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Episodes

Dec. 31, 2024

Leading with Heart: Self-Awareness, Kindness, and the Strength of Vulnerable Leadership

What happens when a leader brings self-awareness, kindness, and vulnerability to the forefront? In this episode, Christy Pretzinger shares her journey in building WG Content—a company where people feel valued and thrive both professionally and...
Dec. 24, 2024

The 7 Dimensions of Leadership: Activating Your Soul to Tap Purpose and Maximize Impact

We dive into Richard Barrett’s leadership paradigm that empowers leaders to activate their soul and master seven dimensions corresponding with core values. From meeting needs like safety, belonging, and pride to evolving through self-authority and...
Dec. 17, 2024

Getting Better: A Doctor’s Journey from Patient to Resilient and Empathetic Healer

What happens when a seasoned doctor finds himself on the other side of the stethoscope and surgery blade? In this episode, Dr. Andrew Kadar shares the transformative journey behind his book, Getting Better. Drawing from his personal experience as an...
Dec. 10, 2024

Want to be an Inspiring Leader Stewarding a Sustainable Future? Learn the Fine Art of Retreats

Business leaders have such profound impact on the organizations and people they lead. To cast an inspiring and sustainable future their stakeholders want, they must learn to find the inner peace from which to draw clarity, balance, and purpose. A...
Dec. 4, 2024

Thrive in 25: Transform Your Life and Career at the Ultimate Women's Conference

Imagine a space where women come together to ignite personal and professional transformation. Welcome to Thrive in 25—a conference in Chicago, June 25–28, 2025, designed to elevate you in every way. From mastering your mindset and boosting financial...
Nov. 27, 2024

Enlightening Leadership: Embracing Your Wholeness to Lift Lives and Steward Impact

In a world undergoing profound transformation, the old leadership model—focused solely on results and shareholder value—is no longer enough. A spiritual awakening is calling leaders to redefine the purpose of leadership, blending impact with higher...
Nov. 20, 2024

Is Your Work Working For You? Reimaging Money and Lifestyle

Work isn’t just about a paycheck— it’s the framework that shapes our lives. In this episode, we explore the tension between pursuing a job, a career, or a calling and the practical realities of economic necessity. From the fallout of 9/11 to the...
Nov. 13, 2024

A New Approach to Thriving at Work: The Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model for Wellbeing

What if you could harness the best of behavior science and AI to create a workplace where people truly thrive? In this episode, we sit down with Matt Shenker, who has trained thousands of leaders, therapists, and educators on how to apply Empowered...
Nov. 5, 2024

Spiritually Intelligent Leadership: The Key to Inspiring Teams and Igniting Performance

True spiritual intelligence goes beyond belief systems or fleeting moments of connection; it’s a cultivated way of being that deeply influences those around you. Imagine leading with qualities like purpose, compassion, integrity, and humility—virtues...
Oct. 29, 2024

Choosing Value Over Control: Unlocking High Performance in Today’s Business

In a world flooded with data and advanced technologies, both consumers and employees wield more power than ever. Workers often know more than their leaders about products and systems, making traditional control-based management obsolete. In this...
Oct. 22, 2024

Decoding the Mystery of Personality – Unlocking Deeper Connection and More Dynamic Results

Imagine if you could read the unspoken language of personality—both your own and that of those around you. In this episode, we dive into the transformative power of understanding personality dynamics to boost connection, improve relationships, and...
Oct. 15, 2024

Cultural Keys to Success: Navigating International Business Relationships with Finesse

Step into the dynamic world of global business as we explore the essential skills needed to excel across cultures. In this episode, we delve into the secrets to thriving in today's interconnected marketplace, where cultural intelligence reigns...
Oct. 8, 2024

Want a High-Performance Team? Become a Chief Inspiration Officer

By now most leaders have accepted they must move beyond the old stayed “command and control” ways and allow their team members more autonomy and to develop a sense of mastery to do their work well while taking pride in their doing so. Enter the Chief...
Oct. 1, 2024

Embracing Adversity to Navigate toward Fulfillment and Impact

What’s your relationship to adversity? Do you resist it, complain, or assume the victim? What would happen in your life if you embraced the myriad of challenges cast upon you? Every single person encounters challenge, heartbreak, and overwhelm. Yet...
Sept. 24, 2024

Unlocking Your Potential: The Path to Wisdom and Creating Your Best Life

Inside each of us is a natural drive to reach our full potential, but what does that really mean? We explore how realizing your potential not only elevates your life but also impacts those around you, contributing to the greater good. True wisdom—the...
Sept. 17, 2024

The Power of a Durable Mind: Thriving Through Life’s Toughest Challenges

Garen Stoehr has long understood the critical link between mental resilience and peak performance, helping athletes connect their mental and physical game. But when life hit him with the unexpected challenge of a Leukemia diagnosis in 2019, he...
Sept. 10, 2024

The New Imperative: Embracing a Continuous Cycle of Discovery to Optimize Your Organization

Cultural change initiatives in companies fail 85 percent of the time. But leaders can beat the odds, even turning around an entire company such as CEO Satya Nadella did at Microsoft. By nurturing a “learning organization” and embracing the discovery...
Sept. 3, 2024

Wisdom About Yourself is Everywhere Around You -- If Only You’ll Learn to Ask

There is so much to learn about yourself, and you will spend your lifetime doing so. You can radically elevate your self-awareness and accelerate your own growth and development for breakthrough results with a simple, yet little practiced method --...
Aug. 27, 2024

Outsmarting Burnout: Building Resilience for a Purpose-Driven Life

By cultivating resilience—a blend of behaviors that fuel our ability to persist and thrive through adversity—we can protect ourselves and our teams from burnout's stealthy grip. In this episode, we explore how resilience, both individually and within...
Aug. 20, 2024

Leading with Conscience: Unlocking the True Power of Business as a Force for Good

Business has the potential to be one of the most powerful forces for good in the world—when guided by conscience and compassion. Discover how aligning business with the needs of employees, communities, and future generations can create a ripple effect...
Aug. 13, 2024

Lead and Live Wholly: The Neuroscience of Embracing and Harnessing Your Emotions Toward Vibrance

Your most powerful service to the world needs the full range of your energy – that is, to lead wholly. The world needs you to show the people you lead what to do with their fear, their rage, their inadequacy, and their anxiety by watching you...
Aug. 6, 2024

The Promise of a “C-Suite” Education and its RX for Humanity 2nd episode

For humanity to flourish, we must all embrace life-long learning and transform it into wisdom. Through Keyes’ “RX for humanity,” we can be inspired to reach for our own better angels while constantly improving our ability to discern information,...
July 30, 2024

A Hearty Welcome to the Return and Rise of Customer Capitalism

A far cry from the entrepreneurial capitalism that powered industry starting in the 1880s giving rise to illumination, communication, mechanization, transportation, capitalism has become “aberrant” with government entanglement, fixation on...
July 23, 2024

Want to Amplify Your Impact? Connect and Activate Your Potential

We have a deep need to bring out our potential and connect it with and through others to make the impact we crave. It is this force, this energy, and our desire and ability to connect it that is the catalyst and activator of personal and professional...