Leadership development requires focus by leaders across an organization.

On this episode of the creator community, we’ll learn the impact of that focus and where to begin the leadership journey.

Key Points:

• You must first learn to lead yourself before you can lead other people, other teams or organizations.

• Enlightened principles have been around for 2500 years, but we can incorporate them and draw inspiration from them in our modern workplace.

• There is an opportunity to move beyond our own self-interest and start to recognize places for compassion, mindfulness and wisdom in today’s leadership.

Author Bio:

Matt is a father, a leadership expert and “The Godfather of Talent Optimization”. He has 20+ years experience as a software product executive and consultant. After serving in the US Marine Corps, he was shocked to learn that most organizations underinvest in leadership development.

He’s now on a mission to teach leaders to liberate themselves from outdated

beliefs and practices. He holds an MBA, a Ph.D. in Psychology, and a Certificate of Management Excellence from Harvard Business School which may explain why his bride thinks he’s a huge nerd.

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Author: Matt Poepsel

Book Name: Expand the Circle: Enlightened Leadership for Our New World of Work

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How could being more naive actually lead to better business outcomes and joy in your life?

Good begets good. The more we do to help others and be curious the better we can deliver results in our business.

On this episode of the Creator Community, we learn how embracing the true meaning of naivety, can drive better outcomes and improve the business journey for all of us.

Key Points:

• The time you spend in the workplace can be used in ways to better yourself, better the people you’re serving, better the community and better the environment.

• You are innately good and have potential inside of you

• Doing good in business is good for business. The small actions that you do, can make many ripples.

Author Bio:

From Bahrain to Bogota, from Calabasas to Cataluña, Joshua has been helping leaders and organizations make space for growth for almost two decades. As the co-founder of Econic, Joshua and his team help companies with their innovation and cultural change efforts. He lives in Nebraska with his wife Trisha and four kids.

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Author: Joshua Berry

Book Name: Dare to Be Naive: Thinking Bigger to Create Business Success and Joy

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As you climb the corporate ladder, you can get so focused on the next prize, that you forget about yourself and experience burnout.

In this episode of the creator community, we learn how to identify this challenge, and how to find a way out and live the live extraordinary life you want.

Feeling stuck? Check out this episode to learn to unpack your darkest moment and turning it into rocket fuel

Key Points

• Sometimes it’s the people who are functioning really well on the outside who are struggling the most with burnout. Check in on those people, there may not be signs of burnout.

• When you are the “fixer” you don’t want to be broken. You don’t want to be vulnerable, to admit that there is anything wrong. Hello Head Meet Heart teaches the steps to take to climb out of the pit and live your best life.

• There is extraordinary inside of all of us. Sometimes we just need a little help to tap into that. Ask for help, be vulnerable and do the work.

Author Bio

Hannah Morgan Austin has been married 16 years, has no kids, and a dog. She is a highly sought-after corporate leader specializing in the management and prevention of burnout in professionals. As the CEO and Founder of SheShatters, she coaches corporate leaders and organizations in management strategies that help them burn brightly without burning out. Prior to founding SheShatters, Hannah spent 20 years working as an executive in the healthcare industry. After experiencing Burnout in 2021, and witnessing her colleagues suffering from burnout en masse, she founded SheShatters in 2021 with the goal of helping employees and managers find balance in their personal and professional lives, and leading an anti-hustle culture movement.

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Author: Hannah Morgan Austin

Book Name: Hello, Head, Meet Heart-How to Tap Into Your Extraordinary Life

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Why aren’t financial planning conversations more inclusive to women?

What do wealth and financial security mean to you and how do you bring them into your life?

On this episode of the Creator community, you’ll learn how to discover and align with your goals and your WHY, to create the life you want today and the future you want tomorrow.

Key Points:

• Looking to the future, discovering where you want your money to end up, how you want to spend your time and your life can help lead you to how to use and invest your money today.

• Oftentimes in a household, one partner is in charge of daily spending while the other makes many of the long-term financial decisions. It is important to open conversations between both sides because dividing and conquering can cause gaps.

• Getting wealthy and staying wealthy are two very different things. There is a change in mindset that needs to occur over time to align to your values and make sure you can live how you want to in the future.

Author Bio

Cassandra Smalley is the mother, spouse, formerly competed nationally in baton for University of FL gatorettes, and Founder and CEO of Cassandra Smalley Wealth Management, a financial planning and wealth management practice. She is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. She is on a mission to empower women to define and use their voices at the financial table to ensure they can enjoy a fulfilling, purposeful, creative, and joyful life.

She has been recognized by Forbes and SHOOK Research as America’s Top Women Wealth Advisors 2020-2021, Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisor 2017-2020, Working Mother Magazine and Top Wealth Advisor Moms 2017-2020, among others.

