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Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Willie Jolley. SUMMARY OF THE INTERVIEW In this energetic and motivational conversation, Hall of Fame speaker Dr. Willie Jolley joins Rushion McDonald on Money Making Conversations Masterclass to discuss his new book, “Rich Is Good, Wealthy Is Better.” The interview covers the difference between being rich and being wealthy, the mindsets required for long-term financial growth, and how individuals—no matter their background—can build generational wealth. Jolley also emphasizes discipline, humility, planning, multiple streams of income, overcoming setbacks, and the importance of insurance and protection of assets. PURPOSE OF THE INTERVIEW The interview aims to: 1. Introduce and promote Dr. Jolley’s new book “Rich Is Good, Wealthy Is Better” and the teachings within it. 2. Educate listeners on the distinction between rich and wealthy Jolley wants audiences to understand wealth in generational, not short-term, terms. 3. Motivate individuals to shift their financial mindset From “working money” to “mailbox money.” 4. Empower entrepreneurs and families To adopt discipline, drop pride, and create multigenerational financial systems. 5. Share Jolley’s personal setback‑to‑success story To reinforce that anyone can grow wealth with the right principles. KEY TAKEAWAYS 1. Rich vs. Wealthy Being rich = high income, often tied to active labor (e.g., athlete contracts). Being wealthy = passive income, ownership, generational sustainability. A rich football player earns millions; the team owner earns billions and doesn’t have to “run up and down the field.” 2. The Five Money Mindsets Jolley explains five financial mindsets: One‑day mindset – living day to day. 30‑day mindset – fixed incomes/check-to-check living. One‑year mindset – annual thinking (raises, annual income). Decade mindset – typical for entertainers/athletes with multi‑year contracts. Generational mindset (Wealth Mindset) – building wealth to last multiple generations. Jolley’s goal: move people up just one level at a time. 3. Five Types of Wealth Jolley breaks wealth into five categories: Financial Wealth Health Wealth (“A sick person has one dream; a healthy person has a thousand.” – Les Brown) Relationship Wealth Reputational Wealth (Brand) Intellectual Capital Wealth (What you know and can charge for) 4. Discipline Is the Key Wealth requires: Living below your means Investing the difference Consistency Avoiding arrogance and ignorance 5. Pride Is an Enemy of Wealth Pride leads people to overspend to keep up appearances.Jolley argues that pride “kills wealth” and must be replaced with planning and humility. 6. The Three Legs of Wealth To build sustainable wealth, you need: Income Investment (letting money work for you) Insurance (life, health, car, disability, long-term care) 7. Multiple Streams of Income Jolley urges everyone to build at least two streams of income from: Stocks Bonds Real estate Crypto Collectibles Jewelry Art Content creation 8. Overcoming Setbacks Jolley details his own journey from unemployed nightclub singer to globally recognized motivational speaker.He reinforces that a setback is a setup for a comeback—the core message of his earlier bestselling book. 9. It’s Never Too Late to Start He cites examples of: A secretary who retired with $8M by investing small amounts over time Invested $12,000 at age 65 and grew it to $890,000 by age 72 NOTABLE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW On Time & Opportunity “I have only just a minute… but it’s up to me to use it.” On Mindset “Wealth starts in your mind.” On Rich vs. Wealthy “Regular folks work for their money. Wealthy people make their money work for them.” On Pride “My pride was killing my wealth.” On Growth & Learning “If you’re willing to learn, no one can stop you.” [On Setbacks “A setback is a setup for your greater comeback.” On Starting Late “When is the best time to plant a tree? Eighty years ago. The second-best time? Today.” #SHMS #STRAW #BESTSteve Harvey Morning Show Online: http://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if starting over isn't a sign that you failed—but proof that you're brave enough to fight for the life you truly want?In this powerful motivational and inspirational episode, Reginald D delivers an uplifting motivational speech about one of life's most difficult yet transformative experiences: starting over.Whether you're rebuilding after a failed relationship, career setback, financial hardship, business failure, personal loss, disappointment, or a season of uncertainty, this episode reminds you that starting over is not the end of your story—it may be the beginning of something greater.Through powerful motivational and inspirational wisdom, Reginald D explains why failure is often part of the process, how courage is built through adversity, and why your past mistakes do not determine your future success.In this motivational and inspirational conversation, you'll discover:Why starting over is a sign of strength, not weaknessHow failure becomes a valuable teacherThe importance of self-improvement and personal growthWhy courage is required for new beginningsHow to rebuild confidence after setbacksThe power of daily habits and consistent actionWhy forgiveness is essential for moving forwardHow faith and motivation help you overcome fearThe importance of surrounding yourself with positive, purpose-driven peopleWhy your future can be greater than your pastReginald D challenges you to stop overthinking, stop living in failure, and start taking action toward the life they desire. He reminds you that every sunrise represents a new opportunity to rise again, grow again, and pursue the dreams that still live inside them.Packed with motivational speech moments, inspirational stories, self-improvement strategies, personal development lessons, faith and motivation principles, and educational insights, this episode is designed to inspire listeners to embrace change, reset their mindset, and move forward with confidence.If you're looking for motivation, inspiration, personal growth, self-improvement, faith and motivation, and encouragement to begin again, this episode is for you.This motivational and inspirational episode speaks directly to anyone who feels trapped by past mistakes, disappointments, setbacks, or fear of the unknown. Starting over doesn't mean you're beginning from scratch. You're starting again with experience, wisdom, lessons, and strength that you didn't have before.Press play now to hear this powerful motivational speech and discover how starting over could become the greatest opportunity for growth, purpose, and success in your life.Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

Hello to you listening in Charlottesville, Virginia! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Here's the thing: I've hit The Dip. That place in most creative endeavors where you look around and wonder: Does anybody care? Does my work matter? What am I doing and for whom? Believe it or not, The Dip is a precious time. Now you get to dig deep and consider what's it for, who's it for, where is it needed? Not everyone wants or needs what you have to offer; but someone does! Lots of someones. Some years ago I was working as a shepherd at a fiber farm on the outskirts of Charlottesville, Virginia. Our neighbor raised organic goats for meat. Joe sold the meat to customers from the D.C Beltway area who knew a good thing and were happy to pay for it. But Joe wanted more. He was ready to venture out and teach people about the value of eating what he raised: organic food, sustainable, humanely harvested, no junk, and lots of pasture to graze. But where to go? He fixes up an old school bus as a traveling kitchen and visits each and every state and local fair in Virginia. Why? People go to fairs to eat food! But not his food. Fairs offer a lot of cheap fried food: onion blossoms, corn dogs, curly cut fries. Joe is offering 3 items: organic goat kabobs, organic goat curry and an organic goat skillet burger with all the fixins. While his prices are in keeping with what he's trying to sell, they are several times more than the competition at the fair. The food is foreign. No one will eat it except on a dare. Now what? Instead of lowering his prices or changing venues Joe decides to dig in and work on changing attitudes and appetites. At each fairgrounds he stands outside the mobile kitchen and shares his story: why goats, where they are pastured, who takes care of them, how they live, what makes this meat special, and why it's worth it. He prints up a flyer with his story and hands that out, too. Person by person the story draws them in, the goat meat dinners keep them there. It took time but he believed in what he was doing and for whom he was doing it. If this is you here's a tip from Joe:  “Some will. Some won't. Who's next?” As I repeat Joe's words I'm working my way out of The Dip. “Come for the stories; stay for the magic!”   CTA: If you want the story that will change minds, attitudes, behaviors, let's work together.  You're always welcome: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together. AND!  Stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website during reconstruction, email me to arrange a no-obligation Discovery Call, and stay current with me as Quarter Moon Story Arts on Substack. Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts Music: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music ALL content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.  If you found this podcast episode helpful, please consider sharing and attributing it to Diane Wyzga of Stories From Women Who Walk podcast with a link back to the original source.

What if the dream you thought you lost was actually preparing you for a bigger purpose than you ever imagined?In this powerful inspirational episode, Reginald D sits down with former American Idol finalist, entrepreneur, speaker, Singer, philanthropist, and media executive Michelle Delamor for an inspiring conversation about purpose, faith, entrepreneurship, resilience, impact, and personal growth.Many people know Michelle from her journey on American Idol, but her story goes far beyond entertainment. After gaining national recognition through music, Michelle discovered a deeper calling—helping others transform their lives through inspiration, mentorship, education, entrepreneurship, and service.Michelle shares how she went from chasing a dream in the entertainment industry to building organizations that create lasting impact, including No Girl Left Behind, a movement that has empowered thousands of young women, and 60 Day Hustle, an innovative entrepreneurial reality series on Amazon Prime that helps aspiring business owners build successful companies while pursuing purpose.In this motivational and inspirational conversation, Michelle discusses:Her journey from American Idol to entrepreneurshipHow faith and purpose shaped her career decisionsWhy impact matters more than fameThe lessons she learned through failure, setbacks, and uncertaintyBuilding businesses that create meaningful changeThe power of mentorship and serving othersWhy purpose often requires patience and perseveranceHow entrepreneurship can become a vehicle for transformationOvercoming identity struggles and self-doubtWhy you may need to build the doors you're waiting for others to openMichelle also opens up about one of the most difficult seasons of her life when she questioned her direction, felt disconnected from her identity, and wondered if she had failed. Through faith, persistence, and a renewed vision, she discovered that sometimes God is building the foundation for something far greater than what we originally imagined.Michelle shares how the dreams she once believed defined her life evolved into something even bigger. Her journey demonstrates that success is not always about reaching the destination you originally planned—it is often about discovering the purpose hidden within the process.Press play now to hear this powerful motivational and inspirational conversation and discover how faith, purpose, entrepreneurship, and perseverance can help you build a life that creates lasting impact.Contact Information:Michelle's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MichelledelamorWebsite: https://www.sonicgods.mediaShow: 60 Day Hustle on Amazon Prime - https://www.amazon.com/60-Day-Hustle/dp/B0D3733YKDNo Girl Left Behind:Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/officialnglb/mentionsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nogirlleftbehindSend us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

What happens when a decorated combat veteran survives war, an 18-hour brain surgery, and a successful corporate career—yet still finds himself battling invisible wounds nobody can see?In this powerful inspirational episode, Reginald D sits down with decorated Army veteran, West Point graduate, finance executive, mental health advocate, and author Omar Ritter for a deeply honest conversation about leadership, PTSD, mental health, resilience, purpose, and personal growth.Omar shares his incredible journey from growing up as a military child and attending five different high schools to earning acceptance into the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point and leading soldiers during the initial invasion of Iraq. He opens up about combat leadership, split-second life-and-death decisions, and the realities of serving under extreme pressure.Omar also shares insights from his powerful book, West Point to Wall Street: My Journey to Mental Wellness and explains why mental health conversations are more important now than ever before.The conversation takes a powerful turn as Omar discusses surviving an 18-hour brain surgery, learning how to walk again, transitioning into high-level corporate leadership roles at major financial institutions, and silently battling PTSD, anxiety, and mental health challenges for years while appearing successful on the outside.In this motivational and inspirational conversation, you'll discover:Leadership lessons from combat and corporate AmericaThe truth about PTSD and mental health strugglesHow trauma can hide behind achievement and successWhy asking for help is a sign of strengthThe importance of resilience and self-awarenessHow to overcome adversity and rebuild your lifeLessons learned from military service and leadershipThe power of vulnerability and authentic growthWhy mental wellness matters for everyoneHow purpose can emerge from life's hardest challengesPress play now to hear this powerful motivational and inspirational conversation and discover how resilience, leadership, mental wellness, and purpose can help you overcome life's greatest challenges.Omar's Contact Info:Website: https://www.omarritter.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omar-ritter-cpa-sphr Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omar.ritter.9Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

