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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2023 33:37

Hear how to rethink your life to find what really makes you happy Today's guest is Julia Wolfendale, executive coach and director at On The Up Consulting. Julia is from the UK and has developed an exciting and valuable approach to helping people find happiness, success and fulfillment. Her book is entitled Five Ways to Focus and we discuss it as a starting point to help people better understand themselves. Julia has a master's in leadership and has trained and coached hundreds of leaders on understanding themselves and improving their daily lives. You are going to find our discussion itself very interesting. Do please tune in! Watch and listen to our conversation here The five ways to focus These are significant to understand, and they follow other research which we use at SAMC to help our clients understand why focus is essential to their success. The five forces are freedom, money, recognition, fellowship and fulfillment. As you listen to Julia, you're going to ask yourself, Am I the person I would like to be? Or do I need to take stock of where I am and consider where I'm going? At Simon Associates, we have developed a program that's entirely complementary to Julia's approach. Take a look at it at www.rethinkwithandisimon.com. It's all about trying to discover how can we change our story to find the kind of person that we want to be? And so much of this has to do with how the mind works to keep you comfortable and confident that where you are now is the best place for you. To connect with Julia, you'll find her on LinkedIn, Twitter and her website On The Up Consulting, or email her: julia@ontheupconsulting.com. Ready to examine what really motivates you and makes you happy? Start here: Blog: You Can Find Joy And Happiness In Turbulent Times! Podcast: Meg Nocero—Can You Feel Joy As You Rethink Your Life? Podcast: Richard Sheridan—How To Lead With Joy And Purpose! Additional resources for you My two award-winning books: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Businessand On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants Read the transcript of our podcast here Andi Simon: Welcome to On the Brink With Andi Simon. Hi, I'm Andi Simon. I'm your host and your guide. My job is to help you see, feel and think in new ways so you can get off the brink. And I'm always delighted to find people who are going to help you do just that. You know, I'm a corporate anthropologist. I'm a business owner and entrepreneur. I coach lots of folks. But I've learned over the years that new ideas come to you from different places in different ways. And somehow you'll hear something, and you'll go, oh, that's what Andi's been saying. But here's somebody else who said it and all of a sudden it clicked, and it helps me do something I've been trying to do. So I have with me today a wonderful woman from England. And if you've been listening, we've had somebody from Paris, and somebody from South Africa. The world is coming to us and we're sharing great ideas. Julia Wolfendale is a terrific individual for you to listen to. Let me tell you about her and then she'll tell you about her own journey. She's an executive coach and director at On The Up Consulting. What a great name! She's the author of a new book called Five Ways to Focus. And she's qualified to the master's level in leadership. She has trained and coached hundreds of leaders on how to have the best sales and get things on the up. She had previous roles as a marketing director for a large global company and also worked in large public sector companies. She's developed an innovative set of tools, training courses and programs to transform, and I say this is a very important thing, to transform conversations at work. We've had other podcast guests who talked about conversations, and Judith Glaser has that wonderful book called Conversational Intelligence that I use in all my leadership academies. But we live conversations. And those are the crux of who we are and how we interact. She now specializes in strength-based coaching and writing, helping organizations get the best out of their people with coaching conversations. So this is going to be such fun. And she also wrote another book called The Trouble with Elephants that she started when she was 12. And so there's a story behind that story I'm sure. Julia, thank you for joining me today. Julia Wolfendale: Hi, it's great to see you, Andrea, thank you for having me. Andi Simon: Julia, I gave them the overview of your bio, but I know your story is a rich and very important one for them to understand why as an executive coach and a trainer, you've moved into this whole area of improving conversations, but building better places to be and also to find them fulfillment and happiness. Who is Julia? Let's understand who you are so they can understand why this matters so much, please. Julia Wolfendale: Oh, thank you, Andrea. So I guess my work career really started out when I got a Business Studies degree and went to work for Adidas, the sports clothing brand, and really being part of a big corporate setup really interested me. And then I was fortunate enough to move on and become a marketing director at Helly Hansen, again, a global sports brand. And having that opportunity to see different cultures, different people in different cultures of the organization, and in different countries in the organization sort of coming together and sharing ideas, that was always something that really interested me. But particularly, I guess I've always been interested in what motivates people, what gets them to do the amazing things, and working with sports brands was really interesting because being able to see people perform at their best, use their body in the most incredible ways to compete and to perform and to really challenge themselves. But from a marketing point of view, I was interested in how do you get people to think differently about what they're capable of. So I suppose there was always something in me that led me to now, which is this coaching. So really recognizing that we are capable of so much more. And sometimes we have to challenge our situations, our environments, and ourselves, to make some changes to think differently and to find ways that we can be at our best. So that's taken me many years to kind of come to this point now where I can say I have a successful coaching consultancy. I'm coaching leaders. Throughout the week, people have really important jobs and CEOs of hospitals and working with public sector organizations where people have really tough jobs and helping them in their professional lives, and thinking about how they can be at their best, but I also train in organizations and help them develop their leaders by having chats that matter. And that's our signature program, which is about changing the way they have conversations with their people using a coaching style of recognizing people's strengths, really unlocking that potential, and tapping into people's passions and what they care about so that they can be motivated and successful, happy and fulfilled at work. And I guess that's what so many of us care about. But perhaps we don't always have the ways to do that. And I suppose that's why I wrote the book, because sometimes having the chance to focus on the stuff that matters to us and recognize what we're capable of is kind of the first step towards that. So the book, Five Ways to Focus, is around dealing with all the other stuff we could be doing. We end up getting involved in all the other things that we're thinking about, and actually just getting it down to really what matters to you. What changes are you ready and able to make? And what difference will that make for you, if you did? Andi Simon: You know, it's interesting, because I have several leadership academies for corporations. And we're actually at a point where we're talking about understanding that leaders must focus on themselves on one hand, and on empathy on the other, and then the third on the environment around which they are operating. And I often worry that there are too many things to focus on. And we're preaching a methodology of getting to understand what matters at the moment. I am so interested in what you have learned. Talk to us more about when you say the word focus in on conversations, intelligent conversations, give us a little bit more flesh to this so that I think our listeners and viewers can all sort of grab what is it you've discovered. Julia Wolfendale: Well, I think it's around cutting through the noise and the distraction. So sometimes the little distractions get in the way of us getting on with the work that needs to be done, or the plans that we need to make. But I think there's also the kind of the internal noise as well. There's the self-limiting beliefs that show up the things that we give too much attention to really, and believing when actually we perhaps could look at them, listen to them differently, challenge them, question ourselves. I think being able to focus on some of the things that are physically and literally in our way, but also what are the things that we've kind of manifested in our own minds that we believe to be our obstacles, but we've had them for so long that they've become things that we don't even imagine not having that or don't even imagine overcoming. So the book really helps break down and is focused around what matters much. So really getting someone to understand, what are they really looking for? And if they are thinking about a career change, really helping them understand and assess their life right now. What's working well, in all aspects of their lives. And what do they want to have more of? What do they need less of? You know, why they value the things that they give so much time and attention to? Or do they value the time? And do they value those things or if they just took over? And so helping people sort of reassess their lives and their work included in that. And help them think about what do they want to learn? What do they want to be able to be or be able to do? And then also helping them think about the things that are really driving them. So what are they looking for, by way of a change, and if it is a career change, there might be things that matter to them that they have lost sight of? So I do find that when I'm coaching with people, when I ask them questions around some of the one of the five ways to focus is, what are you really looking for, and it's based around freedom, fellowship, fulfillment, kudasai, and money and getting people to rank those in order. So if freedom is a big one, it might be because it might be their first thing, and they realize they don't have enough of that now. And that's what they really do want to focus on. So I'll ask them about, what does freedom mean to you? And it might mean they've got more freedom to make decisions, so more autonomy. It might mean freedom in the sense of being able to have a better flexible working schedule and then they will come to fellowship and it might mean that fellowship is something that is important to them, and having a sense of belonging. Great connections with people at work really matters. And, they may not have that now and people are suffering from that, aren't they, because of the hybrid working environment and so long remote working, that sense of fellowship might really matter to somebody, but they kind of lost it or forgotten about that. So help them understand what does fellowship mean to them? And if they're looking for it, what would it be? How could it be represented at work, so that it might be about moving into a new team, or joining a new organization where they really share the same values and they feel really connected. And so they belong and that's a strong driver for people's sense of belonging. Or it might be fulfilling. And I think too often we forget to think about what makes us feel good about work. Work can take up a lot of our lives, but it can be so much more enjoyable when there's a sense of purpose and a sense of personal reward, as well as you might be serving others and that might be enough. So where does that fulfillment come from? And what does that look like, and really getting people to recognize that. I'm feeling unfulfilled at work and that's the thing that I want to prioritize. That's something I want to focus on. And that's such a lightbulb moment when people realize that something is missing. But that's not the thing that's ever in a job description, or ever advertised. You don't apply for a job because that gives me fulfillment? No, you just hope that might come along. Or you might forget that that was ever important at all. And then curious, what do you want to be known for? What is it that you might stand out? And there might be that you have some great contribution to make, but it's just not being seen or heard in your organization? Or in your role? Have you been known for that thing that you do or the thing that you want that you want to have that kind of recognition for? And you might be the go-to person in your organization for that. But is there another place where that could be valued as well? And you take that to a sort of a biggest regret or grander scale? Or do you want to start a blog around the thing that you know really well that other people struggle to express or struggle to understand? And then, you know, money. What will it take? Do you have enough already in use, this is just okay. Just finding something that will equally help you pay the bills? Or is this a financial move for you? I want to make the move that will really give me the money that I feel is important to me in my life. So yes, just shifting the focus on to the things that really matter. That's what I'm talking about in the book, when you want examples. Andi Simon: When you work with people, have you had your own epiphany about how important this is, I won't ask you which of the five matters to you most. But, I have a hunch that when somebody does have that epiphany, do they then begin to act on it, or help them actually change so that if in fact they're looking for kudos or recognition. They can find ways to do that or if they're looking for fulfillment and purpose, they can redefine what the world is, and actually act on it. How do you actually take them from discovery to implementation or something? Julia Wolfendale: Yeah, that's a bit that really excites me as well. So I love that whole exploration with clients to help them think about things they've never thought about before. I'll bring to the fore the things that they are clear that matter to them now. But yeah, I don't like to leave people hanging. So I always kind of frame my sessions around how do we make that happen now, so very practical steps. So another part of the book is, can you do that? What's possible? So, I'll be asking them, so what can you do in the next two hours about that? What could you do in the next week, the next month, the next three months, the next six months? People need to feel that they can make those incremental steps towards the goals, whether it's a short term, or longer term, we think about changing the timescale as appropriate. So just breaking things down. That's another part of the five ways: the focus approach makes it small and achievable, but still aspirational enough that someone feels this is stretching them and challenging them and changing them but with the courage and the confidence to do that. Andi Simon: You know, I think you get so excited about what you're doing. It's really quite remarkable because people are in need of a pause and a rethink of where they're going, and to create a new story about what they are becoming because they live already what's in their minds today. Once you got that story, there you think that's reality, but it may not be right. So true. Julia Wolfendale: Yeah, so true. And for me, particularly, I can remember sitting in my business studies degree and I can remember being asked in my university class to sit and write down what I wanted to be and do. So I wrote down that I wanted to be a marketing director by 25. And I was, and then it's like, oh, now what? And then I had my first child, and I had a fantastic, fantastic job, as marketing director, and had my first child, and then everything sort of changed my priorities pane. And I can remember being stranded at Schiphol Airport in Holland, after having this problem with the plane, and we couldn't fly home after having traveled over to a sales conference with the company, and really just weeping that I was already going to have to leave my six month old daughter for even longer. And at that moment, I thought, something's really changed for me that if I'm going to do the work, if I'm going to try, if I'm going to have to be away from my child, I really want the work to be fulfilling. And it changed. So what excited me when I was 25 and 30 was the marketing, the campaigns, the brand building, all of that was fantastic. And then suddenly, my social conscience just really kicked in. I worked for 13 years in the public sector as a manager in a local authority, managing and organizing Children's Services, really deeply fulfilling as well. I think, to be able to ask these questions of yourself at different times in your career and different times in your life, because you'll want different things. And it's okay. And I think people think that you get one shot at choosing your career, whereas there are very many paths to get to feeling fulfilled and satisfied at work. Andi Simon: You know, so it's interesting, Julia, after my second book came out, Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business, I took the "how do you do that" at the end, and I turned it into an online do it yourself video program where you can rethink your story, not just for your career, but for your life. And I love when people take it because sometimes you need a guide, or you or me, but more often, you just need the discipline to try and pause and know what to do to rethink your story. And as you start to walk me through your own story, you had to have an epiphany, something went off in your mind and it was a catalyst. I always say, people, if you want to change, have a crisis or create one because the habits take over. It's so much easier not to change. Even if you're not happy at the end of the day, and you're not happy in the morning, when I coach people, I say, well, if you're not happy in the morning, we have to change the story. Let's go to bed with a happy story that you're going to wake up with so your mind is working on the happy not on the you are, just what you believe. And it is so true. It isn't somebody's doing it to you, you're doing it to yourself. Julia Wolfendale: Yeah. And I think the thing to notice is that we all experience our jobs differently. We all experience our own situations differently. So just because other people in your team might think this is the best job ever for them, but if it's not working for you, it's really okay to just check in with yourself. And if it's not fitting in with your family or your other priorities in your life, it is totally okay to ask yourself, what am I really looking for. In the book we're talking about change points and boiling points. And the difference between those is the change points is when changes are coming about. So the organization is restructuring, to mean that change is kind of naturally occurring. Or it might be a change in yourself like you're approaching 40. We see a lot of people who are kind of reaching milestone birthdays and have a rethink, like you say, pause, restart, reevaluate. Or it might be that a pandemic has caused a lot of people to reevaluate their lives. So there's change points that occur anyway. And they either come about unexpectedly because of external circumstances, or because of the natural process of aging or life change. And then there's boiling points. And it's important to pay attention to both because the boiling points are kind of less easy to spot. But if we tune ourselves into them, we know we're approaching them. So it's when those work stresses are just compounding and then it might just take something happened at home as well, which is the trigger but actually work wasn't great anyway. But, then suddenly, work just fell short of being sustainable or too difficult to face every day because there's now other stuff that's not going well in another part of life. And so many people have additional caring responsibilities now that haven't been, with our aging population, etc. So, I just think, noticing what those boiling points are as well and having that courage to kind of check in and ask for help. You know to reach out and ask for a coach or read the book. So you know, the help is available, but to notice that you might be at a boiling point, and people might be thinking, I need to change things for me. It's about taking charge, it takes a lot of courage. Andi Simon: It does. And you know, as you think of your own story, I love the story, because you had a plan at the beginning. And you actually fulfilled it, you didn't have to stay in it. And your life took a turn because you had this wonderful child, and you realize there was more to what you were all about than just what you were doing at the time. That's okay. Now, you've taken another turn past that and I do think that the most interesting time is a startup time, because that's when you're in the explore stage. You're really not quite sure what this is. But I know what I'm doing isn't whatever that means, and life is a short journey. And when one of the biggest challenges, and I have a hunch, you're going to begin to see it as people are reaching that age of retirement, and they have no plan for the next phase. So the next phase in their journey, and it doesn't take them long to have an aha moment, which says, this is not what I expected. There's only so much golf I can play. And it's not the financial money that's motivating me, it's fulfillment, it's purpose, it's recognition, it's fellowship, it's belonging. It's all the other things. Now you have to remember, we're humans, and humans need all those other things. You know, Daniel Pink has a wonderful book called Drive. He talks about autonomy, mastery and purpose. And I do think that humans are herd animals. The secret to our success is our collective minds, sharing ideas. It's really understanding that what you think is not just about you, it's more than just about you. It's about the world that we live in as people and it's a great time. And your book is great. I mean, as I'm listening to it, I'm saying this is really terrific because it gives people a way of reflection, as well as purpose and intention to begin to move into the next part of their journey. And it's okay, you don't fail. On the next part, well, that's pretty cool. Are there any illustrative cases that you can share? Or are they all private cases? Julia Wolfendale: Confidentiality is with coaching people, so I always really preserve that. That's really important. But I suppose the book really has the tools that I use in coaching that are in the book. So you know, they've come about because they're tried and tested, and they are the things that help people shift their thinking. And I think that what I know really works well is giving people that space to reflect like you say, and think about what's possible, and really tap into their true potential. And I think focusing on people's possibilities is such a shift because their self-talk can be so negative around what we're not going to be able to do or why we're not as good as somebody else. So I just think through that, and I've learned that through the coaching that perhaps we do share a dim view of ourselves. And through coaching, it's always about discovering what someone's really capable of, and that's really exciting. And through the book, as well, the questions that I asked people to ask of themselves will be ways that they'll discover what they're really capable of. And, even sometimes, just giving people a chance to check in and go at their pace. And that's the beauty of it and reading the book is that it's just all kind of in you. It's in bite sized chunks. Andi Simon: Sometimes the mirror isn't showing you what is real. And you can have a hard time figuring out where am I? And the pandemic sort of accelerated a lot of those questions. And in some ways, everybody started to reflect on what's next. And coming out of the pandemic is as challenging as almost being in it because you can't go back to what was before, and you're not quite sure what's coming next. And uncertainty is one of those things that make people most uncomfortable, basically should be the way they are. Well, they aren't really and you're crafting them as you're living and you need to see the future if you're going to live today. This has been such fun. Are there one or two or three things that you don't want our listeners to forget? Because those are always important. Julia Wolfendale: Yeah, so I think that they get to choose, they get to choose how to think and they get to choose what to do with their thoughts. You can choose how to think. You can choose to cut through the noise and to focus on the things that matter to you. But that does require you to sit down and really think, Okay, what matters to me? And if you feel that you've been driven very much by what other people's expectations are, you might find that things feel a little empty for you at the moment for people to really reevaluate and have that kind of life. Through the book, there's always a big question that helps people reflect, followed by some action questions that really help people move forward with that insight. And I just think everybody's insights are true for them. And everybody's actions have to be right for them. So it's not about comparing with other people, everybody is on their own path. And sometimes it feels like you've strayed from the path. But hey, that can be part of the path to realize too. You're where you don't want to be right now. And that's a chance to come back a couple of steps or take a different turn completely. And you know, so not to be so harsh in judging how you are in your situation, and remind yourself that there is a way to rethink and think yourself out of a particular situation. But a lot of it will mean thinking well of yourself. And just rediscovering really what's available within you. Coaches always think about things particularly like this stance. As a coach, I'm very much a supportive, challenging coach. But I really believe in people's resourcefulness and reminding people of that. I think it's important to sort of tap into what's already there, and how it can be reused and then kind of used to point the way forwards for somebody. Andi Simon: And what's so exciting about what you're saying is that it's in your hands. I preach that as well. If you think that the problem is outside yourself, that's the problem, because you can't fix the outside of yourself. You only can fix how you see, feel and think about it. And if you can't craft a new story, you can't live a new story. When I work with people who move this way, as you're asking them hard questions, you have to come to the point where you're ready to move this way to begin to hear your own self, your heart beating. If you can focus on that heart, and begin to see what makes you remember, we decide with the heart, and the head comes in as the eyes, the heart, the gut, and then the head. So don't try and beat yourself out of it. You've got to feel yourself out of it. Julia Wolfendale: That's right. And those boiling points, notice that you're experiencing those even if people like you aren't. If that's your experience, notice it. Notice what you can do about it, rather than kind of sit with the problem too long. Because though, that's when we get really stuck and withdrawn and disengaged and disillusioned and disconnected. And it's so much harder then, isn't it, to kind of come back and offer up your best self to the situation. So just notice that it's good. Andi Simon: Often when people look at career changes, I say, Well, have you spent any time with anyone who's in that career? Often, somehow they're imagining what it would be like to work in that field. I say, Well go. Take a leave from your job and go test out your imagination and see if something is better than what you have. But you may not really know what it is and why it's better. And just give yourself a little room to grow. I'm an explorer by nature, my archetype. I'm an explorer. And I like discovery. I'm an anthropologist. I like to see things. All of the folks that you're working with need a little time to step back, pause and take a look at where they are and what comes next. And it's okay, and it may not work. I taught a course on entrepreneurship as a visiting professor at Washington University. And every one of the entrepreneurs said the same thing. I opened three businesses and I never failed. And I thought, interesting way to distance yourself from the outside. And never think of yourself as the problem. Where can they find your book? And can they buy your book on Amazon or someplace? Julia Wolfendale: Absolutely. Yeah. So the book Five Ways to Focus by Julia Wolfendale is on Amazon, in the US and the UK and worldwide. And also on my website ontheupconsulting.com. And there's more about the book in there and what we're referring to coaching and consulting services as well. Andi Simon: Okay, my friends, thank you for joining us today. Julia, thank you for joining us. It's been such fun. Your book is full of really important insights about how people can see, feel and think in new ways. So it's actually perfectly aligned with what we try to do and help people. For those of you who are watching, thanks for coming. It's always a pleasure. Remember that you decide with your heart and your eyes. So if you're stuck, or stalled, go explore. Spend a little time talking to people, maybe even Julia, maybe even me, but begin to think through, who am I? Where am I going? You don't have to do it alone. You often need an echo back or place to vent, someplace to see, feel and think about where you are in life at a moment. And when you get too closed in, you don't see anything that's going on. Your mind deletes anything that challenges that story you've got. It's time for a new story. But you don't need to do it all by yourself and create it. And remember, your brain loves the habits, the familiar. They love the story that you've got, and they love pleasure. But it's what you're doing, giving you pleasure. So it's a great time to pause, step back and rethink the five forces that will help you do that. So on that note, remember, I love your emails, info@Andisimon.com . Our website is Simonassociates.net and my books Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business and On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights are both on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and local bookstores. And they continue to sell now. On the Brink came out in 2016 and it's still going strong. So I thank you all for just being good fans. Thanks again. Have a great day!

