on Instagram. Follow @MNBTG on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Subscribe to the BTG Podcast on Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Spotify, YouTube, or listen on WordPress. BTG Events & Resources: 2026 Thrive Conference October 9-10, 2026 Mayo Civic Center (Rochester, MN) Featuring Lisa Bevere, Christina Girma-Hanfere, Martha Tennison, Susie Larson (speaker + emcee), Amber Gerstmann (emcee), Substance Worship, Angie Goetz (BTG Director + conference host), and Mykelti Blum + Shannon Velsor (Bonus Sessions emcees) Afternoon & Main Sessions, “LIVE at Thrive with Susie Larson” — a BTG Podcast Recording Experience, Lunch with Speakers, the Thrive After-Party, Exhibitor Shopping, and More! Groups of 40+ to Register by Sept 20 Will Receive Reserved Seating. See All Ticket Types, and Register: First-Time Guests to Thrive in Rochester Can Register for ONLY $20 FREE Tickets for 2026 High School Grads and North Central University and Trinity Bible College and Graduate School undergrad students! Email info@mnbtg.org to Request Your Coupon Code. (These free tickets are not transferrable.) Register for Early Bird Tickets by August 31. BTG Missions Trips and Giving Opportunity Learn About Our 2025-2026 BTG Missions Partners, and Give A Tax-Deductible Gift:: mnbtg.org/missions. Apply to join a 2027 BTG Missions Trip to Cambodia or Cambodia and Vietnam: mnbtg.org/trips. 2027 BTG Leadership Conference February 19-20 Lake Geneva Christian Center (Alexandria, MN) Featuring Lisa Seaton and More! Main Sessions (including the Lund Leadership Award Presentation and the Leadership Exchange), Workshops, Brainstorming Groups, the After-Party, Exhibitor Shopping, Networking, and More! Register: mnbtg.org/leadership. Nominate a female leader of excellence for the 2027 Lund Leadership Award by Oct 31, 2026. 2027 Single Moms Retreat  June 4-5 Lake Geneva Christian Center (Alexandria, MN) Featured Guests: Dr. Keisha Spivey (speaker) and Derrick & Ashley Benoit (worship) Main Sessions, Multiple Workshops, Lots of INCLUDED Activities, Giveaways, and Services. Learn More & Register to Attend, Exhibit, or Volunteer: mnbtg.org/retreat. 2027 Garden Coffee Free Missional Event for Women and Girls of All Ages! July 2027; Lake Geneva Christian Center (Alexandria, MN) Enjoy Refreshments, Worship Together, and Hear from a MN Global Worker. You’ll Also Have the Opportunity to Invest Into Missions (to Support Our 1000 Sisters Fund). Learn More at mnbtg.org/1000sisters. No RSVP Required; Invite Your Family and Church Community! Please take a moment to rate and review the podcast to help others find this resource, as well!

If you find yourself constantly resetting back to square one, you aren't building capacity—you are managing symptoms.True resilience isn't defined by how fast you bounce back from pressure; it is measured by how steady your baseline remains when pressure hits. Every experience creates a somatic-mindset feedback loop. When you autonomously self-regulate, either you leverage these moments to expand your baseline capacity, or you stagnate in a cycle of temporary recovery that perpetuates as is over time.In this episode, we unpack why conscious leaders, spiritual practitioners, and self-led individuals utilize somatic-mindset micro-habits to transcend the reset loop and move into an enlightening and intelligence growing loop instead. Discover how shifting from basic emotional control to mastery and dynamic self-leadership allows you to expand your capacity and navigate pressure from a grounded baseline. This foundation creates empowered composure, allowing you to uphold relational integrity and co-regulation.In This Episode, We Cover: The Symptom Management Trap: Why relying on repeated "resets" keeps your baseline static. The SMART MICRO-HABIT Somatic-Mindset Loop: How real-time somatic awareness and conscious mindset choices strengthen your baseline under pressure. Expanding Capacity vs. Managing Activation: Transitioning from reactive coping mechanisms to proactive baseline expansion. Somatic-Mindset Micro-Habits in Action: Practical, high-impact strategies to maintain emotional sovereignty and personal accountability.Episode Timestamps:(0:00) — Beyond Symptom Management: Somatic-Mindset Micro-Habits & Expanding Capacity (Window of Tolerance to Welcome)(5:10) — Emotional Sovereignty & Self-Leadership: Evolving from Control to Dynamic Regulation(7:14) — The Liberating Shift: Empowering Personal Sovereignty through Somatic Integration(7:40) — Recommended Reading for Nervous System Sovereignty & Mindset Mastery(7:59) — Moving Beyond the Reset: Aligning Intrinsic Motivation with Adaptive Self-LeadershipResources & ConnectSubscribe & Share: If you know spiritual and conscious, regulated leaders who want to navigate reactive survival loops with self-compassionate honesty and steady empowering composure using somatic-mindset micro-habits share this episode with them.Explore the Frameworks and digital resources on the Payhip store: Access dedicated somatic-mindset tools, guides, and workbooks designed to support baseline expansion: https://payhip.com/InspiringHumanPotentialShift from Reactive Survival Loops to Real-Time Empowered Composure—The SMART Way. Download Your FREE 10-Minute SMART MICRO-HABIT Check (PDF): https://payhip.com/b/r3sNW

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Chapel Hill Mayor Jess Anderson spoke with 97.9 The Hill's Andrew Stuckey on Thursday, August 13, discussing town news and events. She previewed the upcoming Inter-City visit with the Chamber for a Greater Chapel Hill Carrboro, where they will visit Charlottesville, VA. She also discussed the start of school for both UNC and CHCCS. She talked about the plans for a rebuild of First Station 4 on Weaver Dairy Road, previewed some upcoming LUMO outreach, and more. The post Chapel Hill: Students Returning, Fire Station 4, LUMO Workshops appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

"Your next opportunity probably won't come from your resume. It'll come from a conversation." – Erin Diehl In this solo episode of Workday Playdate, Erin shares the true story of how one cold email, one coffee meeting, and one unexpected dinner led to improve it!'s very first paying client. If networking has ever felt awkward, transactional, or downright exhausting, this episode will completely reframe the way you build professional relationships. Erin introduces her BREW IT networking framework: a simple, human-centered approach to creating meaningful connections that lead to real career opportunities. Whether you're job searching, growing your business, or simply looking to expand your professional network, you'll walk away with practical strategies to network authentically without feeling fake. Inside This Episode: Networking Starts With Showing Up: Erin shares how attending one Chicago networking event introduced her to a connection that would ultimately change the trajectory of her career. The Coffee Matters More Than the Pitch: Career-changing relationships are built through curiosity, generosity, and genuine conversation. The BREW IT Framework for Authentic Networking: Learn Erin's five-step process for building meaningful professional relationships: Be There, Reach Out, Earn the Relationship, Win Them Over with Who You Actually Are, and Invite the Next Scene. Relationships Before Opportunities: Discover practical ways to build trust long before you ask for anything—including thoughtful follow-up, sharing someone's work, making introductions, and staying connected over time. One Conversation Can Change Everything: The episode ends with a simple challenge designed to help you stop overthinking networking and start creating momentum with one meaningful conversation in the next 48 hours. What to Do Now: Start With One Person: Think of someone you'd genuinely love to learn from and send them a short, specific email asking for 20 minutes to connect. Lead With Curiosity: During your conversation, focus on asking thoughtful questions instead of trying to impress. The best networking conversations feel like exchanges, not interviews. Keep the Story Going: Follow up within 48 hours with a meaningful thank-you, a helpful resource, or an introduction. And don't forget to invite the next conversation! Real relationships are built one scene at a time. Your Freebie Networking doesn't have to feel performative, transactional, or awkward. Download our Networking Without Feeling Weird toolkit for practical strategies to help you build genuine connections while staying confident, clear, and grounded.  Whether you're walking into a conference, meeting new colleagues, or simply trying to expand your circle, this two-part resource will help you network in a way that actually feels like you. Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it! Leadership Playground online membership community Erin's website Erin's Instagram Erin's TikTok Erin's LinkedIn improve it!'s website improve it!'s Instagram Connect with Erin Diehl