What if the only thing standing between you and the life you want is your willingness to fully stand on your dreams and refuse to quit?In this episode, Reginald D delivers a life-changing motivational speech about standing firm on your dreams, believing in your vision, and refusing to let fear, doubt, mistakes, or other people's opinions determine your future.Too many people spend years second-guessing themselves, settling for less than they're capable of, and allowing life's challenges to pull them away from their purpose. In this motivational and inspirational message, Reginald D challenges listeners to stop wavering, stop shrinking, and start building the life they were created to live.This powerful motivational speech explores:Why standing on your dreams creates confidence and directionHow self-belief impacts every decision you makeWhy mistakes do not disqualify you from successThe difference between being led by your dreams or pushed by your problemsHow faith and motivation help you stay committed during difficult seasonsWhy purpose requires action and commitmentThe importance of building a strong foundation for your futureHow discipline creates momentum and resultsWhy vision must be stronger than fearHow to stop living for short-term comfort and start pursuing long-term purposeReginald D reminds listeners that dreams are not distant fantasies—they are possibilities waiting for action, commitment, faith, and persistence. He encourages listeners to trust their vision, stay grounded in their purpose, and keep moving forward no matter what obstacles appear along the journey.If you've been feeling discouraged, stuck, uncertain, or tempted to give up on your goals, this motivational and inspirational episode will remind you why your dreams are worth fighting for.Many people today have dreams, goals, and visions for their future—but they struggle with fear, self-doubt, procrastination, setbacks, criticism, and disappointment.Reginald D explains why success belongs to those who remain committed even when life becomes difficult. Standing on your dreams means refusing to allow circumstances, mistakes, or temporary setbacks to determine your future.Press play now to hear this powerful motivational speech and discover how standing firmly on your dreams can transform your mindset, strengthen your faith, and move you closer to the future you deserve.Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

Hello to you listening in Kyle, Canada!  Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday & your host, Diane Wyzga. A few years ago Paul King, writing from somewhere in America, wished for a Solidarity Saturday, and I created a podcast episode. Reading it anew my pulse went all fizzy with a plan to re-establish this simple collective action. I'd like to see every Saturday be "Solidarity Saturday." Each Saturday, at 10am in every time zone on earth, we all do a very simple act: Step outside our homes into the open and stand in silence for 10 minutes. Just show ourselves. Stand with neighbors. Come out and be seen together, our presence a protest. All over earth on every Saturday as each time zone hits 10am. Billions of us just stepping outside, showing ourselves, showing evil that we oppose it! Just walk out the door into the open. Not hard. CTA: Right Here. Right Now. Spread the good word like grape jelly on a toddler! Invite your friends and rellies all over the world to step outside and stand together at 10am in your time zone 10 minutes on each Solidarity Saturday. Let me know, from where will you be joining us?  You're always welcome: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together. AND!  Stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website during reconstruction, email me [info@quartermoonstoryarts.net] to arrange a no-obligation Discovery Call, and stay current with me as Quarter Moon Story Arts on Substack. Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts Music: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music ALL content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.  If you found this podcast episode helpful, please consider sharing and attributing it to Diane Wyzga of Stories From Women Who Walk podcast with a link back to the original source.

Welcome to the Celestial Insights Podcast, the show that brings the stars down to Earth! Each week, astrologer, coach, and intuitive Celeste Brooks of Astrology by Celeste will be your guide. Her website is astrologybyceleste.com.  

What if the reason so many businesses fail isn't a lack of strategy—but a lack of purpose when life gets hard?In this inspirational episode, Reginald D sits down with, entrepreneur, author, and business leader Fran Tabor. Fran shares her remarkable journey of building a million-dollar business with just $2,000 and sustaining it for nearly five decades through faith, resilience, leadership, and purpose.Fran started her janitorial supply business in 1978 with little more than determination, vision, and a willingness to take risks. Over the years, she survived divorce, recession, cancer, employee theft, economic downturns, and countless entrepreneurial challenges while continuing to grow a thriving business that ultimately became a lasting legacy.This motivational and inspirational conversation explores:How to build a business with purpose instead of chasing moneyWhy faith matters during difficult seasons of entrepreneurshipThe power of resilience, leadership, and perseveranceHow to overcome setbacks, betrayal, and adversityBuilding systems that allow a business to thrive without youThe importance of training and empowering employeesWhy service creates sustainable successThe dangers of pride and the lessons learned from failureHow purpose-driven businesses outlast challengesCreating a legacy that impacts future generationsFran also shares the incredible story of taking an entire year away from her business to care for her dying mother while the company continued operating successfully because of the systems and leadership she had built over decades.If you're interested in self-improvement, motivational speech content, inspirational stories, faith and motivation, entrepreneurship, leadership development, and personal growth, this episode provides practical wisdom that can transform the way you approach both business and life.Press play now to hear this powerful motivational and inspirational conversation and discover how purpose, faith, resilience, and service can help you build success that lasts for generations.Fran's Contact Information:Website:  https://www.frantabor.comFran's Book: Live Abundantly! 50 Business Lessons from the Bible on Book2read - Link: https://books2read.com/u/bPg2PJSend us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

On paper, Goff's 2025 season looked elite— he threw for 4,564 yards and 34 touchdowns. But as we all know, stats don't tell the whole story. The Lions finished 9-8 and missed the playoffs, and we need to talk about why. We're breaking down what actually went wrong on the field. Was it the offensive coordinator? Was it the offensive line? Was it Goff himself?We're also diving into the backup quarterback situation. I'm breaking down why the front office needs to bring in a legitimate QB2 to put some pressure on Goff and keep that competitive fire burning.Lastly, we have a five-year hindsight review of the Matthew Stafford trade. How does that blockbuster deal look for Detroit right now?Drop your thoughts in the comments—do you think the front office needs to bring in a backup QB to push Goff?#DetroitLions #JaredGoff #MatthewStafford #BuffedUpSports #NFL #OnePride

In this episode, Meg and Heather discuss burnout for women, especially the mental load in this space of life. Meg reference a book on burnout written by twins as well as a TED talk they did on recognizing burnout and what to do about it. They also discuss some natural tools you could use - Adaptiv and Motivate. Meg also stresses the value of community - she hosts an online community called "Balance in the Messy Middle" which is perfect for walking through this stage of life with others and some wonderful coaching as well. doTERRA Adaptiv supplements for when you are overwhelmed. To see the whole Adaptiv product line, or purchase, click here: ⁠https://link.doterra.com/9TGPDQdoTERRA Motivate oils for when you need to get moving. To see the whole Motivate product line, or purchase, click here: https://link.doterra.com/xyuTwGTED talk - https://youtu.be/PrJAX-iQ-O4?si=wWynQOGrEXqr0YVMBurnout, the Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle https://amzn.to/423wuioFor more about the podcast: ⁠⁠⁠www.perimenopausalconversations.com⁠⁠⁠To join a community of like minded women who meet bimonthly to question and get challenged, check out ⁠⁠https://balanceredeemed.myflodesk.com/bimm⁠⁠To learn more about Heather Skold, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Juggling SimplicityTo learn more about Meg Fittsgill, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.balanceredeemed.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Have you ever looked in the mirror and felt disconnected from the person staring back at you? What if you haven't lost yourself at all—what if you've simply lost connection with who God created you to be?In this powerful motivational and inspirational episode, Reginald D answers a deeply personal listener question: "How do I find myself again after losing who I am?"If you've ever felt lost after heartbreak, divorce, trauma, grief, disappointment, burnout, caregiving, people-pleasing, or years of putting everyone else first, this episode was created for you.Through a powerful motivational speech, Reginald D shares practical wisdom, faith-based encouragement, self-improvement strategies, and inspirational truths designed to help listeners reconnect with their identity, rediscover their purpose, and rebuild confidence after difficult seasons of life.In this motivational conversation, you'll discover:Why feeling lost is often a loss of connection, not a loss of purposeHow survival mode causes people to disconnect from themselvesWhy God still knows the plans for your life even when you're confusedHow comparison steals confidence and purposeWhy your mistakes do not define your identityThe danger of people-pleasing and living for others' expectationsHow to embrace healing, growth, and self-discoveryWhy God is "recalculating" your life, not canceling your futureHow to reconnect with your gifts, calling, and purposeThe mindset shifts needed to move from survival to transformationReginald D also shares personal experiences about overcoming limiting beliefs, rejecting labels placed on him by others, and learning that purpose is not destroyed by setbacks, wrong turns, or difficult seasons.Packed with motivational speech moments, inspirational stories, self-improvement principles, faith and motivation, personal growth strategies, and life-changing perspective shifts, this episode will encourage anyone who feels disconnected, discouraged, or uncertain about who they are becoming.Press play now to hear this powerful motivational speech and discover how to reconnect with your purpose, restore your confidence, and find yourself again after life's most difficult seasons.Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

When your homeschool child won't do work, it's rarely just about laziness—it often signals a deeper need for curiosity, connection, and meaningful engagement. If you're a homeschool mom, you've probably said or thought something like: “My kids don't really care about their lessons. They just want to get through it so they can get on their screens.”“I think my daughter only enjoys going to coop because of her friends, not any actual learning.”“He races through his work without engaging—he's just checking boxes.”“There's outright resistance now. I don't know if it's the work or if it's me or if he’s just rebellious.” These situations are very common, not unusual. And the question behind them is universal: how do you help your child become an independent learner who is genuinely curious and engaged—not someone who treats learning like a chore to avoid? If this resonates with you, a great first step is my free Deschool Your Homeschool Checklist, which helps you step back from school-y thinking, reconnect with how your child naturally learns, and create space for curiosity, calm, and connection. Grab your free Deschool Checklist and Help Your Kids Love Learning 5 Reasons Why Your Homeschool Child Won't Do Work Reason 1: When Your Homeschool Child Won’t Do Work — Learning Feels Like a Chore Many children resist because they've learned to associate “learning” with compliance or tedium. They may rush through assignments just to get them done or outright refuse work that doesn't interest them. To be fair, we adults do that too. When someone says, “Hey, you know what would make tax season easier and more satisfying? Take a course on filing your taxes.” Interesting, you think, and clever, that’s exactly what I should do! (No, you don’t think that. You think, naw, thanks, I’ll do what I have to do until next tax season.) Can I hear an amen? ps don’t respond if you actually enjoy doing taxes, ha–it won’t serve my point;) Well, ditto for your kids. Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck explains that a fixed mindset develops when children feel their worth is tied to “doing it right.” In these cases, resistance is not a character flaw—it's a protective response. What you can do: Follow your child's curiosity whenever possible. Show them that learning happens everywhere: in the kitchen, in nature, in everyday problem-solving. Reason 2: When Your Homeschool Child Won't Do Work—Check Your Own Motivation First Kids are highly sensitive to the adults around them. If you're scattered, anxious, or uninspired, they pick up on it. Angela Duckworth, author of Grit, notes that parents who raise resilient, motivated children model passion and perseverance in their own lives. And isn’t that what we all want? This homeschool lifestyle isn’t just equipping our kids to do live a purposeful life, it’s offering us that opportunity too! (And I encourage you to take it!) What you can do: Reconnect with your own curiosity and goals. Are you motivated? What gets you up in the morning? Model learning and persistence in ways your child can observe. Show them you're engaged by joining a book club, starting your own business, or simply signing up for a class at the local community college. Show them that you're learning math concept right alongside them (or whatever other topic you find challenging, I chose math because I had to learn it before I taught it

What's the best way to foster motivation for learning in children? In this clip, Robert Schramm explains how parents and professionals can build trust with children, creating a foundation where they feel safe, supported, and ready to learn. Robert Schramm is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, former special-education instructor, and published author. His book The 7 Steps to Earning Instructional Control —based on the principles of behavior – outlines how to foster motivated learners in the home, school, and clinic settings.  Welcome to Autism Tips & Tools, where we highlight the best practical guidance from previous episodes of Autism Knows No Borders. Whether you're a self-advocate, a family member, or a service provider, there's something here for you! This conversation with Robert Schramm was originally released on November 19, 2020. Would you like to learn the other 4 steps to earning instructional control? Click the link below for the full conversation and be sure to subscribe to hear more from people connected to autism inspiring change and building community.  The 7 Steps to Successful Parenting and ABA in Germany, with Robert and Nadine Schramm Let's work together to transform how the world relates to autism. ----more---- We appreciate your time. If you enjoy this podcast and you'd like to support our mission, please take just a few seconds to share it with one person who you think will find value in it too. Follow us on Instagram: @autismpodcast Join our community on Mighty Networks: Global Autism Community Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Global Autism Project We would love to hear your feedback about the show. Please fill out this short survey to let us know your thoughts: Listener Survey

Send us Fan MailFREE Made4More Scorecard Or DM the word "FREE" on Instagram Follow us on TikTokThis is the start of something different. In 194 episodes Mario has never done a series like this — and by the end of it, you won't look at life the same way. Today Mario lays the foundation for the Made4More series, challenges the myth of balance, and hands you the blueprint you've been waiting for. ACTION STEPSYou can't renovate an entire house at once. But you can start with one room.Take the Made4More Scorecard and sit with your resultsWhich rooms surprised you? Which ones didn't?Come back next week — we're stepping into the first 2 rooms together

Hello to you listening in Karachi, Pakistan! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe like me you've failed more times than you can count. Is it possible to use our failures to encourage a new opportunity, a do-over even? Yes. How do I know? I've learned from the best! Wile E. Coyote is the quintessentially resilient cartoon character who pursues Road Runner with disastrous gadgets purchased from a fictional mail-order company called ACME. Giant magnets, rocket-powered roller skates, earthquake pills, invisible paint, and movable tunnel entrances always backfire. Coyote never ever catches the Road Runner, but does that stop him? No! Do we want Coyote to catch Road Runner? No! We want to see what Coyote will do next. Failure stops creativity when we or someone else says "Give up!" But! When we refuse to give up failure encourages creativity because that's the job of failure. Never underestimate the power of your persistent efforts to begin anew. Life expects do-overs! You're always welcome: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together. AND!  Stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website during reconstruction, email me [info@quartermoonstoryarts.net] to arrange a no-obligation Discovery Call, and stay current with me as Quarter Moon Story Arts on Substack. Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts Music: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music ALL content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.  If you found this podcast episode helpful, please consider sharing and attributing it to Diane Wyzga of Stories From Women Who Walk podcast with a link back to the original source.

