We often try to emulate the behavior of business le

aders or champions but have you ever thought about what you could learn from lobsters? This month’s Problem Solved Podcast shares a buffet of learning ideas from the crustaceans as we sit down with Helen Tupper, CEO and Co Founder of Amazing If, a career coaching company, to chat about her new book Learn Like A Lobster.

In this episode you’ll find immediately practical tips to:

• Understand the difference between being an expert learner and an experimental learner
• How to learn in hard moments
• How to lead your own learning and so much more!

If you’ve been wondering how to find the time to insert learning into your already busy day, you’ll love this conversation with Helen!

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About Helen:

Helen Tupper held leadership roles at Microsoft, Virgin and BP before becoming the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, a global career training and development company. She is one of the authors of two Sunday Times bestsellers, The Squiggly Career and You Coach You and hosts of the popular Squiggly Careers podcast. She has a new book coming out this spring Learn like a Lobster! She is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and her love of learning has led her to study at Henley, Cranfield and Cass Business School. Helen is a Fellow of The RSA and lives in the UK with her husband and two children. You can follow her on LinkedIn and find free career development tools at www.amazingif.com.

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Who hasn’t felt awkward from time to time? On this episode of the Problem Solved Podcast, speaker and author of the book Good Awkward, Henna Pryor, joins us to share why being awkward is authentic and an attribute of successful people.

Listen now and learn:

• How awkwardness factors into decision-making
• What ‘social fitness’ is and why is it important
• What a “bias buddy’ is and how to thwart common assumptions

More about Henna:

Henna Pryor, is a sought-after Workplace Performance Expert who speaks and writes about performance mindset, interpersonal dynamics, high-impact communication, and embracing bumps in a world that keeps optimizing for smoothness. In addition to her passion for sparkly new research, she’s a regular Expert Columnist for Inc. Magazine, 18x award-winning author of Good Awkward, and an in-demand global keynote speaker. Her clients call her their “secret weapon for impossible change,” an honor she wears proudly. In addition to speaking for TEDx and SXSW, and being frequently tapped by media outlets like WSJ, Business.com, FastCompany, INSIDER, HuffPost, NBC, FOX, and more, she’s been named a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence and her book was named a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of the Year.

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In this month’s episode of the Problem Solved Podcast, I sit down with former New York Times and Washington Post reporter Lee Daniels to talk about his extraordinary career writing “the first draft of history.” Daniels co-wrote Jackie Robinson: A Memoir with Jackie’s widow Rachel Robinson and wrote the New York Times obituary for the civil right’s activist James Baldwin. If you’ve ever wondered how great journalists do their craft and make the decisions that lead to powerful storytelling, this episode is for you!

Listen to the episode and learn:

• How to sum up a big life
• How journalists approach their subjects to humanize them and share their stories
• Making decisions about research, interviews and crafting narratives

More about Lee Daniels: From the 1970s to the early 1990s Lee A. Daniels’ was a reporter for WGBH-TV in Boston, a reporter and editorial writer for The Washington Post and a reporter the New York Times. He spent another decade as editor of the National Urban League’s The State of Black America, and subsequently was founding editor of TheDefendersOnline.com, the blog of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. For several years, he contributed an opinion column to the National Newspaper Publishers Association and to the online publication, Emerge.com. Daniels collaborated with Rachel Robinson on Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait, (1996) her memoir of her life with the baseball great; and with Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. on a collection of his speeches, Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out (2008). More recently, he collaborated with John E. Jacob — who succeeded Jordan as head of the Urban League in 1982 and led it through the Reagan and Bush 41 presidencies — on his just-published memoir, I Will Fear No Evil. Daniels also contributed an essay on Martin Luther King, Jr. to Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent (2014) and an essay on Malcolm X / El Hajj Malik El Shabazz for The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets and Philosophers (2020) Daniels is the author of Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America (2008).

Lee A. Daniels was born in Chicago and grew up there and in Boston. He is a graduate of the Boston Latin School and a 1971 graduate of Harvard College.