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Join our next FASO Show Live!https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-showLearn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush!boldbrushshow.com--Most artists don't plan to teach. They plan to paint. To show. To sell. Teaching comes later; sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of desperation, and sometimes almost by accident. But here's what every artist in today's episode will tell you: once they started, something unexpected happened. Teaching didn't just pay the bills. It changed them.Today we're talking about the studio that pays for itself: the teaching side of an artist's career that rarely gets discussed openly. How do you start? When are you ready? How does it actually make you money? And what does it give back that has nothing to do with money at all?Six artists. Six different paths into the classroom. All of them still painting, still teaching, and still surprised by what one has done for the other.Episodes mentioned:77 Aaron Westerberg104 Thomas Schaller116 Liz Haywood-Sullivan159 Barbara Jaenicke174 Matthew James Collins179 Tanner Steed

Dental marketing has changed significantly, but the goal is still to connect with the right patients and give them a reason to care. In this episode, Kirk Behrendt talks with Minal Sampat, marketing strategist, social media coach, dental hygienist, best-selling author, and founder of Marketologist, about what is working in dental marketing today. You will learn how to use AI without losing trust, create content around patient outcomes, improve local and social marketing, track where patients actually come from, and evaluate your marketing budget based on your audience and competition. For practical ways to make your marketing more effective, listen to Episode 1085 of The Best Practices Show!Main Takeaways:Marketing platforms and techniques continue to change, but effective marketing still depends on connecting with people and giving them something they care about.AI should be used as a tool rather than a substitute for human communication, and practices should be transparent when AI-generated avatars or content are being used.Dental content builds more trust when it shows the patient outcome of treatment instead of focusing only on procedures.Practices can expand their local reach by supporting nearby businesses and organizations and collaborating with them through social media content.Marketing budgets should be based on the competitive environment, the patients the practice wants to serve, and the activities that produce a measurable return.New patient forms can help identify the patient journey by allowing patients to select every marketing source that contributed to their decision.Internal marketing should emphasize patient appreciation and practice culture, while external marketing should create a consistent experience across reviews, social media, websites, ads, and patient communication.Episode Chapters:00:00 What is working in dental marketing today.02:39 Minal's background in marketing and dental hygiene.05:40 Creating a Guinness World Record campaign.10:11 How dental marketing changed after COVID-19.13:26 The growing role of AI in marketing.14:55 Using AI while maintaining trust.17:00 Humanizing AI-generated communication.21:05 Social media content and Google search visibility.22:30 Creating dental content that builds trust.28:49 A simple local marketing strategy for dental practices.30:59 Combining ground marketing with social media.33:11 Leveraging existing marketing to reduce unnecessary spending.35:37 Understanding your target audience.36:52 Marketing KPIs and tracking patient sources.40:07 Internal versus external marketing.42:29 Evaluating the potential patient journey.44:15 Final thoughts on using marketing tools effectively.44:47 Minal's Exchange session.45:43 Podcast Wrap UpGuest Bio:Minal Sampat, RDH is the bestselling author of Why Your Marketing Is Killing Your Business, And What To Do About It. She is the founder of Marketologist® - an online marketing strategy & training course & community, a renowned marketing strategist, sought-after speaker, and social media coach extraordinaire.Minal is the founder of the popular CE on The Beach™ event! She hosts CE events & workshops on beautiful islands around the world. This event has sold out every single time!Plus, she is the Co-founder of the Pediatric Dental Marketing Course & Pediatric Dental Growth Summit!P.S. Many call Minal the "Marketing Therapist."Episode Resources:https://www.minalsampat.com/https://ceonthebeach.com/https://marketologist.com/https://www.instagram.com/minalsampatllc/https://www.facebook.com/RealTalkWithMinalSampatHeyGen: https://app.heygen.comChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/More Helpful Links for a Better Practice & a Better Life:Contact Gina to learn more about ACT: gina@actdental.comThe Best Practices Show: https://www.actdental.com/podcast/Smile Source Community Hub: https://www.actdental.com/community-hubUpcoming Events & Workshops: https://www.actdental.com/events/Smile Source: https://www.smilesource.com/Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.comSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com

https://www.somaarah.love/ Soma ARah is a Cosmic Starseed A Pleiadian Channel. A Pleiadian Hybrid with a Galactic mission on Earth. Who has remembered her mission through extreme abuse and trauma as a child she began having spiritual experiences and connecting to the Pleiadians as a child brought about by trauma. (trauma releases D.M.T) Receiving Downloads & Transmissions of information from the Pleiadians. An Out of Body Experience with Jesus at the age of 12 that stopped her from committing suicide. This experience changed everything for her, she began meditating in her room alone not knowing that it was called “Meditation” and reading esoteric books by Edgar Cayce and Doris Stokes. She was blocked by the Pleiadians from entering the secondary school system and rather received her education directly from the Pleiadians, spirit and her guides she spent her childhood years from 12 to 16 reading and meditating alone in her room while receiving downloads and transmissions from the Pleiadians. Throughout her life she has had many spiritual experiences part of her Mission is to help awaken and raise the frequency of Humanity bringing forth teachings, transmissions and downloads from the Pleiadians helping to create a New Earth during this Ascension Period. Soma ARah ​Internationally Renowned Psychic, Medium, Reiki Master, Healer, Shamanic Practitioner, Pleiadian Starseed, Pleiadian Channel, Pleiadian Hybrid, UFO Abductee, Contactee & Experiencer, ​A Channel For The Pleiadians Since Childhood, Spiritual Teacher, Visionary, Indigo Adult, Indigo Mystic, Clairvoyant, Lightworker, Channel, Empathic, Intuitive, Healing Channel Author of The Pleiadian Child Available on Amazon & What's Really Going On? Available on soon on www.SomaARah.Love My Mission Soma ARah is a Pleiadian Starseed & Channel who came to help assist Humanity Raise its Frequency. To Inspire, To Uplift, To Shine, To Teach, To Learn, To Heal, To Transform, To Grow. To Share Teachings, Downloads, Transmissions & Channellings from the Pleiadians. As part of her mission and why she's here at this time on earth now, that we call Ascension Through Readings, Courses, Workshops and more. A beacon of Light, Inspiration she came to Reach Humanity. “Chosen by our ancient galactic cousins to communicate the messages for Humanity.” - April Cordner

Lauren Fields is the Founder and CEO of Fieldswell, a wellness and personal growth company dedicated to helping individuals and creators evolve from the inside out. Lauren's journey spans hospitality, wellness, and psychology, culminating in a Master's degree in Psychology, a TEDx talk, and a podcast featuring global thought leaders, all driven by her curiosity about human potential and commitment to growth.After overcoming a traumatic brain injury, Lauren transformed her personal wellness journey into a mission to empower others to create lives they love, not in spite of adversity, but because of it.Through Fieldswell, Lauren leads:The Fieldswell Podcast - recorded at Fieldswell Studios in Rancho Santa Fe, featuring conversations with global voices in wellness, mindset, and personal development.Fieldswell Wellness Sanctuary - a hub for coaching, healing, red light therapy, nervous system support, and mindfulness practices.Fieldswell Studios - a luxury content and podcast studio providing curated sets, VIP content days, and creative support for entrepreneurs and creators.Workshops & Live Experiences - sold-out events focused on mindset, wellness, and brand-building to spark clarity, connection, and transformation.Coaching & Brand Strategy - psychology-driven guidance helping clients achieve inner alignment, expand identity, and craft impactful personal brands.Lauren is passionate about helping others cultivate clarity, confidence, and lasting impact through holistic growth, creative expression, and transformational experiences.In This Episode, We Explore:How Lauren's personal journey, including overcoming a traumatic brain injury, shaped her approach to growth, resilience, and empowerment.The critical role of identity and nervous system safety in personal development and how to navigate limiting beliefs.The importance of authentic visibility and aligning your brand with personal values to connect deeply with your audience.Strategies for building sustainable success without sacrificing wellbeing, including avoiding burnout while pursuing professional goals.Practical insights and actionable steps for transforming adversity into growth and embracing challenges as catalysts for personal and professional evolution.Follow Lauren Fields on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenfields/Follow Fieldwells on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fieldswell/Learn more Fieldswell here: https://www.fieldswell.com/Listen to the The Fieldswell Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fieldswell-podcast/id1743282753Stay Connected:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whitneyaronoff/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/starseedkitchen/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@whitneyaronoffTikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@starseedkitchenLearn more about Starseed Kitchenhttps://starseedkitchen.com/Shop organic spiceshttps://starseedkitchen.com/shop/code STARSEED for 10% offShop Chef Whitney's favorite source for organic regenerative meats at StarWalker Organic FarmsUse code CHEF for 10% off your online order of $150 or more. Get an additional 10% off for a total discount of 20% when you choose a subscription. https://www.starwalkerorganicfarms.com/discount/CHEFSave 20% off on the healthiest beef sticks by Artemis. 100% organic grass-fed & grass-finished beef sticks. Regeneratively raised with the added bonus of organ meat, heart & liver. Use code STARSEED20 for 20% off. https://bit.ly/4aHDKFlThe 36-pack Subscribe & Save plus my code saves you about 36% off retail.Work with a personal chefhttps://form.typeform.com/to/CGDu08tEBook a 1-on-1 callhttps://bit.ly/4smXWUfFind more of Chef Whitney's offerings herehttps://linktr.ee/whitney.aronoff