After division rival Los Angeles takes a huge swing by acquiring Myles Garrett, is there an impetus on 49ers to improve roster? The audience and Larry Krueger weigh in on the news of the day as the Rams are the Super Bowl favorite after the move.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can someone battling addiction, shame, grief, or mental health struggles still experience God's grace, healing, and redemption?In this powerful inspirational episode, Reginald D sits down with bestselling author Tonya (T.I.) Lowe for an honest conversation about addiction, mental health, grief, faith, redemption, healing, and hope. Drawing from personal family experiences and the inspiration behind her new novel South of Somewhere, T.I. shares powerful insights about addiction, recovery, shame, grace, and the importance of creating safe spaces for healing.T.I. discusses how addiction has impacted her own family, the misconceptions people have about addiction, and why so many faith communities struggle to openly address topics like mental illness, substance abuse, and emotional pain. She also shares why storytelling can become a pathway toward healing and how faith and motivation help people move forward even during life's darkest seasons.This deeply motivational and inspirational conversation explores:Addiction, recovery, and redemptionMental health and faithHealing from grief and lossBreaking the stigma around addictionThe power of grace and forgivenessHow storytelling creates healingFaith and motivation during difficult seasonsWhy churches need safe spaces for transparencyEmotional healing and personal growthFinding hope when life feels hopelessT.I. also shares moving personal stories about losing loved ones to addiction, learning to love people through their struggles, and discovering that healing is often a process rather than a destination.Millions of people today are struggling with addiction, mental health challenges, grief, shame, anxiety, depression, family trauma, or watching someone they love battle these issues. And many people silently carry pain because they feel judged, misunderstood, or afraid to ask for help. This episode speaks directly to those struggles.Press play now to hear this powerful motivational and inspirational conversation and discover how faith, grace, and hope can help transform even life's most difficult struggles into opportunities for healing and redemption.Tonya's Contact Information:Purchase Tonya's new book:  "South of Somewhere" via her website or anywhere books are sold.Website: https://www.tilowe.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tilowe Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/T.I.LoweGoodreads: T.I. LoweSend us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

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In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Jenny Demark, Conrad Leung, and Dr. Linda Reinstein to talk about their new book, Complex Kids, Simple Solutions: How to Raise Resilient, Confident, Likable Kids. These are clinicians who've spent years working directly with families dealing with everything from emotion regulation challenges, to childhood anxiety, to severe behavioral challenges, and what I liked about this conversation is that it stayed extremely practical throughout. We spent a lot of time talking about their "Prepare, Teach, Motivate" framework, and how parents and professionals can think more systematically about helping kids build resilience and coping skills rather than just reacting to challenging behavior in the moment. Along the way, we discussed: Why some children require more intentional and consistent parenting approaches than others. How to build stronger relationships with kids who engage in challenging behavior. The importance of following a child's interests to create meaningful connection. Screen time struggles and how to reduce device dependence without escalating conflict. Emotion regulation strategies for children with frequent outbursts. Why many young children struggle to generalize skills learned in traditional talk therapy. The role of parental accommodation in maintaining anxiety and avoidance. Practical approaches to school refusal and helping kids gradually face difficult situations. Why parent coaching is often more effective than focusing exclusively on the child in therapy. The importance of self-care for parents and practitioners alike. I think this episode will be especially valuable for behavior analysts, school professionals, clinicians, and of course parents trying to support kids with more complex behavioral and emotional needs. Related links and resources: Complex Kids, Simple Solutions: How to Raise Resilient, Confident, Likable Kids. Child Solutions. Session 266: What is Primary Care Behavioral Pediatrics? Session 300: Chronic Absenteeism and School Refusal. Session 84: The Front Lines of Parenting. Session 10: Pat Friman on BoysTown, Parenting, and More! Session 36: Practical Parent Training Approaches. Childhood Empowered (a must-follow parenting IG account!). Sponsoring this episode: CEUs from Behavioral Observations. Learn from your favorite podcast guests while you're commuting, walking the dog, or whatever else you do while listening to podcasts. New events are being added all the time, so check them out here.  The BOP Patreon. Do you want to get the show ad-free and before everyone else? Click here to learn how! The Behavioral Toolbox International. Check out our courses for school-based and other behavioral professionals, including our newest one, Motivational Interviewing: Getting Educator Buy-In.

What if the dream you keep thinking about isn't random… but connected to the purpose you were created for?In this deeply powerful motivational and inspirational episode, Reginald D explores one of life's biggest question: Why do we dream?Why do some dreams refuse to leave us alone? Why do people feel pulled toward something bigger even when their current reality says it's impossible? And what happens when people stop dreaming altogether?Through this emotional and thought-provoking motivational speech, Reginald D dives into the connection between dreams, purpose, imagination, self-improvement, faith and motivation, healing, and personal growth. He challenges you to stop abandoning your future because of fear, disappointment, rejection, anxiety, setbacks, or toxic environments.This powerful motivational and inspirational conversation covers:Why dreams are connected to purposeHow fear and disappointment kill visionThe relationship between imagination and self-improvementWhy successful people keep believing during difficult seasonsHow environments shape mindset and confidenceThe importance of protecting your peace and visionWhy movement creates confidenceThe truth about growth, patience, and purposeWhy many people survive life instead of truly livingHow to stop shrinking your future because of fearIf you've been feeling stuck, discouraged, mentally exhausted, spiritually disconnected, or afraid to pursue your dreams, this motivational and inspirational episode will remind you that your future is still waiting on you.Many people today are stuck in survival mode. Bills, stress, trauma, fear, anxiety, disappointment, toxic environments, and emotional exhaustion have caused countless people to stop dreaming altogether.Some people are functioning every day — but internally they feel disconnected from purpose, joy, hope, and vision.This episode speaks directly to that struggle.Press play now to hear this powerful motivational speech and rediscover why your dreams still matter, why your purpose still exists, and why your future is worth fighting for.Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

Send us Fan MailRead Adam's book Motivate on the most up-to-date science of motivation. Bit.ly/motivate-bookThe most frustrating part of self-improvement is the loop: you promise you will change, you push with willpower, you slip, then you blame your character. We take a different angle here: the strongest motivation research points to environment as the main driver of behavior, and “discipline” is often just what your setup makes easy. Once you see that, the shame drops and the strategy gets practical.We dig into the fundamental attribution error, why popular motivation narratives over-focus on grit, and how tiny design choices shape outcomes. We trade real examples: the cookie problem in your kitchen, smoking triggers that vanish when context changes, and the surprising Vietnam veterans heroin findings that show how access and stress can create addiction, and how a new environment can undo it. We also talk Rat Park, the opioid crisis as a disease of despair, and how enriched lives reduce the pull of destructive “buttons.”Then we zoom out to systems: crime as a social context issue, policy as environment design, and Advanced Peace as a proven gun violence prevention approach that can save lives and public money. We even get into feng shui as a reminder that space affects mood and attention, whether you explain it as energy or psychology. If you want to read more, work more, eat differently, or build a better life, the question becomes: what can you redesign so the right choice is the default?Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who is tired of “just try harder,” and leave a review if this reframes how you think about motivation. What part of your environment will you change first? Support the showHelp these new solutions spread by ...Subscribing wherever you listen to podcastsLeaving a 5-star review Sharing your favorite solution with your friends and network (this makes a BIG difference)Comments? Feedback? Questions? Solutions? Message us! We will do a mailbag episode.Email: solutionsfromthemultiverse@gmail.comAdam: @ajbraus - braus@hey.comScot: @scotmaupinadambraus.com (Link to Adam's projects and books)The Perfect Show (Scot's solo podcast)Thanks to Jonah Burns for the SFM music.

In this conversation, Matt Granados shares a deeply personal journey of faith, leadership, and transformation shaped by both success and suffering - especially through his daughter Natalie's rare medical condition. These experiences challenged his sense of control and performance, ultimately leading him to a deeper trust and reliance on God's sovereignty.Matt reframes the idea of success by contrasting high performance with optimal performance, encouraging leaders to move away from striving rooted in pressure and toward a sustainable pace grounded in calling. He emphasizes that true purpose isn't found in achievement alone, but in surrender - aligning one's life and work with God's will.Through stories of business, family, and faith, Matt highlights the importance of humility, community, and dependence on God. His message invites listeners to shift from performance-driven living to purpose-driven leadership, where fulfillment flows not from what we accomplish, but from who we trust and follow. About Matt:Matt Granados is a renowned expert in optimizing human potential. As the founder of Life Pulse Inc, his global interactions with individuals and companies have unveiled a fundamental truth: humans have internal problems and need to be equipped with an external solution to unleash their full capabilities. Life Pulse offers sustainable solutions that empower individuals and businesses to bridge performance gaps effectively.Simply put, Matt and his team at Life Pulse solves your people problems so you experience optimization without burnout. Clients of Life Pulse range from Google, Twitter, and the US Military to small business, associations, and individual coaching clients. From a young age, Matt ventured into entrepreneurship, achieving his first multi-million-dollar business at in his early 20's. Along the way, he recognized the importance of nurturing his team. Through ingenuity, he transformed a Craigslist-hired group into an immensely productive and motivated $40 million sales organization, blending structure and intention.Matt is a two-time #1 International Bestselling author (Motivate the Unmotivated & The Intentional Week), acclaimed for his insights into cultivating motivation and intentional growth in teams and individuals. His expertise extends to guiding groups towards holistic success across various spheres of business and life.Amidst his accomplishments, Matt values faith and family above all. He demonstrates that achieving goals doesn't require sacrificing either of those two. Matt's teachings empower audiences to attain the highest levels of achievement without regrets, making his events transformative and impactful.Ways to connect with Matt:Contact us: info@LifePulseInc.com     Website: www.LifePulseInc.com        Follow on Social: @LifePulseIncSupport the showTransforming the workplace one Bible study at a time - GET STARTED today!CONNECT WITH US:B-B-T.org | News | LinkedInBiblical Business Training (“BBT”) equips busy, working people to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ and empowers them in small-group Bible study settings to apply Biblical principles to their every day lives - especially in the workplace. BBT is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization which exists to help people develop their Christian “Faith for Work – Leadership for Life!”

Send us Fan MailLife isn't always going to go the way you planned. In this episode, Mario shares a keynote he delivered at a year-end volleyball banquet and challenges you to stop waiting for things to change — and start making them change.This Week's ChallengeMake a plan for what's not going your way — and make it go your way.Free ResourceTake the FREE Made4More Scorecard — evaluates 8 key areas of your life and includes a free 30-minute call with Mario. Click HERE Or DM FREE on Instagram and we'll send it to you.Connect With Us! 

