107: Liz Fosslien – No Hard Feelings
In this episode, Tim has a conversation with Liz Fosslien, author and illustrator of No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotion at Work. Liz shares her journey of self-discovery, fulfillment and finding her ‘Forever’work. Fosslien brings a fresh perspective to those of us who want to embrace and feel our feelings.
THE CONVERSATION:
- Meet Liz
- Dealing with the dream job not working out and how Liz moved beyond the disappointment
- Going through a period of being upset and down
- The value of reflection for discovery
- Being an introvert
- Her journey to discover her ‘FOREVER’ work + fulfillment
- The power of little things and living in the present
- Experiencing moments of delight in everything you do
- The false dichotomy of emotion being on one side and reason on the other
- Permission to feel emotions
- The importance of building in the small habits that lead you to the goal that you want
- The importance of increasing the chances to wake up great
- The story of Liz and Mollie and how they started working together
- The combo of illustration and neuroscience as a great first step
- Emotions in the workplace
- Using cookies as a means to have safe conversations
- About the book, No Hard Feelings
- The gross feeling of envy
- Instead of envy ask to learn and be taught
- Really good on-boarding and ‘The Enterview’ (Enter + Interview)
- How small actions send big signals
- Feel your feelings + Be kind to yourself
- Three things Liz is optimistic about over the next twelve months
RESOURCES:
No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien
Newsletter: Liz + Mollie
Blog: Liz + Mollie
CONNECT WITH LIZ:
Website: www.fosslien.com
Instagram: @lizandmollie
LinkedIn: in/liz-fosslien
Facebook: @lizfosslien
Twitter: @fosslien
ABOUT LIZ:
Liz Fosslien is the author and illustrator of No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotion at Work. Her work has been featured by The Economist, The Financial Times, NPR, and CNN.
Liz spent the past three years designing and facilitating workshops that empowered executives at LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, BlackRock, and Nike to build cultures of belonging. Previously, she led product and community projects at Genius and ran statistical analyses at the aptly named Analysis Group. She starts each day by eating yogurt and reading abstracts from recently published academic papers.
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105: Ajit Nawalkha
In this episode, Tim has a great conversation with Ajit Nawalkha, an extraordinary entrepreneur and thought leader. Ajit is a global educator & consultant, he is the co-founder of Mindvalley Teach, Evercoach and Global GRIT Institute, author of The Book of Coaching and Live Big. Enjoy!
THE CONVERSATION:
- His journey to discovering not just what success looks like but how it feels
- The importance of understanding the consequences of taking on someone else’s picture of success
- Know your ‘WHY’ + ‘WHAT’
- Asking and answering the hard questions
- Life shifts he made that gave clarity and direction
- Learning to look a life as a dance. Enjoy the music!
- Learning to add value to the lives of others
- What Ajit is hyperfocused on today
- Living a life of choice + creating abundance
- Starting new conversations + learning + being curious
- Turning fear into a challenge and changing the dialogue around it
- Knowing the ‘Why?’ and the ‘What?’
- Why it’s hard for people to find solutions
- The Social Comparison Theory
- Three things Ajit is optimistic about over the next twelve month
- Words of encouragement to grow + improve
CONNECT WITH Ajit:
Website: www.ajitnawalkha.com/
Website: www.LiveBigTheBook.com
Instagram: @ajitnawalkha
LinkedIn: in/ajitnawalkha
Facebook: @ajitnawalkhaofficial
Twitter: @ajitn
ABOUT AJIT:
Ajit Nawalkha is an entrepreneur, business coach, founder of Evercoach author of The Book of Coaching and a co-founder of Mindvalley – one of the biggest publishers in personal development space.
Ajit is a serial entrepreneur, global educator & consultant, he is the co-founder of Mindvalley Teach, Evercoach and Global GRIT Institute, author of The Book of Coaching and Live Big. Born in Jaipur, Rajasthan living in a home with 23 other people, has always pursued the dream of Living Big. Over the past decade, he has helped build training and coaching companies to inspire the coming generation, transform entrepreneurs to live on purpose, while enjoying their lives while increasing profits. He enjoys exploring the world, learning different cuisines, writing, and spending time with his wife Neeta. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
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99: Kathy Fatheree – Living Purposefully with Intent
In this episode, Tim talks with Kathy Fatheree, the creator of the Gazelle Planner. Tim was on the hunt for the perfect planner to live into his day and finally found the solution. Kathy shares her background and what led her to create the Gazelle Planner.
Prior to this episode, Tim approached Kathy regarding the promotion of the planner on the show for his listeners to have a tool to use to live into their day as they move toward their emerging future. It was a resounding yes and a partnership is now in place!