Naomi Redel—Energize Your Business With Games That Tap Creative Teamwork

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2023 39:39

Hear how games can make your employees' effectiveness soar! Several years ago, Andy (my husband and business partner) and I went to Brussels to train in Innovation Games. IG is a wonderful set of creative tools to help people see things in new ways by playing games. In fact, IG downloads are the most frequent downloads from our website, www.simonassociates.net. Here at SAMC, we integrate IG into many of our workshops and leadership programs. Take a look at some of our IG white papers and PowerPoints which might open up your mind to what gamification can offer you, your team members and your customers as you rethink your organization to face the challenges of these fast-changing times. Today's podcast is with gamification strategist Naomi Redel I was thrilled to recently meet Naomi Redel to discuss how she has become a gamification strategist with her own methods for increasing the effectiveness of organizations through what she calls “Collaborative Emotional Intelligence.” Our podcast was global. Naomi was in Israel, and I was in New York. We had a wonderful discussion about people, the power of games, and the type of work she does with organizations that need to boost their people power. Watch and listen to our conversation here Some background on Naomi and what she has created After years of working as an innovation and marketing consultant with leading Israeli companies, Naomi felt firsthand the frustration of watching brilliant strategies flounder in C-suite silos, unable to trickle down and make an impact, because of lack of time, motivation, and the right tools to institutionalize them. So what did she do? Create a multilayered system that uses collaborative emotional experiences with cutting-edge technologies and gamification to push the boundaries of implementation and embed those strategies into people's hearts and minds. She then followed this with the creation of the first-ever board game in positive psychology, Positive Turn, which is recommended by the VIA Institute of Character Strengths and used as an innovation for companies in France. She also co-founded HappierMe and led the design and development of the HappierMe platform, a system of minigames and exercises designed to make the practice of happiness easy and accessible anywhere and anytime. Naomi earned her Master's in Business Administration and Economics (with distinction) and graduated Cum Laude BA in Economics (with distinction) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. You can contact Naomi on LinkedIn or by email at naomi.redel@gmail.com. Special offer from Naomi for you, our audience Available only to On the Brink listeners: a free presentation about collaborative emotional intelligence at work. To receive this game-changing power point, simply DM Naomi (or email her at naomi.redel@gmail.com) and say “I am an On the Brink Listener.” Enjoy. Want to know more about what Innovation Games can do for your company? Blog: Innovation Games: The Bridge To New, Previously Undiscovered Ideas And Innovations Blog: Why Are Innovation Games In Such Demand? Podcast: Andy and Andi Simon—Innovation Games® Are What You Need To Imagine Your Future Additional resources for you My two award-winning books: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Businessand On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants

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311: Gillian Tett—Why Can A Little Anthropology Help You And Your Business Grow?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2022 42:20

Hear how anthropology can send your business zooming to the top I love to read the Financial Times. It provides a very different perspective of the world from our US papers. As I was browsing recently, I came upon a story about Gillian Tett, FT's US Managing Editor, and her new book, Anthro-Vision. Curious as I am, my question was, What is a journalist doing writing a book about anthropology, and promoting AI (Anthropology Intelligence)? My joyful discovery was that Gillian is an anthropologist who became a journalist, a bit by chance and then by design. Her book is about the power of observation. Whether in Tajikistan as an aspiring anthropologist studying marriage rituals or reporting on a major conference before the financial crisis of 2008, she mastered the art of listening to the stories being told, the resistance to change that people demonstrate, and the wisdom an anthropologist can offer—if only others are willing to listen. As a fellow anthropologist, I am fascinated and I know you will be too. Enjoy. Watch and listen to our conversation here As anthropologists, our job is to see what is unseen Anthropologists love to observe, and by capturing the real lives of people, we offer insights that other data capture methods might complement or even might ignore. We know that people don't really know what they are doing and often tell you what they think you want to hear. It's their stories that offer opportunities to better ascertain the meaning of their daily lives and see the patterns that their cultures command. In Gillian's book Anthro-Vision, there are wonderful stories about how cell phones have become the way in which kids growing up in the pandemic have built social lives, and why this is probably not going away. There is a great story about Bad Babysitters and how an anthropologist could open up their eyes to why they were messaging incorrectly to potential customers. She and I spoke at length about the social silence that gives us a view into what people are thinking. You will enjoy listening to her and love her book as I did. Our interview was at times deep and at others filled with humor, as we shared our journeys and who we are, not what we do. You can contact with Gillian onn LinkedIn. Gillian's 5 big ways Anthropology Intelligence (AI) could help you: Recognize that we are all creatures of our environments. Accept that there is no natural cultural frame. As humans, we create this diversity. Find ways to immerse ourselves in the minds and lives of others to gain empathy. Look at ourselves through the lens of an outsider to see ourselves more clearly. Listen to what is not said, that social silence. To learn more about how we at SAMC apply corporate anthropology to businesses to help them get off the brink and soar, read the first chapter of my book, On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights. For a deeper dive into anthropology and how it can help your business thrive: Blog: Will You Adapt Or Die? How Cultural Anthropology Can Transform Your Business Strategy Blog: What is Corporate Anthropology and Why Should I Try It? Podcast: Rita Denny—Maybe You Need Anthropology To See Yourself In New Ways Additional resources for you My award-winning second book: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business My award-winning first book: On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Simon Associates Management Consultants Read the transcript of our podcast here Andi Simon: Welcome to On the Brink with Andi Simon. Hi, I'm Andi Simon. I'm your host and your guide and my job is to get you off the brink. So I try to find people who are going to give you a fresh perspective, see things through a clear lens. Let's just step back and take a moment to be a little anthropological and begin to understand that you really don't know what's happening until you pause and think about it differently. And as you know, in my books, I help you see things through the eyes of my clients who all got stuck or stalled because their stories were so great that they couldn't see all the things that were going on around them. And that's why a little anthropology can help you change, grow and your companies get unstuck. As you know, I myself am a corporate anthropologist, which is why I'm so excited to bring to you today's guest. Today, Gillian Tett is with me. Let me tell you about why she's so special, and why you're going to enjoy watching her or listening to her. Listen carefully to the stories she has to tell. Gillian serves as the Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor at Large in the US of the Financial Times. Forgive me for reading this, but it's very important that you hear it. She writes weekly columns covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She's also the co-founder of Financial Times Moral Money, a twice weekly newsletter that tracks the ESG revolution in business and finance, which has since grown to be a staple FT product. In 2020, Moral Money was the SABEW best newsletter. I'll tell you, it's a great newsletter. Previously, Gillian was a Financial Times US managing editor. And she's also served as assistant editor for the Financial Times markets coverage, and a lot of other things of great importance. I love to read theFinancial Times and I bet you do as well. She's the author of The Silo Effect, which looks at the global economy and financial system through the lens of cultural anthropology. She's also authored Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed Catastrophe, a 2009 New York Times bestseller and Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spirits Book Awards. I must tell you she has written really good books. I brought her here today because she has a new book out called Anthro-Vision. And as you might imagine, it touched me and my heart. And I read right through it. I couldn't stop because it was all about how, what she's calling AI, not artificial intelligence, but anthropological intelligence, more intelligence and a whole new perspective. And what I would like you to understand is how a little anthropology can, in fact, help you and your business see things through a fresh lens and why it's so important. Gillian, thank you for joining me today. Gillian Tett: Well, thank you for interviewing me. And it sounds like we not only have a lot in common, but a lot to learn from each other. I'm interested in your own career and your own story because it sounds fascinating. Andi Simon: Well, I have enjoyed reading about yours. But I'd like you to tell the listeners or the audience about who Gillian is because you've had a great journey that's taken you to many places. And as an anthropologist, I smiled. Just a little aside, I took my daughters when they were four and five to Greece to study Greek women. And I know you'd appreciate this, I learned a whole lot about the Greek woman through my children. I'm not sure what my children learned, but they still love me. And so that's all that matters. Tell us about yourself. Gillian Tett: Anyone who reads my biography would think that I'm thoroughly weird. That has been the reaction of many business leaders, political leaders, economists, grown-ups who pretend to run the world, when they hear about my background because most people who work in high finance or business assume that if you're going to be a journalist writing about them, you should have a PhD in economics or an MBA, or some kind of training in quantitative intellectual pursuits. And my background is actually in cultural anthropology. And I did a BA and then a PhD at Cambridge University in the UK. And what anthropology really is about is looking at human cultures and systems, and what makes people and societies tick, not just in terms of the obvious things that we recognize, but most importantly, the things that we tend to ignore around us all the time. Just like psychologists look at our hidden biases in our brains, anthropologists look at our hidden biases and patterns and assumptions in society. So in my case, I went into anthropology because I was fascinated by the rest of the world. I've always loved to explore and travel. And as a child, I dreamed of going to wacky weird places or places that seem weird to me. But like Indiana Jones, if you like the intellectual world, and cultural anthropology pretty much came out of that impetus in Victorian England, the idea that people would go off to other cultures to find the essence of what it meant to be human. And a lot of what anthropologists did in that way mid-century was indeed to go and travel. That's changed a lot in the 21st century. I'll come on to that in a moment. But I went off in my case to a place called Soviet Tajikistan in 1989. And I spent about a year and a half of my life up in the high mountains in Tajikistan living with a group of wonderful villages. I imagine most people listening are saying, I've got no idea where Tajikistan is on the map, or what it's like there. But basically, if you imagine the scenes you might have seen of Afghanistan on the news, and take out the black veils and put on very brightly colored clothes, then you roughly have the idea of what my village was like. It was in the high, high mountains of the Hindu Kush. And I was studying Tajik wedding rituals there. But I wasn't just studying wedding rituals, I was looking at these rituals and symbols and ceremonies, and all the economic exchanges associated with weddings as a key to try and understand how the Soviet Tajiks reconciled their identities of being Islamic and communist at the same time. Now, after I did my PhD, I then left Tajikistan. I actually became a journalist, originally a war reporter. And then I joined the FT and became an economics correspondent. And for the first few years, it felt as if all my training in cultural studies was completely irrelevant. But it's funny how life works. Because a few years after I started writing about finance, I suddenly realized that actually human beings are humans wherever they are. And in just the same way that I went studying Tajikistan wedding rituals in the Hindu Kush, and looked at how they use symbols and ceremonies to express ideas about their world. To give you an example, two investment bankers get together for gigantic ritualistic ceremonies called investment banking conferences, where they have all kinds of rituals like PowerPoints, and bar meetings, and golf tours. And those rituals and ceremonies and symbols also create social networks, and express all kinds of assumptions which could and should be studied through an anthropologist lens. So the latter part of my career has been all about trying to use this anthropological vision, and apply it to the world of business and finance and economics. And frankly, I think it's something that anybody could benefit from, particularly now, given that COVID has ripped up our normal lives and has thrown us all into culture shock. And we can all benefit by thinking about what makes us really tick. Andi Simon: When you think about that, you in your book play out some of the stories in there. You've provided us with a broad range of fascinating illustrations of the application of anthropology to different situations. Whether it was to a childcare center that wasn't doing well, or getting into pet care, or to the economic crisis of 2008 or what happened with Cambridge analytics, give us some illustrations, some case studies that are some of your favorites. The reason I ask is that, as you were describing, I could imagine being in the highlands of Russia. I took my kids to see what it was like to be a woman in Greece, and I studied the Greek immigrants and they returned to migration. But if you haven't done that, there's no way you know what it's like. And when you do it in modern society, in our businesses, people say, Well, what do you really do? I say, Well, I hang out a lot. And I listen a lot. And I'm looking for all the gaps that are on the sides of what people assume to be true. The only truth is, there's no truth, I tell people, and then they get really frustrated because it's all an illusion that we're living. So some illustrations, some great stories that you enjoy sharing about the ones that really make a difference. Gillian Tett: Well, one of the problems with anthropology and trying to communicate it in a corporate setting is that the corporate world likes to see things in shades of black and white, and things on PowerPoints. And anthropologists say, well life is grey and subtle and often contradictory. And in reality it is, that's really the only way to understand situations. But it's not always easy to boil down into a single chart. But for me, one of the most important moments in my own career was when I realized that actually the same tools I looked at Tajikistan weddings with in terms of analyzing and symbols could and should be applied to investment banking conferences. I went down to the Mediterranean in 2005 to an event called the European Securitization Board and looked at those rituals as if I was seeing them like an anthropologist. It showed me that the bankers that were engaged in that securitization business back in 2005 had all kinds of assumptions that they were barely aware of themselves which were distorting their vision of finance quite significantly and laying the seeds for the subsequent 2008 financial crisis. So when I looked at the bankers at play in their conference, I can see that they were a tribe set apart with a strong sense of their own identity. And like any social group that has a tight network, that was birthed and being reflected and reproduced in the banking conference. And they had a creation mythology. You know, every group has a creation mythology. Their creation mythology was that perfectly liquid markets, so called liquefaction of financial markets, was the ultimate perfect gold, the Holy Grail. And they were so addicted to this idea of a perfect free market. So they kind of failed to see all the contradictions in their creation mythology, like the fact that, although they were creating these innovations supposedly to make markets more innovative and more safe and more prone to perfect trading, most of these new products were so complex, they weren't being traded at all. And they weren't even able to value them with free market prices. Because it wasn't at the market prices, they had these models, the tools they were using to disburse risk were actually introducing new risks in the system because they were too complex for people to know where the risks were. And they said that these tools were done entirely to help people. But there were no faces in their PowerPoints. It was all Greek letters that indicated it wasn't just an accident that there were no faces. And their PowerPoints reflected a mentality that the end user had been kind of screened out of the way they saw finance. And you can say, well, that's kind of a pity. But actually, it had a really practical implication because what it meant was that the people creating new financial products were so caught up with the creation process, they couldn't actually see how the products were being used on the ground at the end of the financial chain. There's a wonderful scene in the movie, The Big Short, where a hedge fund trader goes and meets a pole dancer in Florida. Great scene. The financier, the hedge fund guy, goes, Holy crap, these people are doing this with subprime mortgages. And it was a real shock. And the thing that was shocking was not the fact that subprime mortgages were being used and abused on the ground, it was the fact that so few financiers could see what the end result was because they were so detached. So I came back from my conference, having spotted all this in terms of how the bankers were conducting their rituals, and it's one thing that led me to later warn that there was going to be a financial crisis. And I kept issuing those warnings over and over again. So that's one example where you can use anthropology tools to look at how a social group is blinkered and has blind spots that don't see, which can be dangerous. But in my book, I talk about ways that consumer industry groups can use anthropology to try and understand consumers, to try and understand what really drives fashions and trends to try. And also I've talked about how businesses can use anthropologists to see what's going wrong in their companies. General Motors did that very effectively several times. And you can also use anthropology to understand how other offices really work, or how they don't work. So almost any sphere of life where people are operating can benefit from some anthropology. Andi Simon: Often, I'll take a client with me out to their clients, to go spend a day in the life of their clients. So I'm going to teach you a little anthropology, I say. Let's go watch and see what's going on. You sell them solutions that you think are perfect. Let's watch how they're actually using them. Because to your point, if I went out and looked and came back, they would delete me. You didn't hear it, right? You didn't see it, right? So we go with them. And the two of us watch in the same factory exactly how it's being used. A sensor that's actually measuring the color of something or some technology that's being applied. Then we go out and we write down everything we saw. And the two of us were in two different places at the same time. We were each seeing completely different things. The conversation that follows is fascinating to me, because they're still trying to figure out what it was I was looking at and listening to. To your point, this is about listening and seeing and what they were listening to and why they were trying to fit it into their box. Like, you're a wonderful economist, we're trying to fit it into their illusion of reality, and what the reality actually was and I might claim as mine in a better reality, but I'm looking for the gaps for you and you're looking to fit it into your box, which may no longer be the right box anymore. And that's so important now, coming out of the pandemic The way we used to do things isn't any longer the way we're doing it. So people are hiring us to figure out, what do we do now? What's happening out there? Come watch with us. So as you were putting together your book, I have a hunch each of the stories touched you in some of the same ways. Gillian Tett: I mean, the power of anthropology, in many ways I would argue, is essentially what you're doing is trying to engage in a three part journey. And the way I put it, that basically you are trying to simultaneously immerse yourself into the minds and lives of others so that you can understand them better. You're trying to not just immerse yourself in the mind of others, but really trying and seeing the world through their eyes in a kind of humble, open-minded way and to collide with the unexpected. You're trying to then use that knowledge to look back at yourself. Because, there's this wonderful Chinese proverb that a fish can't see water. None of us can see the assumptions that shaped us unless we periodically jump out of our fishbowl, go with other fish and talk to other fish and then look back at ourselves again with clarity of vision. And then you use that inside-outside perspective. The experience of being a stranger in your own land to not just look at the parts of the world that you talk about, the visible parts, but also the parts of the world that you don't talk about, or the assumptions that you ignore because they seem boring or geeky or dull or taboo or obvious. And that sort of three-part journey can be really powerful. An example: General Motors brought in an anthropologist to look at why some of its meetings were going so badly wrong, why some merging initiatives were going so badly wrong. There was an attempt in the latter part of the 20th century to create a sort of joint car between German and American engineers.They tried and tried for about two years to create a joint small car by bringing this team of engineers together. And at the time, they assumed the problem was because of linguistic differences. I know the tendency to think oh, those Germans don't understand the Americans and Americans didn't ask the Germans, because that was the obvious difference and distinction that was in everyone's faces. But some anthropologists observed the group and realized that actually it wasn't a straight story of German versus American clash. There was a bigger clash between different teams of Americans between Tennessee and Detroit. And because they all had very different cultures in their factories. And the really interesting thing was they kept calling meetings to try and resolve the problems without realizing that all three different groups had different ideas about what a meeting was and what the whole point of it was. The Germans thought it was basically to rubber stamp a decision that had already been taken and that it was very hierarchical Their meeting didn't really count as work because work was what you did elsewhere. The Tennessee group thought that a meeting was there to kind of brainstorm and you had to have some kind of collaborative consensus-based system and they thought meetings were work. And the Detroit group had another idea all over again. So all of the people were coming into that meeting with different expectations, and because they weren't actually talking to each other in advance, and they weren't looking at the story behind the story, which is basically what were their different cultures, and what were their expectations of meetings, they kept wrongly describing it as a German-American thing, and it wasn't. So those patterns played out over and over again in offices. And it's really important to think about that now for two reasons. Firstly, most businesses right now are in the grips of radical tech transformation, as automation and digitization takes off. And that's creating a whole different bunch of cultural clashes, because the way that a group of techies in San Francisco are trained to think about meetings is not the same as say, a group of metal bashers in Detroit. But secondly, COVID and the pandemic and lockdown has challenged all of our ideas about how offices and work and meetings should happen. And we haven't been together in groups to kind of learn from each other and thrash it out. We've all been scattered and isolated. So within every company, the longer that COVID and lockdown has gone on for, the more you've created micro subcultures, who may be totally talking past each other all the time. And often exasperated senior managers who are middle aged, go, Oh, these millennials, they're so weird. But what about the age gap between different generations? Or maybe just the fact that different subcultures are growing up inside companies as we're scattered. And as we return hopefully to the office, different cultural patterns will develop all over again, and we need to think about it. Andi Simon: Well, you're not Malinowski, and you're not going off like Margaret Mead to a small island. To some degree, that's just what's happened during this pandemic, islands have been created. And as we're watching them...for example, I have a wonderful client that I'm going on my fifth year with them all in transformation. And they used to give remote work as a benefit to their partners and their employees, until the pandemic hit and everyone went remote. All 70 employees. Now they can't get them back into the office. And they said, Well, what was valued before as a benefit, it's now a penalty. And how do you take the same thing: remote work one minute is wonderful and in one minute it's awful. What are the values that are coming, and the partners are lonely. And the reason they want them back together is for human companionship. And what's so interesting for me is to watch the dynamics going on. Because they don't find a way to articulate what really matters here. It isn't about having them come back in the office, and that's not bad, and people decide with feelings. Their logic is, Well, I don't have to commute for an hour plus, I can get so much work done. Why do I have to be there to have lunch together, we're not going to do that. I mean, it's so interesting to watch the head and the hearts here at odds with each other on this island that I'm not quite sure was perfect before. And I'm not quite sure it's so bad right now, but nobody's quite sure what we should do to build coming out of it. And I have a hunch this is the proliferation of islands that all of us are watching happen across the country and across different industries. It's really interesting as an anthropologist to step back and just observe and laugh a little and cry a little bit too. Gillian Tett: I guess the point that you know very well that you've seen in your own kind of work, which is so important, is that we need to talk not just about what people are obviously talking about all the time, that's in your face, but also we need to always ask ourselves in any context, whether we're in an office or any other setting, What are we not talking about? What are we missing? What is the story behind the story? What's the context? And one of the ways I try to illustrate that point is through an issue that isn't to do with work. Practically, everyone who's middle aged with teenage kids is grappling with why are teenagers so addicted to their cell phones? And if you ask people that question, they go, it's because of cell phone technology. Or is it because of those wretched teenagers or it's because you know, evil tech companies are busy designing algorithms, which are addictive? Certainly that's true to some degree. But the reality is that you can't understand teenage cell phone usage without stepping back and looking at what people don't talk about, which is how teenagers move in the real physical world. And if you go back 100 years, teenagers had a lot of opportunities to physically roam, to meet their friends on the streets, even 50 years ago, they went to the shopping mall. They cycled to school. They would hang out with their friends on the fields, without parents watching every move. But in the 21st century, and even before lockdown, you had a whole generation of middle class American teenagers, particularly in suburbs, who essentially are overscheduled. They are driven everywhere by their parents constantly being monitored. And then you go into the pandemic, and suddenly this sense of physical constraint is even more extreme. So is it any surprise that you have a generation of people who think that the only place as a teenager that you can test boundaries, congregate spontaneously, explore the world without parents watching is online, in cyberspace? You can't talk about cyberspace experience without looking at the physical world. That's the social silence, to use a word that anthropologists sometimes use. And that model or metaphor applies over and over again to almost any aspect of modern life. Andi Simon: You said something very profound and well worth emphasizing. The times make the man or the man makes the times. Here we have a transformation of trust and of safety. When I was a kid growing up, we would go outside and play stickball on the street, and get on my bike and ride to the mall to go shopping with nobody. As my kids grew up, we began to realize how much more structured their lives were without thinking about the implications of it. I don't think we spend our time saying that's good or that's not good. We sort of flow with what society is doing and then you have all of the after effects of transformation. I've had several university clients who are frustrated because they couldn't get their Gen Ys, now the Gen Zs, to come in and play athletics. They spent their days on video games. And they were much happier playing a video game and not coming in to go play baseball or basketball or watch them. And socializing with more challenges. I actually had a grownup client, a professional, who spent his weekends playing games. His whole friendship network was there. And as an observer, I said, Oh, this is really a pure point, a transformation of our society without much intentionality here, if you know the world he was in, he never met any of the folks that he played with, which by itself was sort of an interesting and new and bizarre society in which we're in. You know, as you're thinking about what's coming next, I don't know when the pandemic is really going to end or if we're going to live in a COVID world for a while. Are you? As this is a futurist podcast, I would like to ask what are the signs you're seeing? What do you hear coming through? I have a hunch, you're picking up little signals already that you're curious about? Because I know I am. What do you see? Gillian Tett: Well, I think that people have been forced to re-examine how they're living. And what is fascinating was the late 20th century was a time when people had quite rigid boundaries between home and work in many professional contexts. Not always, but most western professionals thought that the office was a place you worked in, you might bring work back to home. But that was separate, you had a work time and a home time. You had your office colleagues, your friends, your family, they all sat in different buckets and we took that for granted. The reality is that actually that pattern of the 20th century is an absolute aberration throughout most of human history, and even throughout many parts of the world today. And what COVID has done has tossed most of us back into a state of being something like a peasant farmer, where your house is your locus of work, and your family is mixed up with your colleagues and everything else. And we may not like it, but it certainly challenged our boundaries. I don't think it'd be that easy for people to recreate those boundaries in such a rigid way going forward. A second change that's happened, which is not so bad, is because we've been locked down in our own groups, I think maybe we've become myopic. We've basically been locked down with people just like us, our pod, our friends. And people thought initially that when we went online, we would somehow break down our tribalism. Quite the reverse has happened because the key thing to understand about the internet is that it allows us to customize our identities and experiences in a way that's never been possible before. And I think it's changed our vision of how we as individuals relate to society. You know, most societies in human history have seen the individual as a derivative of society. We're a cog that fits into a machine with identities that are pre-assigned. You know the enlightenment in Europe and this idea that we are the center of our society. The "me generation." "I think, therefore I am." Society's derivative of me. 21st century with digital tools has given us the capability to basically customize our world as we want to know. We customize our coffee choices, our media sources, our friendship groups, and identities online. We customize our music tastes. Today's generation doesn't want to have a vinyl record, which has been pre-assembled with someone else. We want our own pick of a mix of music to listen to when we want, exactly what we want. And that's really a shift that's been exacerbated by the pandemic because we've been so reliant on cyberspace. And it's made us even more tribal, I think, in a very bad way. Another shift that's happened is that people's sense of the future, being a predictable, rigid path that goes in one direction has been shaken by the pandemic. Late 20th century was a time where most Westerners had lived a pretty stable life, pretty predictable life...no longer. And it was also a world where people thought okay, so I have business economics in one bucket, and sort of a do-gooding environment, social issues in another. And I think, again, that's breaking down. And you can see that in the corporate world where, essentially, companies are realizing that environmental, social and governance issues aren't just about activism, they're about risk management, about making sure that you don't suffer reputational risks, or the loss of assets that lose value if the regulatory climate change changes, and you don't alienate your customers and your employees. So people are no longer seeing business in just such a rigid tunnel vision way, it's more about lateral vision. And that's very, very important. And last but not least, I'd say that another shift has been in terms of cryptocurrencies and finance. In some ways, the move into cryptocurrencies, the move into meme stocks, is also part of this pick and mix culture. Patterns of trust are changing. As anthropologists, we used to say there was either vertical trust, or horizontal trust, where people trusted each other in peer-to-peer groups. This provides a social group glue to keep groups together. Or, you had vertical trust, which was trust in institutions and leaders on a large scale. It was presumed that when you had big groups, you couldn't have horizontal trust. Digital platforms have enabled something called distributed trust to explode. Suddenly, huge groups of people can do things on the basis of trusting each other via digital tools. That's how Airbnb operates. It's also how most cryptocurrencies operate. You trust the crowd through a digital platform, but not through an organizational hierarchy. And that's, again, changing people's attitude toward money and value and exchanges in a fascinating way. Andi Simon: If we write about this in about five years, we will have captured a major catalytic moment transforming society. If you listen to the multipliers of what we've just described, when I work with my own CEOs, mostly mid-market size clients, they are becoming far more stuck, stalled and immobilized than they've ever experienced in the past. They don't know what to do. And what's so fascinating to me is that they really don't know what to do. And they're not willing to go out of their corner office, out of their comfort zone to begin to see. And so they're really struggling with whether or not their businesses are going to survive. And there's no reason why they can't survive, they just have to change. And all of a sudden, that entrepreneurial spirit that got them there is stalled. And the certainty you spoke about, I'm not sure that was true, or an illusion that humans prefer certainty versus being fragile. But in fact, it's really raising up those people who can see opportunity in being agile, and I'm willing to change. The brain hates me when I go into a company to say, You're going to change and immediately all that cortisol is produced, and they go, Oh, please get out of here. But in fact, I do think there's going to be a training ground now for the agility that's needed for the next phase. Because as we come out of this, it's not going to be certain either, and nobody can really plan the way they might have thought. And I don't think that you should plan anything. I think you should try to be nimble, agile, adaptive, and talk to people. You speak about the silence, it's a great time to start listening. Just talk to people and you don't have to do it in person if you don't want to, but you can try. But I do think it's a time to listen to each other and not decide anything, just pull it in and just be anthropologists. Just listen to the conversations. Judith Glaser has a wonderful book on conversational intelligence, that you start by saying all of society are conversations. And I truly think that's a simple way of saying, Yep, just listen to each other. But the conversations are hanging out, and begin to think about what's really going on in those conversations. It's a little like that picture of that scene when they say, Who's doing the subprime mortgages. What are we missing? You have some great five big things in Anthro-Vision. Do you want to share them with our audience? I guess I'm pushing people to bring a little anthropology into your life. It's important and one of those five things. Gillian Tett: Absolutely. Well, having said you can't boil anthropology down to a PowerPoint, here's my PowerPoint. Lesson one: recognize that we're all creatures of our own environment. In a cultural sense, we're all fundamentally shaped by a set of assumptions that we inherit from our surroundings that we never usually think about. And they matter. Lesson two: recognize that just because we are shaped by sort of assumptions, that doesn't mean they're universal. It sounds very obvious, but the reality is that it's human nature to assume that the way that we live and operate and function is not just inevitable, but natural and proper, and that everyone else would kind of live like us. And guess what, there's a multitude of different ways to live and think, and if you think that yours is the only right way, you're going to suffer badly in business. Lesson three: coming out of this is to take time to immerse yourself periodically in the minds and lives of people who seem different from you. In my case, I went to Tajikistan, which for someone having grown up in England, it was very, very different indeed. But you don't have to go to the other side of the world of Hindu Kush. Just go talk to someone down the end of your road who lives in a different world. Go talk to someone in a different department, go take a different route to work, go swap a day with someone with a different profession. And if you can't do it physically, because of the pandemic, get online and basically explore another tribe online. And then mentality: I mean, just change the people you follow on Twitter, say for a week, and you'll see a completely different perspective on life. And then lesson five: for us, the experience of immersing yourself in the minds of others to become a stranger in your own land, and to look back at yourself with fresh eyes, and see what a stranger would consider to be weird or shocking, or impressive about how you live and your assumptions. And think about what you're not thinking about. What are the parts of your life that you're ignoring, the social silences, often thinking about the rituals that you're using in your everyday life, the symbols, the patterns that you use to organize your space, and your family groups, or your time. Those can often be very revealing, if you step back and look at them with an inside or outside his eyes. You know, why would you consider it to be odd to keep your hairbrush in the fridge? What does that mean? I mean, what are you missing? Well, what is one of your ideas about different body parts and about your mouth versus your hair, or you know all these inbuilt assumptions, which you take for granted, but are often very revealing. There's nothing wrong with the patterns we inherit from our surroundings, unless we remain prisoners of them and cannot imagine alternatives. And right now, as we come out of the pandemic, try to reimagine the world and recover and rebuild. It really is time to have an open mind, particularly after a pandemic that's kept us locked down mentally and physically, and in danger of being captured by tribalism. Andi Simon: What a beautiful ending, Gillian. Thank you so much. I've had such fun. It's fun to wander with you. Any last thoughts? How can they reach you? And how can they buy your book? Gillian Tett: First, let me say what a great joy it has been to do this with you. And I greatly salute what you've done in your own career, which is fascinating. I write for the Financial Times, twice a week with columns. I also oversee a platform called Moral Money, which is the ESG sustainability platform at the FT, which is a newsletter that goes out three times a week. And my new book, Anthro-Vision, is out on sale. I should say last but not least, as another sign of culture, if you're listening to this in America, you can find my book Anthro-Vision, with a bright red jacket cover, and a picture of me on the back wearing a bright red top looking like Fox TV because that sells in America. If you pick up my book in the UK, or any part of the former Commonwealth as they say, you'll find my book is sold with a nice white understated cover with a picture of me on the back, wearing a blue shirt on a stoop clutching a cup of coffee. The British publishers thought that a picture of me looking like a Fox TV babe was too scary for the British market. And therein lies a story about why culture matters. Andi Simon: And you hope they're right. Well, I think that for the listeners, and our audience, whether you're watching this or listening to us, it's been truly a special time to share the essence of On the Brink with Andi Simon, our podcast, but my job is to help you get off the brink helping you to see, feel, and think through a fresh lens. There is so much going on today that's going to expand in a positive way the possibilities that are before you. It's the art of possibilities now. And rather than trying to go back...people say, I can't wait till the old comes back. It's not coming back because I don't even know what the old was and you don't either. But you also know that the new is giving you opportunities that are tremendous. Think about them in a positive way and you'll see them turning lemons into lemonade or limes into margaritas as somebody said to me recently. It's a great time. Gillian, thank you for joining me today. And for our listeners, don't forget, here's what I'd like you to do. I get emails from across the globe at info@Andisimon.com. You send me your ideas, you send me people whom you want me to interview. Send them to me, give me some ideas about topics that would be cool for you. I actually am doing a Leadership Academy and one of the gentlemen there, a physician, said, You know, my sons are listening to your podcast, and I laughed, and I said, How old? Eight and ten! I said, so that's my target audience. And I will keep talking to them, but they should listen because I think they and you will really benefit from understanding how a little anthropology can help you and your business soar. Bye bye now. Stay well. Bye bye.