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Hello to you listening in Da Nang, Vietnam!   Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. As a storyteller I know that conflict is the driving force of any story. No conflict - no story. A character can struggle externally with outside forces like a person or situation as well as internally against fears, doubts and flaws in her own mind. While conflict feels miserable resolving the conflict often dictates how the character grows when she figures a way out of the hole she's in.   Once, when I was feeling hopeless and couldn't see a way out my neighbor Fred showed me an illustration, a sketch of a man dressed in a business suit carrying a briefcase and trapped in a swirling blizzard of sheets of paper. You're here, he said, pointing to the man, feeling caught in a tempest, seeing no way out. Think of each sheet of paper as an option. Choose one. It doesn't matter which you choose. What matters is that you choose. Choosing will calm the chaos you feel and begin to reveal choices. And then what? I asked. Focus on that one choice. Make a decision. Feel the shift in your situation. You've done something. Gained a bit of control. Now, choose another. Focus. Gain control. Do it again and again until you see your way clear. It works. I promise.   I'm here to say that all these years later Fred is still right. Give it a go! Then you'll know. You're always welcome: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together. AND!  Stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website during reconstruction, email me [info@quartermoonstoryarts.net] to arrange a no-obligation Discovery Call, and stay current with me as Quarter Moon Story Arts on Substack. Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts Music: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music ALL content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.  If you found this podcast episode helpful, please consider sharing and attributing it to Diane Wyzga of Stories From Women Who Walk podcast with a link back to the original source.