There are a few spots left in Dr. Tara's mom & daughter social media safety workshop. Learn more HERE.    In this episode of the Wild Medicine Podcast, Dr. Tara Rawana discusses the impact of social media on tweens and teens, emphasizing the importance of developing a healthy relationship with technology.  She explores the mental health implications of excessive social media use, the significance of maturity in handling online responsibilities, and the influence of social media on body image.  Dr. Tara provides practical advice for parents on establishing rules for device use, transitioning from screen time to other activities, and fostering open communication with their children about social media.  If these are the conversations you want to be having with your tween daughter (age 9-13), join Dr. Tara on Saturday, September 19th for her workshop, Raising Social Media Savvy Girls.    Takeaways Social media is not inherently bad for kids. Teenagers are at risk of anxiety and depression from excessive social media use. Sleep deprivation is a significant issue linked to device use. Parents should focus on their child's maturity rather than age for social media access. 46% of adolescents report negative body image due to social media. Creating a sense of belonging at home can reduce reliance on social media. Establishing family rules around device use is crucial. Transitioning from screen time to other activities requires planning. Parents should model healthy device habits for their children. Workshops can help families navigate social media challenges together.   Chapters 00:00 Introduction to social media and youth mental health 02:00 The connection between social media and anxiety/depression 04:02 Research findings on social media usage and mental health risks 07:06 Ripple effects: sleep and exercise impacts 10:06 Setting rules and timing for device use 12:19 Understanding app risks and safety features 17:12 Body image concerns and social media influence 18:55 Fostering belongingness and online safety 21:00 Rules for friending and managing social connections 24:06 Creating safety plans and responsible online behavior 28:26 Transitioning from high stimulation to focus 30:06 Modeling healthy device habits as parents 33:09 Family rules and consistency in device management 36:12 Starting conversations early and evolving discussions 37:06 Upcoming social media safety workshop for families   Stay Wild. Ready to reclaim your Wild? JOIN THE WAITLIST FREE RESOURCE:  Download one of our SHED Mindset Calls! FREE RESOURCE:  Click the link and see if the SHED METABOLIC RESET PROGRAM is a good fit for you!  Connect with Dr. Tara on INSTAGRAM Connect with Dr. Michelle on INSTAGRAM This episode is brought to you by: www.MichellePeris.com Ready to reclaim your Wild? JOIN THE WAITLIST Learn more about The Poppy Clinic: www.poppyclinic.com Is Naturopathic Medicine for you: LEARN MORE HERE Take our HORMONE QUIZ Are you a clinician looking for more impact? START HERE

How do we raise healthy, resilient children in an age dominated by smartphones, social media and artificial intelligence? In this thought-provoking conversation, Dr Ron Ehrlich is joined by Dr Sajita Setia, a physician, researcher and advocate for digital wellbeing. Together they explore the growing evidence linking excessive screen use with poor sleep, anxiety, depression, attention problems and declining family connection. Rather than advocating fear or blanket bans, Dr Setia encourages parents, educators and policymakers to prioritise education, compassionate conversations and healthy digital boundaries. She explains how simple lifestyle changes - such as removing devices from bedrooms, modelling healthy behaviour and spending intentional screen-free family time - can dramatically improve children's wellbeing. The discussion also explores AI, social media algorithms, gender differences in technology use, school responsibilities and practical steps every family can implement immediately. ◉

True leadership emerges when you possess the capacity to maintain mental clarity and bring forth wisdom from the mind—diffusing conflict while revealing solutions for the whole that look beyond the immediate present. You don't rely on the past per se, nor do you try to predict the future. Instead, you are able to sit within the space of the unknown with all that is and all that is not, acknowledging that there is no bulletproof way to execute perfectly every time.In this episode, we break down how to move out of survival-defensive loops, grow baseline capacity, and scale your somatic-mindset micro-habits across Level 1 and Level 2 states, and more.

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Provider production reports can reveal far more than which clinician produced the most. When production numbers are viewed without context around capacity, schedule utilization, experience, and procedure mix, they can create inaccurate comparisons and unproductive conversations. In this episode, Kirk Behrendt and practice coach Miranda Beeson explain how to evaluate production by provider as a management and coaching tool rather than a scorecard. You will learn how to connect production with capacity, identify what is influencing each provider's results, and use the data to create clearer expectations and better opportunities for your team to succeed. To learn how to get more useful information from your provider production reports, listen to Episode 1084 of The Best Practices Show!Main Takeaways:Provider production reports should be used as decision-making and coaching tools rather than simple scorecards.Production comparisons should account for differences in schedule capacity, clinical responsibilities, experience, and procedure mix.Capacity measures how much of a provider's available clinical time is actually being utilized with patients in the chair.Production and schedule utilization should be reviewed together to determine whether each provider has an appropriate opportunity to produce.Practice owners should investigate why providers or specific days perform differently instead of assigning blame based on production totals alone.Reviewing successful and unsuccessful days with the team can reveal scheduling, case acceptance, and service-mix opportunities.Clear expectations and collaborative review of production data can support provider development and associate retention.Episode Chapters:00:00 Intro02:19 Why production reports matter04:00 Evaluating associate production with schedule utilization.06:15 Defining provider capacity.07:58 What practices get wrong with production reports.12:42 What healthy practices do differently.15:57 A practical exercise for reviewing production and capacity.18:00 Reviewing successful and unsuccessful days with the team.19:00 Developing providers and supporting associate retention.20:00 Closing thoughts.Guest Bio:Miranda Beeson has over 25 years of clinical dental hygiene, front office, practice administration, and speaking experience. She is enthusiastic about communication and loves helping others find the power that words can bring to their patient interactions and practice dynamics. As a Lead Practice Coach, she is driven to create opportunities to find value in experiences and cultivate new approaches.Miranda graduated from Old Dominion University, and enjoys spending time with her husband, Chuck, and her children, Trent, Mallory, and Cassidy. Family time is the best time, and is often spent on a golf course, a volleyball court, or spending the day boating at the beach.More Helpful Links for a Better Practice & a Better Life:Contact Gina to learn more about ACT: gina@actdental.comThe Best Practices Show: https://www.actdental.com/podcast/Smile Source Community Hub: https://www.actdental.com/community-hubUpcoming Events & Workshops: https://www.actdental.com/events/Smile Source: https://www.smilesource.com/Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.comSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com

