Episode 19: Breaking Down Emotional Intelligence featuring The Threedom Coaches
Episode 19 – Breaking Down Emotional Intelligence featuring The Threedom Coaches
Episode 18: Passionate Leadership, Finding Your Passion and Following It featuring Ryan Carey and Tim Fleiszer
Passionate Leadership, Finding Your Passion and Following It featuring Ryan Carey and Tim Fleiszer
Episode 17: Your Leadership Journey is Yours, It’s Important, and it WILL Shape You featuring Ryan Carey
Your leadership journey is yours alone. Your experiences, your triumphs, your failures, your hard times and your easy times, they’ve all been shaping you and how you act as a leader.
The trick is to be accepting of your failures and your wins, to see how each of your experiences has shaped you, and then ensure your evolution as a leader is in tune with the kind of leader you want to be.
In this special Remembrance Day episode, we are speaking with Ryan Carey, who will discuss his leadership journey from his youth to professional football player to Canadian Armed Forces veteran, and being to an advocate for increasing awareness surrounding concussions across all fields.
Ryan’s story is meant to remind us that each of our leadership journeys are unique and special, and once we create a path that follows our personal values, we can, and WILL, make the differences that we want for ourselves and the world.
Episode 16: Understanding Our Leaderships Wins and Failures Makes us Better Leaders featuring Sara Greco
Ask any renowned leader who they look to for inspiration and they will name someone they view as their leadership guiding light. Leaders never say that they are their own inspiration, and that’s because most leaders recognize that a person’s individual leadership style has been adapted from examples, good and bad, that they have experienced or witnessed during their lives. We use these examples to shape the leaders we want to be, taking the parts we want to use, remembering the examples of how we don’t want to be. All the while, we are building our leadership toolbox.
Bonus Episode: The Science Behind Power Clothes featuring Patrice Bisiot
They say the clothes makes the person, but after having spoken with Patrice, it’s become clear that the clothes are but one minor aspect of projecting the person you want to be.
Over the course of the next two episodes and an extra third episode in the middle of the week, we will talk with Patrice Bisiot, style interventionist, author, and branding consultant and we will help YOU project the person you want to be by talking about the importance of being honest with who you want to be, how to get there, and then helping you pick the clothes to BE that person.
Episode 15: Understanding Yourself to Wear Clothes Like the Boss You are! featuring Patrice Bisiot (Part 2 of 2)
In last week’s episode we talked about the need to be genuine and authentic with yourself and if we are honest with who we are, then, and ONLY then, can we begin to understand the leadership image we want to project.
In this week’s episode, we’ll continue this discussion, further explaining how to see these connections right in the moment, and understanding how to use this knowledge to project YOUR leadership brand.
Episode 14: Understanding Yourself to Wear Clothes Like the Boss You are! featuring Patrice Bisiot (Part 1 of 2)
They say the clothes makes the person, but after having spoken with Patrice, it’s become clear that the clothes are but one minor aspect of projecting the person you want to be.
Over the course of the next two episodes, we will talk with Patrice Bisiot, style interventionist, author, and branding consultant and we will help YOU project the person you want to be by talking about the importance of being honest with who you want to be, how to get there, and then helping you pick the clothes to BE that person.
Episode 13: Fear is NOT the Enemy featuring Simon Kardynal
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines fearlessness as being free from fear. The thing is, fear is one of the most basic evolutionarily related instincts from common to all species, and that’s because the need to be able to recognize how and when we need to persevere to survive is an integral method for all of us to keep moving forward.
In this episode, we will talk about understanding fear and fearlessness, helping dispel the myth of living fearlessly. Rather, we will talk about harnessing the power of fear, using it to help focus our mind to help us overcome our personal and professional fears.
Episode 11: Mindfulness and Leading, They REALLY are connected featuring Courtney Johannesen
Being an experienced leader is stressful. Being a new leader, either for the first time, or starting with a new team can be down-right dreadful. And this is when things are going great, and your team is tight-knit, and you are within budget, and the time constraints are being respected. However, in reality, there is usually something going wrong, often minor, but something that requires the leader to be pushed emotionally and/or physiologically.
In this episode, we will be talking to Courtney Johannesen, a Corporate Wellness Provider and Well-Being Coach who will teach us some tricks and tips to help us remain centred on ourselves and the task at hand.
Episode 10: How to be an Effective Active Listener featuring Simon Kardynal
When you’re talking to a colleague, a friend, or your boss, how often do you find yourself cut-off just at the end of your sentence? How often have you seen the person with their mouth open, hands raised, just chomping at the bit to speak? Now, how often have you not felt truly heard by these people, felt rushed or misunderstood and felt as though you didn’t have the voice you would have wanted?
In this episode, we will be talking about the invaluable art of active listening. We will discuss what it means to be an active listener versus a passive listener, and we will talk about why active listening is so crucial for leaders. And finally, we round out the episode with some ways to help all emerging leaders be the very best active listeners that they want to become.