307: Rebecca Morrison—Women, Are You Ready To Find Your Happiness? Is It All Around You?

Every Soldier Counts Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 37:01

Hear how to find your own true happiness Each podcast is a story for our guest to share with you, our audience, so you can “see, feel and think” in new ways. Today's podcast is with Rebecca “Becky” Morrison. She shares with you a recurring theme which we have found with many of our own clients: success is not what it is meant to be. Happiness, that thing we all aspire to achieve, is somewhere beyond the job, the career, and even the home life you have built for yourself and your family. But where is happiness? And how do you find it? Becky has great answers, which I know will speak to you. Watch and listen to our conversation here In our conversation, Becky and I talk about her discovering: Happiness is for every day, not just someday. Happiness is for everyone. You, yes YOU, were born to be happy. Happiness and challenge are NOT mutually exclusive. Happiness isn't one-size-fits-all. You have your own happiness recipe which will change as your life does. Her recipe, captured in her book, The Happiness Recipe, is all about simplifying your life. Some of these themes echo our own work at SAMC with the Challenge of Taking Care of You. I love Becky's ideas about decluttering your day. Eliminate the painful “should” and “have-to's.” Refocus on what matters. But what matters to you? For our clients, it is often the elusive sense of purpose and meaning. For you, it could be personal well-being or belonging to a community that helps each other enjoy life. Maybe it is hiking, or being still, or spending more time with your children and their children. About Rebecca Morrison Rebecca C. Morrison is a mom, wife and lawyer turned happiness coach. A graduate of Wellesley College and Georgetown Law, she also received an executive coaching certification from UC Berkeley. Having worked in finance and Big Law for over 20 years before starting a business doing what she loves, she now helps other people become happier and more successful by applying the principles of priority-aligned living. You can connect with Rebecca on LinkedIn, her website untanglehappiness.com or her email: becky@untanglehappiness.com. Searching for that thing called happiness? Here are some places to start Blog: 5 Ways You Can Find Happiness And Joy In These Turbulent Times Blog: Stuck or Stalled? The Time is Right to Rethink Your Journey Podcast: Meg Nocero—Can You Feel Joy As You Rethink Your Life? Additional resources for you My best-selling new book: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business My award-winning first book: On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Simon Associates Management Consultants website Read the transcript of our podcast here Andi Simon: Hi and welcome to On the Brink: A fresh lens to take you and your business to new heights. I'm Andi Simon, I'm your host and your guide. And as you know, my job is to help get you off the brink. And I must tell you, I have listeners who come from across the globe who say to me, You have no idea how that little kernel of an idea transformed my life. It's interesting because sharing all of these wonderful ideas, particularly coming out of the pandemic, coming through a changing time, and I never want to waste a crisis, it's important for us to realize that there are new ideas out there that can help us. And why not learn more about them. Who knows how they can help you? So I have the honor today to bring to you Rebecca, Becky, Morrison, and Becky has a new book out. She'll tell you all about how to untangle happiness and find it. But I also want to tell you a little bit about her, her own bio, her background, because she didn't jump off the ship and say, Here I am, I'm going to help you with happiness. She went through a journey that reflects so much of what I'm finding with my coaching, my executive coaching of women reaching a place where they're successful. And it's not enough. Men too, they reach a place in their careers and they wonder, Isn't there anything more? So we're going to talk today about finding purpose, finding happiness, finding what's missing. That little link that doesn't seem right. A little bit more about Becky. Rebecca Morrison is a mom, a wife, a lawyer, turned happiness coach. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Georgetown Law. She also received an executive coaching certification from UC Berkeley. She worked in finance and big law for over 20 years. And she reflects, as so many of my clients who have been very successful, and then they said there is more to it. She spends her days helping clients uncover their own happiness recipe. The book is called The Happiness Recipe. And by applying the principles of priority-aligned living, she's thrilled to share them with you all as part of the book. Becky, thank you for coming along. It's been so much fun meeting you. Becky Morrison: Thank you, Andi, I'm really excited to be here and talk about obviously one of my favorite topics with you and your listeners. Andi Simon: Well, I think the first thing we're going to do is, who is Becky Morrison? What's your journey? Your story is a wonderful one but it also reflects an enormous population of folks out there who are following very much the same footsteps and wondering, really, what is this all about? And I can't tell you how many attorneys I've met at gatherings over the last several years, women in particular, who say, Well, I'm pretty successful, but not quite sure this is what I want to do for the rest of my career. How about yourself? What's your story? Becky Morrison: So it's interesting because you describe that moment of like, I'm pretty successful, but what else, right? And I think I've gone through that experience at least three times in my career, maybe four. But the first one was, I think I've often described it as the kicking off point for this journey, happened back when I was a relatively new litigator. I was about four years into a job at a big law firm on partnership track, married, had a toddler at the time, and found myself one evening on the floor of the bathroom with my toddler in the tub and the cordless phone clipped to the back of my pants and the toilet seat cover closed and the notebook on the toilet seat cover, the papers all around me. And I was doing two things: I was bathing my toddler, and I was working with an expert on a conference call to get them ready for their upcoming testimony. And I had two thoughts in super quick succession in that moment. The first thought was, who says you can't have it all? Like, here I am. I'm killing it. And the second thought was, I'm exhausted and this is unsustainable. And more importantly than all of that, I'm not sure this is really enough. This is not really making me happy, that I really want to be an attorney. Which I mean, when you've gone into six figures of debt to get through law school, like me, wait a minute, you don't want to like that you're making good money, you're on the right track, there's gonna be a payoff. It'll be okay. So that was the first moment like that that I had in my career. And it led me on this path of incrementally increasing my happiness each time I made a change and then continuing to have that kind of conversation with myself about what else am I missing? So from that point, I made a shift to law firm administration. That was a really positive shift because it gave me more time and freedom. I still got to use my legal brain and my legal education. It was kind of a hybrid attorney, attorney administrator role. And then again I reached a moment, after about a decade doing that, of like, okay, well, this is fun, but now what? What's next? Where's more? And at that point I was faced with the choice of, do I double down on this career and legal technology that I've developed and really become a well known expert in that space, which I felt I had the ability to do, or do I do something else entirely. And what I realized is, I'm not doubling down, again, done this before on something that I'm not sure is for me, and so I took really kind of another left turn and left the legal space entirely and went into more entrepreneurial finance space to be a COO, because people in process have always been at the heart of my work. I had a lot of fun for the first two years because it was a new environment. It was fun to have an impact. It was fun not to be part of a big organization. And then again, I sort of reached a point where they weren't growing the way that we anticipated and the CEO and I agreed that it was not right for me to stick around long term. Even though I didn't get laid off, and I didn't get fired, the practical impact was the same. I still had to find a new job, right? And so again, I did this exercise. Well, what can I do? And let me think about all the jobs I'm qualified for. Well, I'm a lawyer who's managed 100+, 200+ attorneys and staff at various times in my career. I've got a strong process background. I've got a management background, I still have my Bar license. Let me apply for all the jobs and again, had this thought of wait a minute, wait a minute, what do I want to do? What am I really here for? What is my purpose, not just in life, generally, but more specifically, in this season of my life? What is my purpose? And I hired a coach, and that coach facilitated for me a really wide range exploration of all the possibilities. And then I ended up at UC Berkeley to get my coaching certification. Andi Simon: That is pretty cool. It's interesting listening to you. I have a wonderful client and she is a successful partner in an accounting firm, a CPA, MBA, raised three kids alone, single mom, successful. And her shrink fired her. The person said, No, you've got to do something. You can't keep talking about how unhappy you are. And so we went through our process, and I'm anxious for you to share yours. But usually it's in the story, you're managing your mind, your mind does exactly what it thinks you want it to do. I'm thinking about her experience in yours. I could stay in that zone. If you were a guy, my hunch is, you might have actually stayed in that zone because you were moving up the corporate ladder, making more money. It was all in that category of how you will be successful. But the women I work with have a different mindset. They're asking some profound questions about what's the meaning, what's the purpose? We talked a lot about Gen Z asking that, both men and women, and we're finding that the pandemic has been a catalytic moment. For a huge population, you can talk about the great resignation, whether it's the boomers or if it's youngsters, everybody's asking, what is it about work? What is work anyhow? What should we be doing? So what happened? You got your coaching. Did you become a coach, and then begin to build your business? Becky Morrison: So I showed up at UC Berkeley for a 10-day intensive, back when we were still doing 10-day intensives in person. And the first day, one of the first exercises they take you through, they call it the soul portrait and you stand up in front of a room. And at this point, all you've done with your cohort peers is exchange first names. That's it. And so you don't really know each other, and they ask you some really big coaching questions. And one of the questions they asked me was, What is your purpose? And I answered: to spread joy. And then I looked around, like who the heck said that? Because that was not something that I have ever consciously expressed before. Andi Simon: I love the line. That is a purpose statement, isn't it? Becky Morrison: And so then I said, Well, that's interesting. I'm not sure what I'm going do with that. Let me go through this experience. My thought had been with coaching, actually, to take back some executive and leadership coaching work into law firms, because lawyers are not trained in law school to be either leaders or managers, which means that some are and some aren't. It depends on the firm and it depends on the structure that they've given you to develop those skills. And so I thought, hey, this could be fun because I really like that piece. I've seen firsthand how it can actually influence, not just the success of the individual, but the success of the firm or the client engagement to have people who aren't good leaders and managers there. Actually, I should just say effective. It's not about good and bad, it's about whether we have the skills, and that was my intention. So I left Berkeley and had a bunch of certification hours that I needed to do. And so I engaged in a wide range of exploration of coaching. I saw different people at different places, different careers, different backgrounds, just to see what I might like. And I found a thread. And the thread was the one you've described, which is, I've done a lot, I've checked a lot of boxes, but something is missing. And I was like, this is an interesting thread because I'm familiar with this thread. You'll recall, I've experienced this thread personally, throughout the course of my life, and that led me to really thinking that that's the space I wanted to be playing in, but I wasn't sure how that was going to look. And I had an intention in February of 2020. I got my certification, and thought, okay, cool, so now I'm going to really dial into this niche of trying to help people figure this stuff out. How will I do that? Well, I'm going to go and do a bunch of networking conversations and then I'm going to try and get some people to let me come in and do some lunch-and-learns so that I can kind of develop by experimentation because that's how I roll my framework, my approach, see what works, what doesn't, test out what I'm thinking. Then March happened and there was no in-person anything. And there was no virtual anything for a period of time because people were really in survival mode as they needed to be. And so I decided to join a writer's retreat, instead thinking that that would give me some structure to play with some content. And thus, my book was born. I did not intend to write a book. I showed up to the first meeting of that writers' retreat group, in fact, and said, I'm here, I'm here to support you, if you're writing a book, that's awesome. I just want some structure for writing and creating content, I will not be writing a book. And out of my small pot of five writing peers, we still meet actually to this day, they're delightful. But I'm the first person to take a book to market. Famous last words, I'm not writing a book, but here we are. Andi Simon: Did you self-publish that book or find an editor? Becky Morrison: I sure did. And I did that intentionally because I didn't want to wait. It was very clear to me that the tools in this book were going to be helpful to people at the time that we're living in now. Because this experience of living through what we've lived through over the past two-ish years, for a lot of people have asked the question, it is called the prioritization question. It's really a global era of reprioritization, of really looking at what matters to us and how we want to live more in alignment with that. Andi Simon: Well, I think that is very exciting. If you look at my archetype, I'm an explorer. And I've always been on the margins of what was stable and certain, and I've always been an executive in organizations that were changing. And, you know, I love change. When I launched my company, it was as a corporate anthropologist to help companies change. And people hated me and loved me. They had to change, they didn't know how to change, and we needed to figure out how to change. But you are in your book, and in your beautiful website, and all the things that you're doing, transforming yourself and others at the same time. And I thought that this was a beautiful story to share. Because the transformation we're going through means your story's changing. And as you're telling it, their story is, and the challenge for people is that we like stability and continuity and certainty. And for the last two and a half years, we haven't had any of that. And consequently, humans are frail and very fragile when there's no stability. The ambiguity is as bad as dangerous places we can be in. Happiness? Who knows where that comes from? What will it look like? So you help them reestablish something. Help me, help them. How do you do it? What's your process? Becky Morrison: So there's two tracks that I like to play with. I like to play with them simultaneously, not in the same exact second, but as we're working together, we're coming at it from both ends. And the first end is, that is the piece that's in my book. It's how do we identify your top priorities for this season of your life, whatever that may be? And how do we start living more in alignment with that? And then how do we equip you to re-identify or re-evaluate or re-calibrate when the season changes? Because it will, we've seen it happen recently. The other end is, how do we at the same time that we're thinking about this greater architecture problem, how do we live happy or as happily as possible in the day-to-day without changing any circumstances? Because the science on happiness tells us that our circumstances matter to our happiness, but not nearly as much as our daily behaviors and thoughts you must be talking about. I think it's important to understand that there are two important pieces. That having positive emotional experiences, even in difficult circumstances, has really important neurological brain pathways and neurosystem benefits to us that equip us to do the bigger work of architecting our life. Andi Simon: Sonja Lyubomirsky has a wonderful book called The How of Happiness. And I've also taken the Coursera Yale course on The Science of Well Being, I'm sure you have too. And it's funny, a lot about the science of this, about half of it could come from the situation we're in, but the other part is really in our own hands. So I'm curious, how have you developed? You're two years into this business. I'm 20 years into my business and I love it. Talk about what you're discovering. So what are the things that matter to find happiness? And how do you actually do it? What are your thoughts? Becky Morrison: So the first thing, and when we talk about sort of coming at it from how do we improve everyday happiness, it's not going to happen by accident. It requires intentional action. And in order to take intentional action, to increase your happiness, you have to know what intentional action might bring more happiness. It's true, which I know sounds sort of obvious, except that a lot of people don't. One of the early exercises we'll do is something that I call finding your joy menu or finding your essential sources of joy. We will literally sit down and figure out what are the basic building blocks of your positive emotional experience as a human being because they're different for everybody. And when I ask people that, we ask it in a more casual way, like, what I feel happy when fill in the blank, and often people will come up with things like, I feel happy when I'm on vacation. I feel happy when I'm with a loved one. I feel happy when I can wrestle with my dog on the floor, or when I'm with my dog, or my dog makes me happy, whatever. That's great. But you can't always drop everything and go on vacation. And you can't always drop everything and spend a whole day with a loved one doing things you love. So the question is, how do you make it bite size so that it can drop into a day where it already feels full and overwhelming? So you take those things and you dig a little deeper. What is it about vacation? Or what is it about your dog or what is it about your loved one or time with your loved one, and let's get it all the way down to something that is literally dropper sized. So I'll give you an example. For me, one of the things that I love about vacation, we often go to warm climates for vacation, and I love the sun on my face. Well, I don't have to leave Virginia. It's not very sunny right now. It's in the evening, but the sun was out today. I can go outside and put the sun on my face multiple times a day anytime I want. And the key is, when I do it with the intention to absorb the sun, to enjoy the experience, to savor the warmth, then I've created a positive emotional experience for myself. And the more we do that, the more we broaden our abilities or capabilities in the moment and the more we build our stores of resilience, and both of those things are critically important to weather the tough stuff. Andi Simon: But I bet the onesies need twoseies and threesies. And I'm sure you add, besides going out to get sun on your face, which I agree with and it's 20 degrees here. So it's pretty cold. It's hard to get that warm feeling. Yeah, it's an illusion more than anything. And do you find that as you work with your folks, are there some patterns? Everyone is unique, but they're always a pattern. Becky Morrison: There are definitely patterns of a couple of things. There's patterns of joy. Each individual can identify the patterns that they have. But, then there's also patterns of the ways we block our joy. There's patterns of the ways we sabotage that. I have a client who we were doing this exercise with. And look, I don't mean to imply that in coaching, you come to me and you just get a joy menu. That's just the starting point. And it's a starting point so that you can start intentionally injecting positive emotions into your day so that you have the skill set we need to do the hard stuff, the deep work. But we were talking about this exercise because she was really at a point of feeling pretty burnt out. She's the dog parent with primary responsibility. And I was like, Well, how often are you outside with your dog? She's like, four or five times a day. Well, okay, are you enjoying that time? No, I'm not. I am on the phone every single time. So it's like, we have these things, but we block our access to them because we're so overwhelmed. The last pattern that I think is important is also the pattern of our nervous system. You said something really important earlier and it's that we are in a place where nothing is certain and uncertainty does not feel good. And it particularly doesn't feel good for the nervous system which has as one of its primary job descriptions to keep us safe. And certainly, if you think of it in very primal terms, is one of the hardest jobs out there. And so our nervous system is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is not okay, right? And so also, another pattern that can be really important is being able to realize when your nervous system is being triggered, or dysregulated. So you can take steps to work with that nervous system to put it back into a more regulated state so that you have more brain power, more executive function, to then do all of this other work to do the untangling, to do the unwinding. Andi Simon: I want to get to the untangling and the unwinding. There's wonderful work, I've been reading Daniel Pink's book Drive again, and I'm using it for a leadership program. But he builds from intrinsic, and that tension between the intrinsic in the extrinsic and what motivates you to the wonderful research that gets to purpose. And I love his three summits there: you need autonomy, then you need mastery, and then you need purpose. And if that's what you need to be motivated to do well, it also is the same kind of thing to feel happy. And I saw the daily side and the bigger purpose side. Talk to me about the bigger purpose side, because that's not inconsequential. That's actually what it's all about. Becky Morrison: That is what it's all about. And all this daily stuff that I do is actually, like I said, to equip you to do the purpose work, because that can be really big, deep, and a little bit jarring work if you haven't done it before. The one thing I will say is that I think about purpose a little bit differently than other people, in that I don't think about purpose as like a single north star to guide your life, or a single sort of, I'm put on this earth to do only this. I told you, when I went to Berkeley, they asked me what my purpose was and I said to spread joy. Yeah, I believe my purpose in this season of my life is to spread joy. And I believe that could change. And I'm open to it changing. And I now know, and I have the tools to recognize when the change might come. So all of that said, the purpose of my work that I do is really about identifying what is most important to you in this season of your life so that you can do more of that and less of the rest. But it starts with getting to a place where you can even take stock of what's on your plate, which if people are coming to me in the throes of overwhelm and burnout, is very difficult to do initially without first doing this coming down on the other side. That said, once we've got that under control, we can begin to dive in and say, Okay, what's really taking your time, energy and resources? What do we need to get rid of? What do you need more of and if I could somehow rewrite the recipe for happiness that I wrote myself, it would highlight the last of the rest as the most important. Andi Simon: We use similar approaches. I have a bunch of tools that I adopted from what I did with organizations who are full of people, to individualize, are they that different? Maybe, maybe not? But at the end of my book, Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business, I have a how-to, my seven steps. And I turned that into an online course called Rethink your journey with Andi Simon. And what's most interesting to me, though, is that you need to take a look. One of the things we do is take a look at the last 12 months and write down 10 things that really gave you joy. It's hard for people. I said, it's okay, dig deeper, you know, talk about it. And then 10 things that really gave you pain, that's often easier, but not pretty. And then we squeeze it down until we come to three or two or one of the most important values there. And then we go into a process much like yours: what are we going to do more of to emphasize the ones that give us pleasure, and less of, the get away from the ones that go through pain, but don't get a start, stop and are sacred. It's not hard. And when I do it with a group of people, I'm always fascinated because they really know how to change the organization. They work really hard doing it. First we have to figure out what it is we're going to do and then do it for an individual. It's very interesting watching the eyes as they're thinking about the things that they don't want to do anymore. It's okay to say no to the things that you don't want to do. How are you going to do that? Nobody's stopping you. But until you have a plan, a personal plan for happiness, you can't take steps in any direction. And I find that sometimes it symbolizes why Sonja's book was so fascinating because it wasn't that complicated. And I love the wonderful detailed course on the science of well-being. What makes you happy is kindness, gratitude, acts of giving, talking to people, exercise, and a good night's sleep. People said to me, yes, look at the research. And that tells you that there's science behind this, not just Andi Simon saying so. And it's a good time. So in your book, what's in your book, because I really want to go find your book. I just discovered your book, tell me what is in the book. Becky Morrison: So the book is based on exactly what I've already said. My premise for the recipe for happiness, which is: do more of what matters and less of the rest. I've identified three things. And you alluded to them that get in our way of execution. The first is, I call it the authenticity gap, but it's the knowing gap. Do you actually know? Do you have an awareness of what matters most to what you need to let go of? Are you willing to claim it right now? And then, we live in a doing world. So we go right from do you know, to how do we? And so that's actually my third gap. And I'm going to come back to the middle gap in a minute. But the third gap is what I call the physical energy gap. It's the doing gap. Are you actually living in alignment with that formula? And if not, how do you get there? How do you shift your behavior? How do you shift your habits? Habits, all of that, the middle gap is the believing gap. And it's the mindset gap. It's the things that stop us from taking the knowing into the doing. And we often forget to spend a little time there to say, What beliefs or feelings do I have today that might sabotage my ability to execute? Let's address those proactively. Let's figure out how to get over guilt, how to say no. How to stop what iffing, all the things, how to work with our nervous system, all of that lives in there. And one of my challenges is always theories. Theories are great but how do I execute them? I want to do, what's the doing. So I wanted to leave people with a set of tools. And so every single chapter has at least one exercise that you can deploy, to sort of move the needle on that topic. Whether it's saying no, or shutting down guilt or incorporating celebration, which is one of the things I put in the activity in the physical energy gap. But it's all there. Andi Simon: I'm enjoying listening to you. It's hard to find people who know what we do, who do it with joy. But I also always tell my folks to listen. Your mind does exactly what it thinks you want it to do. I like Marissa Pier's work. And I like Martin Seligman, stuff on positivity. But it is, I like the little bit of science in the story so that they can begin to understand that you have a story in your mind. Your mind said you can call it, but there's a story there. And that's your illusion of reality. And it's an illusion. And so nobody's making you feel sad, you are allowing your mind to feel sad. And there are things you can do, like gratitude. Diaries are gratitude and things that can change the chemistry in your brain make the oxytocin soar. And next thing you know, you're smiling. The second thing is that you live your habits. And those habits are very efficient. Your brain uses 25% of your body's energy. You wanted to do the habits, go for it. Learning something new takes energy. And the mind undermines it, that amygdala hijacks it. So as you're going from your two points, and that mindset in the middle, you've got to work on changing the story. And telling it often until your mind begins to see, feeling, thinking, believing it to be the new story. I'm glad you're shaking your head, yes instead of no because at the end of the day, you are what you are. And the last thing is, the mind goes to pleasure. Even if it's painful. It's what's familiar. And if you're going to make new things familiar, that means you need practice. I'll put a plug in here. We have these wonderful 30 day challenges designed to help people practice self care. And it's fascinating to watch because without practice, nothing changes. It takes about 30 days for a new habit to develop. So some of the things you do to help them because I think what you've got here is magical. It can really be transformative. Becky Morrison: Yeah. I think you've nailed it, right. And it's like this: if I'm a right handed person and I was told to start writing with my left hand. I could do it, but it's going to be hard. It's going to be uncomfortable. I'm not going to like the way it looks. I'm not going to like the way it feels. And unless my right hand is inaccessible, because it's hurt or in a cast, I'm just going to put the pen back in the right hand because it feels better. Even if you told me that key, if you learn to write with your left hand all these rewards await, you know it's just uncomfortable, right? And so you're absolutely right that there is an element of training that has to exist. The very first exercise in my book, I call it, Expect Discomfort. That has been the quickest way to defuse the power of discomfort is to anticipate it. When you are trying to resist that discomfort, when you are focused on the discomfort, when you're thinking ahead for more discomfort, it becomes all that much more uncomfortable. When you just expect this is going to feel funny, but I'm going to do it anyway, that can be a powerful tool. And so I think it is just practice, acknowledging the discomfort and taking a different action, whether that's a thought pattern or an actual habit that you're developing. Habits are an interesting one because they play a real role, as you highlighted, a really important role. And for many people who are very achievement driven, they can be an absolute mind game because we have this goal. Or I'll speak for myself, and I've experienced with many of my clients, checking the boxes of our habits. And it's like, if I can do it quicker, I'll get to the end quicker. But here's the spoiler: habit never ends. It only ends when you die. So where's the rush, my friend, to build a sustainable pattern of behavior when you're building a habit. So how do you do that in a way that you can start and build to where you want to go? Andi Simon: You know, as I think about what we're discussing, I think about my grandkids. They are happy kids, and I give my kids, my daughters, and their husbands a lot of credit for it. But it's also the surrounding world that they are in. The athletic games that they have. Horseback riding is pretty good for happiness. And, it's interesting to watch them grow with smiles on their faces. But I also know that you nourish it, and you nurture it, and you teach them how to think happy. And don't think it just happens. You need, all during their early years, to form that mindset that says, I'm a happy person, my cup is half full or overflowing. And it's okay to be like that. And so you know, parents, think carefully about the impact your own stories have on your children, because you want them to have a story about their happy person. However we define that this is such fun. Becky, we're about ready to wrap up. You and I can talk a lot. We may try it again, in six months, you can tell us how you're doing because this is a new venture that I hope does well. And I hope that our listeners think, What can Becky do to help me? And how can her book help me as well? Where can they find the book? And how can they get to know you? Becky Morrison: Let me go in reverse order. The best place to find me online is on my website, which is untanglehappiness.com. And you can get links to buy the book there. You can find me on social media there. And you can learn more about the work that I do there. So I'll make it one stop shopping. Andi Simon: Good. It's also a beautiful website done beautifully. And she looks beautiful there too. You want to say you're a happy woman? Well, I think this has been such a pleasure. Thank you so much. So to all of our listeners across the globe, thank you for coming. It's always a pleasure to share great people with you, like Becky Morrison. And part of my job is to help you get off the brink. And so today's On the Brink with Andi Simon has been all designed to help you to find that happiness. It's right there in front of you, if only you can see it. And that's a really interesting opportunity because there's a little bit of science that can help you understand that the way forward is all around you, if only you can see it, open your eyes, get a fresh lens and begin to think about what makes you happy and do more of that and less of what doesn't. It's not as sophisticated as you might think. But it does help sometimes to have a coach. We're both coaches, and we both want you to turn lemons into lemonade or someone said, limes into margaritas. Whatever makes you happy. It's okay. Our books are all on Amazon. The Happiness Recipe is certainly on Amazon. Both of my books, On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights, and Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business, just a year old and it's been doing gangbusters stuff and turning lots of women to see what's possible. One of my favorite reviews when it first came out was a gentleman who said, I have a 13-year-old daughter, she's a minority and I finally have a book I can give her to show her what she can be. That's the whole point of sharing our stories. So, thanks for coming. Keep sharing stories and bring me lots of good guests. I love sharing their stories. And when you bring them along, it's pretty fun. Goodbye, Becky. Have a great day. All of you, stay safe, stay healthy. Bye bye now. Good. It's also a beautiful website done beautifully. And she looks beautiful there too. You want to say you're a happy woman? Well, I think this has been such a pleasure. Thank you so much. So to all of our listeners across the globe, thank you for coming. It's always a pleasure to share great people with you, like Becky Morrison. And part of my job is to help you get off the brink. And so today's On the Brink with Andi Simon has been all designed to help you to find that happiness. It's right there in front of you, if only you can see it. And that's a really interesting opportunity because there's a little bit of science that can help you understand that the way forward is all around you, if only you can see it, open your eyes, get a fresh lens and begin to think about what makes you happy and do more of that and less of what doesn't. It's not as sophisticated as you might think. But it does help sometimes to have a coach. We're both coaches, and we both want you to turn lemons into lemonade or someone said, limes into margaritas. Whatever makes you happy. It's okay. Our books are all on Amazon. The Happiness Recipe is certainly on Amazon. Both of my books, On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights, and Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business, just a year old and it's been doing gangbusters stuff and turning lots of women to see what's possible. One of my favorite reviews when it first came out was a gentleman who said, I have a 13-year-old daughter, she's a minority and I finally have a book I can give her to show her what she can be. That's the whole point of sharing our stories. So, thanks for coming. Keep sharing stories and bring me lots of good guests. I love sharing their stories. And when you bring them along, it's pretty fun. Goodbye, Becky. Have a great day. All of you, stay safe, stay healthy. Bye bye now.