Conscious leaders and spiritual, enlightened ones know how to carry humanity into the future—with love, faith, spirituality, humility, and true empowerment. No masks, no savior complex, no fake regulated leadership, no spiritual bypassing, and no somatic bypassing.(0:00) - Let's Start: 5D Conscious Leaders & The Cosmic Heart—Using Somatic-Mindset SMART MICRO-HABITs to Stay True to You & Navigate Survival-Defensive Loops with Self-Compassionate Honesty & Steady Empowered Composure(24:55) - Savior Complex vs. True Leadership - Conscious Leaders vs. Spiritual Bypassers: Why Enlightened Leadership Has No Savior Complex(40:00) - Q&A Segment: Is Life Experience the Primary Source of Wisdom?Shift from Reactive Survival Loops to Real-Time Empowered Composure—The SMART Way. Download Your FREE 10-Minute SMART MICRO-HABIT Check (PDF): https://payhip.com/b/r3sNW

Shift from Reactive Survival Loops to Real-Time Empowered Composure—The SMART Way. Download Your FREE 10-Minute SMART MICRO-HABIT Check (PDF): https://payhip.com/b/r3sNW

Sherry Thomas is one half of Bialy/Thomas & Associates, the casting powerhouse behind Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, Barry, The Righteous Gemstones, Dead to Me, Apple TV+'s Sugar, and Broadway's Jersey Boys. She and Sharon have earned multiple Emmy nominations together across their 25-plus year partnership. Their most recent Emmy nom is for Apple TV+'s Pluribus, which is Vince Gilligan's follow-up to Breaking Bad. It's a full-circle moment: Sherry and her partner Sharon Bialy are the team who first brought Bryan Cranston to Gilligan's attention nearly two decades ago.  In this episode, we go all the way back to New Hampshire and Massachusetts, where a girl obsessed with Donny and Marie and Three's Company had no idea she'd end up building an empire in casting. She landed in LA not knowing a single person. She slept on couches for two years. She worked retail at the Gap. And then, through a chain of small moments (a charity basketball game, a fundraiser, a woman named Victoria Burroughs) she found her way into a casting office and never looked back. We dive into:  Her first job as a location casting assistant on Contact Meeting her business partner Sharon Bialy at a Starbucks and building a 25-plus year partnership without ever putting anything in writing What she wishes every producer understood about working with casting directors Her honest, unfiltered take on AI in casting and what it means for actors How becoming a mom to two teenage daughters changed the way she sees ambition and grit Sherry is candid, funny, and doesn't hold back, whether she's talking about the gritty early days or the future of our industry. This is a primer for building a career (and a business) on relationships, resilience, and staying true to who you are.  AOP SUBSTACK

Does your dental practice clearly communicate what makes it different, or does it look and sound like every other office in your market? In this episode, Kirk Behrendt talks with Carlie Einarson, dental practice coach, about a four-step process for creating a practice that reflects what you value and attracts the patients you want to serve. You will learn how to differentiate your practice, define your core customer, identify your core competencies, recognize weaknesses, and align your team and patient experience around a clear strategy. To build a practice around what you do best and the patients you want to serve, listen to Episode 1083 of The Best Practices Show!Main Takeaways:Differentiation starts with clearly defining what your practice stands for rather than relying on convenience, insurance participation, technology, or other features competitors can replicate.Practices should identify their core customers by examining the patients who value treatment, respect the team, keep appointments, pay their bills, and refer others.Involving the team in defining the ideal patient creates alignment and can reveal patient characteristics the dentist may overlook.Core competencies should be meaningful strengths that patients value and competitors cannot easily imitate, rather than equipment, general labels, or expected levels of service.Consistently communicating what the dentist and practice care about helps attract patients who share those values.Practices should identify weaknesses such as poor systems, limited team development, weak treatment presentation skills, or gaps in the patient experience and address them strategically.Staying focused on your own strategy, values, patients, and strengths is more useful than trying to compete with another practice's size, technology, hours, or services.Episode Chapters:00:00 Intro02:51 Why branding matters05:35 Differentiation as a strategy for standing out.07:06 Trust as the real product12:00 Identifying the core customer you want to serve.17:19 Defining your ideal patient with your team.23:00 Identifying and communicating your core competencies.28:50 Consistently talking about what your practice cares about.31:00 Identifying weaknesses with self-awareness and team feedback.33:51Clinical development, systems, and treatment presentation weaknesses.38:11Staying true to your core purpose and values.40:00 Staying focused instead of competing with other practices.41:00 The Differentiation Tool and Strategic Marketing Guide.Guest Bio/Guest Resources:Carlie Einarson is a lead practice coach who has a passion for helping others succeed in the dental field. She loves helping to create a stable foundation for practices so both professionals and patients have a great experience every time they walk in the door!Carlie graduated from Utah College of Dental Hygiene. She has ten years of experience in the dental field, including clinical dental hygiene, front office, and leading teams.In her free time, she enjoys spending quality time with loved ones, traveling, skiing, playing volleyball, and golfing.Episode Resources:The Differentiation Tool: https://join.actdental.com/c/resources/differentiation-toolThe Strategic Marketing Guide: https://join.actdental.com/c/resources/strategic-marketingMore Helpful Links for a Better Practice & a Better Life:Contact Gina to learn more about ACT: gina@actdental.comThe Best Practices Show: https://www.actdental.com/podcast/Smile Source Community Hub: https://www.actdental.com/community-hubUpcoming Events & Workshops: https://www.actdental.com/events/Smile Source: https://www.smilesource.com/Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.comSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com

Weaknesses are qualities that impede our lives. None of us are perfect, so how do we deal with our weaknesses? In this podcast, Bhante explains that the most important step in mindfulness is recognizing weaknesses as weaknesses and not strengths we use to get through the day. He introduces practical ways in which we can overcome weaknesses by embracing opposite qualities and learning not to feed our weaknesses when they arise. Mind Workout for a Lifetime of Happiness: https://bhantesathi.com/books/the-mind-workout-for-a-lifetime-of-happiness-bhante-sathi/9798349278129 Retreats and Workshops: https://www.mettameditationcenter.org/retreats-workshops/

"The goal isn't to collect more gold stars. It's to create a life that's achingly beautiful." – Lani Gonzales In this episode of Workday Playdate, Erin sits down with Lani Gonzales to explore why so many high achievers end up feeling exhausted, disconnected, and stuck chasing the next accomplishment. After leaving a successful legal career and walking more than 500 miles on the Camino de Santiago, Lani discovered that sustainable success is fueled by play. If you've ever felt like your productivity comes at the expense of your wellbeing, this conversation is for you. Lani shares practical mindset shifts and nervous system strategies to help leaders, entrepreneurs, and ambitious professionals build confidence without burnout and create work that's deeply aligned with who they are. Inside This Episode: Movement Is More Than Exercise: Lani explains why movement, play, and curiosity are the fuel that makes sustainable performance possible. High Achievement Isn't the Same as Fulfillment: Many ambitious professionals unknowingly operate from a place of proving their worth. Lani shares how shifting your internal motivation can create more confidence, creativity, and joy. The Camino Teaches You How to Let Go: Walking 500 miles across Spain became more than a physical challenge—it became a lesson in releasing emotional baggage, embracing presence, and trusting the next step. Confidence Starts in the Body: From nervous system regulation to simple physical practices, Lani explains how our bodies shape our ability to think clearly, show up authentically, and navigate high-pressure moments. Stop Treating Life Like a Test: What if challenges weren't exams to pass, but opportunities to explore? Lani shares how curiosity creates resilience, reduces overthinking, and makes growth feel a whole lot lighter. What to Do Now: Find Your Fuel: Ask yourself whether you're chasing external validation or creating from genuine joy and purpose. Move Before You Push: Incorporate small moments of movement, play, or breathwork into your workday to regulate your nervous system before tackling difficult tasks. Focus on the Next Step: Instead of trying to solve the entire journey, bring your attention back to what's right in front of you and let momentum build from there. About the Guest Lani Gonzales is a speaker, coach, hypnotherapist, and former attorney who helps high achievers redefine success through movement, mindset, and nervous system regulation. Drawing from her own transformational journey—including walking the Camino de Santiago—Lani empowers leaders and entrepreneurs to replace burnout with curiosity, confidence, and sustainable joy. Through her coaching, speaking, and creative work, she helps people build lives and businesses that honor both their ambition and their humanity. Your Freebie Networking doesn't have to feel performative, transactional, or awkward. Download our Networking Without Feeling Weird toolkit for practical strategies to help you build genuine connections while staying confident, clear, and grounded.  Whether you're walking into a conference, meeting new colleagues, or simply trying to expand your circle, this two-part resource will help you network in a way that actually feels like you. Connect with Lani Gonzales Lani's LinkedIn Lani's website Lani's Instagram Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it! Leadership Playground online membership community Erin's website Erin's Instagram Erin's TikTok Erin's LinkedIn improve it!'s website improve it!'s Instagram Connect with Erin Diehl