After 15 years in the financial services industry, Cassandra felt called to publish a book based on her experiences. The book centers on the challenges women face in building wealth and pivots obstacles into action by turning one’s unique perspective into one’s power to design their best life.

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Author: Cassandra Smalley, CFA, CFP®

Book Name: The Why of Wealth: Mastering the Steps to a Wealthy Mindset to Live a Joyful Life

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Do you think Networking is a useless effort?

Effective networking is a superpower, but it requires work!

On this episode of The Creator Community, we learn how to build a successful roadmap for networking, through a better understanding of your values & helping others first.

Key Points:

• Networking takes work. It is not easy, but if you make the connections, add value, build relationships and leverage social media, the work can pay off.

• The deeper understanding we have of ourselves, the stronger the energy, the stronger the light and the stronger our network will be.

• Your values change throughout your life so it requires a constant reevaluation and regular work to remain aligned to your values.

Author Bio

David Olivencia is Senior Technology Executive, unicorn investor, and exponential leader. He has leveraged networking and delivered outcomes at leading companies Accenture, NTT Data, Ford, Oracle, Softtek and Verizon, as well as supporting a broad portfolio of early stage tech startups including several unicorns. David serves on multiple boards that utilize his approach to networks and deep technology expertise and has co-founded leading organizations HITEC and Angeles Investors that have grown due to networking.

David has been recognized as 40 under 40 by Crain’s Detroit Business, Crain’s Chicago Tech 50, and Hispanic Business Magazine’s Most Influential Hispanics in America. He has an engineering degree from Rose-Hulman, an MBA from Notre Dame and an honorary Doctorate from Bentley University. He loves fishing!

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Author: David R. Olivencia

Book Name: NetWORKing Excellence

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The higher you go in the corporate food chain, the less control you have over your life.

How do you find yourself decades after you thought you already had?

In this episode of the Creator community, we’ll hear how one brave soul took control back through an adult gap year in Oaxaca Mexico, with her family.

The learning and growth in courage were immense and put her on her path to finally being present in her life and finding her journey to joy & entrepreneurship.

Key Points:

• There is a different way to approach this life we get to live that can maximize and make the most of the one life we have.

• Live a life that is authentic to you, not what you think is someone’s version of what you should be doing.

• On the other side of courage is joy and beauty and satisfaction and fulfillment

Author Bio

Suzanne Roske is a leadership coach, taco and mezcal enthusiast, public speaker, and now an author. For 25 years, she was the picture of objective success, a partner at a global management consulting firm guiding Fortune 500 companies through business and team transformations. And then she embarked on her biggest transformation yet—her own. Suzanne stepped away from her corporate life and into an adult gap year in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Suzanne is the founder and CEO of Vamonos Executive Coaching, where she helps people and teams connect to their values, purpose, and mission, so they can harness their momentum, show up as the impactful leaders they were meant to be and unlock their full potential.

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Author: Suzanne Roske

Book Name: I’m Supposed to be Doing This: An Adult Gap Year

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What happens when soldiers who survived overseas military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan come home?

We might believe that once they get home, everything will be fine. Life will go on like it was before the war, back to normal. That’s what the soldiers thought, and that’s what their spouses and families thought. The reality is different because war changes everything.

What keeps our most important relationships working?

On this episode of The Creator Community, we’ll hear of the stories of couples that have found a way to effectively navigate the challenges of military deployments.

There is no 1 solution but you’ll learn common themes, especially resilience, that help to keep military couples together and that we can all learn from.

Key Points:

• Any marriage has its difficulties, but a military marriage has a different set of diffuculties. Not only does one have their responsibilities to their family, but also the duties and responsibilities that have been taken on for the country.

• Though oftentimes only one partner is deployed, both partners make sacrifices for the military. Both have stories of strength, heartbreak, growth, and resilience.

• Communication,connection and commitment are the keys to resiliency post deployment and a bulletproof marriage.

Author Bio:

Briana S. Nelson Goff, PhD, is a professor at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Dr. Nelson Goff's clinical experience and research focuses on primary and secondary traumatic stress symptoms in couples and families. During her 30 year career, Dr. Nelson Goff worked with hundreds of people through her research and clinical work. Each one impacted her work, teaching her about resilience, hope, and healing from trauma, which led to authoring her first book, Bulletproof Vows: Stories of Couples Navigating Military Deployments and Life's Battles (January 2023, New Degree Press).

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Author: Briana S. Nelson Goff, PhD

Book Name: Bulletproof Vows: Stories of Couples Navigating Military Deployments and Life’s Battles

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