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My Conversation With Jason Zook, Author Of Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way For Finding Happiness In Work, Life, And Love

Click Here To Listen Jason Zook Tired of all the "shoulds" that guide your life? Want to create a life full of meaning? Work on your own terms? See the world a little differently? Then it's time to Own Your Weird. Creative entrepreneur Jason Zook certainly walks the walk of "owning his weird." He's had some crazy yet successful schemes -- he's made over a million dollars by having more than 1,600 companies pay him to wear their t-shirt (a project called I WearYour Shirt). Later he auctioned off his last name twice, for $50K each time. He then self-published his first book Creativity for Sale by nabbing sponsors and generating $75K in revenue. Now [...]

By |September 17th, 2019|Business, Leadership, Uncategorized|Comments Off on My Conversation With Jason Zook, Author Of Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way For Finding Happiness In Work, Life, And Love
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My Conversation With Christopher Leonard, Author Of Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America

Click Here To Listen Christopher Leonard - Kochland Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading [...]

By |September 9th, 2019|Biography, Business, Careers, Leadership|Comments Off on My Conversation With Christopher Leonard, Author Of Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America
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My Conversation With Laura Morgan Roberts, Author Of Race, Work, And Leadership: New Perspectives On The Black Experience

Click Here To Listen Laura Morgan Roberts Rethinking How to Build Inclusive Organizations Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing? How do we build inclusive organizations? Inspired by and developed in conjunction with the research and programming for Harvard Business School's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the HBS African American Student Union, this groundbreaking book shines new light on these and other timely questions and illuminates the present-day dynamics of race in the workplace. Contributions from [...]

By |September 9th, 2019|African Americans, Business, Careers, Chamber Of Commerce, Leadership|Comments Off on My Conversation With Laura Morgan Roberts, Author Of Race, Work, And Leadership: New Perspectives On The Black Experience
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My Conversation With Stedman Graham, Author Of Identity Leadership: To Lead Others You Must First Lead Yourself

Click Here To Listen Stedman Graham To Learn More Visit TuneIn.Com: The Office Of The Citizen Twitter: OfficeCitizen1 Instagram: TheOfficeOfTheCitizenDotCom Facebook: DrAlvin.Com. Have the best day ever! Become a passionate, purposeful, and meaningful leader through identifying who you are, your strengths, and your skills. New York Times bestselling author Stedman Graham's Identity Leadership is a very personal and prescriptive guide that is based on his philosophy that a leader can't lead others until he can first lead himself-the more he works on himself, the more he can give to those around him. To know our purpose in life, we begin with our passions, skills, and talents, and with this book we learn how to channel [...]

By |May 17th, 2019|African Americans, Business, Careers, Leadership|Comments Off on My Conversation With Stedman Graham, Author Of Identity Leadership: To Lead Others You Must First Lead Yourself
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Hear Andy Marshall At The Nashville Leadership Luncheon On May 10th

“The Nashville Leadership Luncheon offers a unique opportunity for senior-level executives and entrepreneurs to enhance their leadership skills and meet or reconnect with fellow leaders. The Bridgestone Arena is an ideal space to host an event of this stature and the overall experience makes it well worth attending. I enjoyed both attending and participating as a panelist.” John Ingram To learn more visit: https://t.e2ma.net/message/h0tu1n/5uhk9m

By |April 25th, 2019|Business, Careers, Hospitality, Leadership|Comments Off on Hear Andy Marshall At The Nashville Leadership Luncheon On May 10th
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My Conversation With Rich Karlgaard, Publisher Of Forbes & Author Of Late Bloomers: The Power Of Patience In A World Obsessed With Early Achievement

Click Here To Listen Rich Karlgaard-Late Bloomers A groundbreaking exploration of what it means to be a late bloomer in a culture obsessed with SAT scores and early success, and how finding one's way later in life can be an advantage to long-term achievement and happiness. We live in a society where kids and parents are obsessed with early achievement, from getting perfect scores on SATs to getting into Ivy League colleges to landing an amazing job at Google or Facebook - or even better, creating a startup with the potential to be the next Google or Facebook or Uber. We see software coders becoming millionaires or billionaires before age 30 and feel we are [...]

By |April 18th, 2019|Belief, Business, Careers, Gospel, Leadership, Management, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Wisdom|Comments Off on My Conversation With Rich Karlgaard, Publisher Of Forbes & Author Of Late Bloomers: The Power Of Patience In A World Obsessed With Early Achievement
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My Conversation With Lydia Fenet, Author Of The Most Powerful Woman In The Room Is You: Command An Audience And Sell Your Way To Success

Click Here To Listen Lydia Fenet In The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You, Lydia Fenet takes you on her twenty-year journey from intern to managing director and global head of strategic partnerships at Christie’s Auction House. Lydia shares the revolutionary sales approach she has crafted over the years that has not only shaped her career, but helped her raise more than half a billion dollars for nonprofits around the world. This is an approach that will empower you to sell your way to success in business and in life. For example, you’ll learn how to create your own “Strike Method” or signature move to help you feel confident entering any situation. Combining [...]

By |April 11th, 2019|Business, Careers, Leadership, Management, Women|Comments Off on My Conversation With Lydia Fenet, Author Of The Most Powerful Woman In The Room Is You: Command An Audience And Sell Your Way To Success
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My Conversation With Nora McInerney, Author Of No Happy Endings: A Memoir

Click Here To Listen Nora McInerny No Happy Endings The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interviews that are “a gift to be able to listen [to]” (New York Times)—returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life. Life has a million different ways to kick you right in the chops. We lose love, lose jobs, lose our sense of self. For Nora McInerny, it was losing her husband, her father, and her unborn second child in one catastrophic year. But in the wake of loss, we get to assemble something new from whatever is left behind. Some circles call finding happiness [...]

By |April 10th, 2019|Gospel, Humor, Leadership, Philosophy, Self-Help, Wisdom, Women|Comments Off on My Conversation With Nora McInerney, Author Of No Happy Endings: A Memoir
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Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: Leading With Integrity On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To ListenDr Valencia Campbell-Leading With Integrity

By |March 29th, 2019|African Americans, Business, Careers, DrValencia, Education, Leadership, Women|Comments Off on Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: Leading With Integrity On DrAlvin.Com
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My Conversation With Reshma Sanjani, Author Of Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, And Live Bolder

Click Here To Listen Reshma Saujani-Brave Not Perfect In a book inspired by her popular TED talk, New York Times bestselling author Reshma Saujani empowers women and girls to embrace imperfection and bravery. Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn't care how your life looked on Instagram, or worry about what total strangers thought of you. Imagine if you could let go of the guilt, and stop beating yourself up for tiny mistakes. What if, in every decision you faced, you took the bolder path? Too many of us feel crushed under the weight of our own expectations. We run ourselves ragged trying to please everyone, all [...]

By |February 22nd, 2019|Business, Careers, Leadership, Women|Comments Off on My Conversation With Reshma Sanjani, Author Of Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, And Live Bolder
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