What if the problem isn't your strategy, your people, or your tools, but the lens you're looking through? In this first conversation with Andrew Stotz, quality educator Balaji Reddie explains why so many organizations chase Deming's 14 Points and prizes but miss the philosophy underneath. He also gets into what changes once you start seeing your organization as one connected system. There are a few surprises along the way, like why his employees actually celebrated the day he got rid of performance appraisals. 0:00:01.9 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz and I'll be your host as we continue our journey into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today I'm here with featured guest Balaji Reddie, who is an educator and trainer in teaching of Dr. Deming and quality management generally. Now the topic for today is a deeper perspective of the teachings of Dr. Deming. Balaji, how are you?   0:00:29.6 Balaji Reddie: I am fine. It's wonderful to see you this morning. I have been looking forward to this for quite some time now.   0:00:37.0 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. In fact, we've been talking back and forth in the past and then we had a meeting recently to get going on this because you've got so much to share. And one of the things I just said is a deeper perspective on the teachings of Dr. Deming. Maybe you could just give a little background of yourself for those people that have never heard of your journey. Maybe tell us a little bit about your journey, the Deming journey, as well as what you're doing now.   0:01:02.2 Balaji Reddie: All right. So I am an electrical engineer by profession and my first job which I got was in a lamp, a bulb manufacturing company which made automotive lamps. And that's where I chose to be in the quality department because I was being shunted around in all the different departments and the owner of the company asked me, "Where would you like to be?" and I said, "Quality." I don't know, when I look back why I chose. I think it appealed to me as an engineer and also the fact that I wanted to be a manager. It combined engineering and something to do with managing people. I don't want to sound dramatic, but I don't think I chose quality, I think quality chose me. But what I did after that was conscious. I did a postgraduate diploma in quality management, the first structured course in the country, and then went on to a Master of Science in quality management here in India.   0:02:00.2 Balaji Reddie: So that's been my journey here as far as working. I worked a lot. I used to teach part-time, but I made this switch 20 years ago to be an educator primarily and decided to put all my focus into creating the next gen of managers. At the same time, during the bit of a free time that I have, I do consult, but that's not the core profession of mine. So, yes, I'm an educator and a trainer. You can say that. I teach quality management, anything to do with operations, supply chain, et cetera, but there's always been a Deming slant to it. Along with that, I've also liked to... Because I went into the works of Dr. Juran, I got a good chance to meet with him and be in touch with him. It was only the last six years of his life, but I think he had very little time to give me, but he gave me time. So I have a good perspective of both these gentlemen. And if you know quality, they're the pioneers.   0:03:01.5 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. And I'm curious, when you first started out with the degrees and the, as you mentioned, getting a diploma and then a master's, was Deming front and center in there or was that a secondary thing? What was it like in the beginning?   0:03:19.6 Balaji Reddie: Oh, my entire focus was actually Deming. I needed to be qualified in that. I wanted to qualify myself in quality, that's what I meant here, because there was no... I was looking for a structured course on the subject. You had these training programs, certificate courses, but this one caught my attention when they said we have a diploma in quality. And part of the course was we had to, there was a project like a dissertation, and we had to show how we implemented this in our companies where we were working. And for those who were not working, they were provided companies where you go and actually implement these. So it was a win-win. So the company gained and you gained. That's how it was. That's what I liked about that course. Same with the masters. It was a complete two-year course. This was a year-and-a-half or three semesters. That was more elaborate, the masters. So, yeah.   0:04:18.0 Andrew Stotz: And what is the state of Deming and the teachings of Dr. Deming in India? We know that many companies in India have implemented the teachings of Deming over the years. But of course, there's a lot of people that just know nothing. I'm just curious, what is the state right now as far as the teachings of Dr. Deming?   0:04:40.3 Balaji Reddie: Oh, I'd like to... Just a slight correction there. We have the highest number of Deming Prize winners, but that does not necessarily mean that they're implementing the teachings of Dr. Deming. In fact, many of them after having got the prize... I worked in a company, we were suppliers to one of them. And when they came to do a vendor assessment to our factory, obviously there's a lot of buzz. Everyone in the company, they called me the Deming man. They used to call me that. And so when these guys came down and they were talking and when they gave their business card which had the Deming Prize logo, so they said, "Oh, we have... You know, Balaji is here and he's our Deming man." So who's he and what is this? And so they came and met me and they said that, "We got the Deming Prize." I said, "Excellent." But I said, "Just because you got the Deming Prize, I mean, have you worked on the Deming philosophy?" "Isn't this the same?" And I said, "No." And I, of course, joked with them, and they said, "So how do we learn?" And I said, "Pay me." [laughter] Anyway, yeah, then we got talking and they realized that there was such a big gap in what they were doing. For instance, when I spoke to them about performance appraisals and having quotas and things like that, they were like, "What?"   0:06:04.9 Andrew Stotz: Interesting. And when we talk about the Deming Prize, when I asked you that, we're talking about the Deming Prize which is offered by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers through their Deming Prize Committee. This isn't something done through the Deming Institute.   0:06:12.3 Balaji Reddie: No.   0:06:19.7 Andrew Stotz: Yep. Okay. And do people study Deming there in India anymore or is it fading out or...   0:06:26.7 Balaji Reddie: Well, yeah, that's what I said, they do know. The good part is that because of the fact that the Deming Prize winners are there, at least they know about Dr. Deming. And then they're curious to know, "Oh, what did he teach?" Because again, they've been given that perspective that he taught, well, wrongly, PDCA, and he focused on the 14 points. And then when they read the 14 points and then they get... Because when you read it just without understanding, you can actually... It can put off certain people. You may get a little repulsed and say, "Oh, my God, what's he saying?" But then there are certain people who get intrigued and say, "Wait a minute. This is challenging. He's saying that we need not have quotas? Then how are you going to get work done?" And that's where the questioning begins. And there have been normally these trends where some companies where they called me over, I shall not name one of them, one of the students I was teaching in class and I was talking about the 14 points, and then she comes up to me and she says, "I've spoken about you to my father, and he's working in this company, and they're going for the Deming Prize. He wants to meet you." And then she brings him to the college the next morning and then we had a lovely discussion. And he said, "We've been discussing the 14 points." And I said, "You know what? You're putting the cart before the horse. You need to discuss profound knowledge first." So he said, "I'll put you in touch with my HR, the human resource." And then that lady got in touch with me, then we had a good chat and I explained to her and she understood very quickly. Incidentally, Andrew, that's something very amazing, when I speak about these things to the HR people, they take to it like a fish takes to water. They say, "You're right. What can we do about appraisals? Appraisals are wrong." But they also know they're shackled. They do not have the authority to break and come out of it. There have been some cases where they've been bold enough, but many of them... That's one of the things I've seen over these last 20 years that I've been teaching, that everybody principally agrees, but they also say that we're bound by it.   0:08:37.6 Andrew Stotz: That reminds me when I attended my first seminar when I was 24, and I was very intimidated by all the people in the room. I was just fresh out of university, working at Pepsi in Los Angeles. I flew into Washington, D.C., and so I sat right in the front row and I just decided I'm not gonna look at anybody behind me because they're all bigwig executives. But then when I heard Deming really show no mercy and really be tough to them, I was like, "Wow, wow, this is interesting." And he was getting to the... As a factory supervisor, which is what I was at Pepsi, I could just see he was getting to the heart of the matter. And so, yeah, a lot of things are very obvious to people in the factory, but then it's the leadership that is an issue. I'm curious when we think about... Let's imagine that someone listening to this has never heard of Dr. Deming and it's their first time, they stumbled upon this, they're hearing you speak. They're gonna ask the question, "Why does this matter? What benefit do I get from this?" How would you describe that to someone who knows nothing about Dr. Deming and his teachings?   0:09:59.3 Balaji Reddie: Oh, well, when you start getting aware of what this man had to say, let me tell you, when you start actually getting to it, you'll find that what you've been missing all this time in life. And then when you actually get to implement this, it'll be way, way better than where you are right now, sometimes totally in a very, very different direction. And you begin to realize that you had an illusion of knowledge, that you thought you were correct, and then suddenly a new perspective comes in. Just to make a point here, I don't want to be boastful about this, but I'm really proud to say this, that in all the companies that I worked, I removed performance appraisal. None of the companies I worked in had performance appraisal. And the day we removed it in one of the companies, there were actually celebrations.   [laughter]   0:10:56.7 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. Which for many people listening that don't know anything about the teachings of Dr. Deming may think, "That's crazy, because I thought that we run business through performance appraisals, KPIs, and the like." One of the ways I was thinking when you were just speaking was it's a little bit like Deming's... You're a fish, and Dr. Deming is a guy that's gonna come up and tell you, "Oh, by the way, you're surrounded by water." And you're like, "Wait, what do you mean? What's water?" And then all of a sudden he brings this awareness like, "What am I swimming in? I am swimming in something, and it's called water." And it's like everything that's going on, the concept of how we learn, the concept of variation, the concept of psychology, it's like all of these are foundational things that we've been swimming in, but we really haven't been paying attention to. And I think he woke me up to a lot of that. So what should we talk about today? What do you got on your mind?   0:11:55.7 Balaji Reddie: Well, I presume that the audience would be someone who's read about Deming, or if they have not read, I can go it either way.   0:12:05.9 Andrew Stotz: Yeah, I mean, I would say just let's go into what your learnings are and what you want to teach us today and share with us, and then people can follow along.   0:12:17.4 Balaji Reddie: All right. So let's begin with what he meant by Profound Knowledge, because that was something he put together only towards the end of his life. I'm reminded of a few things that led to me thinking about these things. One of the very first books that was written on him was by Mary Walton, The Deming Management Method. And with due respect, she was an excellent journalist, and so she followed him around. Everyone was intrigued to know who this man is because he had just gained popularity. If Japan Can... Why Can't We? And so she wrote this book, I think as early as '84, if I'm not mistaken. And she followed him around for almost three years before she actually published the book. So she attended four-day seminars, and she's trying to understand what this man was. So the biography bit of it was very nice. But if you go there in the preface and in one of the chapters, there's a very interesting conversation where she says, "I asked Deming that why don't you set up a body, an organization? Why are you doing this all alone?" And he didn't say a word to her, and he just mentioned to her, "I'm good." So I believe he was still looking for the answers to offer something to the world. He had it all in uncoordinated stuff here and there, but that came much later, I think in 1989, when he finally put it all together and called it Profound Knowledge. Because that was when a year, a month or so before he passed away, he set up the Deming Institute. I think he thought he was ready now to leave behind a legacy that others could build upon, right?   0:14:08.0 Balaji Reddie: And so that he called it... Again, I'm looking for the missing link here—. Apparently, when he wrote it, as he called it deep knowledge, but it was someone who gave him the word profound, and that's how the name stuck. So I'm still trying to find out who did that. I saw this in one of the letters to Henry Neave, where he was writing to all of his colleagues, he called them, and taking feedback from them. And in that, he said that, "I profess this is deep, this is wide." And somebody said, "It's profound." I forget. I really want to find out who it is. I asked Bill Scherkenbach, and he said, no, it wasn't him. Henry, of course, no. I asked Bill Latzko, and he said, "No way. I never said that." So I really don't know who said it, but he christened it "profound." And we all know now, it sounded very pompous to begin with when you hear profound, and then you say, "Wait a minute." When you start getting into it, you say, "He's right. There's no other word to describe this. It is profound." So what exactly is Profound Knowledge? Now, it's a different way of looking at things around you. And especially he designed this or created this for man-made systems, organizations that you and I work in, helping us to look at things differently, right? And that's why he said it's a different lens. And when you see things differently, you ask different questions, right? When you ask different questions, you get different answers. When you get different answers, you draw different conclusions. When you draw different conclusions, you take different decisions. And when you take different decisions, that's when you get different results. It's insanity to expect different results by asking the same questions every single time. All right.   0:15:53.8 Balaji Reddie: Now, what exactly is, again, what do you mean by this whole thing, the lens? He brought together four seemingly disconnected sciences, right? He never invented any single one of them, but he saw the interconnections. All right. And the four sciences, he felt that if you had good knowledge, working knowledge of these four sciences, you need not be an expert in them, just enough for you to understand what's going on around you. All right? And in no order of importance, he had his title for each of those sciences. One was he called it appreciation for a system, which I would like to say very simply is connectedness, right? Because when people say systems thinking, okay, then you have the systems thinking experts who jumped into the picture. And I think they were caught napping. To be quite honest, Andrew, I think the people from the world of management were suddenly caught napping, and the experts were completely caught napping because they realized they'd missed the bus. Here's this man who caught everything together and put it into place, right? And so when they were... When they said systems thinking, so the systems experts came in and started trying to find out, "Oh, but he missed out on this, and he's confusing this with that." That's where it is. Dr. Deming knew where to start. All right? He said, "Yes, of course, it's all about systems, appreciation for a system, the fact that nothing exists in isolation." So I would like to say connectedness. Everything's connected to everything. When you start having that systemic approach, you realize you're not dealing with events, you're dealing with eventualities, and that there are always a huge myriad of inputs that create the outputs that you see in front of your eyes, right? And there's so many other attributes that they're separated in time and space, et cetera. We can talk for this forever. But the short word here is connectedness. Second...   0:17:56.1 Andrew Stotz: And I would say that the systems experts retreated soon after because they're nowhere to be found when we look at it these days, because everything's divide and conquer.   0:18:07.6 Balaji Reddie: Yes. Yeah, because there were people like Russell Ackoff, Stafford Beer was mentioned many times, and then their books. Now, I went on to read their books and I found, yes, they were going deep, but Dr. Deming knew where to draw the line and said, "That's it. Please don't go beyond this," and it depends on where you are, what you want to study. So draw your line around that and say that's it. And I think that thinking came from the next science which I'm talking about, which is understanding of variation, right? Now, although we say understanding of variation and people talk about the control chart, I think that's just the manifestation. If you look at the philosophy behind it, what Walter Shewhart actually was trying to do was to draw a line between when to act on the process and when to leave it alone, right? He came out with... He demarcated, and that's where it turned into the control chart with data. But broadly, Deming started applying this everywhere, right? He said that there are some things which are in my control and some things out of my control, and so he drew a line. And same with systems thinking, that how big and how deep should I go? And that's why he said every system must have an aim. Without an aim... So the aim and the purpose decide where you're gonna stop. You can't just keep on saying, "Oh, yeah, finally, okay, the whole world is a system." Fine, great, I get that. But I'm trying to study this, okay? My company, my organization, this process, these people. So you draw the line and say, "This is my purpose, so let me restrict." Again, I repeat, he knew where to stop. People tend to go overboard. And so he always said, "Begin with the aim, begin with the purpose." The purpose is the reason the system exists, and the aim is the direction in which you're headed. So you keep going there, keep revisiting that to let yourself remind yourself that I need to stop right here. Okay, and that's it. When I come to it later, because he said... Coming to the third part of Profound Knowledge, where he said you must have a theory of knowledge.   0:20:13.4 Balaji Reddie: Now, when people hear the word theory they get very put off. At least in my country, the broad doctrine is that theory is the opposite of practice. And so they think that theory belongs to the books and theory belongs at home. And when you come into the company, we all believe in being practical, right? And as you go through what Dr. Deming had to say about theory, you realize theory is a guide to better practice. And all the great practitioners are actually theorists. It's just that they don't know it, and we need to remind them. I've had enough of experience on this in my own company. And I remember when I turned on the light bulb for one of the very, very senior people in my company, he went completely quiet. He did not say anything, but I loved the way he reacted or responded to this when he started doing things very differently after the interaction that we had once. So that's with theory of knowledge. And...   0:21:19.9 Andrew Stotz: And would you say that theory of knowledge, would you correct my description of it, which is that you need to have a method of... You need to understand how you acquire knowledge?   0:21:40.1 Balaji Reddie: Yeah.   0:21:40.2 Andrew Stotz: And you gotta figure out, because acquiring knowledge, for instance, as an individual, we can play around lots of different ideas and experiments and stuff like that, but acquiring knowledge within an organization is a much harder thing. And so first is the idea that there's a level of rigor that you need in an organization to make knowledge stick.   0:22:06.9 Balaji Reddie: I think it's more about awareness. When you become aware of how you're converting information into knowledge. When you... He makes you aware of that, right? Dr. Deming gets you aware, he makes aware, "Okay, okay, wait, what's happening here?" Now, that method and all turned out to be the Plan-Do-Study-Act, whatever you call it. But he helped you understand how you're doing this, right? And you become cognizant. You get your cognitive behavior, you get very aware of things happening around you, right? You start asking the question, "Why? Why is this happening?" And then you get to the bottom of it. "Oh, when I do this, I get this." And that's when it becomes powerful for you. And then you also, "When I do this, I do not get this." And the more the theory fails, the more powerful it gets for you, because you know where it fails. So that's the awareness thing. So connectedness, being aware of the fact that it's beyond just numbers. It's about where, the variation bit, the third bit is about awareness, like I said, about learning, and the fourth, of course, about people. And he said here that all of us are born with a learning system, right? Each one of us has a learning system, a system of learning, but every single one of us has a different system of learning. We learn differently, and we learn at different speeds, at different paces, right? And so understanding the learning process of a person and then putting that person on the right job, right? He said you have to stop that person from working, and that's where joy in work comes in. People enjoy their work. I think the bottom line there is empathy when you start understanding why people do what they do, whether it's your people in the company, the customers, your suppliers, the entire system. So he says the learning process of every person needs to be understood. You want to control the market, you need to understand what makes the customer tick. You want to keep the suppliers with you, you want to understand what makes the suppliers tick, right? And what makes them tick.   0:24:23.3 Balaji Reddie: So that's the fourth part, which I would put as the word empathy. Trying to empathize. So putting this all together, he said that's what he called as Profound. So if you look at it in a broad sense, connectedness and empathy are very philosophical, and the variation and theory are very scientific. So he wanted us to be scientific and philosophical simultaneously. It's not either-or, it's and. And that's difficult to do, right? You have the big divide. You have a set of people who say, "Oh, I believe only in data. Show me the data, show me the results." And then there's a whole other set of people who says, "You gotta feel. You gotta feel for the company. Motivate." Yeah, but neither is wrong, but neither is complete. And this is complete. So this is where I found that I think we could begin, that we need to look at all these four sciences together. And of course, then came the 14 points which he laid out for us. Now, these 14 points, now if you look at them, because I just discussed the four... Of course, I've not gone into depth of each of the sciences, but I think good enough to understand what we are trying to deal with here, then you'd see that the 14 points are actually 14 consequences of this way of thinking. That you don't try to do the 14 points. When you start thinking this way, you end up with the 14 points, right? And there are some things which need to be done, right, and we need to start somewhere with this. And one of the main things that he always said is that people need to be educated about this, that people need to learn about this. And so education and training is important even when it comes to profound knowledge. And he said someone has to take the lead, all right? Someone has to get things done. And so that was his point number 14, that create a critical mass of people in the company that understand, believe, and will work towards these 14 points, right? So I'm gonna begin right there.   0:26:43.1 Andrew Stotz: I was just thinking about his saying, "One need not be an expert in any one point, [chuckle] any one of these areas." With the System of Profound Knowledge, the more I've studied it recently, which I've been working on a project recently where I had to go back to the System of Profound Knowledge, you really see that he's trying to provide a coherent, holistic system.   0:27:16.1 Balaji Reddie: Yes. I call it as a theory of leadership and management.   0:27:23.6 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. And then you start to realize that if you can understand these four things, which isn't that... It doesn't have to be that complex, it can be pretty amazing. And I know one part of my business is investing, which I do on behalf of my clients. And one of the things that makes me stand out as unique is that I don't get distracted by the random variation in the markets. And so that doesn't mean that I'm gonna get it right all the time, but what it means is that my mind is much more clear when I understand. And as I tell people about variation, I say, if you think about just your birth, the beginning of your life is a random event. You had no influence over that, who you were born of. And therefore we at least know that randomness plays one role in your life. But when you start exploring the possibility that randomness is all around you just like water, it just wakes you up and you start to realize, "Aha, I've been reacting to things," and punishing and rewarding and all of that stuff that's happening in companies. And what I'm really doing is I'm just chasing my tail. Or as Dr. Deming would say, putting out a fire. A man could run... A manager could run... Could put out fires their whole career and never improve the system.   0:29:02.8 Balaji Reddie: Yeah. A lot of activity, no work.   0:29:04.5 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:29:06.2 Balaji Reddie: Okay. Incidentally, when you said about investing, one of my students who did something fascinating, I've yet to get to the bottom of it, I never sat down and asked him how he did it, but he used control charts for the stock market. And one day he explained to me, he was trying to rather, because I never... I'm not into all of that investing. That's done by my wife. I just sign the papers and she puts it in. So I... I mean, I might as well be shown the Constitution and say, "Okay, this is what it is," you know? But yeah, so he... I remember sharing with him and he said, "Can I use this for stock market?" I said, "Look, son, I don't know how this works, but I presume what you can do is this. If you had yesterday's Sensex numbers and you have today's, then you can draw a control chart for the differences, you know? And then you get an upper limit and a lower limit. And then if today's closing is so much, it can rise up to the upper control limit, that is the difference. You can add the difference to today's closing and say it can rise to so much, it can fall by so much, and likewise to the lower control limit." And then his eyes just lit up and he said, "I know what to do." And that was it. And I didn't meet him for a week. And a week later, I meet him and he says, "I want to show you something." And he opened his laptop and there were control charts all over the place and I just couldn't figure out, "So what was all this?" And then he said, "I've been following these. There are some blue chip companies and there are some..." I don't know, I don't understand these things much, but he said that, "I'm drawing a control chart for these and so I know that when it crosses the upper control limits, that's the max I can get for the share, so I sell."   0:30:55.7 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. I mean, the hard part... The stock market is purely random most of the time and it's a challenge. But one of the things... I gave a speech to my investors and I did control charts and I did it as a way of helping them understand the markets.   0:31:04.2 Balaji Reddie: Okay.   0:31:12.7 Andrew Stotz: To predict the markets is hard.   0:31:15.7 Balaji Reddie: It's hard.   0:31:16.4 Andrew Stotz: But the control chart allows us to kind of.. It allows us to understand that most of the variation is just normal ups and downs.   0:31:24.8 Balaji Reddie: Yes.   0:31:26.5 Andrew Stotz: And so don't freak out about it. That's the first thing that really helps me. So that area of variation I find very fascinating.   0:31:34.7 Balaji Reddie: Very fascinating. I used it for COVID data, by the way. And there was a lot of criticism about that, but I knew I was going in the right direction because I was plotting the charts for the percentage positive and not the number of cases that were being tested positive every day. And so if the percentage positive lay within limits, then we were safe. I mean, everyone wants a zero, I get that. But I'm just saying here, having said that we're collecting the data and we are turning out so much of positive every day, then it should lie within certain controllable or predictable limits. And when it crosses the limit is when we get a little worried. And that's what I used this for initially. I remember it was Lloyd Provost who stood by me, whereas the other practitioners were saying, "No, you cannot use control chart for COVID and for data and for epidemic and pandemic." Whereas Deming himself used it for an epidemic of cholera somewhere. I read it in his work and where he used the c-chart and he saw that areas where the points were outside limits and then they tested the water and well, well, whatever it was, it turned out to be that he found the special cause and blah, blah, blah. So that's what gave me the idea of using the control chart for COVID and it was quite fascinating.   0:32:56.5 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. Yeah, unfortunately there wasn't a lot of independent thinking during that time.   0:33:02.5 Balaji Reddie: Yeah. [laughter]   0:33:03.0 Andrew Stotz: Real serious groupthink at that time. So I had my experience in my PhD research and my job as an analyst all my life where... And I teach my students believe nothing, believe no one, demand evidence. And so I'm constantly digging and that's just the heart of being an analyst. But when I go back... I want to go back to when I was starting at Pepsi. The reason why my boss recommended me to go to the Deming seminar was simple because I knew how to work a computer. And that was 1989 when I went to work at Pepsi. And what I had, all of these loaders that were loading up trucks with Pepsi each night. We would load about 80, 90 trucks each night. And in the heat of the summer, we would work till 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, but generally we would finish at 11:00 or midnight. But they were just... I would go to the drivers in the morning and then the drivers would come back in the afternoon and complain that the product that they needed was not on the truck. And there was just... And I went to the loaders, they go, "I put it on the truck. I don't know what you're talking about." And so there was this battle between the night loaders and the truck drivers. And so what I just did originally was I just started... I did inspection. The first thing I did is I said, "Look, before you close the doors on the trucks at night, I just want to count myself to understand what's happening here." And then I started keeping a record of that and I put that in Excel, it was Lotus 1-2-3 at the time, and then I put up charts of each person's error rate each night. And so we had a long chart. And I never actually even told them what I was doing, I just put up on the wall. And then they started looking at it over time and talking about it and then asking me questions. And it wasn't for the purpose of blaming, it was the purpose of just understanding.   0:35:01.2 Andrew Stotz: But then what we really started to see was that some people were much more accurate than others. And then we started to ask the question, "Well, how are they doing it?" And then they explained how they kept records of what they were doing and all that. And so we started to see that we could improve this. And we started to improve those numbers quite dramatically until we got to the point where I told the loaders when they were done that they were to lock the trucks and seal them and the drivers were not allowed to open them. They had to take them as is. And when everybody realized we really have to build from the beginning that this is loaded right, then we started to have massive efficiency. In the number of... Let's say you have 50 or 100 truck drivers that come in at 5:00 in the morning. It could take you till 9:00 AM to get them out the door if they've got problems and they're checking their trucks and all that. But if you've got it set right and you've done it right, we were able to rush people through the door and the drivers would get out to the LA freeways much earlier and that makes a difference for the whole day. So that was my first experience with it all. And then my boss just said, "Well, seems like you know about statistical quality control." I said, "I have no idea. I have no idea what that is." But he said, "You should go to Washington, D.C. And study with Dr. Deming." And that's my little story.   0:36:20.4 Balaji Reddie: Oh, wow. Okay.   0:36:21.6 Andrew Stotz: So how would we... What's the best way to wrap this up and think about what somebody who doesn't really necessarily have experience with the System of Profound Knowledge, you've given them some good overview. What would you like them to take away from this?   0:36:39.2 Balaji Reddie: Well, if you have now come to know about what this is, I think you could go to the W. Edwards Deming Institute website and you could subscribe and start looking into the learning pathways, systems thinking, there are a lot of catalogs available there and they've done a great job of putting things together. So they could do that reading, of course, you need to start reading, but the danger in reading Dr. Deming's work is it could put you off sometimes. And I would recommend a good place to start reading and understanding the Deming philosophy would be Henry Neve's book, The Deming Dimension. It's a very good start, one of the best introductions. You could always build upon that. So along with having Out of the Crisis, The New Economics, and Essential Deming, which was put together by Joyce Orsini, these are the three essential Deming books which contain papers, his own works, and then use Deming Dimension as a guide, so to say. You could read the books together and you could read profound knowledge to begin with. And once you get a good idea about what there is, then the question comes is where do we start? And that's where I just ended by saying that we start at point number 14 about creating a critical mass and take on leadership, right? So somebody has to take the lead. So what we could do is, I think the next time we meet, we could begin with that, how do we start? So we'll talk about the principles of leadership that W. Edwards Deming spoke of and what did he expect the leaders to do once you've decided or you've started seeing things differently and you say, "No, I need to do something about this. I need to start somewhere." And so we'll start with the principles of leadership. That's the way I look at it.   0:38:44.5 Andrew Stotz: Fantastic. Well, I look forward to our next conversation, how we can start to think about how we take this information and make a better world and make a better company, feel better. And so from everybody at the Deming Institute, I want to thank you again for this discussion. And for listeners, remember to go to deming.org and jump into DemingNext to continue your journey.   0:39:09.7 Balaji Reddie: Yes.   0:39:11.1 Andrew Stotz: It's an exciting tool. And this is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming, and that is: "People are entitled to joy in work."