Rethink Money, with Andi Simon, PhD

Money Tales

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2022 38:15

In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Andrea J. Simon, Ph.D. (“Andi”.) Andi is a culture change expert and an explorer at heart, someone who is interested in the stories we tell ourselves and each other. She advocates for smashing those myths that hold us back. In this episode, Andi brings her expertise and tools to money conversations, helping us understand what we can do to create new money stories for ourselves. Andi is an international leader in the growing field of corporate anthropology, an Axiom bronze Best Business Book of 2017 winning author of “On the Brink: A fresh lens to take your business to new heights,” and the founder and CEO of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC). SAMC was recognized in 2020 and 2021 as the best New York Corporate Anthropology Agency. Andi's new book is entitled “Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business.” "Rethink" shows how women today are challenging the expected norms of business. Her talks on Change Matters and Blue Ocean Strategy have been featured in over 500 engagements. She is widely covered in the media. Her podcast, On the Brink, is ranked among the top 20 for futurists and is in the top 5% of global podcasts. Her clients come from across the globe and span industries as she helps them come “off the brink,” and learn how to soar again. Learn more about Money Tale$ > Subscribe to the podcast Recent episodes See all episodes > Form CRS Form ADV Terms of Use Privacy Rights and Policies

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Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Andi Simon, PhD, exploring her work as a Corporate Anthropologist and Author of the books, On the Brink: A fresh lens to take your business to new heights, and Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business._____LINKShttps://www.simonassociates.nethttps://www.andisimon.comOn the Brink Podcast_____BOOKSOn the Brink - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1626342806?tag=&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1Rethink - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1734324880?tag=&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1_____Andrea J. Simon, Ph.D. (“Andi”) is an international leader in the growing field of corporate anthropology, an Axiom bronze Best Business Book of 2017 winning author of On the Brink: A fresh lens to take your business to new heights, and the founder and CEO of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC). SAMC was recognized in 2020 and 2021 as the best New York Corporate Anthropology Agency. Andi's new book is entitled Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business. Released in January of 2021, Rethink shows how women today are challenging the expected norms of business and crashing through with extraordinary creative business, legal and professional solutions. From this research, she developed coaching and an online course for women to discover their best selves. Called Rethink Your Journey with Andi Simon, the program was built with women for women.Using the approach of anthropology, Andi enables organizations to see their cultures with observant eyes, achieve “aha!” moments, and discover new and profitable opportunities. What is equally important is how her approach enables individuals in those organizations to embrace change, personally and professionally.Her talks on Change Matters and Blue Ocean Strategy have been featured in over 500 engagements. She is widely covered in Inc.com, Business Week, Good Morning America, and Modern Healthcare and has been a blogger for Forbes and Fierce Healthcare. With more than 1 million annual listeners, her podcast, On the Brink with Andi Simon, is ranked among the top 200 business podcasts for entrepreneurship and rated among the top 20 futurist podcasts._____In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of Fall In Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy.Learn more at https://www.lovechildrenplanet.comFollow Frank on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaefferhttps://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTubeIn Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer PodcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-conversation-with-frank-schaeffer/id1570357787 _____Support the show

Every Soldier Counts Podcast - Episode 19: Lead From the Front!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2021

Sergeant Audie Murphy has been an inspiring figure in the U.S. Army for decades, and the Army's premiere leadership organization pays tribute to his service. On this episode of the Every Soldier Counts Podcast, we talk with Master Sgt. Harry Willis III, who helped revitalize the Area IV Sergeant Audie Murphy Club. We also talk to MSG Willis about his early Army career (8:45), how he once qualified for the All-Army Wrestling Team (11:15) and how he keeps himself motivated (19:20).

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#895 - Asylum Seekers, Undocumented Immigrants, and the Gospel: Dr. Rebecca Poe Hays and John Garland

Theology in the Raw

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2021

“About 5% of what you see on the news reflects the reality of what's going on at the border,” says pastor John Garland, who's been living out the gospel at the border. In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Poe Hays and John Garland walk us through what it means to be a Christian and live out the kingdom of God toward a marginalized and misunderstood group of fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. And how the Psalms are a Spirit-inspired guide to trauma therapy. Dr. Rebecca Poe Hays is Assistant Professor of Christian Scriptures. Ph.D. from Baylor University, where she teaches biblical Hebrew, Old Testament, and the Psalms. Author of The Function of Story in the Hebrew Psalter John Garland is the pastor of the San Antonio Mennonite Church and Chaplain of the Interfaith Welcome Coalition. John became pastor of SAMC in 2016 during an immigration crisis that has dramatically shaped the church and its ministry. John is currently doing doctoral work on communal trauma, spiritual resilience, and the Psalms. He is a fellow at the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty. He is the National Association of Social Workers' Texas 2020 "Public Citizen of the Year." Some articles written by John and Rebecca:https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/june-web-only/migrant-san-antonio-border-trauma-therapy.htmlhttps://www.baptiststandard.com/falling-seed/psalms-are-ancient-resource-for-a-novel-time-part-1/Faith, Sexuality, and Gender Conference - Live in Boise or Stream OnlineIn the all-day conference, Dr. Preston Sprinkle dives deep into the theological, relational, and ministry-related questions that come up in the LGBTQ conversation.Support PrestonSupport Preston by going to patreon.comVenmo: @Preston-Sprinkle-1Connect with PrestonTwitter | @PrestonSprinkleInstagram | @preston.sprinkleYoutube | Preston SprinkleTwitter | @RawTheologyInstagram | @TheologyintheRawCheck out Dr. Sprinkle's website prestonsprinkle.comIf you enjoy the podcast, be sure to leave a review.

275: Carol Poore—Impactful Strategies Come In Three Parts. Ready To Try Yours?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 28:05

Learn how to craft a strategy that delivers the results you want Remember, my job is to help you get off the brink. How do I do that? By helping you see, feel and think in new ways. As a corporate anthropologist, I go looking for people who can help you do just that: see in new ways the things you may have done the same old way for a long time. Carol Poore is one of those people. We met through our publisher, Greenleaf Book Group, and I learned that she has a new book coming out on business strategy. Since I'm a Blue Ocean Strategist, I was particularly interested in understanding her perspective and how it could add new meaning to the way we at SAMC approach strategy, and how you do too. How do you approach your strategy, both your personal one and your business one? It's important to understand that in order to get to your destination, whatever your goal might be. Do take a listen! Watch and listen to our conversation here What will you learn during this podcast? A whole lot about how to customize your strategic planning process so that it turns into an extraordinary execution that delivers the results you anticipated. Carol's book, Strategic Impact : A Leader's Three-Step Framework for the Customized Vital Strategic Plan, presents her proprietary method for customizing your organization's strategic planning program. The key is her 3-step framework, applicable to any organization regardless of size, scale or structure, which enables you to: •Declutter the typically complicated strategic planning process. •Plan and lead a leadership workshop culminating in strategic goals. •Craft a compelling written strategic plan which can be digitized and communicated through social media. •Implement an effective tracking and communication system to monitor progress and ensure accountability. •Engage employees, customers and key audiences in celebrating your organization's strategic impact. As you listen to this podcast, keep in mind that a strategy is really a simple story. It's a way to organize the data in your mind and in your organization into a simple approach to getting to a destination. I emphasize that it needs to be simple and easy to implement, otherwise it's just a concept that goes nowhere. About Carol Poore President of Poore & Associates Strategic Planning, Carol Poore delivers effective leadership and transformational results for a unique range of organizations and clients. Her expertise and accomplishments include helping senior executives, emerging leaders and consultants develop a Vital Strategic Plan; expanding the internal capacity of large companies, small businesses, nonprofits and government organizations through her 3-step program; launching and growing a subsidiary company for Salt River Project, achieving $500 million in sales revenue within three years; developing the Parsons Center for Health and Wellness, a nonprofit community health center, raising more than $23 million in private and government grant funding; and tripling donations for Arizona State University's West Campus. You can connect with Carol on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and her website, or email her at cpoore5@cox.net. Want to learn more about effective strategy? We recommend these: Blog: Will You Adapt Or Die? How Cultural Anthropology Can Transform Your Business Strategy Blog: Is Everyone Winning But You? Time For A Blue Ocean Strategy®! Podcast: Tony Guarnaccia—Can A Better Strategy Really Help Your Business Thrive? Additional resources for you My best-selling new book: "Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business" My award-winning first book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website {{cta('20db9f83-fb49-4483-b118-61d915909275','justifyleft')}}

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New Year, New You: Why Health Is Wealth

The Entrepreneurial You

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 37:27

I am pleased to share with you that over the next 5 weeks I will be releasing the presentations from speakers at the Slow Down & Live: Health is Wealth virtual event that was held in January. I am excited to share these recordings because I learnt so much and I know you perhaps didn't get to attend and even if you did, a replay would be good. You may remember that my motivation came from my own personal experience with my health that was challenged. I am committing to staying healthy and I want you to as well. You will be hearing topics a follows: ➡️New Year, New You: Why Health Is Wealth ➡️Parenting And Behavioural Health In Caribbean Children ➡️Food As Medicine: Why A Whole Food Plant-Based Diet May Be The Answer To Your Health Problems ➡️Miracle Mineral: Magnesium As A Response To Burn Out ➡️Adrenal Fatigue: Why Aren't More Medical Doctors Diagnosing It? Today, I am starting with Dr Nsombi Jaja as she talks about New Year, New You: Why Health Is Wealth. Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Identify how to take care of your body so it can function in such a way that cooperates with our mind , spirit and emotions to create the life we want. Learn about the 4 critical dimensions of our lives that we build our dreams on. Hear Dr Jaja's first hand account of what it means when you neglect your health. Episode Highlights Dr Nsombi Jaja mentions ways the body warns us and how to pay attention and take action She reminds us that its important to rest without guilt. Dr Jaja reminds us that we should take nothing for granted and that self care should be a continuous thing. We are told to appreciate life and what we have before we are forced to appreciate what we had. 4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode “If one leg of the stool is defective the whole stool is dysfunctional” “Take care of your body so it can function in such a way that cooperates with our mind , spirit and emotions to create the life we want” “We think we can do everything the mind tells us but often times our body cannot cooperate” “Neglecting ourselves has a way of catching up to us” About Dr Nsombi Jaja Dr. Nsombi Jaja, P.M.P; SMC, SAMC, C.M.C. is the managing director of Quality Management Consultancy Co. Ltd., a consulting practice, providing advice to the business community in the areas of strategic management, quality management, leadership development and customer service management. She founded this company in 1986 and it is now a recognized Regional consulting firm with clients and associates throughout the English-speaking Caribbean. She is the President of Quality Management Consultancy Inc. USA located in South Florida and a member of the board of the Institute of Caribbean Studies located in Washington DC. For the past 20 years Nsombi has worked with the leadership teams of client organizations assisting them with strategic management, quality management, customer experience management and change management. Curious about Dr Jaja's work? Check out her website. Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Dr Jaja on LinkedIn, and Facebook. Enjoy this Podcast? Your health is your wealth, take care of it. Help others to that too by sharing this episode with them. Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning into this podcast, then do not hesitate to write a review. You can also share this with your family and friends, colleagues and fellow business owners, so they can feel empowered and encouraged to pursue their business. Have any questions? You can contact me through email (henekawatkisporter@gmail.com) or find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Thanks for listening! For more updates and episodes, visit my website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. Before you go, I have something I want to share with you to make your social media managem...

248: Verity Craft—Isn't It Time You Became The Thought Leader You Always Wanted To Be?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2021 26:46

Learn how great content gets your business found on the web! As content marketers, we at SAMC know the power of great content. Search is all about being the authority on a topic so that search engines know you, prioritize you and deliver potential customers to you. Today’s podcast is with Verity Craft, and as you will hear, she and I spend valuable time digging deeper into the power of content marketing, the changing role of thought leaders and the challenges of social media. Verity's website states: "Conscious, quality content is the creative conversion of passion and purpose into something powerful." Hear how this works! How do you get your story told? And how do you do it in a way that builds your brand? This is a great podcast for each of you who are trying to create yourself into a business. But even if you already have a business, you need to pay attention to what you’re putting on the web and how it works for you or not. This is what Verity is all about. Listen in! Meet Verity Craft An entrepreneur, writer, consultant, speaker (and musical theatre nerd), Verity Craft has with business partner Christina Wedgwood built the content agency Intelligent Ink into the foremost content creation and thought leader firm in New Zealand. Throughout her career, Verity has worked with hundreds of businesses, brands and industry leaders who, like her, believe in developing and leveraging their expertise into exceptional content that positions them as authorities in their fields, thereby adding value for the people they’re here to serve. Verity also co-hosts the Elevate online event series and is soon to be a guest on Francesca Alexander’s Hustle & Glow podcast. You can connect with her on LinkedIn, Intelligent Ink or verity@intelligentink.co.nz. Ready to learn how to create exceptional content? Start here Blog: Content is Still King: How to Get Great Google Results Blog: How Do You Get Found On The Internet? Start With Great Content. Podcast: Dave Summers—How Can You Build Your Digital Brand Effectively? Additional resources My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Pre-order my new book: "Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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246: Carl Allen—Can Carl Allen Show You How To Build Your Wealth And Yourself?

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2020 39:09

Hear how to create and grow your own wealth! Carl Allen is our guest on our podcast today. He brings to you, our listeners, something quite special. He isn’t just going to tell you about how he has made a fortune. Rather, he takes you through the steps of how you, yes you, can find a way to build wealth, too. Most of us dream about having the means to do what we want — when, where, how and with whom we want — but we don’t have the first clue where to begin. Carl shows us the way! Watch and listen to our podcast Change your life, so you have a life According to the 2016 HSBC Essence of Enterprise study, the average U.S. entrepreneur’s net worth is $4 million and many run several businesses. Yet most wealth is rarely inherited. At least in America, it is typically earned by investing in yourself and venturing into entrepreneurship, a topic near and dear to us at SAMC. In 2012, Carl started Dealmaker Wealth Society to help aspiring entrepreneurs do just that — find a business they can create and grow, along with the wealth that comes with it. There are 27 million entrepreneurs in the U.S. and both my husband, Andy Simon, and myself can tell you that it is neither easy nor simple but it can be done. In addition, we help others take their observations and turn them into innovations with Blue Ocean Strategy. You too can build your idea into a business that can “soar.” Listen in today and see how. Meet Carl Allen Carl Allen, entrepreneur, investor and corporate dealmaker with almost three decades of experience, is the founder and editor of Dealmaker Wealth Society. In charge of more than 330 transactions worth close to $48 billion, Carl has advised some of the world’s largest corporations on investments and acquisitions, including Bank of America and Hewlett-Packard. One of the world’s leading experts on buying and financing business acquisitions, Carl has invaluable insight to offer you about buying, growing and selling businesses. (He also became an Uber driver during this pandemic so he can deliver medicine to the elderly in his community. Quite a guy.) Want some help launching your big idea and growing your wealth? Here's a start Blog: What This Successful Entrepreneur Has Learned In Business Blog: Entrepreneurs, Be Smart and Pick the Right People to Help You Grow Podcast: Rod Robertson—Winning at Entrepreneurship Additional resources My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Pre-order my new book: "Smashing The Myths of Women in Business" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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241: Kelly Ruta—Unblock Your Upper Limits And Unlock Limitless Levels

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2020 35:45

Learn how to overcome your mental roadblocks to success This was quite an amazing podcast conversation with Kelly Ruta. I can tell you that she is just plain fantastic. A clinical psychotherapist for over two decades, she has now turned her professional training into programs to help women, in particular women entrepreneurs, unblock their limitations and unlock their minds to become the best they can be. Our own program, Rethink Your Journey with Andi Simon, is similar in many ways to what Kelly has created...different in our approaches. Listen and learn how you can collaborate with your mind, change your course, and find the purpose and promise you have been seeking. Watch and listen to our podcast here Kelly’s mastermind program, Limitless Impact Master Class, has been called the Harvard of master classes In this podcast, you will enjoy the focus on how to change what isn’t working for you today. As you may know, at SAMC we help our clients collaborate with the mind, which tends to do what it thinks you want it to do. Now it is time to teach your mind what you want to do. Helping entrepreneurial women ascend to the next level in the business world So many amazing, successful women still find themselves struggling with: finding courage to take action lacking confidence feeling they still aren't enough If that sounds like you, Kelly will help you see yourself through a fresh lens and work on solving those problems. Her own story is about defying the odds. She has done it and you can as well. You can learn more about Kelly on LinkedIn or her website. More stories of women who challenge the status quo and bring about change Blog: Fearless Women Leading Protests And Shattering Stereotypes Blog: Why Women Make Better Leaders, Especially In A Pandemic Podcast: Lisa Caputo—Smashing The Myths Of What Women Can Accomplish Additional resources My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Pre-order my new book, "Smashing The Myths of Women in Business" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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239: Matthew Korban—Restore Balance To Your Life Without Compromise

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 32:43

Learn how to find your "why," a key to happiness As you know, for our On The Brink podcasts I go looking for people who have a different perspective, something in their own journey that's worth sharing so you can learn from them and begin to think about yourself with some new, fresh ideas. Such a person is Matthew Korban, a Certified Health and Life Coach. With our SAMC clients we often say, If you really want to change, have a crisis or create one. Well, Matthew found himself in the middle of a major crisis, a health crisis, and it ended up changing his life. Today he's healthy and happy, and spends his time teaching others how they can be too. Take a listen. Tough childhood, then success and a near-death experience, then happiness Born in Beirut, Lebanon during a war, Matthew spent the first 13 years of his life hiding from bombs. When he went to school, he would hide under the desks and hold his friend's hand and then run to the shelter. When he turned 13, he left Lebanon to be educated in Switzerland and France, then came to the U.S. for college. Once he started working, all he wanted to do was work hard at a career, have a family, and give his kids a decent life, not like the one he had had. Soon he was working 15-hour days and weighed 350 pounds. He was leading a very unhealthy life but he was very successful. He was a CEO, sitting on boards and receiving awards. He was a star. But he couldn't walk. When he went to his doctor, he was told that he had major inflammation that had contaminated his blood, spleen and intestines and that he had five months to live. "Just go be with your family for five months and then that's it," his doctor told him. Growing up, Matthew used to practice martial arts. As he explains in our podcast, "My instructor used to say, If you fall down six times, make sure you stand up seven." Matthew remembered this as he was lying on a medical table, determined to live. He regained his strength, went back to school and got certified as a Health and Life Coach. Now he helps CEOs and top executives learn how to restore balance to their lives, to their relationships, to their health. "I'm enjoying this much more than I used to enjoy my previous work," he says. "I have much less money but I'm happier." Matthew's 3 step change process Like us, Matthew is a culture change expert and shares with us his method of helping people let go of the old and embrace the new. 1. First thing is admitting you need help. Everyone needs help. But it really takes courage and strength to ask for help. It doesn't mean you're weak, it means you're strong. We need to cheer each other on. 2. The second step is uncovering your why. This is the most important thing. The first 15 ways you answer the question "Why?" are wrong. It takes 15 times to get it right. We sit in our comfort zone and when we ask why we're doing this, our answer is to defend ourselves and protect ourselves and shield ourselves, so we can keep sitting in our comfort zone. 3. His coaching method called MOVE. People love their comfort zone. But by changing, it doesn't mean starting over. It's just taking your desire to have everything and turning it into something better, something where there is a purpose with an objective. Matthew starts with small habit changes to reshape the new, then steers people toward that new direction. And as we preach all the time, no one likes change! About Matthew Korban Matthew Korban, Certified Health and Life Coach, has spent over 25 years connecting with people, first as an international marketing consultant and now as an impassioned coach who helps executives restore balance without compromising their careers, relationships or health. As an 8-figure business owner, Matthew understands the demands of business and the stress of building something from the ground up, which is why he is passionate about helping others achieve balance and be successful. Matthew was at the top of his career when a near-death experience turned his life around. He now trains people from all walks of life to connect to their passion, reignite relationships and find balance in their lives. His wife, Marina, is a certified Yoga instructor. Matthew is a 5th Degree black belt martial artist and practices meditation and yoga daily. You can contact Matthew on Twitter or his website www.matthewkorban.com, or email him at mattkorban1@gmail.com. Need help changing? Here are some things to get you started Blog: Now That You Have Your Crisis, What Do You Change? Blog: Can People And Businesses Really, Truly Change? Yes! Here's How Podcast: Michael Tate—Are You Terrified Of The Pain Of Change? Additional resources My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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228: Gail Hayes—Now Is The Time To Empower Women To Build Better Communities