329 / Have you ever wondered what it takes to narrate or produce an audiobook—and whether you should record your own? Todd Eflin shares insider secrets from his journey as a voice actor, audiobook coach, and narrator, including what authors need to know before jumping into audio.Common misconceptions about audiobook productionWhen to produce an audiobookWhat authors should consider before narrating their own booksTechnical setup basics for home audiobook recordingThe five essentials of recording quality audio for authors✨ This week's sponsor is Bookfunnel: https://bookfunnel.com

Amy's Top 5 ClifotnStrengths are:  Communication, Woo, Positivity, Developer,& Arranger  Amy Havis leverages her background as a communications strategist to share a practical perspective about how people navigate difficult conversations and life's hardest moments. After experiencing profound personal loss, Amy became a passionate advocate for replacing silence with presence and connection. Her writing invites us to show up—at home, at work and in grief—with honesty, empathy and heart. She lives in Colorado with her family. What Not To Say at a Funeral is her first book. Visit her at www.AmyHavisAuthor.com Link to take the CliftonStrengths Assessment Coaching and Workshops with Barbara Culwell Subscribe & Leave a Review on Embrace Your Strengths  

A dental practice can produce millions of dollars and still leave the owner wondering where the profit went. In this episode, Kirk Behrendt speaks with dental practice coach Courtney Dalton about the four financial gaps that determine how production becomes usable cash.You will learn how to identify losses within adjustments, collections, overhead, and cash flow, along with the metrics and systems needed to improve profitability. Understand where your practice's money is going and how to make informed financial decisions—listen to Episode 1082 of The Best Practices Show!Main Takeaways:The effort gap is the difference between a practice's full master fees and its net production after insurance and elective adjustments.Practices must enter full fees for every procedure so their production and adjustment data accurately reflect the dentistry performed.The collections gap measures the difference between net production and the money that reaches the practice's bank account.Financial policies, accounts receivable systems, insurance follow-up, and payment options directly affect collection performance.The overhead gap represents the percentage of collections used for operating expenses across seven expense categories.The cash flow gap explains the difference between profitability shown on a profit-and-loss statement and the cash available after loans, taxes, owner compensation, and other outflows.Measuring and monitoring each gap gives practice owners the information needed to make targeted financial improvements.Episode Chapters:00:00 Why high-producing dental practices can still lack profit.03:00 How production becomes profit within a dental practice.04:24 The effort gap and the impact of adjustments.05:44 Why practices must bill their full master fees.09:26 How the effort gap affects APV, PPD, and PPV.12:09 Why gross production does not determine practice value.14:08 The collections gap and the 99% collection target.16:04 Systems that improve collections and accounts receivable.21:08 The overhead gap and seven expense categories.23:04 Team compensation, staffing, and practice systems.26:22 The cash flow gap between reported profit and available cash.28:43 How loans and taxes affect cash flow.32:49 Why earnings and profitability determine practice value.33:20 The process of measuring, monitoring, and improving financial performance.34:39 How the four financial gaps affect one another.Guest Bio:With an A.S. in Dental Hygiene from Manor College and a B.S. in Exercise Physiology from West Virginia University, Courtney blends her expertise in both healthcare and wellness to drive success.As a member of the Business Development team, she is dedicated to helping doctors and practice owners realize their full potential by understanding the link between ownership, culture, and the health of the business. Courtney is all about building strong, thriving communities at home or in the office!Courtney has been a part of the dental community since 2004 and is as passionate about patient care as she is about those who are providing it. Outside of ACT, Courtney enjoys exercising and spending time with her family.Episode Resources:GAPS Calculator within the Community Hub: https://join.actdental.com/c/announcements-9fc6ae/financial-gaps-calculatorhttps://www.actdental.com/free-resources/Smile Source Transform Membership: https://info.smilesource.com/smile-source-act-dental-transform-membership-1More Helpful Links for a Better Practice & a Better Life:Contact Gina to learn more about ACT: gina@actdental.comThe Best Practices Show: https://www.actdental.com/podcast/Smile Source Community Hub: https://www.actdental.com/community-hubUpcoming Events & Workshops: https://www.actdental.com/events/Smile Source: https://www.smilesource.com/Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.comSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com

Are you only motivated when the deadline is on fire or you share a common enemy? In this episode, we deliver a straightforward reality check on the current personal and spiritual growth ecosystem. We break down the difference between survival-driven reactivity and true autonomous regulation sovereignty, exposing why so many individuals in leadership positions, relationships, and everyday life are running on chronic stress loops rather than grounded, somatic-mindset mastery.(0:00) – The Blunt Reality Check: Fire, Enemies, the Leadership Illusion, Somatic Bypassers & Spiritual Bypassers(10:39) – The Screen vs. Sovereignty: Who Actually Has Neurological Capacity For Somatic-Mindset Micro-Habit Mastery?(20:24) – Sign 1: The Crisis Dependency (The Deadline is on Fire)(27:24) – Sign 2: The Common Enemy Dynamic (Validation Through Conflict)(35:39) – Sign 3: The Consumer Collapse (How Followers Mirror the Validation Trap)(36:46) – What Determines Your Autonomous Regulation Sovereignty?(40:00) – Transitioning into Restorative Embodiment & True Composure(44:00) - Reality Check on the Leadership Illusion: Seeking Validation vs. Grounded in Autonomous Regulation(45:41) – Deepen Your Practice: Tools for Self-Led Leaders(46:50) - Building Composure & Autonomous Regulation: Combining Somatic-Mindset Micro-Habits with Spiritual Ascension & StoriesTo Shift from High-Functioning Survival Masks to the Freedom of Being Yourself the SMART Way. Download Your FREE 10-Minute SMART MICRO-HABIT Check (PDF): https://payhip.com/b/r3sNWFor The Sovereign Shift: Move beyond "quick fixes" into a day-to-day commitment. Get the 1-Day Practice & Guide here: https://payhip.com/b/Qw23E-------------Subscribe on Substack:

IHP LIVE on YouTube 08.03.2026To Shift from High-Functioning Survival Masks to the Freedom of Being Yourself the SMART Way. Download Your FREE 10-Minute SMART MICRO-HABIT Check (PDF): https://payhip.com/b/r3sNWFor The Sovereign Shift: Move beyond "quick fixes" into a day-to-day commitment. Get the 1-Day Practice & Guide here: https://payhip.com/b/Qw23EStop relying on a survival loop and shift into a growth mindset. Your guide to ventral pivoting and nervous system sovereignty is one click away.Check out The Accessible Guide to Your Sovereign Blueprint: Nervous System Sovereignty & Conscious Self-Leadership - https://payhip.com/b/NJXhONot ready for the guide, check out the FREE Executive Summary here: https://payhip.com/b/VtK7k---------Inspiring Human Potential explores self-leadership, emotional intelligence, journaling, and conscious living through a higher-self lens.Self-led practices for:emotional resilienceinner growth & mindset developmentsteady living through uncertaintyDesigned for those who choose self-responsibility, emotional maturity, and inner authority.-------------Subscribe on Substack:

A strong production day does not always mean a dental practice used its time efficiently. In this episode, Kirk Behrendt and Miranda Beeson, co-host of The Best Practices Show, explain why production per hour provides a clearer view of provider efficiency than production per day alone. You will learn how schedule design, procedure mix, capacity utilization, delegation, and provider hours influence productivity, as well as how to calculate and evaluate production per hour in your practice. To better understand the efficiency behind your production numbers, listen to Episode 1081 of The Best Practices Show!Main Takeaways:Production per day shows the total outcome, while production per hour reveals how efficiently provider time was used.A high-production day may still be inefficient when it requires extra hours, rushed appointments, fragmented procedures, or working through lunch.Intentional scheduling and an appropriate procedure mix can help practices maintain production while reducing clinical hours.Measuring schedule utilization helps practices identify lost production caused by unfilled provider and hygiene time.Comparing high-performing and low-performing schedules can reveal which procedures, workflows, and provider habits improve hourly productivity.Delegating tasks to trained team members allows dentists to focus on the clinical responsibilities only they can perform.Production per hour should be reviewed with curiosity and used to improve systems rather than punish or compare providers.Episode Chapters:00:00 Why production per hour provides a clearer view than production per day.01:00 Introduction to Metric Mondays and production efficiency.02:17 The difference between daily production and hourly production.03:48 What inefficient production looks like in practice.05:24 Why production per hour is the ultimate measure of efficiency.06:34 Creating leadership time through more strategic scheduling.07:26 What practices do differently when they measure time effectively.09:22 Improving production through schedule and capacity utilization.10:12 The financial impact of open hygiene appointments.11:18 How to calculate production per hour.12:01 Comparing provider schedules and procedure mix.13:18 Delegation as a way to improve provider efficiency.14:41 Asking the team how efficiently time was used.15:17 Using production data to identify practice opportunities.Guest Bio:Miranda Beeson has over 25 years of clinical dental hygiene, front office, practice administration, and speaking experience. She is enthusiastic about communication and loves helping others find the power that words can bring to their patient interactions and practice dynamics. As a Lead Practice Coach, she is driven to create opportunities to find value in experiences and cultivate new approaches.Miranda graduated from Old Dominion University, and enjoys spending time with her husband, Chuck, and her children, Trent, Mallory, and Cassidy. Family time is the best time, and is often spent on a golf course, a volleyball court, or spending the day boating at the beach.Episode Resources:Capacity Tracker: https://www.actdental.com/blog/data-snapshot-capacity-percentageWeekly Production Scorecard: https://www.actdental.com/blog/data-snapshot-production-per-visitMore Helpful Links for a Better Practice & a Better Life:Contact Gina to learn more about ACT: gina@actdental.comThe Best Practices Show: https://www.actdental.com/podcast/Smile Source Community Hub: https://www.actdental.com/community-hubUpcoming Events & Workshops: https://www.actdental.com/events/Smile Source: https://www.smilesource.com/Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.comSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com

When every question, decision, and critical process depends on the practice owner, growth slows and the team becomes increasingly dependent on one person. In this episode, Kirk Behrendt speaks with Heather Crockett, dental practice coach, about the three leadership bottlenecks that restrict practice performance: information, approval, and knowledge. You will learn how consistent communication rhythms, clearly defined decision-making authority, documented systems, and cross-training can help your team operate with greater ownership and consistency. To identify and remove the leadership bottlenecks holding your practice back, listen to Episode 1080 of The Best Practices Show!Main Takeaways:An information bottleneck occurs when important knowledge and communication flow only through the doctor or practice owner.Daily huddles, weekly team meetings, and leadership meetings create consistent communication rhythms throughout the practice.Leadership teams must align on decisions and quickly cascade the information to the rest of the team.An approval bottleneck develops when the doctor becomes responsible for routine operational decisions that other team members could own.A function and accountability chart clarifies responsibilities and gives team members defined decision-making authority.A knowledge bottleneck exists when a critical system or process is known by only one person.Documented systems, cross-training, delegation, and repeatable onboarding reduce dependence on individual team members.Episode Chapters:00:00 Intro 01:54 The three leadership bottlenecks holding practices back.03:14 Signs of an information bottleneck.04:31 Communication rhythms that improve information flow.11:32 Signs of an approval bottleneck.13:49 Developing leaders and reducing decision fatigue.21:39 Signs of a knowledge bottleneck.22:47 Documenting systems, cross-training, and delegating responsibilities.25:58 Final leadership takeaways and the Leadership Bottlenecks guide.27:28 Leadership training at the To The Top Study Club.29:00 Episode wrap upGuest Bio/Guest Resources:Heather Crockett is a Lead Practice Coach who finds joy in not only improving practices but improving the lives of those she coaches as well. With over 20 years of combined experience in assisting, office management, and clinical dental hygiene, her awareness supports many aspects of the practice setting.Heather received her dental hygiene degree from the Utah College of Dental Hygiene in 2008. Networking in the dental community comes easy to her, and she loves to connect with like-minded colleagues on social media. Heather enjoys both attending and presenting continuing education to expand her knowledge and learn from her friends and colleagues.She enjoys hanging out with her husband, three sons, and their dog, Moki, scrolling through social media, watching football, and traveling.Episode Resources:Leadership Bottlenecks Guide: https://join.actdental.com/c/resources/leadership-bottlenecks Traction by Gino Wickman: https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business/dp/1936661837To The Top Study Club: https://www.actdental.com/ttt/More Helpful Links for a Better Practice & a Better Life:Contact Gina to learn more about ACT: gina@actdental.comThe Best Practices Show: https://www.actdental.com/podcast/Smile Source Community Hub: https://www.actdental.com/community-hubUpcoming Events & Workshops: https://www.actdental.com/events/Smile Source: https://www.smilesource.com/Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.comSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com