OUR CONVERSATION:
- About Kathy
- How the desire to live purposefully and with intent led her to create the Gazelle Planner
- How she discovered her love for art and creativity in the midst of her love for technical writing and process
- The thought and design behind the planner and using it
- The research, study, and experience behind the creation of the Gazelle Planner
- Being creative with the planner and how she assists her clients with designing the right system
- The benefits of using the Gazelle Planner
- The roadblocks she faced while creating the planner
- The meaning behind the name, Gazelle Planner
- Her vision thoughts and plans for the Gazelle Planner
- The planner sections and their purpose
- The Gazelle Planner + Uphill Conversations partnership
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CONNECT WITH KATHY:
Website: GazellePlanner.com
LinkedIn: in/kathyfatheree
Instagram: @gazelledailyplanner
Facebook: gazelleplanner
ABOUT KATHY:
Kathy Fatheree is an author and technical writer with a wide range of experience from aerospace to medical to personal development. Drawing upon her life experience combined with research of planning system, she created the best-selling Gazelle Planner: a daily planner with a focus on reaching goals.
With her love of problem-solving and thinking outside the box, Kathy is helping thousands of people to become more productive and realize they can successfully reach their goals and dreams.
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95: Todd Tresidder – The Leverage Equation
In this episode, Tim has another conversation with Todd Tressider a brilliant financial mind who is relatable and practical. Tresidder shares what he has learned and unlearned, as well as finding satisfaction in life!
OUR CONVERSATION:
- Focus + Personal Growth + Financial Freedom
- Learning daily and overcoming obstacles
- The connection between the spiritual and financial
- Emotional baggage and financial issues
- Defining fulfillment
- The requirements of fulfillment
- What does retirement really mean?
- Developing a broader point-of-view
- Getting a bigger understanding
- Know the levels of understanding
- What Todd’s unlearned
- Avoiding distractions and staying on course
- Successful people know how to recognize the difference between opportunity and distraction
- Getting live feedback to develop his latest book
- Principles + practices to better connect with others
- Having a level of intensity in the mind and self-acceptance
- Todd’s new book and his expectations
- Todds legacy
TODD’S QUALIFICATIONS:
- B.A. in Economics from University of California at Davis
- Member of Economics Honors Society and Deans List
- A serial entrepreneur since childhood building many businesses and retiring at age 35 from his position as a Hedge Fund Investment Manager responsible for a 20+ million dollar portfolio.
- Todd’s portfolio management for the Hedge Fund produced 100% winning years except one which was less than a 5% loss.
- Raised net worth from less than zero at age 23 to self-made millionaire 12 years later by “walking the talk” using the same personal finance and investment strategies taught on this web site.
- An early pioneer and expert in statistical and mathematical risk management systems for investing.
- Financially independent from age 35 through investing – not marketing – unlike many other financial gurus who made their money through marketing courses and books.
- Still an active investor who earns consistent investment returns in both up and down markets.
CONNECT WITH TODD + RESOURCES:
Website: financialmentor.com
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94: Runa Magnús – The Change Makers + No More Boxes
In this episode, Tim has a wonderful conversation with Runa Magnus, the creator, and CEO of THE CHANGE MAKERS and co-creator of #nomoreboxes. Listen in and enjoy!
OUR CONVERSATION:
- The transition from politics to entrepreneurship
- Joining the family business + getting the ‘business bug’
- Growing confidence through what she learned
- Buying + selling the family business
- Asking the question, “what do I want to do with my life?”
- Coming to the cross-point of your life when you realize you are not passionate about what you are doing
- Looking at the long-term vision and dreaming in order to make a transition
- Learning to work with and look at the things that are threats to your vision or X-factor
- About the Change Makers group and #nomoreboxes, she created
- Changemakers do things that are sustainable, inclusive and magnetic
- Understanding the many boxes we place ourselves into, many changes and raising our own awareness
- Organizational health and leadership
- The #nomoreboxes Breakfast Clubs
- Opening up space for magic to exist in
- Runa’s positive habits
- Drivers that impact our beliefs
- Runa’s uphill challenge and what she experienced
REFERENCES:
Awakenings – Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
The Breakfast Club – Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald
ABOUT RUNA:
Rúna Magnúsdóttir (a.k.a. Rúna Magnús) is the founder and CEO of The Change Makers. An internationally-acclaimed and multi-awarded personal branding expert and best-selling author of Branding Your X Factor. Runa is also the founder of Connected Women, co-founder of BRANDit – the EU awarded Personal Branding Boutique and the co-founder of The Network for Transformational Leaders.
Rúna is a sought-after speaker who uses used her shaken but not stirred sense of humour with a good dash of passion to speak, inspire and coach professionals who want to make their mark in the global marketplace and be the change they want to see in their world. She has shared the stage with brands such as; Brené Brown, Seth Godin, Daniel Pink, Mari Smith and Chelsea Clinton. Rúna loves to engage her audience to look outside their Boxes and brand their uniqueness.
CONNECT WITH RUNA:
Website: runamagnus.com
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