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 36:07

Learn how to hear, understand and honor those who are different from us I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Gail Hayes through Peter Winick’s group of thought leaders. Gail was as curious about thought leadership as I was. What we found and then wanted to share with our listeners is how innovative thinking is essential in today’s fast-changing, totally disrupted world. You'll hear how Gail found herself a single mom raising two children without much of a job. Yet, she rethought herself, turned those proverbial “lemons into lemonade” and discovered a new “Gail,” offering exceptional programs for people of all races and perspectives. Her role is to help you see things through a fresh lens — just as we at SAMC do. Take a listen! Wisdom for our times from Gail Need a lift? Then help someone stand. Need inspiration? Then encourage someone who is down. Need kindness? Then expend grace. It's your choice. You receive in abundance what you give in abundance! Some of the important truths we talked about Blackness and whiteness and how we can learn to love each other and live together Toilet paper levels the playing field How we need to honor the experiences and viewpoints of those different from us Empowering women to become the women they want to be How to take adversity and turn it into an opportunity To watch our interview click on the image below About Dr. Gail Hayes An internationally recognized communicator and thought leader, Dr. Gail Hayes ignites every environment with contagious enthusiasm and a passion for purpose. An Executive Leadership Coach, media personality and award-winning author of numerous books, Gail has lived multiple years in Asia and Europe, enabling her to communicate fluidly and effectively across cultural lines. In addition, she founded and served as the Director of the European Executive Women's Forum, the first active European Network of the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE). Not only was Dr. Gail the first African American female law enforcement officer and firefighter in Chapel Hill, NC, she also served as the first African American Chair of the Orange County Commission for Women. She has worked on Capitol Hill for the National Governors Association, receiving the Outstanding Leadership in State Government award. Dr. Gail is currently CEO of the Handle Your Business Girl Empowerment Zone. Dr. Gail has authored numerous books including: You can reach Gail at Twitter or LinkedIn or email her here. Want more stories of resilience and rising above difficulties? Here are three Blog: Rising To The Occasion, Women Are Proving To Be The Heroines In This Crisis Podcast: Ask Andi—How to Learn Resilience Podcast: Lisa Caputo—Smashing The Myths Of What Women Can Accomplish Additional resources My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

218: Melissa Davies—Aren't There Powerful Ways To Transform Your Organization?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 31:08

Hear how change can keep your business moving forward! At times we are introduced to people by chance, only to find that they are amazing individuals whom we want to be part of our world. This was how I felt about Melissa Davies when we met, and why we wanted you to know more about her and the work she does to help others change. Founder of Wise Ways Consulting, a leadership development and executive coaching firm, Melissa helps clients become better leaders so they can build more productive and effective teams. Like me, Melissa is a culture change expert, so you can guess we had a lot to talk about! Being willing to change is a key attribute of strong leaders Melissa’s world travels have taught her a great deal about cultural similarities and differences—those things we all share and that all organizations have in common, and those unique cultural customs that are trademarks of the “way we do it here.” Similar to what we do at SAMC, Melissa and her team work to bring about change in individuals and organizations. And what she has found over the years is that businesses' training and coaching needs are constantly evolving to reflect increasingly diverse workforces, remote offices and technology. This means that what she and her team are offering also need to be constantly changing and evolving. 3 areas of mutual interest which Melissa and I spoke about: How hard it is for people to see themselves honestly, and to understand how their organization is operating, truthfully. People see things with willful blindness, only noticing what fits their own perception of their realities. When people finally have an“aha” moment, they really can change. Methods and tools which can help companies make the needed transformations that keep them moving forward. About Melissa Davies An internationally respected coach, trainer and project facilitator, Melissa Davies began her consulting career in her native Canada where she earned her honors degree from the University of Victoria in British Columbia. A career-long educator, Melissa has a unique ability to quickly establish rapport with audiences that allows her to effectively lead sessions in strategic planning, team effectiveness, mission development, organizational assessment, conflict resolution, mediation, change management and cultural development. Melissa believes that instilling effective communication and leadership skills creates an appreciation of the diversity in ourselves and members of our society. You can contact her at her website, Wise Ways Consulting, LinkedIn or info@wisewaysconsulting.com. How does being open to change make you a better leader? Some answers here: Blog: What Time Is It? Time To Change Blog: Now That You Have Your Crisis, What Do You Change? Podcast: Michael Tate—Are You Terrified Of The Pain Of Change? Webinar: Mastering the Process of Change Additional resources My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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214: Michael Tate—Are You Terrified Of The Pain Of Change?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 27:58

Learn how to embrace change rather than flee from it I have had the pleasure of interviewing Michael (Mike) Tate once before on our podcast, in March of 2019. He is a charming man who has a purpose and a passion to help others find their way through often-challenging times. Today's podcast focuses on his new book, "Roll Up Your Sleeves," a collection of common-sense approaches to managing stress that are very helpful for leaders, in their careers and in their lives. Career coaching is Mike’s passion and calling, and he loves helping clients make their best next career move. Are you facing some big changes in your work, your life? I invite you to listen in and learn from Mike. He has great lessons for all of us. Growth means change, which means transition Whether you're moving to a new position, a better job or a new phase of your life, movement means change, and change is not easy. In the same way, guiding your team through change to a new, better place takes a vision, a plan and a process. As we tell our clients, if you need to change, have a crisis! For good or for ill, a big crisis is now here. In our discussion today, Mike and I talk at length about the difference between change and transitions. Neither is easy but they aren’t the same. As we go through this period of chaos in the world today, we need to know what we are facing and how to navigate our way through it. As culture change experts, we specialize in helping organizations that need or want to change. That's why so much of what Mike and I discuss today affirms what we at SAMC know so well: that change is hard, even painful, but these challenging times demand it. In our discussion and in his new book "Roll Up Your Sleeves," Mike shares: His simple toolset for any leader facing a complex world of constant change A clear understanding of what change does to employees, friends and family An overall view of the real sense of the emotional impact of change About Mike Tate By way of consulting, coaching and writing, Michael Tate, MRE, CMF helps leaders navigate change and transition. President of On the Same Page Consulting, Inc., a leadership strategy and career planning firm, Mike is known for bringing his clients better results in less time. For more than 20 years, he has been retained by boards and leadership teams to clarify strategy and execute leadership succession, often called in to be a confidential advisor to leaders who are facing a significant change in their careers and their lives. Mike is also the best-selling author of three books about living in a world of constant change: "Design a Life that Works," "The White Shirt" and his recent "Roll Up Your Sleeves." You can contact Mike at mike@michaelalantate.com, LinkedIn or his website. Want to learn how to love change instead of avoid it? Try these Blog: Now That You Have Your Crisis, What Do You Change? Blog: Managing Change in Fast-Changing Times Podcast: Warren Whitlock—How to Overcome the Pain of Change Additional resources Mike's books My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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56: Duchess Meghan's friend Jessica Mulroney fired for racism, Kristen Stewart cast as Princess Diana, Deputy McMuffin freaks out

Gossip With Celebitchy

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2020 34:00

Introduction: Minutes 0 to 5:15 I got a haircut from a new guy. It’s been raining all week and Chandra’s cat Dexter is spending more time indoors, but also wakes her up at 3am! We are taking off July 6th from the podcast. I’ll Zoom with anyone who gives us a nice review, just email me at info-at-celebitchy.com. Royals: Minutes 5:15 to 25 Jessica Mulroney threatened influencer Sasha Exeter after Sasha made a general callout asking people to support Black Lives Matter. Jessica got fired from her reality show, she’s no longer an expert on other shows and a bunch of sponsors dropped her. This wouldn’t be such a big story if Jessica wasn’t a close friend of Duchess Meghan. We’ve all had troublesome friends and don’t think it’s fair to blame Meghan for Jessica’s behavior. I play a segment from our Zoom meeting where we talk about female friendships. Minute 13: Lainey at Lainey Gossip wrote an article about her hesitation to speak out about Jessica Mulroney. Lainey works on CTV’s eTalk with Jessica’s husband, Ben Mulroney. She revealed that the Mulroneys have been threatening people who aren’t taking Jessica’s side. Minute 14:35: The Queen had the Trooping the Color parade despite the pandemic and the fact that protests were raging throughout London. The Queen has only given one speech about the pandemic and hasn’t said one thing about Black Lives Matter. She didn’t wear a mask during the parade and none of the British royals have been wearing them. Minute 16:45: Prince Andrew is asking the Department of Justice to apologize to him. It seems like he’s only offered a written witness statement and is throwing a fit at the idea that they’re asking him to sit for an interview. There’s a huge difference between the way the British press treats Andrew, who is complicit in crimes, to the way they treat Duchess Meghan for just existing. I play a segment from the Zoom meeting where we talk about the fact that Prince Andrew still lives in a mansion and gets his security fully paid while Harry and Meghan are being made to rent Frogmore for £18,000 a month. Minute 20:45: Kristen Stewart has been cast as Princess Diana in a biopic by Pablo Larrain, who directed Natalie Portman in Jackie. Chandra doesn’t think Kristen will be awful in the role and that it could be watchable. I play a segment from Zoom where we talk about Kristen Stewart playing Diana. Officer McMuffin: Minutes 25:00 to 29:30 We saw Deputy Karen McMuffin crying over the fact that her McMuffin was late. In follow up interviews she doubled down and didn’t apologize. Cops in New York claimed Shake Shack tried to poison them because their milkshakes tasted funny, but it wasn't deliberate and was just the cleaning solution used on the machine. User Feedback: Minutes 29:30 to 30:15 Thank you to duchess of hazard, LaUnicaAngelina and JeJoKo for your kind comments. Comments of the Week: Minutes 30:15 to 34 My comment of the week is from Darla on the post about people buying 30% more processed food. Chandra’s comments of the week are from Samc and Miranda on the post about cops getting “poisoned” with milkshakes. Thanks for listening bitches! Text us or leave a voicemail at 434-218-3219.

196: Andy and Andi Simon—Innovation Games® Are What You Need To Imagine Your Future

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2020 19:53

Hear how to use this time of crisis to re-think, re-create and soar During the economic disruption tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are indeed living in chaotic times. But chaos is also an opportunity to work in new ways, re-creating our companies and ourselves for the future. Tomorrow is going to be very different from yesterday. The challenge for us all, however, is that we are uncomfortable with uncertainty. So stop, pause and give yourself a moment to re-group. Rather than flee the fear, turn this into a time to use new tools to think about how you could do things better, not how you've always done them. Please join us! The "new normal" may become the normal normal Let’s see how we can adapt ourselves, our communities, our companies, our staff and our customers to the new normal, for however long it remains with us. Perhaps even forever. That is what we have been hearing out in the market among clients and prospects, friends and colleagues. They are actually liking many of the new ways of getting their jobs done. And some of our friends love having more time with children and spouses or partners. Something big is happening This is why we wanted to do a podcast about how to adapt to these fast-changing times. It is the first of several we are going to share with you, and they will focus on tools we use with many of our SAMC clients that could help you respond creatively to today's changes. We could almost see changes coming before the pandemic. We kept talking about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Freelancer Nation, and the growing affection for remote work. And then, voilà, it was here. There is nothing better than a crisis to accelerate the changes taking place already in our society As we look into our future, what are we imagining? Well, there are entirely new channels of distribution emerging. There are already new ways to use blockchain to help in the supply chain. We see people launching blockchain solutions to ease access to new pharmaceutical companies and medical device vendors. More will follow. We see a lot of new families embracing home-based schooling, albeit reluctantly but still effectively. One of our friends moved all of his behavioral health clients onto a remote model so they can access mental health services via their iPhones, and it is working. Then there are new industries emerging around COVID-19 testing and protection. Our healthcare workers are learning how to reallocate their resources to sustain their hospitals and specialty practices which are waiting for elective surgery and in-office care to return. College presidents tell us how they aren’t sure they need their campuses, at least as they have used them in the past. Manufacturing clients are trying to keep their supply chain operating as it responds to the shifting needs of end-users and tries to resolve difficulties with raw material sources abroad. When all is said and done, all that matters is that we stay healthy and use this time to be creators The one thing about looking into the future is that the future is going to create itself. For you and your company, this is a great opportunity to think about how this applies to you as well. It is a wonderful time to think about possibilities. At SAMC , we love to play Innovation Games® when we are looking at the future. It often frees us from what we think today and lets our imaginations flow to what could be in the future. An innovation game that works well is called Reverse Everything What this particular game forces you to do is to take everything you used to do and not do it any longer. And, things you never did, you are going to do lots of in the future. Remember, it's a game so let your imagination flow. What's truly freeing for people is that they get to create new ideas about what they can do tomorrow without the burden of what they did in the past. For a restaurant, Reverse Everything might look like this: As you can see, things you did before, you no longer do. Things you did not do yesterday, you do a lot of tomorrow. And then let the ideas flow. We have a very good friend who owns restaurants and a hotel, and he is trying to reinvent them. Some of the ideas above are very relevant for him and could be for you as well. We will tell you more about this in the podcast, so listen in. And there are dozens of blogs and presentations available on our website. We are big believers in testing You don’t really know it’s going to work. These are new times. And you are crafting new solutions. So test the ideas and learn from your tests. One thing we do know is that change can be an opportunity or a threat See how you can use it to your advantage so that you can enjoy a safe, healthy journey into the future. As always, we are here to help you along the way. About Andy and Andi Simon Partners in life as well as in business, Andy and Andi Simon are principles/owners of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC). Using the tools and methods of corporate anthropology, Blue Ocean Strategy® and Innovation Games, they specialize in helping companies who want or need to change to “see” unmet needs and opportunities that are all around them. As business change management advisors, they are uniquely equipped to suggest ways you and your business can change, adapt and pivot, particularly during the COVID-19 crisis, to achieve even greater success. More on how Innovation Games can help you rethink the future: Blog: How To Stay Moving Forward As The World Moves At Warp Speed Workshop: Innovation Games For Your Company Workshop: My Favorite Games And Why They Work White paper: Innovation Games: Serious Play to Do Serious Work, Seriously Additional resources My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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194: Andie Kramer and Al Harris—Will The Pandemic Hurt Women In The Work Force?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2020 26:57

Learn how today's crisis affects women and gender roles We have a serious concern about the impact of the pandemic on women in the workplace. So, we invited Andie Kramer and Al Harris back to share with us their perspectives. On April 1st, Andie had a new article published in Forbes entitled, "Why Stay-At-Home Orders Might Be Good For Gender Equality." Or, if China is a leading indicator, it might be good for divorces. While we have been called futurists, this is not a time for us to offer anything that sounds like “certainty.” But we do know that these times are changing, fast, and we will have to as well. In this podcast, Andie, Al and I talk about how people change, or resist change. Especially now, please listen in. Humans are habit-driven animals We prefer to fall into old habits and repeat well-honed patterns of behavior which we believe to be “the way we do it.” For years, we at SAMC have preached, "If you want to change, have a crisis or create one." The COVID-19 has created that crisis. Now we need to help you change. Your new ways of doing things...temporary or long-lasting? When it comes to the new normal, working at home, often with your kids and your spouse or partner right alongside, the old habits are rather irrelevant. But how do you create new habits, and quickly, and how will these impact gender relationships? Whether you are a man or a woman, you should pause and think about what each of you likes to do and what you do best. Then begin to talk about how to navigate the new realities of living, working and raising kids at home. Whether this is a short-term or a longer-term transformation, you might as well get used to this new way of life, at least until it changes into something else. Even as the world opens up again, you might want to re-think all the things you did in the past that you are changing now. And in doing so, you might discover that you don't want to return to the way you did things before. Even before the pandemic, remote workers were becoming more common Employers already were looking for a more flexible, often global, workforce that didn't need office space and benefit packages. And the technology to enable companies to operate remotely has been available, even if it wasn't being used to the fullest. Moreover, as women have become the bread winners in over one-third of American families, they have been figuring out how to raise a family and financially support the household. With women owning over 40% of the businesses in the U.S. before the pandemic hit us, they were creating new revenue streams, new second careers, and opening many businesses out of necessity. Working at home is what many women have done for decades. Now in the midst of this crisis, they can help their partners learn how to balance home, work and family. Yes, the future is unclear, but also full of possibilities We know that people can find innovative ways to adapt to change. They always have, throughout human history. Now, we just have to let those creative juices flow and re-invent our lives to thrive. We can do it! You're probably already doing it. Let us hear your stories so we can share them. And hang in there, a new day is coming. Listen to my Dec 2019 interview with Andie and Al In my first interview with Andie and Al, we talk at length about their detailed social science research with women and men across the country. Surprisingly, what they found is that women’s unique conflicts with other women and with men are not caused by gender or different styles or the way they were raised and socialized. Rather, it's the result of pervasive gender bias in their workplaces. Fascinating stuff. Listen here. More about Andie and Al Gender bias expert and a partner at an international law firm, Andie Kramer has become a well-known advocate for women’s advancement, mentoring thousands of women. She co-founded the Women’s Leadership and Mentoring Alliance and leads workshops across the country to help women—and men—overcome gender-based hurdles and build healthier, more productive workplaces. Andie is the recipient of a long list of accolades and awards for her achievements in her legal career and her advocacy of women, and is also a contributing writer for Forbes.com. Al Harris, also a gender bias expert, was a founding partner of the Chicago law firm Ungaretti & Harris (now part of Nixon Peabody) where Andie started her legal career. At Ungaretti & Harris, Al served for many years as managing partner and then as a member of its Executive and Compensation Committees, giving him extensive experience watching and evaluating women as they moved up the career ladder. Over the course of his career, Al has grown increasingly concerned about the barriers and biases women face in traditionally male career environments and subsequently he has mentored and advised numerous women in many career fields. Co-authors of the popular books, "Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work" and "It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias That Built It," Andie and Al are frequent keynote speakers and conduct workshops for all types of organizations so they can better understand the world of gender bias. For more on gender bias in the workplace, check out these blogs and podcasts: Blog: How Women in Leadership Roles Can Finally Change The Workplace Blog: When It Comes To Corporate Culture, Are Men And Women All That Different? Podcast: Sarah Soule—Busting Those Stereotypes of Women Podcast: Andi Simon—Women Entrepreneurs Changing Corporate Cultures Additional resources Women’s Leadership and Mentoring Alliance Andie and Al's books: "Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work" and"It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias That Built It" My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

192: Bryan Gregory—How To Manage Your Remote Workforce And Their Technology Systems

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2020 21:32

Learn how to overcome the IT challenges of working remotely How are you handling your IT systems with a remote workforce? Across the world, remote working has become a viable means for practicing social distancing during this COVID-19 pandemic. The impact on our entire culture cannot be underestimated. For businesses that were always concerned about their security, the teamwork of their talent, the functionality of their systems, remote work is opening up a plethora of challenges. I often say that if you want to change, have a crisis or create one. Well, this is the crisis that is going to change the way we work and to a level way beyond what we imagined before the pandemic arrived. Please listen in. Bryan helps you better understand how to adapt, and quickly, so you can thrive in these changing times In this interview, I bring to you Bryan Gregory, President of Aldridge, a technology management, consulting and outsourcing company that specializes in providing IT and cloud computing solutions to small and midsize organizations. Aldridge was a client of ours at SAMC. I thought it was timely and relevant to introduce you to Bryan and let him share with you how to best design and manage your remote workforce and the systems you are using to operate your business, whether it is large or small. In actuality, remote working has been developing for the past decade. Some thought leaders were certain that remote workers would represent 50% of the workforce by 2025. The pandemic is pushing that timeline ahead faster. Whether it comes to pass or not will, in some part, reflect the way in which businesses learn how to manage a decentralized workforce today. Now you can learn how to set up secure systems with enough bandwidth to run your business through your staff's kitchens. Amazing. Global CEOs join to create a coordinated response to COVID-19 crisis In January of this year at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, CEOs from across the globe embraced the concept of decentralized workers. Now they are taking an idea and seeing how to mobilize cooperation and support for the COVID-19 challenge. You can read more about how the World Economic Forum’s COVID Action Platform is trying to build a global response to the social and business implications of the virus, without a great deal of time to test ideas or model actions. Background on Bryan Gregory President and head of Sales and Marketing at Aldridge, Bryan's primary focus is to partner with clients to understand their organization and align technology with their business goals. Since joining Aldridge in 2008 as its first salesperson, Bryan has been responsible for generating business partnerships, managing accounts, leading sales and marketing efforts, and overseeing the successful delivery of all company services. In addition, he has helped manage 14 successful acquisitions as Aldridge expanded beyond Houston and into regions of Dallas, Austin and Seattle. His experience includes developing these new markets by leveraging his leadership skills and passion for business to build trust internally, with clients, and throughout the local business community. You can contact Bryan at aldridge.com/bryan-gregory For more on living and working remotely in these difficult times, check out these blogs and podcasts: Blog: Now That You Have Your Crisis, What Do You Change? Blog: Work Remotely, Are You Kidding Me? Podcast: Laurel Farrer—Welcome To The Future Of Work Podcast: Teresa Douglas—Unleashing Those Secrets To Working Remotely Podcast: Karen Aronian—Working At Home Now? How To Reinvent Your House Additional resources My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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186: Peter Boumgarden—How To Build Awesome Teams In Today's Changing Times

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2020 32:50

Hear innovative teambuilding strategies to get work done! Peter and I know each other from our experiences working with a Michigan client and The Simon Initiative for Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis. Peter is a Professor of Practice of Strategy and Organizations at WashU's Olin Business School, and also the Faculty Director for the Center for Experiential Learning at Olin, a university center that runs for-profit and non-profit student-led strategic consulting engagement, both globally and around the St. Louis region. We were excited to talk on our podcast about data analytics for workers. If we can use data to select the best athletes, what can we learn about workers with the right data? Enjoy. How do you build effective teams, in-office and remotely? These are interesting times. About one-third of our workforce in the U.S. are freelancers. Many others who work for corporations are now able to work flexibly and remotely. The challenge then for both the organization and the employees is how to get the work done, particularly when it has to be done with others, either as part of a team or a project. As change experts, we at SAMC are always eager to hear how organizations are adapting to these fast-changing times, which is why we find Peter's insights so valuable and so timely. Some background on Peter In addition to his roles at Washington University in St. Louis, Peter Boumgarden researches, consults and facilitates executive education in the private and non-profit sectors on topics tied to innovation, strategic design, organizational change and executive team development. Past clients include Herman Miller, Edward Jones, Charles Schwab, Oracle, Monsanto, BBVA, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Methodist Health Care System, among others. Peter’s work centers on helping organizations develop processes for innovation, assisting leaders in defining and implementing sustainable strategies, and in establishing the role of leadership and organizational values in shaping such decisions. For more on effective team leadership, we recommend this blog and 2 podcasts Blog: How Storytelling Can Transform Your Culture And Energize Your Team Podcast: Luke Hohmann—Building Better Teams Using Collaborative Games Podcast: Ken Hoyt—Harnessing The Extraordinary Power of Data Additional resources My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

181: Valerio Pascotto and Amit Raikar—Yes Change Is Painful But It's Necessary!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2020 39:15