Can creative people protect their work without letting fear stop them from being bold? Gordon Firemark's path from a teased redheaded kid and backstage theater technician to entertainment lawyer and podcast lawyer shows how unexpected turns can shape a meaningful career. Gordon and I explore entertainment law, podcast legal protection, career setbacks, asking for help, trusting your skills, and knowing when to test your limits. You will also hear how podcasting changed his legal practice, why teaching helps him become a better lawyer, and how creators can share their ideas with greater confidence and less legal risk. Highlights: 00:02:15 - How a school principal redirected Gordon toward theater, media, and law. 00:11:17 - How surviving a bus crash became a lesson in perseverance. 00:15:30 - Why asking for help is a sign of strength. 00:21:07 - How entertainment law protects creators and their work. 00:28:36 - Why resourcefulness helps you say yes and figure things out. 00:44:29 - How Gordon became a leading podcast lawyer. About the Guest: Gordon Firemark helps creatives, artists, entrepreneurs and businesses achieve the dream of getting their messages out so they can achieve the impact, influence, and income they deserve.  An entertainment and media lawyer who is often referred to as The Podcast Lawyer™, he has represented some of the top voices in digital media, as well as in independent film, television and live theatre.   A podcaster himself, he's been producing and hosting the Entertainment Law Update podcast since 2009, and more recently, live-streaming Legit Podcast Pro weekly, featuring audio and video legal tips and strategies for podcasters and YouTubers. Gordon is the author of the Podcast, Blog & New Media Producer's Legal Survival Guide and creator of several online courses for creatives, coaches and lawyers in small or solo practice.   His undergraduate degree in radio, television and film and experience in live theatre production informs his thinking about all things legal.  In addition to his busy law practice, he has taught college and law school courses in Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property law, Media ethics and theatre law. Gordon lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, three children and a menagerie of pets. Ways to connect with Gordon**:** Web and Social Channels Law Firm Blog - http://firemark.com Facebook - http://facebook.com/gfiremark The Podcast Lawyer (on Facebook) - http://facebook.com/podcastlaw Linkedin -http://linkedin.com/in/gfiremark Instagram -http://instagram.com/gordonfiremark Youtube -http://youtube.com/gfiremark Podcasts Entertainment Law Update -  http://entertainmentlawupdate.com Legit Podcast Pro - http://legitpodcastpro.captivate.fm Courses, Memberships, Forms & Templates Easy Legal For Podcasters - https://easylegalforpodcasters.com Easy Podcast Law Forms - https://podcastlawforms.com  Easy Legal For (Digital) Entrepreneurs -   https://easylegalforentrepreneurs.com  Easy Legal Forms & Templates - https://easylegaltemplates.com  e-Book The Podcast, Blog & New Media Producer's Legal Survival Guide - https://podcastlawbook.com  Workshops & MasterClass Sessions Podcast Growth & Profit: Mastering the Fundamentals, Avoiding Common Mistakes -  https://podcastertraining.com  Legal Protection for Online Entrepreneurs, Coaches & Courses - Https://law4courses.com  How To Protect your Podcast: Easy, affordable legal strategies without expensive lawyers! - https://podcastlaw.net  Own Your Brand Before Someone Else Does! - https://ownyourbrandnow.com About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. 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“The real failure of inclusion happens in the moments when someone hesitates.” – Rachel Shaw In this episode of Workday Playdate, Erin sits down with Rachel Shaw to explore what it really takes to build inclusive workplaces that work in real time. In a world full of well-intentioned initiatives, Rachel makes the case that true inclusion is ultimately a human skill. If you've ever wondered how leaders can create cultures where people feel genuinely seen, supported, and empowered, this conversation is for you. Rachel shares how organizations can move beyond compliance and build cultures rooted in empathy, accountability, and belonging. Inside This Episode: Inclusion Is a Live Skill, Not Just a Policy: Rachel explains why real inclusion happens in the everyday moments when people are under pressure, uncertain, or vulnerable. Policies matter, but the way leaders respond in real time matters even more. Thinking Quickly on Your Feet Is a Leadership Advantage: Difficult conversations rarely come with a script. Rachel shares why curiosity, presence, and adaptability help leaders respond with confidence instead of defensiveness when challenges arise. Empathy Changes the Outcome of Hard Conversations: Pausing, getting curious, and leading with empathy can transform tense situations into opportunities for trust and connection. Rachel discusses how a leader's response can either strengthen relationships or unintentionally damage them. HR Has More Influence Than It Thinks: HR professionals are far more than administrators. Rachel explores how HR leaders can shape culture, drive accountability, and ensure organizational values show up in everyday decisions and behaviors. Inclusive Culture Is Built Through Daily Choices: Belonging isn't created through one initiative or annual training. Rachel explains how mentorship, communication, benefits, and consistent leadership behaviors create cultures where people truly feel they matter. What to Do Now: Pause Before Responding: When faced with uncertainty or discomfort, give yourself a moment before reacting. Thoughtful responses build trust; rushed reactions often erode it. Audit Your Daily Leadership Habits: Consider how your everyday behaviors—from meetings to feedback conversations—either reinforce or undermine belonging on your team. Use Your Influence: Whether you're in HR, leadership, or an individual contributor role, identify one way you can advocate for a more inclusive and human-centered workplace this week. About the Guest Rachel Shaw is an attorney, speaker, consultant, and workplace inclusion strategist who helps organizations build cultures that are both legally sound and deeply human. With decades of experience advising leaders and HR professionals, Rachel specializes in disability inclusion, workplace culture, employee relations, and leadership effectiveness. She is the author of The Disabled Workforce: What the ADA Never Anticipated, where she explores the evolving realities of today's workforce and challenges organizations to rethink how they support employees. Through her work, Rachel empowers leaders to create workplaces grounded in empathy, accountability, and belonging. Your Freebie You're calm, capable, and composed… until things take an unexpected turn (as they tend to do)! This is exactly why we created The Clarity Under Pressure Toolkit: What to Do in the First 5 Minutes of Any Uncertain Situation. It's your go-to guide for staying grounded when it matters most. Download it here. Connect with Rachel Shaw Rachel's LinkedIn Rachel's media kit Rachel's HR website Rachel's personal website Rachel's book: The Disabled Workforce: What the ADA Never Anticipated Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it! Leadership Playground online membership community Erin's website Erin's Instagram Erin's TikTok Erin's LinkedIn improve it!'s website improve it!'s Instagram Connect with Erin Diehl

327 / How can you make one piece of content do more for you? What does it take to juggle fiction, nonfiction, and podcasting? Matty Dalrymple shares tips on how she builds an audience on multiple platforms, collaborates on nonfiction projects, and streamlines her business strategies.Streamlining social media to focus on meaningful engagementLeveraging Substack for podcasting and community buildingCollaboration tips for co-authoring nonfictionThe mindset shift from scattered efforts to strategic synergy✨ This week's sponsor is Bookfunnel: https://bookfunnel.com

In this episode of Workday Playdate, Erin sits down with Emmy Award-winning writer, actor, comedian, facilitator, and longtime improve it! family member Nnamdi Ngwe to explore why the most valuable career skills often come from the places you least expect. From playing college soccer to performing with The Second City, creating viral content, facilitating workshops for global organizations, and winning an Emmy, Nnamdi's career is proof that following your curiosity can lead to opportunities you never could have planned. If you've ever wondered whether your creative interests "count," questioned whether it's too late to pursue something different, or struggled to connect your unique experiences into a meaningful career path, this conversation will inspire you to see your strengths in a whole new way. Inside This Episode: Why Your Nontraditional Skills Are Your Competitive Advantage: Nnamdi shares how the experiences that don't fit neatly on a resume often become the skills that make you indispensable in your career. From College Soccer to Comedy Stages: Hear how an unexpected path led Nnamdi from the soccer field to improv theaters, television sets, and corporate boardrooms, proving that careers rarely unfold in a straight line. What It Really Takes to Create Viral Content: With a massive following across TikTok and Instagram, Nnamdi pulls back the curtain on his creative process and explains why content that looks effortless usually comes from consistent practice and experimentation. The Workplace Lessons Hidden Inside Improv: After facilitating workshops for companies like LinkedIn, TikTok, Motorola, and T-Mobile, Nnamdi explains the powerful moment when people realize improv isn't just entertainment—it's a practical skill for communication, collaboration, leadership, and innovation. Trusting Your Scene Partner and Yourself: Nnamdi reflects on collaborating with his twin brother and creative partner, Amechi, sharing lessons about trust, flexibility, and building successful partnerships both on stage and in business. What to Do Now: Identify Your Hidden Career Skill: Think about one strength you have that doesn't appear on your resume. Whether it's calming people during stressful moments, reading a room, making others laugh, or adapting when plans change, recognize it as a real professional asset. Stop Waiting for the Perfect Career Path: Your experiences don't have to make sense to everyone else. Trust that the skills you're building today may become the foundation for opportunities you can't yet imagine. Follow What Energizes You: Instead of asking whether a creative interest is practical, ask what it's teaching you. The projects that light you up often develop the very human skills that set you apart. About the Guest Nnamdi Ngwe is an Emmy Award-winning writer, actor, comedian, facilitator, and educator. After playing collegiate soccer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, he went on to study and perform comedy at iO Theater and The Second City. Alongside his twin brother and creative partner, Amechi Ngwe, he has written and starred in acclaimed productions including Julius, Rap Skool, and House Sitters. His television credits include The Amber Ruffin Show, A Black Lady Sketch Show, The Bold and the Beautiful, Blippi, Comedy Central's 3Peat, and the Emmy Award-winning Tab Time. Beyond entertainment, Nnamdi facilitates interactive workshops for organizations around the world, helping leaders and teams build communication, adaptability, and collaboration skills through applied improvisation. Whether performing on stage, creating viral content online, or leading a workshop, he's passionate about helping people embrace creativity, trust themselves, and discover that their most unexpected skills are often their greatest strengths. Your Freebie You're calm, capable, and composed… until things take an unexpected turn (as they tend to do)! This is exactly why we created The Clarity Under Pressure Toolkit: What to Do in the First 5 Minutes of Any Uncertain Situation. It's your go-to guide for staying grounded when it matters most. Download it here. Connect with Nnamdi Ngwe Nnamdi's Instagram Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it! Leadership Playground online membership community Erin's website Erin's Instagram Erin's TikTok Erin's LinkedIn improve it!'s website improve it!'s Instagram Connect with Erin Diehl