Living your best life. Family is everything. Manifest the amazing. You make today special. The best is yet to come. Does any of this crap motivate you and give you a bounce in your step? Does it help you power through your workday? Jeremy Bradley talks about motivational phrases and mantras that people, apparently, need to get through the day. Do trendy buzzwords and empty phrases really make a difference? 

What happens when a young man who once experienced hunger decides to dedicate his life to feeding thousands of families every single week?In this powerful motivational and inspirational episode, Reginald D sits down with entrepreneur, visionary leader, and social impact innovator Dion Dawson, founder of Dion's Chicago Dream and CEO of Cosmic Crate.Raised on Chicago's South Side by a single mother, Dion experienced homelessness, food insecurity, shelters, and hardship firsthand. Instead of allowing pain to break him, he turned his experiences into purpose — building a movement that now delivers fresh fruits and vegetables directly to thousands of families every week.Dion also shares powerful wisdom about purpose, resilience, legacy, mentorship, entrepreneurship, social impact, and what it means to choose your assignment every single day.This episode reminds you that where you start does not determine where you finish. Through consistency, service, vision, resilience, and self-belief, Dion transformed personal hardship into a movement impacting entire communities.This motivational and inspirational conversation helps listeners understand:Purpose often grows through struggleImpact matters more than imageLeadership requires consistencySuccess is built through choices and disciplineYour pain can become someone else's healingService creates lasting influencePress play now to hear this powerful motivational and inspirational conversation with Dion Dawson and discover how purpose, resilience, and service can completely transform your life and the lives of others.Dion's Contact Info:Website: https://www.diondawson.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/diondawsonYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChiefDreamerDionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chiefdreamerdion Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

From Profit21 and ERP consolidation to AI-powered knowledge capture, Renata Morgan shares how modern distributors are evolving beyond "the way we've always done it." What happens when one of the biggest names in HVAC manufacturing invests in independent distribution? A new entity emerges, swiftly followed by conversations around safeguarding the distributor's company culture, autonomy, and institutional knowledge. Jason connects with Renata Morgan, president of Rheem Northeast Distribution (RND), a collection of four manufacturer-owned distributors, to learn more about Rheem's foray into this side of the channel. They discusses innovating under an established brand umbrella, retaining critical process knowledge as experienced employees retire, and giving back to the professional community. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Applied AI for Distributors 2026 HARDI BLUE HAWK Epicor Prophet21 RECOMMENDED EPISODES Agentic AI and the Future of Distribution with Ian Heller of Distribution Strategy Group CONNECT WITH JASON LinkedIn CONNECT WITH RENATA Rheem Northeast Distribution LinkedIn *** Distribution Talk is produced by The Distribution Team, a consulting services firm dedicated to helping wholesale distribution clients remove barriers to profitability, generate wealth, and achieve personal goals.    This episode was edited by The Creative Impostor Studios  Special thanks to our sponsors for this episode: Motivate, the #1 Distributor AI Automation Platform. Mention Distribution Talk for 50% off of installation. INxSQL Distribution Software, integrated distribution ERP software designed for the wholesale and distribution industry. Connected Peers, connecting key employees in distribution's leading organizations.

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Although Paul refuses to command Philemon, he strengthens his appeal with seven personal reasons why his dear friend should receive Onesimus like a brother.

What if the reason you keep doubting yourself… is because you're trying to be perfect instead of embracing the fact that you were already chosen?In this deeply powerful motivational and inspirational episode,, Reginald D delivers an emotional motivational speech reminding listeners that perfection is not the requirement for purpose — willingness is.So many people are stuck waiting for the “perfect moment,” the “perfect plan,” or the “perfect version” of themselves before they pursue their dreams, start their business, walk in their calling, or believe in their value. But this episode challenges that mindset head-on.Through authentic storytelling, faith and motivation, self-improvement wisdom, and inspirational truth, Reginald D explains why your flaws, scars, insecurities, mistakes, and struggles do not disqualify you from greatness — they are part of the story that makes you unique and chosen.In this powerful motivational and inspirational message, you'll learn:Why perfection is destroying people's confidence and dreamsHow self-doubt keeps people stuck in fearWhy God chooses imperfect people with willing heartsHow to stop comparing yourself to othersThe importance of embracing your authentic selfWhy your struggles are proof that you were built to surviveHow purpose grows through progress, not perfectionWhy your unique story has powerReginald D also shares personal insight about overcoming insecurities surrounding his Southern accent and how embracing who he truly was opened doors to impact lives around the world through motivational speaking and inspirational storytelling.If you've ever felt unqualified, insecure, afraid of failure, or discouraged because you don't feel “good enough,” this motivational speech will remind you that you are not a mistake — you are chosen.Many people today struggle with self-doubt, fear of failure, comparison, insecurity, perfectionism, and the pressure to appear flawless before pursuing their dreams.Some people are watching others build businesses, chase purpose, grow spiritually, and move forward in life while they remain stuck overthinking every flaw and mistake.This episode speaks directly to that struggle.Through powerful motivational and inspirational truth, Reginald D reminds you that purpose is not reserved for perfect people. Your life experiences, scars, hardships, mistakes, and lessons are all shaping you into who you are meant to become.This episode helps you understand:Your flaws do not cancel your purposeProgress matters more than perfectionFear of failure keeps people trappedConfidence grows through actionAuthenticity creates impactYour uniqueness is your powerIf you're ready to stop shrinking yourself, stop waiting for perfection, and start walking boldly in your purpose, this episode will inspire and motivate you to take action.Press play now to hear this powerful motivational speech and discover why you don't need to be perfect to pursue your purpose, change your life, and walk in what you were chosen to do.Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

709.When you're hoping your child will change their behavior for the better, it can be easy to double down on nagging, pleading, and lecturing your child in an effort to convince your child to see things the way you see things. Unfortunately, you might notice that this doesn't get you very far. The more you push, the more resistant and defensive your child becomes! Dr. Nanika Coor offers some tips for encouraging motivation for change in your child from a place of acceptance, compassion, and collaboration.Project Parenthood is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast, hosted by Dr. Nanika Coor. Have a question for Project Parenthood? Email: parenthood@quickanddirtytips.comDiscover more from Project Parenthood!FacebookNewsletterTranscripts available on your podcast app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan MailFree Work/Life Balance Scorecard → Take it hereTikTok → made4morecInstagram → made4moreconsultingAre you waiting for the perfect moment before you take action? In this episode, we break down why confidence doesn't come before the step — it comes after you take it. We talk through the 5 fear-based thoughts that keep us stuck, why a growth mindset is non-negotiable, and how two simple actions this week can change everything.If you've been putting something off, waiting for the stars to align, or telling yourself "not yet" — this episode is for you.Key Takeaways:Confidence appears when action is takenFear grows when you wait — so stop waitingThe 5 thoughts holding you back (and how to move past them)A simple 2-step action framework to get moving this week

Hello to you listening in Savannah, Georgia! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. What is apparition? In the Harry Potter universe of witches and wizards apparition is the ability to teleport, magically transport from one place to another. One minute you are here and the next you are there! Like mmmagic. Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling  No one in the real world has this talent; but we can learn from the wizarding world how apparition might motivate our Monday in 3 easy steps, in sequence:   1. Destination: See clearly where you want to go and fix your mind firmly on that place. 2. Determination: Focus your mind on where you are yearning to go. 3. Deliberation: Feeling your way into nothingness, turn and move with Deliberation. And there you are! Arrived! Have a most magical motivated Monday!  You're always welcome: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together. AND!  Stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website during reconstruction, email me to arrange a no-obligation Discovery Call, and stay current with me as Quarter Moon Story Arts on Substack. Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts Music: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music ALL content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.  If you found this podcast episode helpful, please consider sharing and attributing it to Diane Wyzga of Stories From Women Who Walk podcast with a link back to the original source.