Learn how to see the future through a fresh lens ! As you might know, we are setting up leadership academies and personal development programs for our SAMC clients in all types of industries. As corporate anthropologists, this is very much in line with our misson of helping organizations and the people working within them to change. In today's podcast, I speak with two notable leaders in the field of leadership development—Valerio Pascotto and Amit Raikar—who share with us their brain-based approach to building better leaders within change management. I know you will learn so much here. I did!Today's companies are focusing on the future as well as profits More and more, organizations are realizing that they have a much bigger role to play beyond pleasing shareholders with excellent profits. As Amit describes it, "B" corporations (focused on their third bottom line, namely helping their people, their profits and the planet) are shifting the way companies build teams and get people to work together to do better. In turn, this new type of business structure is causing global cultures to redefine what is success. Organizations are now building more inclusive and sustainable economies which will in turn affect the societies which they serve. As I've written about recently, this is a great example of seeing the future through a fresh lens. Valerio talks about how he and Amit use the metaphor of a mirror to help individual clients and groups see themselves differently. Their company, IGEOS, teaches people how to lead, but like us, they believe that people have to see things differently if they are going to do things differently. In their workshops, they help leaders and employees shift their perspective so they can realize that “we” together is far more powerful than “I” alone. Change is pain but is necessary to grow It is interesting to me to listen to others who are doing similar things to what we do at SAMC but in different ways. I continuously learn from these conversations and realize that we humans, as complex as we are, hate to change. But, once we see that we can change, and that it is not as scary as we once thought, we embrace the new and allow ourselves to do things in new ways. We have to “see it,” then “feel it” and then "think about it" so we know what it is we must “do.” Rather exciting! About Valerio Pascotto and Amit Raikar Valerio Pascotto Dr. Valerio Pascotto is the co-founder of IGEOS which he built with Tim Gallwey (author of "The Inner Game of Work") to serve as a resource for global business leaders to strengthen their teams’ passion for excellence and create a workplace in sync with human values. He is also a Senior Partner at Illustra, where he leads his team in designing and delivering workshops and coaching for leadership performance optimization. A graduate of Pepperdine University, he has a Doctoral Degree in Psychology. He holds a psychology license as well as a license to practice marriage, family and child counseling, and is a certified independent Birkman consultant. A member of the Forbes Coaches Council, where he is a regular contributor, Valerio inspires readers around the world through his articles on change management, team-building and leadership performance. Amit Raikar Over the past 20 years, Amit Raikar has built a substantial career in personal and leadership development, effectiveness systems and behavior change. In addition to helping individuals, he collaborates with Valerio Pascotto and Timothy Gallwey to help teams overcome their challenges and generate high-performing results. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a Tiny Habits® certified coach, and excels at recognizing and cultivating the potential in others, from improving their ability to handle and manage conflict to increasing their productivity and effectiveness. His leadership and management experience spans from corporate retail management to managing federal government contracts over $100M. Amit has worked at the EPA, is a Big Brother (Big Brothers Big Sisters) and holds a 4th degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. Want to learn more about change? Start with this blog, podcast and white paper Blog: Can People And Businesses Really, Truly Change? Yes! Here's How Podcast: Steve Harper—The Ripple Effect White Paper: Family Firms: Changing Times Demand A Culture Change Additional resources Valerio and Amit's website: IGEOS My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

180: Jacqueline Kibler—Want To Grow? Take A Good Hard Look At Your Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2020 24:32

Learn how to change so you can really grow! Jackie Kibler brings to our listeners a fresh perspective on how to run a business, just better. It is always a challenge for us to work with clients who have great ideas but are not great at growing them, managing the daily tasks, or developing the scalability that is needed. One of our favorite clients could have really used Jackie. Like those in my book, "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights," this client just didn’t have the processes or perspective to see what was all around them. Jackie's business uses the methods of EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to help companies obtain accountability from their staff, the communication needed to stay on strategy, and the focus required to grow. Maybe she can help you grow too? Hear how EOS can help your business get the structure it needs to sustain growth Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Jackie early on developed a passion for supporting the growth of small to midsize companies and their owners. Over 25 years, she has worked in a variety of capacities, from managing a global sales team of 120 employees at a Fortune 500 company to creating and implementing a sales, recruiting and retention strategy for a small startup. Her ability to lead and drive behavioral change is based on coaching all levels of an organization to a process, then holding people accountable to the desired result of the process. Sounds a lot like what we do at SAMC, especially the focus on implementing a change process. Along with a new strategy, you might need a new culture Like Jackie, we work with you and your business to create processes that will move you in the right direction and get you un-stuck. That often means changing your culture, because very likely, it's your old culture that got you stuck in the first place. (Remember that saying, "culture eats strategy for lunch"? It's very true...the two are closely tied together.) In these fast-changing times, you really need to rethink what you're doing and how to best accelerate change. As culture change experts, we help our clients do just that. Some background on Jackie In 2015, Jackie was recruited to Vistage Worldwide as the Executive of the Pacific Region where she coached 60 entrepreneurial CEOs in growing their businesses. It was in this role that she was introduced to EOS, and she quickly realized that this was a key factor in driving transformation in entrepreneurial companies. In 2019, Jackie launched her own business and executive coaching firm, JW Kibler group, and became a Professional EOS Implementer.™ Today, she is passionate about streamlining sales and operational efficiencies so that entrepreneurs and leaders can take their organizations to the next level and thrive. Her focus is on building up people, creating healthy teams and managing operations to business goals. Need to change your culture so you can grow? Start with these blogs and podcasts Blog: How's Your Culture? Doing Fine Or In Drastic Need Of An Overhaul? Blog: How Storytelling Can Transform Your Culture And Energize Your Team Podcast: Tristan White—A Great Place To Work Starts With A Great Culture Podcast: Mike Scott—Creating A Culture Of Accountability Additional resources Jackie's company: JW Kibler group My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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178: Patrik Birkhane—Helping Us Live Healthier, Happier And More Peaceful Lives

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2020 34:53

Learn what wonderful things can come from a quiet mind I met Patrick when we were both traveling in Sicily. As we talked about our own life journeys, I learned that he has held successful positions in advertising, marketing, content development and event planning. He was very good at them but not very happy with them, so he moved to a small island off Scandinavia and became a newscaster. He then began to wonder about life and what he was seeing all around him: the extinction of animals, the troubles in our climate, and the difficulties people are having living healthy lives. Not afraid of change, he became a mindfulness coach and now helps others find their peacefulness, their humanness, and their personal center. I have gotten so much out of my conversations with Patrik, and you will too. Taking time to quiet the mind Patrick is very interested in how to help people have better lives, healthier lives. This means spending time quietly meditating and looking at themselves from the outside in. What’s so interesting is that he’s doing with individuals many of the same things we do with companies, at least with the individuals in those companies. As I finished our podcast, I wondered if we should offer meditation and mindfulness sessions with our SAMC clients. They are all working hard and fast and it might be well worth it to pause and sit still for 10 minutes and just think about the moment. Maybe they would realize that all of those tensions and challenges are not about them. That they could be at peace and do their jobs in healthier ways. What kind of quiet mind could actually help us do better for our families, colleagues and clients? Enjoy this podcast. And think about your own journey. Is it time for you to take a little time just for you? Can you do it every day, perhaps in the middle of the day? Learn how important that quiet time is for your mental health, your sense of well-being and your understanding of who you are. You can learn more about Patrick at his LinkedIn page, www.linkedin.com/in/ronstrom Want to learn more about mindfulness? Check out this blog and 2 podcasts Blog: Time to Add Gratitude to Your Life—And Your Company's Culture! Podcast: Cheryl McMillan—How To Develop Your Emotional Intelligence And Why It Matters Podcast: Richard Sheridan—Joy in the Workplace Additional resources My award-winning book: On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Simon Associates Management Consultants website

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176: Michael Olenick—What You Need To Know About Blue Ocean Strategy®

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2020 42:32

Learn how to go where the competition isn't! For over a decade, Michael Olenick and I have worked together on Blue Ocean Strategy. Now, Michael is going to lead our Europe and the Middle East division. We have been getting a growing number of inquiries from all over the globe for Blue Ocean Strategy work, and Michael has been helping us guide these companies. It is now time for us to team up together and see how to help businesses everywhere discover the great value of seeing things through a Blue Ocean lens. We are thrilled to welcome Michael to our team here at SAMC, and to share with you our recent conversation. If you want to really understand how to grow and prosper, take a listen. If you have not had the opportunity, listen to our On The Brink podcasts on Blue Ocean thinking and the process to do it. You'll learn how to "see" the amazing possibilities that might be all around you that can transform your business. In this podcast, we wanted Michael to introduce you to his own perspective on Blue Ocean Strategy and the work he has done over almost 20 years. We talk about his work with Nintendo, and what that taught him about how its competitors, Microsoft and Sony, were focused on the young 8-year-old boy while Nintendo created a completely new market by thinking about everyone else. It's not about more, cheaper As Michael works with clients and publishes case studies about Blue Ocean Strategy success stories, he, and I, become increasingly convinced that more of the same, cheaper, is a strategy for failure. It was what others have preached forever. I talk about this in depth in an article I wrote for Forbes, "Does Your Business Need A Boost?," which you can read here. Clearly, in today’s fast-changing, tech-driven world, people and their organizations are going to have to think about what could be, not what is already. Markets and the companies trying to serve them need value innovation, not value incrementalism. A little bit better product or service keeps you stuck in a red ocean with a lot of others trying to do the same thing. So, as we Blue Ocean experts preach, stop going to your own trade shows. Go to different ones. Go exploring. Figure out unmet needs and nonusers who could use you. Then go get them. They might even be coming to you. Stop saying “We don’t do that.” Instead, try and figure out how you can do it. “The future is all around you, if only you can see it,” as John Seely Brown tells us. Meet Michael Olenick An Executive Fellow at the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Fontainebleau, France, Dr. Michael Olenick has worked closely with Blue Ocean Strategy co-founders W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne since 2001, before their groundbreaking book, “Blue Ocean Strategy” (which has sold 4 million copies to date), was published 2005. Back then, their novel approach to business growth consisted of a series of articles in Harvard Business Review. Michael learned about Blue Ocean Strategy (then called Value Innovation) as a product developer at Avery Dennison, brought it to GE, and has used it at countless companies ever since. Today, Michael advises, consults, researches and teaches Blue Ocean Strategy throughout the world and has implemented its business strategy for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100s. He works with senior executives from a wide array of companies and organizations to develop and/or study strategy, focusing particularly on technology, disruption, non-disruption and the differences and similarities between B2B and B2C businesses. Michael’s research has been cited in leading business publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Bloomberg. In addition, the U.S. Congress and New York Federal Reserve have collaborated with him and relied on his research when making policy. Currently, Michael’s research is taught by leading business schools, including Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Wharton School, University of Chicago and many others. Multiple cases are bestsellers at Harvard Business Review/Harvard Business School Publishing, including: Driving the Future: How Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Industries and Strategy Gaga for Wawa: Blue Ocean Retailing The Marvel Way: Restoring a Blue Ocean A Blue Ocean Shift from Insolvency to Excellence in Higher Education: Turning around the Universidad Privada Boliviana–Reflection on My Journey to Blue Ocean Nintendo Switch: Shifting from Market-Competing to Market–Creating Strategy An Innovation that has Changed the Lives of Women in India News flash! W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne ranked #1 Thinkers by thinkers50. Want to know more about Blue Ocean Strategy? Start with these blogs and podcasts Blue Ocean Strategy is all about identifying your customers' (and potential customers') problems, pain points and unmet needs, then offering them your one-of-a-kind solution. For a more in-depth explanation of how to find your own blue ocean from people who have actually done it, listen: Blog: Are You Ready to Find Your Blue Ocean® And Get Growing? Blog: Is Everyone Winning But You? Time For A Blue Ocean Strategy®! Podcast: Ask Andi—How To Find Your Blue Ocean Strategy® Step 1 Podcast: Ask Andi—How To Find Your Blue Ocean Strategy® Step 2 Additional resources Two essential Blue Ocean books: Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean Shift My Blue Ocean article in Forbes My award-winning book: On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Simon Associates Management Consultants website

175: Diana Wu David—Future Proof You and Your Work

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2020 34:57

Learn how to identify your own path to the future! This was a very timely interview with Diana Wu David. Diana is the author of the new book, "Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration." Our discussion was all about what she is seeing in the business world as technology, work and life intersect, pushing our lives in entirely new directions. You will also hear about her own research among companies, large and small, as she works with their leadership, their boards and their staff to enable them to adapt to the fast pace of change. As you know, at SAMC we're all about change! Great tools here...enjoy. What do you have to do to change? According to Diana, in order to change, we need to adopt more agile mindsets and practices so we can become successful agents of our own lives, not just our careers. She says that today's blend of a person’s at-work and out-work life is creating new lives for us all. And new, younger generations are redefining their relationships to those they work with and the organizations they work in, which is adding another layer of change to the mix. Change is pain but we must do it! Can you "see" where you are going? Diana was in Hong Kong when we did our podcast but it was like we were sitting next to each other. We both work with clients globally, so this was very natural. In fact, these days there really are few boundaries except of our own making. In this podcast, you'll learn more how to eliminate those boundaries that are holding you back. As a futurist, and a realist too, Diana's forte is helping people see what is happening all around them. Through her Future Proof Lab, participants are shown how to identify their own path to the future, something we all need to think about as many of us will live to 100, well past that retirement day. Some background on Diana An adjunct professor of leadership at Columbia Business School's EMBA Global Asia, author and a former Financial Times executive, Diana Wu David now works with global leaders to help them make sense of mega trends and take advantage of disruption. Her clients have included Credit Suisse, The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Wharf Hotel Management Group, Expedia, the World Bank, Asia Development Bank and KPMG. In addition, she began her career and leadership education as an assistant to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Her company, Future Proof Labs (formerly Sarana Labs), provides education to help people make sense of disruption from senior executives via the Future Proof Course to young people preparing for a bright future via initiatives like The Opportunity Project. Past projects include gaming for good, robotics education, a global online training platform, and a social impact fund that trains women to invest via peer-to-peer learning and teamwork. You can read more of Diana's insights on her LinkedIn and on her blog. You can also listen to her TEDx talk, The Difference Between Running and Running Free. Links to help you bodly meet the future Free self-assessment: 11 Questions to Future Proof Your Career Prepare yourself for the future: Enroll in Diana's Future Proof course Fast Company article on using AI and VR to teach empathy Want to know more? Start with these blogs and podcasts Blog: Blink And The Future Is Here. Are You Ready? Blog: It's True: Blockchain Is The Future, Especially In the Construction Industry Podcast: Jack Knocke—The Internet Of Things Is The Future of Things Additional resources Diana's website Diana's book: "Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration" My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants

174: Stefan Pagacik—What Do Your Culture And Values Say About You?

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2020 36:34

Learn how to arm your employees with a sense of purpose! Stefan and I had one of those great podcast discussions that took us into the work he is doing to get people to pay attention to our sustainability challenges. Unless we stop what we are doing to our environment, we won’t have much left of the earth to live on, he firmly believes. But what I most enjoyed about our talk was learning how Stefan is mobilizing communities to change. As culture change experts, that's what we're all about at SAMC: helping organizations and the individuals within them change. Want or need to change? Stefan teaches us how to do it, now. Stefan's journey When friends ask Stefan Pagacik to describe what he does, it often leads to quizzical looks. "My life and career have not followed the traditional paths that most choose, and that is in large measure because of my entrepreneurial roots," he says. His grandfather came to America from Soviet Armenia and started a grocery business, competing against the likes of Star Market and Stop ‘n Shop and doing very well. The best definition he can offer is that ideas and innovative solutions are critical for his happiness. "I embrace taking risks, stumbling and trying again, as well as an otherworldly persistence to get answers that can solve a complex problem or challenge," he explains. "I love opening doors to opportunities and highly motivated leaders who combine integrity with innovative thinking. Original Thinking is in my DNA.” A multi-faceted path Stefan’s career has spanned several industries and roles, most recently as co-founder of AI4Impact, an artificial intelligence/machine learning firm focused on impact and sustainability. Previously, he built two impact-themed cloud and mobile platforms for retail and institutional investors interested in aligning their values and criteria with their portfolios. His prior entrepreneurial experience involved starting the Regional Technology Development Center of Cape Cod, a marine science accelerator in Southeastern Massachusetts which commercialized scientific developments in partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Marine Biological Laboratory. In addition, Stefan built a model for an energy transition solution from fossil fuels to biofuels for the government of Chile, and designed a social enterprise plan for the city of Detroit, aligning entrepreneurs and city agencies to stimulate business opportunities for blighted areas of the city, including a sustainable food corridor. A highly sought-after speaker and strategic business advisor, Stefan helps corporate leaders tie mission and vision statements to strategic initiatives for employee recruitment/retention and customer development. You can find more information about Stefan and his many initiatives on his website www.direct-ly.net or by contacting him at stefan@ai4impactinvesting.com. Want to know more about corporate culture? Start with these blogs and podcasts Blog: How's Your Culture? Doing Fine Or In Drastic Need Of An Overhaul? Blog: Is Your Business Stuck? Maybe It Needs a New Corporate Culture! Podcast: Tristan White—A Great Place To Work Starts With A Great Culture Podcast: Ask Andi—How Do You Change Your Culture? Additional resources Stefan's website: www.direct-ly.net My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants

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170: Alicia Robb—Move Over, Men...Women Are Starting Businesses And Doing Exceptionally Well

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2020 20:47

Hear how women-owned businesses are kicking it! Today’s podcast is all about a topic that we here at SAMC are working on ourselves: how to help women create and grow their businesses. My conversation with Alicia Robb was wonderful. Alicia has spent ten years as a senior fellow at the Kaufman Foundation in St. Louis studying entrepreneurship and particularly women entrepreneurs. You can read some of her Google Scholars articles here. Of particular interest to me, and perhaps to you as well, is her work on minority-owned business performance and the impact of gender differences on business results. So can women start and run hugely successful businesses? You bet. Listen in and learn how. Want to work at a women-led business? Start one. One of the critical factors influencing business success for women, no matter if the company is minority-owned or not, is the lack of capital and access to that capital. This has become Alicia Robb’s focus. Founder and chief executive officer of Next Wave Impact, a global fund providing early-stage financing and advising to young firms. The difference? Next Wave Impact has 99 women investors, 25 of them women of color, and it is led by an investment committee of ten women. So yes, it can be done. Women have become the driving machine for the American economy but it continues to be an uphill climb Between 2017 and 2018, there were over 1800 new women-owned businesses added to the American economy per day. That's more than twice the pre-2007 time period and the 2007-2012 recession and recovery period. In many cases, these female start-up founders had just had enough with the corporate workplace and were ready to strike out on their own. These "necessity entrepreneurs" tend to have smaller businesses and their leaders are focused on making a living. This is quite different from "opportunity entrepreneurs" who see an unmet need (à la Blue Ocean Strategy®), have an idea of how to meet that need and then create a new market space around it. With the increasing wealth gap in this country and the growing number of women who are the sole or co-bread winners in their families, the fact that women now own 40% of U.S. businesses should make us pause and figure out ways to help them thrive in their quest to achieve success. (This is what our Simon Initiative is all about, which you can read about here.) More about Alicia Robb Alicia is the Founder and CEO of Next Wave Impact and the Managing Partner of the Next Wave US Impact Fund, as well as a Managing Partner of the Rising Tide US Pilot Fund. She was previously a Senior Fellow with the Kaufman Foundation for more than a decade, and worked as an economist with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Office of Economic Research in the SBA. In addition to authoring numerous journal articles and book chapters, Alicia is the co-author of "A Rising Tide: Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Businesses," "The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs" and "Race and Entrepreneurial Success." As well as leading workshops on angel investing and investor readiness around the globe, Alicia herself is an active angel investor, a limited partner in three early-stage venture funds, a mentor to various young firms, and an advisory board member for several nonprofit groups, including the Deming Center Venture Fund, the Good Food Institute, Vegan Investors and Women Funders in AR. She is also the founder and past executive Podcast: director and board chair of the Foundation for Sustainable Development, an international development organization working in Latin America, Africa, and India Alicia received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill More women-owned business stories to share with you Blog: Terrific Websites to Empower Successful Women Entrepreneurs Blog: Want To Save the World? Women Entrepreneurs Are Already Doing It! Podcast: How Women Entrepreneurs Can Think Bigger, Build Sustainable Businesses, and Change the World Podcast: Finding The "Holes in the Cheese" To Build A Successful Business Additional resources Alicia's company: Next Wave Impact My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants

157: Jodi Daniels—How Private Is Your Private Information, Really?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2019 23:22

Learn why data privacy is a human right you deserve! Do you ever worry about what personal information you are giving to a website you are buying something from? How is it using that data? What did Cambridge Analytica do with your personal Facebook data to harvest your information and use it for political campaign purposes in 2016? Did it matter to you? Should it? That was even more alarming, and more dangerous, than hackers breaking into Target’s data base and stealing credit card information. Boy, the times, they are a’ changing. Are you? My guest today is Jodi Daniels, a privacy laws guru who can help us sort all of this out and show us how to be safer. I guarantee, you don't want to miss this! Your data privacy is Jodi's top concern After a successful corporate career with such high-profile companies as Deloitte, The Home Depot, Cox Enterprises and Bank of America, Jodi founded Red Clover Advisors, a boutique privacy consulting agency. Working with organizations across industries, Jodi and her team of experts help business leaders better understand and stay compliant with ever-changing regulations in privacy, customer data collection and its use, digital governance and online data strategy. What sets Jodi apart? As an entrepreneur, like us at SAMC, she understands firsthand the challenges of building and managing a business or brand, and how data privacy is integral to its success or failure. When it comes to compliance, her motto is, “You don’t know what you don’t know.” She then delivers on this statement by making privacy easy to understand by breaking it down into measurable steps, using plain language her clients can relate to. It's a whole new way of working with data! About Jodi Daniels Since launching Red Clover Advisors in 2017, Jodi Daniels has helped hundreds of companies create privacy programs, achieve GDPR, CCPA and US privacy law compliance, and establish a secure online data strategy their customers can count on. As a dedicated privacy consultant, she custom-designs compliance programs to fit the specific needs of each business. But most importantly, Jodi passionately supports the idea that privacy is more than just compliance and concern over fines. It’s a human right we all deserve, and she has made it her mission to help businesses build trust and transparency with this core value at its foundation. Jodi holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. You can reach Jodi at jodi@redcloveradvisors.com and learn more about her at www.redcloveradvisors.com. And please visit Jodi's Welcome page! Want to know more about the power of data? Check out these blogs and podcasts: Blog: Your Data Is Talking To You. Are You Listening? Blog: How Can Healthcare Organizations Get Value From Data? It's All In The Story. Blog: Blink And The Future Is Here. Are You Ready? Podcast: Tom Fox—Is Your Company As Compliant As It Needs To Be? Podcast: Ken Hoyt—Harnessing The Extraordinary Power of Data Podcast: Byron Reese—A Futurist Reveals How Technology Is Transforming Our Entire Society Additional resources Jodi's website: Red Clover Advisors Jodi's Welcome page My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants

Dr. Andi Simon - A Little Anthropology Can Help Your Business (E1417)

Exit Coach Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2019 23:08

Dr. Simon is a corporate anthropologist. Her business, SAMC, specializes in working with CEOs and companies that need or want to change. For today's talk, the topic is all about "corporate cultures and how they impact successful executive succession." Website www.simonassociates.net Check out our new search directory to hear top Advisors and Speakers at www.ExitCoachRadio.com Show host and speaker Bill Black helps business owners develop their 3-5 year Succession & Exit plan. Learn more at www.Ersi.biz. Advisors: If you would like to be interviewed, sign up at www.ExitCoachInterviews.com

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153: Amy Santee—How Anthropology Is Revolutionizing Design Strategy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2019 27:03

Hear how anthropology is bringing you better design! This was a wonderful interview with a fellow anthropologist. Amy Santee is a design research and strategy consultant working in product development, innovation and business strategy. Trained as an anthropologist, Amy incorporates a human-centered lens to help teams build products, services and brands through an understanding of people, context and experience. What does that mean for you? Listen to our fascinating conversation and you'll find out. Learn and share! As you know, at SAMC we preach the virtues of stepping out and looking at things from the outside-in. Rather than assuming you know what your customers are doing, the challenges they are facing, or the fears and struggles with which they are coping, go out of the office and hang out with them. Listen to their stories. Let them tell you what they think is the problem with the solutions they have today. Don’t try and sell them anything. Just listen. Along those lines, Amy and I dig into the ways in which anthropologists work in Design Thinking to provide an ethnographic approach to new ways to design things. You will listen to hear how she is driven by an endless curiosity about how humans experience the world so they can make sense of complex problem spaces. As Amy says it so well: “We have to understand the people we're designing for in order to create things that are meaningful and relevant to them. Knowing what they care about is essential for increasing confidence in decisions, lowering risk, achieving business goals and differentiating from competitors." A little about Amy Santee Amy has worked primarily in the digital world, with experience in areas such as ecommerce, entertainment, retail, home improvement, health care, wearables, enterprise software and consumer tech. She is also a prominent figure in the community of anthropological practice, and blogs about design, business, organizational culture and careers at anthropologizing.com. She is now building her own business to bring anthropology to others. You can tell why I'm such a fan! You can find her on LinkedIn or visit her website, amysantee.com. For more on anthropology's huge effect on business, check out these blogs and podcasts: Blog: Hire Anthropologists! It Might Be Your Smartest Business Move Blog: Innovative Applications of Corporate Anthropology in Business Blog: How Anthropology Can Help Your Business Soar Podcast: Ask Andi—How Anthropology Helps People See Things With Fresh Eyes Podcast: Jay Hasbrouck—Thinking Like an Anthropologist Podcast: Oscar Barrera—Creatively Applying Anthropology To Find Innovative Solutions Additional resources Amy's website: amysantee.com. My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants

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150: Rita McGrath—Don't Run From Change, Embrace It!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2019 26:53