Today you'll learn how even the busiest and most stressed-out pet professionals can make a full recovery from business burnout! This episode will walk you through some of what I use in my own life – and some (or all of them!) may work for you too. Also, congratulations to Norma, Rose Maria, and Ilona for winning guest passes to my three in-person workshops at next month's SuperZoo Pet Business Conference 2026 in Las Vegas. If you want to meet me in Las Vegas, it not too late to sign up for SuperZoo! In this episode, you'll learn about resetting your nervous system using very different (but each quite powerful) tools. Lastly, you'll discover the physical and emotional foundations of recovery. I share how upgrading my diet and hydration has greatly improved my well-being and vitality, and why prioritizing quality time with people you currently rarely see is vital for mental health. Pick just one of these five practices to start your burnout recovery today. Visit the show notes page: www.ProsperousPetBusiness.com/podcast177 Find out more and sign up for the online breathwork circle for stress and burnout relief. Try the stress-relieving exercises in the TRE video. Get the How to Recover from Pet Business Burnout book. Find out more about the monthly Pet Business Webinars and Workshops. Click to apply to be coached on the Prosperous Pet Business podcast. Book a pet business coaching session with Kristin Morrison. Connect with Kristin Morrison on Instagram. Copyright © Prosperous Pet Business and Kristin Morrison www.ProsperousPetBusiness.com

Mats Steen spent most of his short life indoors in Oslo. To his parents he looked like a young man with no one. When he died, hundreds of people reached out to say they had known him for years, inside World of Warcraft, as a character named Ibelin. His parents had no idea.That story sits at the center of this episode, and so does the question underneath it: how much of what games actually do is invisible to the people measuring them?Recorded on a rooftop in New York at Games for Change 2026, this episode brings together three people running the organization. Susanna Pollack on twenty-plus years of arguing that games carry purpose beyond entertainment. Then Dr. Rachel Kowert and Arana Shapiro on brand-new research that says the panic about kids and gaming is not coming from the evidence.GuestsSusanna Pollack, President, Games for ChangeDr. Rachel Kowert, Research Director, Games for ChangeArana Shapiro, Chief Program/Operating Officer, Games for ChangeInterviews by Lewis Ward.Chapters00:00:00  Cold open: the story of Mats Steen00:00:42  Games for Change 202600:04:38  Susanna Pollack, and this year's awards00:06:30  What Games for Change actually is00:09:05  Rebuilding the festival: workshops and the Playtest Lab00:12:23  The argument the industry keeps failing to make00:14:37  Games are one of the few places failing is fine00:15:41  The education spine, and kids in 92 countries00:18:25  Raising Good Gamers: the 2019 origin00:22:11  Going global, and working with the UN00:27:54  What's coming next00:28:57  Dr. Rachel Kowert and Arana Shapiro00:30:00  The white paper, and 200,000 articles00:31:43  Why bad news about games travels further00:32:52  Stop counting hours, start asking why00:33:55  Most media is passive. Games are not.00:35:17  SPACE: the five moves00:36:25  60% of kids want their parents to play00:36:57  What Raising Good Gamers ships00:41:53  Self-determination theory and the Proteus effect00:43:41  Academy, Intel, and the DiscordWhat you'll take awayThere is more positive coverage of games than negative. The negative just gets shared further, which leaves parents inside what Dr. Kowert calls a biased information ecosystem.A game does not need to be designed for impact to have it. Joy, stress relief, connection, and a space where age, gender and location stop deciding anything.Games are one of very few activities where failing is acceptable and repeatable. That is how mastering a system quietly builds resilience.The parental concerns have not changed in fifty years. What changes is the question: not how many hours, but what purpose the play is serving.SPACE, the framework: Start with curiosity. Play together. Adjust for context. Cultivate digital citizenship. Establish boundaries together.60% of kids want their parents to play with them. What stops most parents is assuming they'll be bad at it.Mentioned in this episodeRaising Good Gamers, and the white paper by Dr. Rachel Kowert. Free, along with a conversation guide and a family gaming code of conduct template. Workshops rolling out through the PTA, Boys and Girls Club, and libraries.The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, the Netflix documentary about Mats Steen. A feature film is in development.The Games for Change Student Challenge, 10+ years, participants from 92 countries.2026 award winners: South of Midnight (Compulsion Games), the Vanguard Award to Jenn Panattoni, and the Giving Award to SpecialEffect for their adaptive controller work.The Proteus effect, first described by Nick Yee, who joined us back in February.Katie Salen, professor of informatics at UC Irvine, co-creator of Raising Good Gamers.Disclosure: the FTI Consulting media analysis underpinning the white paper was commissioned by Tencent.Where to go nextAcademy — free, built in short packs you can finish on a commute. academy.playerdriven.ioIntel — our prediction game. Call what the industry does next and see if you were right. intel.playerdriven.ioDiscord — where this conversation actually continues.The Operator's Briefing — Tuesdays, if you'd rather it come to you.

In this episode of Workday Playdate, Erin explores why speaking up at work has far less to do with competence and far more to do with confidence. If you've ever left a meeting thinking, "I should have said something," you're not alone—and you're probably more prepared than you think. If you've ever had the perfect idea thirty seconds too late, watched someone else say what you were thinking, or struggled to find your voice in meetings, this conversation is for you. Using improv principles and practical strategies, Erin shares how to stop disappearing on the back line and start contributing with more confidence, more quickly, and more consistently. Inside This Episode: Speaking Up Is Usually a Confidence Issue, Not a Competence Issue: Most people already know what they want to say, they just hesitate when the moment arrives. Erin explores why the gap between thinking and speaking is often driven by fear, not ability. Silence Feels Safe, But It Can Make You Invisible: Staying quiet may protect you from saying the wrong thing, but it can also prevent others from seeing your ideas, expertise, and leadership potential. Early and frequent participation changes how people experience you. Confidence Is Built Through Reps, Not Perfection: The goal isn't to feel ready before you contribute. The goal is to contribute and let confidence catch up. Erin shares why speaking up is a skill built through practice, not personality. The SPEAK Framework Makes Participation Easier: Erin introduces the improv-inspired SPEAK framework to help you contribute more naturally in meetings: Set up the scene, Preload your line, Enter early, Anchor the room, and Keep building. Consistency Changes Your Identity: Speaking up once feels brave. Speaking up repeatedly changes how you see yourself and how others see you. Confidence isn't built in a single moment; it's built in patterns. What to Do Now: Set Up the Scene: Before your next meeting, identify one idea, question, or perspective you want to contribute before the conversation begins. Preload Your Line: Prepare a simple opener such as, "One thing that stands out to me is..." or "I'd like to build on that idea..." so you're not starting from zero when the moment arrives. Enter Early: Challenge yourself to speak within the first ten minutes of your next meeting. Momentum is easier to maintain than it is to create. Anchor the Room: Remember that your contribution doesn't just help you—it creates permission for others to participate, ask questions, and share ideas too. Keep Building: Confidence is earned through repetition. Every time you speak up, you're collecting evidence that your voice belongs in the room. Your Freebie You're calm, capable, and composed… until things take an unexpected turn (as they tend to do)! This is exactly why we created The Clarity Under Pressure Toolkit: What to Do in the First 5 Minutes of Any Uncertain Situation. It's your go-to guide for staying grounded when it matters most. Download it here. This episode is brought to you by Magnatag, the world's largest collection of magnetic dry-erase planning systems.  We are talking over 2,300 options including calendars, project management boards, dry-erase walls, maps, and more, all handmade in the USA. If you can't find exactly what you need, you can design a completely custom board online with your logo, your templates, and your own layout. Magnatag doesn't just make whiteboards. They build visual systems for how teams actually work. Find your perfect board at magnatag.com/playdate. Connect with Erin Diehl x improve it! Leadership Playground online membership community Erin's website Erin's Instagram Erin's TikTok Erin's LinkedIn improve it!'s website improve it!'s Instagram Connect with Erin Diehl