How does a girl married off at 14 years old survive trauma, abuse, poverty, and silence—and still find the strength to rebuild her life?In this deeply emotional and powerful inspirational episode, Reginald D sits down with author, entrepreneur, and mother of six Misty Nesbitt. Misty shares her heartbreaking yet inspiring story of survival, resilience, healing, and transformation.Misty opens up about growing up in trauma, being sent away as a child, surviving abuse, living in survival mode, and being married off at only 14 years old. Through raw honesty and incredible courage, she explains how she turned years of pain, silence, poverty, emotional trauma, and survival into strength, determination, and purpose.This powerful conversation is filled with:Motivational and inspirational life lessonsInspirational stories about overcoming traumaSelf-improvement and resilience principlesFaith and motivation through adversityBreaking generational cursesHealing from emotional painRebuilding identity after traumaTurning survival into strengthFinding purpose after hardshipMisty also discusses her memoir, The Girl Who Kept Breathing, and explains how simply surviving another day became an act of courage and strength.If you've ever struggled with trauma, emotional pain, toxic environments, self-worth, fear, or feeling trapped by your past, this motivational speech style conversation will inspire you to keep moving forward, believe in yourself, and understand that your story does not have to define your future.Many people today are silently carrying childhood trauma, emotional wounds, abuse, rejection, fear, and painful experiences they've never fully healed from. Some people are surviving life—but not truly living it.Misty Nesbitt's story reminds you that trauma may shape you, but it does not have to destroy you. Through resilience, determination, self-belief, and relentless perseverance, she rebuilt her life while refusing to allow her past to define her future.Gain:• Powerful motivational and inspirational encouragement to overcome trauma, emotional pain, fear, and toxic environments• Self-improvement and mindset lessons about resilience, healing, rebuilding identity, and breaking generational cycles• An Inspirational story and inspirational principles that will help you move forward with strength, determination, and purposePress play now to hear this unforgettable motivational and inspirational story of survival, healing, strength, and the courage to break generational curses and rebuild your life.Misty's Contact Info:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/author.misty.nesbittInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/authormistynesbittTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authormistynesbittWebsite to purchase her book, "The Girl Who Kept Breathing". https://www.authormistynesbitt.comSend us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

The marathon definitely continues because this week on Rap Rankings, rap's only marathon-length podcast, Moulz & Mel review the legendary Nipsey Hussle's sole studio album, Victory Lap, for the penultimate episode of Season 17. FEATURING: @StiloVino -------------------------- Intro (0:00) -- The Rating System, Explained (24:24 - 27:03) -- The Rap Rankings Game (42:55) -- This Week In Moulz & Mel (1:26:54) -- Victory Lap Info (1:48:49) -- Introducing A New "Feature" To Rap Rankings [featuring @StiloVino] (2:08:51) -- Track 1: "Victory Lap" (2:30:53) -- Track 2: "Rap Niggas" (2:44:33) -- Track 3: "Last Time That I Checc'd" (2:56:15) -- Track 4: "Young Nigga" (3:08:17) -- Track 5: "Dedication" (3:19:11) -- Track 6: "Blue Laces 2" (3:36:37) -- Track 7: "Hussle & Motivate" (3:54:54) -- Track 8: "Status Symbol 3" (4:02:24) -- Track 9: "Succa Proof" (4:13:46) -- Track 10: "Keyz 2 The City 2" (4:23:27) -- Track 11: "Grinding All My Life" (4:31:20) -- Track 12: "Million While You Young" (4:48:32) -- Track 13: "Loaded Bases" (4:56:25) -- Track 14: "Real Big" (5:02:16) -- Track 15: "Double Up" (5:06:12) -- Track 16: "Right Hand To God" (5:10:33) -- Ranking Victory Lap (5:15:40) -- Outro (5:19:10)

Motivating people is not about shouting slogans, pushing harder, or demanding enthusiasm on command. Real leadership motivation comes from building relationships, shaping culture, and creating a work environment where people can motivate themselves. For leaders in Japan, Australia, the United States, Europe, and across Asia-Pacific, this is now a central management challenge. Post-pandemic teams expect trust, flexibility, psychological safety, and career development, not command-and-control supervision. The leader's job is to know people deeply enough to understand what drives their effort, loyalty, creativity, and pride. How do leaders motivate people without forcing motivation? Leaders motivate people by creating the right environment, relationship, and culture for self-motivation to emerge.Telling someone to "be motivated" is about as useful as yelling at a plant to grow faster. In organisations from Toyota and Rakuten in Japan to global firms like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Unilever, the best leaders understand that motivation is personal. Some people want mastery, some want recognition, some want autonomy, and others want security, promotion, purpose, or belonging. The leader's role is not to manufacture motivation like a factory output. It is to remove friction, clarify meaning, and connect individual aspirations with company goals. Do now: Stop asking, "How do I motivate my people?" Start asking, "What environment would help each person motivate themselves?" Why do managers fail to really know their people? Most managers only know their people at a surface level because they are busy, task-driven, and overly dependent on formal reviews. They may know job titles and KPIs, but not the person behind the role. Many leaders interview team members when they first take over a department, then slip back into meetings, deadlines, dashboards, and performance reviews. In Japanese companies, multinational regional offices, startups, and SMEs alike, this creates a polite but shallow relationship. The manager knows what people do, but not why they care, what frustrates them, what they value, or where they want to go. Performance reviews rarely reveal this because employees often protect themselves in formal settings. Do now: Replace one purely transactional check-in each week with a genuine conversation about work, goals, interests, or career direction. What is an "innerview" and how is it different from an interview? An innerview is a gradual, trust-based way of understanding a person from the inside, not a one-off managerial interview. It happens through casual, authentic conversations over time. An interview is usually structured, scheduled, and often linked to hiring, onboarding, or performance management. An innerview is different. It may happen over coffee, lunch, a short walk, or a relaxed conversation after a meeting. The leader has intention, but not manipulation. The aim is to understand what matters to the team member so the leader can help them succeed. This matters in post-pandemic workplaces where retention, engagement, hybrid work, and career mobility are constant issues. Do now: Build a habit of small, natural conversations. Do not turn curiosity into interrogation, and do not use personal information as leverage. What questions help leaders understand employees better? Leaders should start with factual questions, then gradually move toward deeper causative and values-based questions. Trust determines how deep the conversation can go. Factual questions explore background: where someone grew up, studied, travelled, worked, or developed interests. These are not checklist questions; they should surface naturally. Causative questions go deeper: why they chose a career path, why they left a previous company, why a hobby matters, or what kind of work gives them energy. Values-based questions are deeper again, touching pride, regret, mentors, resilience, fairness, ambition, and contribution. In cultures with strong privacy norms, including Japan, timing and tone matter enormously. Do now: Use three levels of curiosity: facts for context, "why" questions for motivation, and values questions only after trust exists. Why are values so important in leadership motivation? Values reveal whether a person's deepest drivers align with the leader, the team, and the organisation. Without values alignment, motivation becomes fragile and short-term. A person may accept a job for salary, title, brand prestige, or convenience, but they usually stay engaged because the work connects with something deeper. That may be craftsmanship, customer impact, learning, family security, social contribution, professional pride, or loyalty to colleagues. Leaders who understand these values can assign work, give recognition, coach performance, and discuss career paths more effectively. Leaders who ignore values often rely on money, pressure, or fear, which rarely builds sustainable performance. Do now: Ask reflective questions such as, "What work are you most proud of?" or "What advice would you give someone going through a tough patch?" How can leaders avoid sounding manipulative when getting to know staff? The difference between care and manipulation is intention, or what Japanese leadership thinking might call kokorogamae. People quickly sense whether a leader is genuinely trying to help or merely trying to use them. If a manager asks personal questions to extract productivity, employees will feel it. If the manager asks because they want to create common ground, understand aspirations, and support career growth, the relationship strengthens. Time, place, and occasion are critical. A rushed corridor question before a deadline is not the same as a thoughtful conversation over coffee. Leaders need patience. They should not force intimacy, overstep privacy, or convert every conversation into a management tactic. Do now: Check your intention before every deeper conversation. Ask yourself, "Am I trying to help this person grow, or simply trying to get more out of them?" Final summary Motivation is not a speech, slogan, or performance-review checkbox. It is the result of leadership trust, cultural design, and personal understanding. When leaders know their people beyond job descriptions and KPIs, they can create conditions where employees choose to bring more effort, ownership, and creativity to the work. The practical leadership shift is simple but demanding: move from interview to innerview. Learn facts, explore causes, understand values, and hold every conversation with the right intention. FAQs Can leaders really motivate employees? Leaders cannot force motivation, but they can create the conditions where motivation becomes more likely. That means building trust, clarifying purpose, removing obstacles, and connecting work to personal goals. What is the best way to understand employee motivation? The best way is through consistent, casual, trust-based conversations over time. Formal reviews help with performance tracking, but deeper motivation usually emerges through natural dialogue. Why are values-based questions sensitive? Values-based questions touch identity, pride, regret, ambition, and belief, so they require trust. Leaders should build up gradually through factual and causative conversations first. Is this approach relevant in Japan? Yes, especially because trust, intention, and relationship quality are central to effective leadership in Japan. The idea of kokorogamae reinforces the importance of sincere purpose behind the conversation. Quick actions for leaders Schedule more informal one-on-one conversations. Ask fewer checklist questions and more thoughtful "why" questions. Listen for values, not just tasks and complaints. Avoid rushing trust. Use what you learn to support career growth, not to manipulate output. Author Bio Dr. Greg Story, Ph.D. in Japanese Decision-Making, is President of Dale Carnegie Tokyo Training and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University. He is a two-time winner of the Dale Carnegie "One Carnegie Award" in 2018 and 2021, and recipient of the Griffith University Business School Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2012. As a Dale Carnegie Master Trainer, Greg is certified to deliver globally across leadership, communication, sales, and presentation programmes, including Leadership Training for Results. He has written several books, including three best-sellers: Japan Business Mastery, Japan Sales Mastery, and Japan Presentations Mastery, along with Japan Leadership Mastery and How to Stop Wasting Money on Training. His works have been translated into Japanese, including Za Eigyō（ザ営業）, Purezen no Tatsujin（プレゼンの達人）, Torēningu de Okane o Muda ni Suru no wa Yamemashō（トレーニングでお金を無駄にするのはやめましょう）, and Gendaiban "Hito o Ugokasu" Rīdā（現代版「人を動かす」リーダー）. Greg also publishes daily business insights on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, and hosts six weekly podcasts. On YouTube, he produces The Cutting Edge Japan Business Show, Japan Business Mastery, and Japan's Top Business Interviews, which are widely followed by executives seeking success strategies in Japan.

What if the breakthrough you've been praying for begins the moment you finally believe in yourself again?In this powerful motivational and inspirational episode, Reginald D delivers an emotional and life-changing motivational speech about rebuilding your strength, restoring your faith, overcoming adversity, and learning to believe in yourself again.Life can break your confidence, drain your spirit, and make you question your purpose. But this motivational and inspirational episode is a reminder that your struggles are not the end of your story.  Reginald D challenges you to stop doubting yourself, stop waiting for validation, and start embracing the strength that adversity has already built within you.This deeply inspirational conversation explores:Why pain builds strengthHow faith becomes bigger than fearWhy your scars do not define your destinyThe power of resilience and mental toughnessHow to move in alignment with God's purpose for your lifeWhy setbacks are preparing you for growthHow to stop living in doubt and start thriving with confidenceIf you're feeling discouraged, emotionally exhausted, spiritually drained, or uncertain about your future, this motivational and inspirational message will remind you that the best is still ahead of you.Many people today are silently battling self-doubt, fear, emotional pain, disappointment, and exhaustion from life's challenges. Some people feel stuck replaying old failures, heartbreaks, and missed opportunities while questioning if they still have what it takes to succeed.This episode speaks directly to that you.Through authentic motivational and inspirational guidance, Reginald D reminds you that strength is built through adversity, faith grows through challenges, and purpose often reveals itself during difficult seasons of life.If you've been feeling mentally tired, spiritually disconnected, or emotionally overwhelmed, this episode will help you refocus, rebuild your confidence, and reconnect with the vision you still have for your life.  Press play now to experience this powerful motivational speech and rediscover the faith, strength, confidence, and purpose you need to rise again.Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

Hello to you listening in Chandigarh, India! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe like me every once in a while you are most fortunate to sit down with a wonderful person and share a conversation as if you've known each other a very long time. Dr. Summer Watson of KORE Women is such a person. Recently Summer invited me to join her on her KORE Women podcast show to talk about diverse life journeys, what we've learned along the way, and how we could not have imagined our lives turning out so well. Click the LINKS in the Episode Notes to go directly to our 20 minute chat on Apple  OR  YouTube  And, please take a few moments to check out all the links in Episode Notes to learn more about Dr. Summer Watson, KORE Women,  the KORE Women podcast available on your favorite platform , and become a part of the KORE Women experience on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.   You're always welcome: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together. AND!  Stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website during reconstruction, check out the Communication Services, email me to arrange a no-obligation Discovery Call, and stay current with me as Quarter Moon Story Arts on Substack. Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts Music: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music ALL content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.  If you found this podcast episode helpful, please consider sharing and attributing it to Diane Wyzga of Stories From Women Who Walk podcast with a link back to the original source.  