Hear how nonusers are waiting for you to fulfill their unmet needs! I had such an amazing conversation with Dr. Rita Gunther McGrath. I have been a fan of her thinking over the past twenty years, and have read and used each of her books, The Entrepreneurial Mindset, Market Busters, Discovery Driven Growth and The End of Competitive Advantage. Her new book, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen, is coming out today, September 3, 2019, and is the topic of our interview. Today, you're either a disrupter, adapting to disruptions, or being disrupted You will enjoy listening to Dr. McGrath reflect on what we are both seeing: a great deal of change opening up opportunities for new businesses to emerge, for others to surge, and for some to purge. The "resisters" are gone—those businesses that refuse to adapt to changing times, that “don’t do it that way,” that cannot seem to open their minds to the massive changes coming all around them. Listen carefully to our conversation because you don’t have to fight the changes—the unmet needs and nonusers that we speak about at SAMC so often. Your potential customers are waiting for you to help them. You just have to start seeing things through a fresh lens. Our job (Rita's and SAMC's) is to help you do that. Rita will tell you why and how to start to spot those inflection points before they gobble you up! About Dr. Rita Gunther McGrath Rita Gunther McGrath Ph.D. is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker and a longtime professor at Columbia Business School. She is one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, and is one of the most regularly published authors in the Harvard Business Review. She is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50. In 2009, she was elected as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society in recognition of her impact on the field. She has also been elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Management and has received the “Theory to Practice” award at the Vienna Strategy Forum. Learn more about Rita on her website. To learn more about adapting to change, we suggest these blogs and podcasts: Blog: Additional resources Rita's website: ritamcgrath.com Rita's books: The Entrepreneurial Mindset Market Busters, Discovery Driven Growth The End of Competitive Advantage Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen My book: On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants

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144: Ask Andi—How To Find Your Blue Ocean Strategy® Step 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019 29:43

Now that you know the basics, it's time to go visually exploring! Last week, I shared with you my Ask Andi session, "How To Find Your Blue Ocean Strategy® Step 1," in which I explained how Blue Ocean Strategy shows you how to go after nonusers, carve out a new, unoccupied market space and make the competition irrelevant. "OK," you may be saying, "what do I do next? I've done my strategic canvas but where do I go from there?" Now that you've started to see, feel and think in new ways about your business (visual awakening), you're ready to go visually exploring, which is a very exciting part of the Blue Ocean methodology. Here we go! It's time to go out into the field and see with your own eyes, listen with your own ears Visual exploration is at the core of Blue Ocean thinking (and right up my alley as a corporate anthropologist). We know that what we “see and feel” helps us better “think” about the problems to be solved and the ways to understand what we are really doing. Words are fine but if you see something or hear somebody talking about a problem they cannot figure out, something in your brain goes, “Aha, there is an opportunity for us.” There are many ways to go exploring. But let me begin with a strong caveat: One of the key rules of Blue Ocean Strategic thinking is “never outsource your eyes.” I must repeat this. Don’t outsource your exploring. Get out of your office and go searching for new ideas yourself. So, how exactly do you "see" your business with fresh eyes? This is crucially important because it's how we see that we will be able to really understand what's happening, and why it's happening, and where we can find nonusers with unmet needs. Visual awakening, therefore, becomes a very important part of your Blue Ocean Strategy. If you've done your visual awakening strategic canvas properly (you might want to take another listen to "How To Find Your Blue Ocean Strategy® Step 1"), you're thinking about unmet needs and nonusers. But first, who is a nonuser? And why aren't they using you? Are they using a substitute for you, a competitor? Your job is to not just find answers but to find out why. Also, ask yourself: who could be your customer, and how can you find new ways to satisfy their needs in ways your competitors haven't thought of yet? (Think Starbucks, Uber, Airbnb.) Your task: to "see" the things you've been ignoring This is one of the primary Blue Ocean ways to find your nonusers. Go visually exploring to see who will be your customer tomorrow and what they are doing and not doing. What's changing in how they buy? Are there people struggling with problems that you could help solve? What are they searching for online right now? Could Google Analytics and Inbound Marketing help you see what they are searching for and where they go to buy it? Are they staying on your site or are they leaving you quickly? And the biggest question is, why aren't they using you now? How to go visually exploring using anthropology As anthropologists, our job is to hang out, step out, observe and look at things with fresh eyes, listen to people's conversations and storytelling, and try and find themes, or threads, or pain points, or opportunities. Here's an introduction to how we do this at SAMC. Remember, people cannot tell you what they're doing. They will always tell you what they think you want to hear. But if you watch them, you will see what they're actually doing, and it will be transformative for you. By simply hanging out and observing consumer behavior, you begin to better understand what nonusers are doing and how you could possibly solve their problems or serve their needs. You’re looking for the new ideas that are all around you You're trying to find out a deeper meaning, a bigger idea, something that's right before you that you're just not seeing yet. Sit on the phones, or search the internet, or hang out with clients. Take pictures. Ask people what they mean. Once you begin to see, feel, and think about things with fresh eyes, all of a sudden you'll hear things that are coming at you and say, “Oh wow, that's a Blue Ocean possibility!” And that's when you can start to change the way you see things. Don't discount these observations and new discoveries about consumer behavior because they could open up a huge market space for you, your Blue Ocean Strategy. So open your eyes and your ears and go visually exploring! In this episode, I discuss: How to go visually exploring Who are your nonusers What are consumers' pain points that you could solve How to look at your business with fresh eyes Ways to overcome the habits and biases of your mind map How to recognize untapped markets that you could capitalize on Observing people's behaviors like an anthropologist For a deeper dive into Blue Ocean Strategy, we recommend these blogs, podcasts and white paper Blog: Blue Ocean Strategy® Can Create a New and Uncontested Market Space Blog: How Blue Ocean Strategy® Helps You Find (and Convert) Nonusers Podcast: Ask Andi—3 Companies That Saw A Blue Ocean Possibility Podcast: Patrick Horine—Bringing Blue Ocean Strategy® to Hospital Accreditation White paper: 10 Ways To Swim in Blue Oceans and Avoid Those Red Ones Resources My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants Get the full transcript of this Ask Andi episode here.

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142: Ken Hoyt—Harnessing The Extraordinary Power of Data

Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2019 28:43

A little over two years ago, in June 2017, Dr. Kenneth Hoyt did a podcast with us about his work with higher education institutions that needed, or wanted, to change. We had previously worked with Ken when he was president of Centenary University from 2002 to 2009 when he turned around the institution, dramatically increasing enrollment from 1,600 students to 3,300. How did he do this? By better understanding and improving retention rates and expanding into non-traditional, adult, online and graduate programs. It was Ken's mastery of the power of data that enabled him to provide the insights needed to better recruit potential college students while adapting Centenary's curricula to their needs. Are you in need of a turnaround? Listen and learn! It was this same understanding of the power of data that led Dr. Hoyt to found The Higher Education Practice. In our 2nd podcast, we asked him to talk about the work he has been doing with higher education institutions, especially regarding the three-year project he recently completed with the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities (AIKCU). This podcast is important because Ken discusses how he engaged with these colleges and universities to get them to capture and analyze their data, and then own the results so they could transform their institutions and better serve their students. You can read the analysis of Ken's work, “Optimizing Academic Balance (OAB): Mission, Quality, Market Potential, Cost, and Revenue,” here. Of particular interest to us at SAMC and the work we do in higher education: Dr. Hoyt looks for the Key Performance Indicators on which a college should be focusing. All too often, institutions are not looking at the right data. They are focused on enrollment and retention but are unaware of how their own data can help them better attract, and retain, students. He successfully got the independent colleges in Kentucky to see the benefit of cross-institutional analysis. As anthropologists, we also look across institutions, and even industries, to better understand which model works best in which setting. He also helps organizations disrupt the myths which they have always held to be true, even when the facts are neither supportive of those myths nor trusted to change them. At one college he worked with, the administration was certain that minority students performed poorly when compared to (white) majority students. The facts said the opposite. The administration also thought that residential students did better than commuters. Wrong again. SAMC helps organizations "see, feel and think" differently There is so much information, along with exceptional insights, awaiting college leadership that wants to see things with fresh eyes. It really is all around them, if only they could see it. At SAMC, that's what we're all about: helping clients see things through a new lens, with fresh eyes. About Ken Hoyt The founding principal of The Higher Education Practice, Dr. Kenneth L. Hoyt is in the midst of a distinguished 30-year higher education career. He has served as president of Centenary University in Hackettstown, New Jersey, president of The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges, Inc. (OFIC), vice president for The University of Akron, and in various campaign/fundraising leadership positions for Otterbein College and Baldwin-Wallace College. Dr. Hoyt holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and Leadership from Ohio University, an M.A. in Journalism/PR from Ohio State University, and a B.A. in Business Administration/ Marketing from Baldwin-Wallace College. During his seven years at Centenary University, he transformed the institution, implementing a collaborative strategic planning model that led to unprecedented enrollment growth in the university's traditional, non-traditional/adult, online and graduate programs. Recently, Centenary was recognized by Intel as one of the top 50 wireless universities in the U.S. for its wireless IBM laptop campus. To learn more about what's ahead for higher ed, check out these blogs and podcasts What Makes Arizona State University the Most Innovative College in the US? Who Are the Successful Innovators in Higher Education? Blue Ocean Strategy® Can Really Work for Higher Education Maria Gallo—DelVal University Is Now Soaring Thanks To Blue Ocean Strategy® Understanding Higher Education with Brent Wilder Rob Westervelt—Thinking Forward for Higher Education Additional resources: AIKCU OAB Project Final Report The Higher Education Practice My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants Download the 1-page synopsis of my book, "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" here Want to be featured on an upcoming Podcast episode? Tell us more about you and you too can be on the brink of "soaring!"

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PBTO40: Transforming Observation into Innovation with Andrea Simon

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2016

Who is on the Show: In this episode, we are hosting Dr. Andrea Simon. She is the principal and founder of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC) and the author of the upcoming book “On the Brink”. Why is she on the show: She is a corporate anthropologist and helps organizations, large and small, drive change by helping them rethink their strategy, customers and the culture in your own organisation. She has won numerous Addy and Aster awards for her marketing and advertising campaigns. She is a well-published author with articles in Forbes,Business Week and numerous publications and online blogs. She is a guest blogger […]

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SAMC ARTalk: Fahamu Pecou

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2016 39:04

Sponsored by the School of Arts, Media, and Communication at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, and hosted by Joe Peña, Assistant Professor of Art, SAMC ARTalk interviews some of the best artists, curators, and Gallery Directors we've had the pleasure of meeting. In this episode, Joe interviews well known painter and performer Fahamu Pecou during his exhibition Fahamu Pecou: Re-Membering which was on display at TAMUCC January through February of 2016. Special thanks to TAMUCC President Flavious Killabrew, Provost Kelly Quintailla, Dean Mark Hartlaub, Gallery Director Laura Petican and Staff, the faculty in the art department , Rich Gere, Chair of the Art Department, and Mr. Fahamu Pecou himself!

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SAMC ARTalk: Fahamu Pecou

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2016 39:04

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SAMC ARTalk: Charles Yoder

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2016 66:37

Recorded during a recent trip with my graduate students to NYC, we have a conversation with NYC painter Charles Yoder about his upbringing, his process, his time with Robert Rauchenberg, and more!

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SAMC ARTalk: Charles Yoder

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2016 66:37

Recorded during a recent trip with my graduate students to NYC, we have a conversation with NYC painter Charles Yoder about his upbringing, his process, his time with Robert Rauchenberg, and more!

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SAMC ARTalk: Hugo Bastidas

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2016 71:12

NYC interview with renowned painter Hugo Bastidas recorded during a group visit to NYC with TAMUCC graduate students led by myself, Joe Pena (TAMUCC Professor of Painting)

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SAMC ARTalk: Hugo Bastidas

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2016 71:12

NYC interview with renowned painter Hugo Bastidas recorded during a group visit to NYC with TAMUCC graduate students led by myself, Joe Pena (TAMUCC Professor of Painting)

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SAMC ARTtalk Ep. 6 "Kathryn Polk"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 31:51

Recorded in conjuction with the exhibition "Kathryn Polk: Lesson Learned" previously on view at TAMUCC, this brief insightful interview with printmaker Kathryn Polk discusses her love of printmaking and symbolism.

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SAMC ARTtalk Ep. 6 "Kathryn Polk"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 31:51

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SAMC ARTalk Ep.4: Alex Rubio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2013 40:50

In this episode of SAMC ARTalk, we sit down with painter, muralist, and gallery director Alex Rubio. Originally from San Antonio, Rubio (nicknamed "El Diablito") began his career as a young muralist in a housing project. He has developed his talent by serving his community as an instructor for youth and creating murals on the walls of cathedrals and more. His artwork focuses on narrative drawings and paintings with mixed media, based on images deeply rooted in his Latin American culture. He is the recipient of the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation award (2007) for painters and is in numerous private and public collections including The Cheech Marin Collection, The McNay Art Museum and the San Antonio Museum of Art, The Art Museum of South Texas, and The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago just to name a few.

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SAMC ARTalk Ep.4: Alex Rubio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2013 40:50

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SAMC ARTalk Ep.3: Marc Brunier Mestas

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 52:51

Recorded on May 28, 2013 at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Assistant Professor of Art Joe Pena speaks with renowned French printmaker Marc Brunier Mestas on his work, his process, and love of Texas.

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SAMC ARTalk Ep.3: Marc Brunier Mestas

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 52:51

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Episode 7: St. Patrick's Day

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2013

Erik, Will, and Josiah talk about St. Patrick's Day.FeaturingBanterKairos Arts Student MinistryNew TWU band Culture Jam The Final Spartan Update with Danny Grant. (14:02)The Tdub Hub's first ever political panel. (18:58)Upcoming EventsTWU Senior Art ShowMarch 26, at the Langley Centenial Museum6:30-9pmmore infoCan-Am Hockey GameThursday, March 28, at the Langley Events CentreMusic CreditsIntro music by Tyler Dumoulin. Blog: http://tylerdumoulin.wordpress.com/Twitter @TylerDumoulinOutro music "Rain of Judah" by Josh Dauer.soundcloud.com/dauer"Road Song" by The New Atlas © copyright Cameron Reed and Jodi Bagge 2013. Used with permission.https://soundcloud.com/camjothebanjoContact InfoErikemail tdubhub@gmail.comtwitter @erikacoustikJosiahtwitter @JosiahEdmundWilltwitter @Hashtag7thSonThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.http://archive.org/download/TdubHub/Episode7St.PatricksDay.mp3

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Episode 6: Faces

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2013

Erik, Dave, Brandon, and Amy talk about Hair, Blogs, Faces, and Spaces.FeaturingInterview with Emma and Harriet from SAMC Theatre's production of Jane Austin's Emma. For tickets go to twuboxoffice@gmail.com or order online hereUpcomingTwo or Three - "Resolve" EP Release PartyMarch 8 at Murrayville Hall, Langley 7pm.facebook event youtube channelfind them on twitter: @twoorthreebandCreditsIntro music by Tyler Dumoulin. Blog: http://tylerdumoulin.wordpress.com/ Twitter @TylerDumoulinOutro music "Rain of Judah" by Josh Dauer. soundcloud.com/dauer"The Bees" by Two or Three © copyright Andrew Harback 2013. Used by permission.Contact InfoErikemail tdubhub@gmail.comtwitter @erikacoustik Brandontwitter @bbate88Amytwitter @amzydoodleDave twitter @daveshoffnerAnd find us in person, talk to us!This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.http://archive.org/download/TdubHub/Episode6Faces.mp3

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Episode 5: Tacos

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2013

Erik and Daniel Grant talk about taco eating, reading week, and ravens.FeaturingSpartan Update with Danny Grant. For more info go to http://twu.ca/athletics/Interview with M. Fischer and Dr. J, the anonymous founders of the Undercurrent. Find their blog at undertheundercurrent.blogspot.caUpcomingTWU Spaces Literary Journal release party Saturday, March 2nd. http://www.twuspaces.com/Featured MusicIntro music by Tyler Dumoulin. Blog: http://tylerdumoulin.wordpress.com/ Twitter @TylerDumoulinOutro music "Rain of Judah" by Josh Dauer. soundcloud.com/dauerContact Infoemail tdubhub@gmail.comtwitter @erikacoustik (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.http://archive.org/download/TdubHub/Episode5Tacos.mp3

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Episode 4: Sunripe Smoothie

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2013

Erik talks about missing Dillon, Sunripe Smoothies, and Censorship.FeaturingSports update with Danny Grant.Interview with Sarah Ruth, the director of Life Under Water by Richard Greenberg. Find her on twitter @s_ruthless13Featured MusicIntro music by Tyler Dumoulin. Find his blog at http://tylerdumoulin.wordpress.com/ and his twitter @TylerDumoulinOutro music "Rain of Judah" by Josh Dauer. Find him at soundcloud.com/dauerContact Infoemail us, or find us on twitter @erikacoustik @dillondeanThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.http://archive.org/download/TdubHub/Episode4SunripeSmoothie.mp3

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Episode 3: New Generations

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2013

Dillon and Erik talk Boston Pizza, science majors, Hootenany, and New GenerationsFeaturingSports update with Danny Grant.Interview with Eleanor Felton, director of the one act play "Building Blocks" by Benjamin Buckingham in SAMC Theatre's New Generations, opening the Wednesday, January 29, 2013. Preview Tuesday.Promo Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjCcEW-WZxEfor tickets email the twu box office twuboxoffice@gmail.comFeatured MusicIntro music by Tyler Dumoulin. Find his blog at http://tylerdumoulin.wordpress.com/ and his twitter @TylerDumoulinOutro music "Rain of Judah" by Josh Dauer. Find him at soundcloud.com/dauerContact InfoHave a rant to send us?An event that needs publicity?Do you have some music you want us to play?email us, or find us on twitter @erikacoustik @dillondeanThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.http://archive.org/download/TdubHub/Episode3NewGenerations.mp3

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Episode 2: Celebrity Presidentation

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2013

Dillon and Erik have a more low-key discussion of dorm life, interdisciplinary unity, pod twitters, presidential inaugurations, and... Sports? FeaturingSports update with Danny Grant.Interview with Amy Dauer, director of one act plays "Words, Words, Words" by David Ives in SAMC Theatre's New Generations, opening January 29, 2013.Promo Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjCcEW-WZxEfor tickets email the twu box office twuboxoffice@gmail.comAmy Dauer's film work.PaintedThe Walrus and the CarpenterFeatured Music"I don't wanna go to bed" by Lion and the Mouse. Fronted by Sheldon Kozushko. Facebook YouTube"Rain of Judah" by Josh Dauer. Find him at soundcloud.com/dauerContact InfoHave a rant to send us?An event that needs publicity?Do you have some music you want us to play?email us, or find us on twitter @erikacoustik @dillondeanThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.http://archive.org/download/TdubHub/Episode2CelebrityPresidentation.mp3

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Episode 1: Pancakes

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2013

Erik and Dillon talk about Pancakes, Dorm life, the Spartan life and New Generations.Featuring interviews with Danny Grant and Tia Glenn Cooke (@Terrible_Tia)Have a rant to send us?An idea for an interview?An event that needs publicity?Do you have some music you want us to play?email us, or find us on twitter @erikacoustik @dillondean"Rain of Judah" copyright Josh Dauer 2013 © All rights reserved.find him at soundcloud.com/dauer"Broken Dreams" copyright Sarah Williams 2013 © All rights reserved.find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNrluo67a10This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.http://archive.org/download/TdubHub/Episode1Pancakes.mp3

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Miami Sessions proudly presents Radio Noise 500 - M.U.M Episode 194

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2012 75:42

Pioneer "is one that first opens or discover paths through unknown regions." The career of DJ and producer Anderson Noise is a pioneer in electronic music from Brazil. Born in Belo Horizonte, Noise started slowly, as is the custom in his region, but never stopped to take some steps toward success. In 1988, during the explosion of Acid House, started DJing in his hometown. Passionate about the profession, he often said that the role of DJ is move people. Followed by producing their own events from 1992, making room in the state capital for the proliferation of the electronic scene, still embryonic in place. There were more than 40 parties produced, many in places like mental hospitals, shopping malls, car dealerships and historic buildings. The "Noise Family" became an institution, since in the event not only Anderson was involved. Mamma Noise, the mother of the DJ in person, was the hostess of the parties. Later Alvinho L Noise was excited with the turntables and boiled the dance floor next to his brother. His first CD compilation, "Paralisia Cerebral"was released in 1996, while the dream of producing his own music became reality in the talented hands of Noise. In 1997 he was invited to include "Shantytown" in the "Electronic Music Brazil" the first CD of 100% national of the genre, released by Sony-Mercado Mundo Mix. Without fear of expanding his horizons, Noise promoted the first trio elétrico "Truck with a mobile sound system" with electronic music in 1999 in Carnabelô Carnival out of season Mineiro, and became mandatory attendance in subsequent years. Without knowing it, acquiring the experience to face an even greater challenge playing on electric trio of singer Daniela Mercury, during Carnival in Salvador in 2002. The DJ stand for something besides records, awards, won in 97 "Distinction Underground" by the magazine "DJ Sound." Both times that this category existed in the award, Anderson was the winner. Are there trophies for best producer and best DJ of techno music for the prize "Night Illustrated" Erika Palomino from the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo"; Sparks Trophies, prize won in 3 consecutive years, offered by the newspaper "O Estado Mine "for those who waved the mining scene, so that Anderson had turned into hors-concours. In the year 2003 was highlighted by Cool Awards, awards, in 2004, gave the award for best DJ. Anderson's career as a DJ and producer went from strength to strength. He participated in all major national events. At the festival Skol Beats was present in all editions since the first, ending the 2003 edition of apotheosis. Also participating in the electronic music tent at Rock In Rio in 2000. That was the year that his second compilation CD called "Outubro", with some tracks produced by his label "Noise Music". The label started in 1999 with the intention of bringing the world the music produced here, as in his words: "We always bought the music and the gringos gringos do not have any of our. It was music quality produced in Brazil to show to the world. " In 2001 he became a resident of the night Headstart at Turnmills club in London, integrating a select group of Brazilian DJs that arose in the pool. While playing outside of Brazil shared the stage with great international names who came to the country. One is impressed with the quality of mining and DJ led out into the world. Carl Cox, one of the best DJs in the world, was impressed with the strength of Anderson Noise the first time they played in Brazil: "Anderson is very talented. He played with me a few times before, sometimes after. He also has his own label, Noise Music. They're good - too good to ignore. "In the 2001 copy of the" 2001 TOP 100 DJ Mag ", Cox classified Anderson as the future" DJ Hero. " His third CD compilation came out in 2002 to please the Brazilian public. "Noisemusic Compilation 100% Mix Anderson Noise" was released by a major label, bringing all the songs the label Noise Music mixed by Anderson an awesome set list. The album was well received in Brazil and abroad, to the point of calling the attention of Trevor Rockcliffe, owner of Mentor, respected British label, who heard the material and just wanted to release "Do It Yourself" by his label. Noise was also 2002 that launched his radio show, RADIO NOISE, hosted on your site, with weekly programs. In 2003, Anderson was invited by DJ Magazine, one of the worlds most respected publication dedicated to electronic music for his fourth CD, "DJ World Series - Anderson Noise." In a series of five records that the magazine released, where each DJ, representing a continent, made an album with productions of his country. Anderson was chosen to represent Latin America. Since then, his international career only grew Noise: participated in international festivals from Dance Valley, Homelands, Creamfields, Sonar, Exit, Rock In Rio Lisbon, Nokia Trends, SAMC, Knebworth Ministry of Sound. His performances earned him the world the opportunity to play in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, China, Chile, Colombia, South Korea, Ecuador, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, Spain, United States, France, Holland, England, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, Uruguay and Venezuela. His songs and albums were released by international labels AFULAB, Audio, Music Circle, disappeared Here, Eukatech, Harthouse, Jericho, Lo Kik, Mentor, Missile, Molecular Pild, Primate, Really Really Big Records, Sleaze, Spectrum & Teggno and ride the world. His fifth CD is innovative for the Brazilian public, "Anderson Noise Live @ Skol Beats 04" is the first nationwide electronic music CD recorded live during his presentation in one of the largest festivals of its kind in Latin America. And Anderson's relentless, he released a DVD of the first Brazilian DJ "Brazilian Love Affair", which can follow the national gigs Anderson, the clubs where it is resident. In 2005 the TV NOISE Noise created in conjunction with Toro products, with weekly programs, in which the clubs DJ shows, parties and festivals in which plays in Brazil and worldwide. In 2006 the second time the DJ ended the Skol Beats, the main festival of Latin America and was considered by DJ Magazine, a top 100 DJ, entering as the No. 79 ranking. In 2007 Anderson Noise again put the name of Brazil in the ranking of the top 100 DJs of the world's most popular DJ MAG, this time in the 54 ° position. Also his song "Man-Dog" went on the trail of the film commented, "The Past", directed by Hector Babenco. In 2008, the DJ launched nine EPs and was invited by Spanish club La Terrazza to compile its annual CD which had the partnership of German Circle Music label. Noise also re-appear in the Top 100 DJ DJ MAG, this time as 26 of the ranking, being the only Brazilian DJ to keep the list for 3 years and which achieved the best ranking to date. In the first week of 2009 Anderson Noise released their second DVD, the "Connection 1969," the first documentary about a DJ basileiro, along with his seventh CD compilations of the "NOISE CONNECTION", all of it with own productions, remixes and unreleased mixes. That same year, participated in its DVD 10 edition of FILE International Festival of Electronic Language. Anderson was also voted the number 1 DJ by DJ magazine in the country BRAZIL MAG Also in 2009 Anderson Noise was invited by João Carlos Martins to start the project, Anderson Noise and John Carlos Martins in Concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra Bachiana, which resulted in an exciting concert combining electronic music and classical music in the room São Paulo. Currently a resident of Anderson Noise Clash Club (Sao Paulo), Deputamadre (Belo Horizonte) and D-Edge (Sao Paulo) For him, there is no limit that can not be exceeded. Thing who is creative and pioneering. Play list Radio Noise 500 01 DaDa Attack - Awkward Move 02 Alex Sander - Juntos 03 Pimp$hit (DF) - Alliance For The Future 04 Click Box - Black Hoody 05 Davide Marchesiello - Echos 06 DJ Anna - Undercover07 Anderson Noise - 500 feat. Hugh Burrows08 Allan Villar - Keep It Goin09 Sex Shop - Mechanic Mind 10 Angelo Fracalanza - Talk About 11 Nir Shoshani - Revival 21 12 Re Dupre - KRZ 13 Rod B - Voices 14 Gustavo Peluzo - Freak Power 15 Digitaria - The Rebel16 Kosheen DJs & dubspeeka - Troll17 Caiwo - Paradox