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Have you ever worried about having an important but difficult conversation with someone? Most of us have had that experience where we’ve wanted to have a crucial conversation but were unsure of how to do it well. In this episode of the Problem Solved Podcast Emily Gregory, the co-author of the book Crucial Conversations counsels us on how to do navigate those moments with clarity and confidence. It’s an interview you won’t want to miss —and might listen to over and again!

Listen now and learn:

• How to prepare for a crucial conversation?
• How to manage emotions when the stakes are high?
• How to be clear and honest even when it isn’t easy.

More about Emily
Emily Gregory is coauthor of Crucial Conversations and a Crucial Learning master trainer who has helped thousands of organizations such as Intel, Yahoo, and the Mayo Clinic achieve new levels of success. Emily holds a Medical Doctorate degree from the University of Utah and a Master of Business Administration from the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. A dynamic speaker, Emily has spent her career identifying and leveraging behaviors crucial to effective living and leading.

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If you’ve wanted to learn about marketing, building your brand or just hear from a fabulous female entrepreneur, join us on this month’s Problem Solved Podcast to learn from Kim Kaupe, founder of Bright Ideas Only! Kim works with A-listers such as Paul McCartney, Oprah, the NY Mets and Shawn Mendes to create marketing programs, new revenue streams and branding.

Tune in and learn:

• How to build a strong brand?
• What’s it like to be on Shark Tank?
• What to do when a client isn’t satisfied to still sleep at night?

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Kim Kaupe is a partner in a fan engagement agency, Bright Ideas Only, working with A-listers such as Paul McCartney, Oprah, the NY Mets and Shawn Mendes to create marketing programs, new revenue streams and branding. Her latest obsession is transferring that same blueprint to business owners, executives and leaders garnering her the praise of corporate clients such as American Express, YPO, EO, TEDx and LinkedIn. You might recognize her voice from ABC’s, Shark Tank, from her role as a judge in the 2019 Miss USA pageant live, or from social media. Previously she was named to Inc.’s 35 Under 35, Advertising Age’s 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30.

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One of the most common concerns we get from leaders making high stakes decisions is how to navigate uncertainty. In this episode of the Problem Solved Podcast we welcome Charles Hecker, a longtime risk advisor in Russia and author of the new book ZERO SUM: The Arc of International Business in Russia as he shares what he’s learned about doing business in a country that offers big opportunity amid a backdrop of an unstable economic and political environment.

Listeners will learn about:

• Taking calculated risks in business
• Making decisions when there is a lack of trust
• Knowing how to look for signs of problems that should cause your company to consider changing its strategy

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More about Charles:

Charles Hecker has spent forty years travelling and working in the Soviet Union and Russia. He has worked as a journalist at The Miami Herald and The Moscow Times, and as a geopolitical risk consultant at Control Risks, where he was a partner in the firm.

Hecker is a regular contributor to Monocle Radio and has offered expert commentary on Times Radio, CNN, the BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg TV, among others. A fluent Russian speaker, he currently resides in East London. You can learn more at www.charleshecker.com

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So many of us nowadays look up to entrepreneurs –or we are one ourselves. When it comes time to pass the torch and to sell the business, what do we need to know to get the most value from what we’ve built? On this episode of the the Problem Solved Podcast, author and entrepreneur David McCombie shares his tips and advice from his newly released book, Selling Your Business with Confidence.

Listen and learn:

• How can a business owner evaluate the potential value of their business before beginning the sales process?
• What steps can owners take today to improve their business’s value and salability?
• Selling a business is often deeply personal and emotional—how can owners prepare themselves for the psychological challenges?

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David McCombie is Founder and CEO of McCombie Group, an M&A advisory firm that improves, grows, and sells mid-market companies. He is author of the newly released book, Selling Your Business with Confidence (Wiley).

A veteran dealmaker, he has personally negotiated billions in transaction value and has been recognized for setting record valuations. Unique amongst advisors, he is a passionate entrepreneur and has also successfully led various private equity investments himself. He currently serves as Membership Officer of the YPO Miami Chapter. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Miami.

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