What if the real advantage of coaching isn't what you do… but who you become? This episode opened up a powerful question that sits at the heart of coaching. What does coaching really make possible? Because for many people, coaching is still misunderstood. It can be seen as a skill, a tool, or something you add to your professional toolkit. But what we explored in this conversation is something much deeper. Coaching is not only something you do. It is something that changes how you think, how you relate, and how you live. We began by exploring the leadership advantage. In a world where organisations are navigating uncertainty, complexity, and constant change, the demand for emotionally intelligent leaders has never been higher. And yet, these qualities are difficult to demonstrate on a CV. Coaching bridges that gap. It equips leaders with the ability to: Build trust quickly Communicate with emotional awareness Motivate and inspire through uncertainty Navigate complexity with clarity For us, coaching is no longer optional in leadership. It is essential. But the advantages do not stop there. We talked about the ability to hold multiple perspectives. Coaching develops a kind of mental agility. The ability to step into someone else's world, understand their viewpoint, and then step back into your own with clarity. That flexibility transforms relationships. It creates collaboration instead of conflict. It builds connection instead of resistance. And then there is resilience. One of the most profound shifts that coaching creates is how quickly you can move through challenge. Instead of staying stuck in one perspective, you develop the ability to reframe, to adapt, and to respond with intention. It gives you access to a deeper internal resource. A steadiness that you can return to, even when life feels uncertain. We also reflected on how coaching shapes identity. There is something powerful about understanding who you are, what you stand for, and how you want to show up in the world. Coaching strengthens that internal anchor, allowing you to navigate life with greater confidence and clarity. And then something unexpected emerged in the conversation. The relational advantage. Through coaching, you begin to notice the impact you have on others in a much deeper way. Whether that is in leadership, friendships, or even parenting, the way you listen, respond, and engage changes. It creates more conscious, more meaningful relationships. We shared personal reflections on how coaching has influenced the way we show up with our children. From helping them understand their thoughts and emotions, to creating space for curiosity and ownership, coaching extends far beyond professional settings. It becomes a way of being. Another key shift we explored is around judgement and curiosity. Coaching increases your awareness of how often we default to judgement. And in doing so, it offers an alternative. A shift towards curiosity, acceptance, and understanding. That shift is freeing. It reduces the mental load of constantly evaluating others and redirects your focus inward, towards your own values, choices, and growth. And yet, we were honest about something important. There is a flip side. With greater awareness comes greater complexity. There are moments where seeing multiple perspectives can feel overwhelming. Where your mind wants to explore every angle, every layer, every system at play. And that requires something else. Choice. The ability to decide where to focus your attention. The ability to resource yourself. The ability to step back when needed. Because ultimately, coaching gives you options. And perhaps that is the greatest advantage of all. The ability to choose how you think, how you respond, and how you live.   Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction to the coaching advantage 00:34 – Leadership advantage in modern workplaces 02:19 – Developing multiple perspectives 04:38 – Resilience and navigating challenges 05:02 – Coaching influence in parenting and relationships 08:30 – Ownership, accountability, and self-awareness 10:50 – Finding learning and meaning in everyday moments 11:24 – Judgement vs curiosity 13:50 – Values, identity, and conscious decision-making 14:13 – The power of pause and awareness 15:33 – The complexity and downsides of coaching awareness 16:39 – Navigating multiple perspectives in a complex world 18:30 – Choice, energy, and self-management 19:02 – Gratitude and recognising the coaching advantage   Key Lessons Learned: Coaching enhances leadership through emotional intelligence and adaptability The ability to hold multiple perspectives strengthens relationships and collaboration Coaching builds resilience by enabling faster reframing and recovery Greater self-awareness leads to stronger identity and decision-making Coaching improves relationships through deeper understanding and presence Curiosity replaces judgement, reducing mental strain and increasing connection Awareness brings complexity, requiring conscious energy management The greatest advantage of coaching is the power of choice   Keywords: Coaching advantage, Benefits of coaching training, Coaching skills for leadership, Emotional intelligence in leadership, Coaching for resilience, Coaching mindset and self-awareness, Personal development through coaching, Coaching impact on relationships, Coaching skills in everyday life, Why coaching matters,   Links & Resources: IG Company website: https://www.igcompany.com  Coaching course quiz: https://www.mycoachingcourse.com

What does a TOPGUN fighter pilot learn about fear, faith, pressure & purpose that everyday people can use to survive life's toughest battles?In this powerful inspirational episode, Reginald D sits down with former TOPGUN fighter pilot, combat veteran, commercial airline captain & bestselling author Jack Stewart. Jack graduated from the US Naval Academy and served twenty-three years as an FA-18C Hornet fighter pilot before retiring with the rank of commander. Jack shares incredible lessons on leadership, resilience, discipline, faith, mental strength & purpose. Jack also deployed on the ground with joint & special operations units, including a Joint Special Operations Command task force and talks about brotherhood, moral courage, and the cost of service.From flying combat missions to operating under life-or-death pressure, Jack reveals what it truly means to stay calm in chaos, overcome fear & lead when lives depend on your decisions. He also opens up about the hidden mental and  struggles veterans face after military service, the importance of purpose, and how faith and motivation help people move forward through dark seasons. Jack has an upcoming novel Riptide, releasing May 12th. Riptide is the second installment in the USA Today bestselling Silent Horizons series by former Force Recon Marine & author Chad Robichaux, with co-author Jack Stewart.  Jack also discusses:The reality behind military serviceLeadership under pressureTransitioning from Navy fighter pilot to commercial airline captainThe inspiration behind his new novel RiptideTOPGUN & Tom CruiseWhy purpose gives life meaningPress play now to hear this inspirational conversation w/ former TOPGUN fighter pilot Jack Stewart &  discover how to lead your life with courage, faith, discipline & purpose.Jack's Info:Website: https://jackstewartbooks.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jackstewartbooksInstagram: @Jackstewartsbooks X: Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

895. Is your team "going through the motions"? Before you reach for another inspirational speech, Rachel Cooke has a reality check: Inspiration is not the antidote to a motivation crisis.In this episode, Rachel introduces the concept of "Motivational Gaslighting"—the trap leaders fall into when they use empty enthusiasm to mask systemic exhaustion. If engagement is tanking, it's not an attitude problem; it's an environment problem.In this episode, you'll learn:The 5 real killers of motivation: Why uncertainty, workplace loneliness, and invisible progress are draining your team's tank.Safety over stoke: How to provide stability and direction when AI, the economy, and shifting priorities feel like a constant threat.The loneliness loop: Why "collaborating" on Slack isn't the same as "connecting," and how to fix it without adding more meetings.The "gap vs. the gain": Using a simple psychological shift to give your team concrete proof that their work is actually working.Energy audits: How to identify and kill the "meaningless work" and bureaucracy that empty your team's reserves.Modern Mentor is a Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast, hosted by Rachel Cooke!Have a question for Modern Mentor? Email: modernmentor@quickanddirtytips.com Discover more from Modern Mentor!FacebookLinkedInNewsletterTranscripts available on your podcast app or QuickandDirtyTips.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if the reason you keep getting back up… is because you were never meant to stay down in the first place?In this powerful motivational episode,, you'll hear a life-changing motivational speech about resilience, faith, and why you were never designed to stay down.If you've been feeling stuck, discouraged, or overwhelmed by life's challenges, this episode will remind you that your current situation is not your final destination. Through faith and motivation, self-improvement, and inspirational storytelling, Reginald D breaks down why setbacks are not punishment—but preparation for your next level.This motivational and inspirational message will challenge you to rise, refocus, and reconnect with your purpose. Your struggles are temporary, your potential is real, and your comeback is necessary.If you're searching for inspirational stories, motivational speech content, and faith-based encouragement to help you move forward, this episode is exactly what you need.Many people today feel stuck in cycles of failure, disappointment, or emotional exhaustion. You may feel like life keeps knocking you down—and you're starting to believe you can't get back up.This episode speaks directly to that moment.Through motivational and inspirational truth, faith and motivation, and self-improvement principles, Reginald D helps you understand that being down is part of the process—but staying down is a choice. Your challenges are not meant to destroy you—they are meant to unlock your potential and push you toward your purpose.If you're ready to stop overthinking, stop doubting, and start rising again—this message will meet you right where you are.Gain:• A powerful shift in mindset that will help you turn setbacks into fuel through motivational and inspirational thinking• Practical encouragement to rise above temporary struggles and reconnect with your purpose using faith and motivation• The confidence to take action, make adjustments, and pursue your goals through self-improvement and resiliencePress play now to experience this powerful motivational speech and get the inspiration you need to rise, reset, and move forward today.Send us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

What if your past—no matter how broken, painful, or dark—was actually the foundation for your purpose and your greatest inspirational story?In this powerful motivational and inspirational podcast episode, Reginald D sits down with Roosevelt Sargent—speaker, author, and Pastor of Set Free Church in Nashville, TN—to unpack one of the most raw and inspirational stories of transformation, faith, and redemption you will ever hear.From growing up with incarcerated parents, street life, trauma, and survival in dangerous environments, to becoming a man of faith, purpose, and leadership, Roosevelt's journey is the definition of a true motivational speech in real life.This episode dives deep into faith and motivation, self-improvement, spirituality, and personal development, revealing how God can transform even the most broken beginnings into powerful purpose.Right now, many people feel stuck in their past, overwhelmed by life circumstances, or unsure of their purpose. You may feel like your story disqualifies you from success, faith, or impact,, but Roosevelt's journey shows that no matter where you come from—your story is not the end. Through faith and motivation, self-improvement, and spiritual growth, you can transform your life and step into purpose.Gain:• A powerful mindset shift that will help you turn your pain into purpose through faith, motivation, and self-development• Real-life strategies to break free from your past and step into a life of purpose, growth, and inspirational transformation• Deep encouragement to strengthen your faith, trust God's plan, and embrace your journey as part of your motivational and inspirational storyPress play now to experience a life-changing motivational speech and inspirational story that will challenge your mindset and ignite your faith to move forward today.Roosevelt's Contact Information:Website:  https://www.rooseveltsargentspeaks.comVictorious Underdog Book:  https://a.co/d/0WoYufpVictorious Underdog Devotional:  https://a.co/d/5gB0JUhSet Free Church NashvSend us Fan MailSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd   TikTok: @realtalkregd  Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald  Website:  https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D  -  MerchandiseReal Talk With Reginald D is a faith-based globally ranked inspirational and motivational podcast designed to motivate, empower & transform lives through powerful motivational speeches, authentic conversations, and real-life inspirational stories. Each episode delivers motivational and inspirational coaching focused on self improvement, leadership, healing, resilience & purpose. Rooted in faith and motivation, this Christian-based platform blends practical growth strategies with biblical wisdom, helping listeners strengthen their mindset, deepen their faith, and walk boldly in their calling.  Check out Reginald D's powerful motivational speeches today!`

Don't second-guess what "distracts" you, says actor-producer Yara Shahidi; that's your curiosity coming through. The star of hit shows like "black-ish" and "grown-ish" tells how she learned to spot clues to her own future — and how you can, too.This episode originally aired in 2023.Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at attend.ted.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a talk packed with wry wisdom, pop culture queen Bevy Smith shares hard-earned lessons about authenticity, confidence, mature success and why, if you put in the work, "life gets greater later."This episode originally aired in 2022.Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at attend.ted.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What stops you from speaking up when it matters most? Healthcare leader Sarah Crawford-Bohl offers a practical, compassionate framework to have difficult conversations with clarity and heart — and shows how it can lead to stronger teams and real impact.This episode originally aired in 2025.Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at attend.ted.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.