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MUM & Radio Noise Presents Miami Sessions with Anderson Noise - Episode 178

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2011 60:01

Pioneer "is one that first opens or discover paths through unknown regions." The career of DJ and producer Anderson Noise is a pioneer in electronic music from Brazil. Born in Belo Horizonte, Noise started slowly, as is the custom in his region, but never stopped to take some steps toward success. In 1988, during the explosion of Acid House, started DJing in his hometown. Passionate about the profession, he often said that the role of DJ is move people. Followed by producing their own events from 1992, making room in the state capital for the proliferation of the electronic scene, still embryonic in place. There were more than 40 parties produced, many in places like mental hospitals, shopping malls, car dealerships and historic buildings. The "Noise Family" became an institution, since in the event not only Anderson was involved. Mamma Noise, the mother of the DJ in person, was the hostess of the parties. Later Alvinho L Noise was excited with the turntables and boiled the dance floor next to his brother. His first CD compilation, "Paralisia Cerebral"was released in 1996, while the dream of producing his own music became reality in the talented hands of Noise. In 1997 he was invited to include "Shantytown" in the "Electronic Music Brazil" the first CD of 100% national of the genre, released by Sony-Mercado Mundo Mix. Without fear of expanding his horizons, Noise promoted the first trio elétrico "Truck with a mobile sound system" with electronic music in 1999 in Carnabelô Carnival out of season Mineiro, and became mandatory attendance in subsequent years. Without knowing it, acquiring the experience to face an even greater challenge playing on electric trio of singer Daniela Mercury, during Carnival in Salvador in 2002. The DJ stand for something besides records, awards, won in 97 "Distinction Underground" by the magazine "DJ Sound." Both times that this category existed in the award, Anderson was the winner. Are there trophies for best producer and best DJ of techno music for the prize "Night Illustrated" Erika Palomino from the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo"; Sparks Trophies, prize won in 3 consecutive years, offered by the newspaper "O Estado Mine "for those who waved the mining scene, so that Anderson had turned into hors-concours. In the year 2003 was highlighted by Cool Awards, awards, in 2004, gave the award for best DJ. Anderson's career as a DJ and producer went from strength to strength. He participated in all major national events. At the festival Skol Beats was present in all editions since the first, ending the 2003 edition of apotheosis. Also participating in the electronic music tent at Rock In Rio in 2000. That was the year that his second compilation CD called "Outubro", with some tracks produced by his label "Noise Music". The label started in 1999 with the intention of bringing the world the music produced here, as in his words: "We always bought the music and the gringos gringos do not have any of our. It was music quality produced in Brazil to show to the world. " In 2001 he became a resident of the night Headstart at Turnmills club in London, integrating a select group of Brazilian DJs that arose in the pool. While playing outside of Brazil shared the stage with great international names who came to the country. One is impressed with the quality of mining and DJ led out into the world. Carl Cox, one of the best DJs in the world, was impressed with the strength of Anderson Noise the first time they played in Brazil: "Anderson is very talented. He played with me a few times before, sometimes after. He also has his own label, Noise Music. They're good - too good to ignore. "In the 2001 copy of the" 2001 TOP 100 DJ Mag ", Cox classified Anderson as the future" DJ Hero. " His third CD compilation came out in 2002 to please the Brazilian public. "Noisemusic Compilation 100% Mix Anderson Noise" was released by a major label, bringing all the songs the label Noise Music mixed by Anderson an awesome set list. The album was well received in Brazil and abroad, to the point of calling the attention of Trevor Rockcliffe, owner of Mentor, respected British label, who heard the material and just wanted to release "Do It Yourself" by his label. Noise was also 2002 that launched his radio show, RADIO NOISE, hosted on your site, with weekly programs. In 2003, Anderson was invited by DJ Magazine, one of the worlds most respected publication dedicated to electronic music for his fourth CD, "DJ World Series - Anderson Noise." In a series of five records that the magazine released, where each DJ, representing a continent, made an album with productions of his country. Anderson was chosen to represent Latin America. Since then, his international career only grew Noise: participated in international festivals from Dance Valley, Homelands, Creamfields, Sonar, Exit, Rock In Rio Lisbon, Nokia Trends, SAMC, Knebworth Ministry of Sound. His performances earned him the world the opportunity to play in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, China, Chile, Colombia, South Korea, Ecuador, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, Spain, United States, France, Holland, England, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, Uruguay and Venezuela. His songs and albums were released by international labels AFULAB, Audio, Music Circle, disappeared Here, Eukatech, Harthouse, Jericho, Lo Kik, Mentor, Missile, Molecular Pild, Primate, Really Really Big Records, Sleaze, Spectrum & Teggno and ride the world. His fifth CD is innovative for the Brazilian public, "Anderson Noise Live @ Skol Beats 04" is the first nationwide electronic music CD recorded live during his presentation in one of the largest festivals of its kind in Latin America. And Anderson's relentless, he released a DVD of the first Brazilian DJ "Brazilian Love Affair", which can follow the national gigs Anderson, the clubs where it is resident. In 2005 the TV NOISE Noise created in conjunction with Toro products, with weekly programs, in which the clubs DJ shows, parties and festivals in which plays in Brazil and worldwide. In 2006 the second time the DJ ended the Skol Beats, the main festival of Latin America and was considered by DJ Magazine, a top 100 DJ, entering as the No. 79 ranking. In 2007 Anderson Noise again put the name of Brazil in the ranking of the top 100 DJs of the world's most popular DJ MAG, this time in the 54 ° position. Also his song "Man-Dog" went on the trail of the film commented, "The Past", directed by Hector Babenco. In 2008, the DJ launched nine EPs and was invited by Spanish club La Terrazza to compile its annual CD which had the partnership of German Circle Music label. Noise also re-appear in the Top 100 DJ DJ MAG, this time as 26 of the ranking, being the only Brazilian DJ to keep the list for 3 years and which achieved the best ranking to date. In the first week of 2009 Anderson Noise released their second DVD, the "Connection 1969," the first documentary about a DJ basileiro, along with his seventh CD compilations of the "NOISE CONNECTION", all of it with own productions, remixes and unreleased mixes. That same year, participated in its DVD 10 edition of FILE International Festival of Electronic Language. Anderson was also voted the number 1 DJ by DJ magazine in the country BRAZIL MAG Also in 2009 Anderson Noise was invited by João Carlos Martins to start the project, Anderson Noise and John Carlos Martins in Concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra Bachiana, which resulted in an exciting concert combining electronic music and classical music in the room São Paulo. Currently a resident of Anderson Noise Clash Club (Sao Paulo), Deputamadre (Belo Horizonte) and D-Edge (Sao Paulo) For him, there is no limit that can not be exceeded. Thing who is creative and pioneering. Text Renata Simões www.andersonnoise.com.br Booking: www.hypno.com.br Oiva - Mushi Luper - Shot The Criminal (M.in Remix) D-Formation - Stuck In The Airport Maceo Plex - Hard To Find (Danny Daze Love Dub) Cuartero - Los Paseos Ray Okpara - Hideout Popof - Dancing Moon Phil Kieran & Green Velvet - Free Yourself (Out Of Control Mix) Caiwo - Playing Games (Digitaria Remix) Tez Perez & Hevy Mendez - Lola (Harvey Mckay remix) Emilienday - Multicolore (Laurent N Remix) Ross Evana - Devil Inside Jesper Dahlback and Cari Lekebusch - Bongo Slush Thomas Vink - Turbulence

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Rush Hour 044 (November 2011)

Pharmacy Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2011 120:01

Guest Mix: Damian Murillo (Runner up - Rush Hour DJ Mix Contest). Christopher Lawrence crashes into November as he gears up for Creamfields in Buenos Aires, a city which he describes as his "home away from home". Christopher's tough techno trance has found huge and loyal fan base in Argentina where he regularly plays events from SAMC to Pacha and of course, Creamfields. We will present the first hour of Christopher's set from Creamfields next month on Rush Hour.Also in November, Christopher returned to Medellin, Colombia as well as Washington DC where he played the cities largest indoor festival - Fall Massive!This months episode features some of the biggest and best tracks from Christopher Lawrence which rocked the dancefloor this month. Featuring new tracks and remixes by Insert Name, James Allan, The Digital Devil, G-Dub, Flash Brothers, Tolerance, Liam Wilson, The Technicians, E Clip, Endeavour, Interactive, Gary Maguire, Tempo Giusto, Ovnimoon plus Talla 2XLC & Robert Burian's remix of Christopher Lawrence's new single Tremor!This months guest is a Rush Hour DJ Mix contest runner up, Damian Murillo. From a young age Damian was fascinated and intrigued by the sounds of electronic dance music. At age 8 he first discovered the raw sounds of hard house through a cousin of his who was a DJ in the LA underground rave scene at the time. Damian had never hard music like that and was truly mesmerized by the art of djing. The seeds for Damian's future passion for djing were planted early on. At age 12 Damian acquired has first pair of turntables and began his DJ career. Initially playing hip-hop at house parties he later attended his first electronic dance music event, the Monster Massive Halloween music festival in 2006 and his life was forever changed that night. Having discovered the soaring melodies and driving baselines of trance music reignited his spark and love of djing and shortly after he began frequenting electronic dance music events and collecting and djing as much electronic dance music as he could. He continued to practice and hone his skills until he landed his first professional booking by age 19. Now in his early 20's Damian lives and breathes electronic dance music and the art of djing is his life's passion. Already having played alongside some of the biggest names in trance music including M.I.K.E, Stoneface & Terminal, The Space Rockerz, Norin & Rad and many more, Damian is an upcoming talent with his eclectic blend of progressive, tech, psy and trance and meticulous attention to detail in his set programming. Always a crowd favorite among the Southern California rave and club scene crowds the sky is the limit for Damian and he is definitely a name to look out for in the coming years. Visit the podcast episode page to find out more information, with links to artists featured in this podcast.

M.U.M & Noise Music Presents Miami Sessions with Anderson Noise @ Radio Noise - M.U.M Episode 168

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2011 60:01

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement Pioneer "is one that first opens or discover paths through unknown regions." The career of DJ and producer Anderson Noise is a pioneer in electronic music from Brazil. Born in Belo Horizonte, Noise started slowly, as is the custom in his region, but never stopped to take some steps toward success. In 1988, during the explosion of Acid House, started DJing in his hometown. Passionate about the profession, he often said that the role of DJ is move people. Followed by producing their own events from 1992, making room in the state capital for the proliferation of the electronic scene, still embryonic in place. There were more than 40 parties produced, many in places like mental hospitals, shopping malls, car dealerships and historic buildings. The "Noise Family" became an institution, since in the event not only Anderson was involved. Mamma Noise, the mother of the DJ in person, was the hostess of the parties. Later Alvinho L Noise was excited with the turntables and boiled the dance floor next to his brother. His first CD compilation, "Paralisia Cerebral"was released in 1996, while the dream of producing his own music became reality in the talented hands of Noise. In 1997 he was invited to include "Shantytown" in the "Electronic Music Brazil" the first CD of 100% national of the genre, released by Sony-Mercado Mundo Mix. Without fear of expanding his horizons, Noise promoted the first trio elétrico "Truck with a mobile sound system" with electronic music in 1999 in Carnabelô Carnival out of season Mineiro, and became mandatory attendance in subsequent years. Without knowing it, acquiring the experience to face an even greater challenge playing on electric trio of singer Daniela Mercury, during Carnival in Salvador in 2002. The DJ stand for something besides records, awards, won in 97 "Distinction Underground" by the magazine "DJ Sound." Both times that this category existed in the award, Anderson was the winner. Are there trophies for best producer and best DJ of techno music for the prize "Night Illustrated" Erika Palomino from the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo"; Sparks Trophies, prize won in 3 consecutive years, offered by the newspaper "O Estado Mine "for those who waved the mining scene, so that Anderson had turned into hors-concours. In the year 2003 was highlighted by Cool Awards, awards, in 2004, gave the award for best DJ. Anderson's career as a DJ and producer went from strength to strength. He participated in all major national events. At the festival Skol Beats was present in all editions since the first, ending the 2003 edition of apotheosis. Also participating in the electronic music tent at Rock In Rio in 2000. That was the year that his second compilation CD called "Outubro", with some tracks produced by his label "Noise Music". The label started in 1999 with the intention of bringing the world the music produced here, as in his words: "We always bought the music and the gringos gringos do not have any of our. It was music quality produced in Brazil to show to the world. " In 2001 he became a resident of the night Headstart at Turnmills club in London, integrating a select group of Brazilian DJs that arose in the pool. While playing outside of Brazil shared the stage with great international names who came to the country. One is impressed with the quality of mining and DJ led out into the world. Carl Cox, one of the best DJs in the world, was impressed with the strength of Anderson Noise the first time they played in Brazil: "Anderson is very talented. He played with me a few times before, sometimes after. He also has his own label, Noise Music. They're good - too good to ignore. "In the 2001 copy of the" 2001 TOP 100 DJ Mag ", Cox classified Anderson as the future" DJ Hero. " His third CD compilation came out in 2002 to please the Brazilian public. "Noisemusic Compilation 100% Mix Anderson Noise" was released by a major label, bringing all the songs the label Noise Music mixed by Anderson an awesome set list. The album was well received in Brazil and abroad, to the point of calling the attention of Trevor Rockcliffe, owner of Mentor, respected British label, who heard the material and just wanted to release "Do It Yourself" by his label. Noise was also 2002 that launched his radio show, RADIO NOISE, hosted on your site, with weekly programs. In 2003, Anderson was invited by DJ Magazine, one of the worlds most respected publication dedicated to electronic music for his fourth CD, "DJ World Series - Anderson Noise." In a series of five records that the magazine released, where each DJ, representing a continent, made an album with productions of his country. Anderson was chosen to represent Latin America. Since then, his international career only grew Noise: participated in international festivals from Dance Valley, Homelands, Creamfields, Sonar, Exit, Rock In Rio Lisbon, Nokia Trends, SAMC, Knebworth Ministry of Sound. His performances earned him the world the opportunity to play in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, China, Chile, Colombia, South Korea, Ecuador, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, Spain, United States, France, Holland, England, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, Uruguay and Venezuela. His songs and albums were released by international labels AFULAB, Audio, Music Circle, disappeared Here, Eukatech, Harthouse, Jericho, Lo Kik, Mentor, Missile, Molecular Pild, Primate, Really Really Big Records, Sleaze, Spectrum & Teggno and ride the world. His fifth CD is innovative for the Brazilian public, "Anderson Noise Live @ Skol Beats 04" is the first nationwide electronic music CD recorded live during his presentation in one of the largest festivals of its kind in Latin America. And Anderson's relentless, he released a DVD of the first Brazilian DJ "Brazilian Love Affair", which can follow the national gigs Anderson, the clubs where it is resident. In 2005 the TV NOISE Noise created in conjunction with Toro products, with weekly programs, in which the clubs DJ shows, parties and festivals in which plays in Brazil and worldwide. In 2006 the second time the DJ ended the Skol Beats, the main festival of Latin America and was considered by DJ Magazine, a top 100 DJ, entering as the No. 79 ranking. In 2007 Anderson Noise again put the name of Brazil in the ranking of the top 100 DJs of the world's most popular DJ MAG, this time in the 54 ° position. Also his song "Man-Dog" went on the trail of the film commented, "The Past", directed by Hector Babenco. In 2008, the DJ launched nine EPs and was invited by Spanish club La Terrazza to compile its annual CD which had the partnership of German Circle Music label. Noise also re-appear in the Top 100 DJ DJ MAG, this time as 26 of the ranking, being the only Brazilian DJ to keep the list for 3 years and which achieved the best ranking to date. In the first week of 2009 Anderson Noise released their second DVD, the "Connection 1969," the first documentary about a DJ basileiro, along with his seventh CD compilations of the "NOISE CONNECTION", all of it with own productions, remixes and unreleased mixes. That same year, participated in its DVD 10 edition of FILE International Festival of Electronic Language. Anderson was also voted the number 1 DJ by DJ magazine in the country BRAZIL MAG Also in 2009 Anderson Noise was invited by João Carlos Martins to start the project, Anderson Noise and John Carlos Martins in Concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra Bachiana, which resulted in an exciting concert combining electronic music and classical music in the room São Paulo. Currently a resident of Anderson Noise Clash Club (Sao Paulo), Deputamadre (Belo Horizonte) and D-Edge (Sao Paulo) For him, there is no limit that can not be exceeded. Thing who is creative and pioneering. Text Renata Simões www.andersonnoise.com.br Booking: www.hypno.com.br Playlist Radio Noise 467 Ozgur Can and Sia Yaraghi - Den MalerCarl Cox - Chemistry (Nicole Moudaber Mix) David Bocanegra - Hijos dela MMMM (Massimo Girardi & Deltano Remix)Alejandro Vivanco - Rise Again Bjorn Wilke and Someone Else - Rainbow BridgeLayo & Bushwacka! - ArtilleryAnderson Noise - Mapping (Stefano Lotti remix)Yooj and Go Funk Urself - On OneJorg Zimmer - Sala UkaToby Montana & Dan Caster - Spanish KissDrana -I Know What You Want Birdy Nam Nam - Goin' In (Bad Dancer Remix)Kosheen DJs - NarcPete Lazonby - Yanda

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M.U.M & Noise Music Presents Miami Sessions with Anderson Noise @ Radio Noise - M.U.M Episode 164

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2011 60:01

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement Pioneer "is one that first opens or discover paths through unknown regions." The career of DJ and producer Anderson Noise is a pioneer in electronic music from Brazil. Born in Belo Horizonte, Noise started slowly, as is the custom in his region, but never stopped to take some steps toward success. In 1988, during the explosion of Acid House, started DJing in his hometown. Passionate about the profession, he often said that the role of DJ is move people. Followed by producing their own events from 1992, making room in the state capital for the proliferation of the electronic scene, still embryonic in place. There were more than 40 parties produced, many in places like mental hospitals, shopping malls, car dealerships and historic buildings. The "Noise Family" became an institution, since in the event not only Anderson was involved. Mamma Noise, the mother of the DJ in person, was the hostess of the parties. Later Alvinho L Noise was excited with the turntables and boiled the dance floor next to his brother. His first CD compilation, "Paralisia Cerebral"was released in 1996, while the dream of producing his own music became reality in the talented hands of Noise. In 1997 he was invited to include "Shantytown" in the "Electronic Music Brazil" the first CD of 100% national of the genre, released by Sony-Mercado Mundo Mix. Without fear of expanding his horizons, Noise promoted the first trio elétrico "Truck with a mobile sound system" with electronic music in 1999 in Carnabelô Carnival out of season Mineiro, and became mandatory attendance in subsequent years. Without knowing it, acquiring the experience to face an even greater challenge playing on electric trio of singer Daniela Mercury, during Carnival in Salvador in 2002. The DJ stand for something besides records, awards, won in 97 "Distinction Underground" by the magazine "DJ Sound." Both times that this category existed in the award, Anderson was the winner. Are there trophies for best producer and best DJ of techno music for the prize "Night Illustrated" Erika Palomino from the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo"; Sparks Trophies, prize won in 3 consecutive years, offered by the newspaper "O Estado Mine "for those who waved the mining scene, so that Anderson had turned into hors-concours. In the year 2003 was highlighted by Cool Awards, awards, in 2004, gave the award for best DJ. Anderson's career as a DJ and producer went from strength to strength. He participated in all major national events. At the festival Skol Beats was present in all editions since the first, ending the 2003 edition of apotheosis. Also participating in the electronic music tent at Rock In Rio in 2000. That was the year that his second compilation CD called "Outubro", with some tracks produced by his label "Noise Music". The label started in 1999 with the intention of bringing the world the music produced here, as in his words: "We always bought the music and the gringos gringos do not have any of our. It was music quality produced in Brazil to show to the world. " In 2001 he became a resident of the night Headstart at Turnmills club in London, integrating a select group of Brazilian DJs that arose in the pool. While playing outside of Brazil shared the stage with great international names who came to the country. One is impressed with the quality of mining and DJ led out into the world. Carl Cox, one of the best DJs in the world, was impressed with the strength of Anderson Noise the first time they played in Brazil: "Anderson is very talented. He played with me a few times before, sometimes after. He also has his own label, Noise Music. They're good - too good to ignore. "In the 2001 copy of the" 2001 TOP 100 DJ Mag ", Cox classified Anderson as the future" DJ Hero. " His third CD compilation came out in 2002 to please the Brazilian public. "Noisemusic Compilation 100% Mix Anderson Noise" was released by a major label, bringing all the songs the label Noise Music mixed by Anderson an awesome set list. The album was well received in Brazil and abroad, to the point of calling the attention of Trevor Rockcliffe, owner of Mentor, respected British label, who heard the material and just wanted to release "Do It Yourself" by his label. Noise was also 2002 that launched his radio show, RADIO NOISE, hosted on your site, with weekly programs. In 2003, Anderson was invited by DJ Magazine, one of the worlds most respected publication dedicated to electronic music for his fourth CD, "DJ World Series - Anderson Noise." In a series of five records that the magazine released, where each DJ, representing a continent, made an album with productions of his country. Anderson was chosen to represent Latin America. Since then, his international career only grew Noise: participated in international festivals from Dance Valley, Homelands, Creamfields, Sonar, Exit, Rock In Rio Lisbon, Nokia Trends, SAMC, Knebworth Ministry of Sound. His performances earned him the world the opportunity to play in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, China, Chile, Colombia, South Korea, Ecuador, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, Spain, United States, France, Holland, England, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, Uruguay and Venezuela. His songs and albums were released by international labels AFULAB, Audio, Music Circle, disappeared Here, Eukatech, Harthouse, Jericho, Lo Kik, Mentor, Missile, Molecular Pild, Primate, Really Really Big Records, Sleaze, Spectrum & Teggno and ride the world. His fifth CD is innovative for the Brazilian public, "Anderson Noise Live @ Skol Beats 04" is the first nationwide electronic music CD recorded live during his presentation in one of the largest festivals of its kind in Latin America. And Anderson's relentless, he released a DVD of the first Brazilian DJ "Brazilian Love Affair", which can follow the national gigs Anderson, the clubs where it is resident. In 2005 the TV NOISE Noise created in conjunction with Toro products, with weekly programs, in which the clubs DJ shows, parties and festivals in which plays in Brazil and worldwide. In 2006 the second time the DJ ended the Skol Beats, the main festival of Latin America and was considered by DJ Magazine, a top 100 DJ, entering as the No. 79 ranking. In 2007 Anderson Noise again put the name of Brazil in the ranking of the top 100 DJs of the world's most popular DJ MAG, this time in the 54 ° position. Also his song "Man-Dog" went on the trail of the film commented, "The Past", directed by Hector Babenco. In 2008, the DJ launched nine EPs and was invited by Spanish club La Terrazza to compile its annual CD which had the partnership of German Circle Music label. Noise also re-appear in the Top 100 DJ DJ MAG, this time as 26 of the ranking, being the only Brazilian DJ to keep the list for 3 years and which achieved the best ranking to date. In the first week of 2009 Anderson Noise released their second DVD, the "Connection 1969," the first documentary about a DJ basileiro, along with his seventh CD compilations of the "NOISE CONNECTION", all of it with own productions, remixes and unreleased mixes. That same year, participated in its DVD 10 edition of FILE International Festival of Electronic Language. Anderson was also voted the number 1 DJ by DJ magazine in the country BRAZIL MAG Also in 2009 Anderson Noise was invited by João Carlos Martins to start the project, Anderson Noise and John Carlos Martins in Concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra Bachiana, which resulted in an exciting concert combining electronic music and classical music in the room São Paulo. Currently a resident of Anderson Noise Clash Club (Sao Paulo), Deputamadre (Belo Horizonte) and D-Edge (Sao Paulo) For him, there is no limit that can not be exceeded. Thing who is creative and pioneering. Text Renata Simões www.andersonnoise.com.br Booking: www.hypno.com.br Radio Noise 461 playlist: Valle Zoo - CalangoDJ Simi - Green Twister (Danilo Vigorito Remix) Nuria Ghia - Nuna (Someone Else Remix)Ittetsu - ToredoKeith John - Sixela D-Nox - My Life (Luis Nieva Remix) Lazy M - Warehouse (Android Cartel Remix)Anderson Noise - Machines Must Die (Claudio Climaco Remix) Denis A - Sith (Mays & Patrique Remix)Monofon - Sector ADeepgroove - Atlas (Hermanez Remix)Oliver Klein - My DefinitionPer Hammar - Longo (M.in Dub Version)

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M.U.M & Noise Music Presents Miami Sessions with Anderson Noise @ Radio Noise - M.U.M Episode 160