Episode 09: The Gang’s All Here featuring the Sketchs Ink Team (Part 3 of 3)
Welcome to the third and final episode in this 3-part podcast mini-series with the team from Sketchs Ink Custom Paint and Hydrographics.
In the first episode we heard from Brandon and his leadership philosophies, and in the second episode we heard from his team, asking if and how Brandon lives into his leadership values, but now, in this episode, we’re bringing the whole gang together. That’s right, we’re wrapping this mini-series up by bringing Brandon and his team together to discuss how Brandon relied on his team’s faith in his leadership to model the way, thereby creating a tight-knit community.
Episode 08: The Sketchs Ink Team Fact-Checks Brandon’s Leadership Philosophies featuring the Team (Part 2 of 3)
Welcome to this second episode in a 3-part mini-series.
I’d like to begin this episode by acknowledging the land that I am learning and living on is the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People.
In episode one of this 3-part mini-series, we spoke with Brandon Maloney, the founder and operator of Sketchs Ink Custom Paint and Hydrographics, about his leadership philosophy and how he uses it create a family team environment for his business.
In THIS episode, we are going to find out if and how he lives into his values (Include a Senge quote in here). We will do this by having a round table discussion with all of Brandon’s employees and hear directly from them how Brandon leads them, his wins, his failures and how these examples can be used for emerging leaders from all sectors.
Episode 07: Leading Small Teams featuring Brandon Maloney (Part 1 of 3)
One of the largest challenges for emerging leaders is the belief that large gestures, big shows of dominance, loud noises, whatever, that they are in charge, will be the way to gain the loyalty of their people. When in reality, this gesture often backfires because people can smell BS from a mile away.
When, in fact, you just need to be yourself. Lead with passion, honesty and dedication, and they shall follow.
In this episode, the first in a 2-part mini-series, we will be talking to Brandon Maloney, the founder of Sketchs Ink Custom Paint & Hydrographics, where he will share his views and insights to be successful when leading small teams.
Episode 06: The Successful Leader Uses Creative Tension & Repeatable Language featuring Jason Donkersgoed
In today’s episode, I’ve invited my good friend, Jason Donkersgoed to join us to talk about exploring the importance of understanding creative tension and its effect on the emerging leaders’ ability to better understand the creative process of their team. After that, we will take a different direction and speak about repeatable language and the powerful tool that it can be for emerging leaders.
Episode 05: How We Fall Into Leadership Roles featuring Gillian Tietz
Leadership principles can be taught, they can be memorized and learned. Leadership can even be mimicked and merged to create our own flavour of personal and professional leadership. But do you know what can’t be faked or learned? How to ‘just’ lead.
In this episode, we will be talking to Gillian Tietz, a fellow podcaster whose leadership in the podcast realm is quickly being noticed. We will discuss how Gillian leads, why she thinks people might gravitate to her style of leadership, and what leadership tools she has to help emerging leaders be the most successful leaders they want to be.
Episode 04: So, You’re the new boss (In title at least), Now What? featuring Leah Gregg
Congratulations! You have been promoted and given your first team to lead. Now what?
In this episode, we will talk about what happens next by having a conversation with Leah Gregg, Facility Supervisor at a large recreation complex in Sherwood Park, AB, and how she tackled being the new boss in her organization, her successes, her challenges and what we can all learn from her experiences.
Episode 03: The Relationship Between Influence and Connections featuring Simon Kardynal
Often, either as leaders or followers, we don’t see or realize the immediate impact that we are making. In the moment (you will hear and see this a lot from me), it’s very hard to recognize that what we are doing has immediate broader ramifications than the small task being performed “right now”. But, as a leader, especially at the early (junior) stages of a leadership career, we have the most direct and powerful influence on our people.
In this episode we will discuss where leadership influence began and when does it stop (Hint: It never stops) and the importance of building connections with your team. We will do this by telling a not so successful story, followed by a success story. We will use these stories to provide some tips and tricks to help you put another tool in your leadership toolbox and help you have more success stories than cringe-worthy ones.
Episode 02: You’re the New Team Lead? Guess what? You’re NOT alone! featuring Megan Boire, Simon Chiu, and Derek Stratton
Being the boss can seem daunting, especially if it’s the first few times you’ve been formally in charge. Often, your people are those that you have worked with for years on many projects, and then Bam! You are the leader. You are making the tough calls, handing out birthday cake, consoling people, disciplining the people who are still your friends, answering questions, all of it, all the time.
In this episode, we will talk with leaders about the challenges of being a new leader, how to overcome the obstacles of suddenly being your friends’ boss, and tactical leadership in general.
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Episode 01: Gutsy Leadership featuring Marisa Santoro
I speak with mother, leadership coach, author, and entrepreneur Marisa Santoro about how to be brave and be a Gutsy leader during those first moments as the new leader.