Category Archives: CHARACTER

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Episode 027: Good Always Wins – A Police Officer’s perspective on Race, The Police, and the Future

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Joining me for this timely and very important interview is long time friend and colleague, Walter Powell is a Security Guru, and Former 20-year Police Officer. He grew up in the first generation following the civil rights era, and spent 20 years of his career as a police officer. In this day and age, where the world is desperate for context, common sense, and critical thinking, he is uniquely qualified to offer an intelligent perspective on race, police, and what people can do as individuals to become more awake, aware, and enlightened about a variety of issues.

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Episode 026: 10 Secrets of Building Unity and Community

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In these anxious times, amid the backdrop of a pandemic and social unrest, we need to build unity and community more now than ever before. Over the years, I have observed (and personally implemented) these 10 SECRETS to bond and build unity, community, and camaraderie within groups or organizations.

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Episode 025: How to Find a Job in Cataclysmic Times with Career Coach, Lorraine Rise

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We are living in cataclysmic economic times. Whether you have a job or are looking for a job you needs to see this interview with Career Coach Extraordinaire, Lorraine Rise. In this interview, we cover:

What a layoff can do to a person emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically

How a person finds a job or makes a career adjustment in times of great economic uncertainty

How to develop confidence

How to conduct a successful job search

Whether premium services (LinkedIn Premium, Head Hunters, and Career Coaches) really “level up” your search

Why “pursuing your passion” may be all wrong

#jobs #career #careeruprising #layoffs #confidence #success

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Episode 024: When Pandemic meets Police Brutality: Making Sense of the Death of George Floyd, with Dr. Marisela Martinez-Cola and Mark Botros

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Joining me is long time friend and colleague, Dr. Marisela Martinez-Cola – an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utah State University. Her areas of research include race, ethnicity, and culture. She is the author of soon-to-be-published, “The Bricks before Brown”, which is a study of race, class, and gender across three school desegregation cases involving Chinese, Mexican, and Native American plaintiffs, which took place before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

In this interview Dr. Martinez-Cola covers:

— The historical perspective and context of what led to George Floyd’s death, and how we make sense of it
— Why George Floyd’s death has ignited the entire world
— White privilege
— What people can do to meaningfully support people of color?
— How to know if you are “woke”
— The Media’s treatment of recent events
— Advice to leaders and change makers

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Episode 023: The Power of Words

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Have you ever thought about how powerful the words we use are? Our words have great power. They are like “spells” we cast on our world. They shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, how high and how far we go in our career, they determine our success or failure. In fact our words determine our entire life.

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Episode 021: How to Have That Hard Talk…Elegantly

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Hard talks are an inevitable part of the human experience. All of us encounter difficult and awkward situations at work and in our personal lives, and at the heart of those situations are (you guessed it) difficult and awkward people that are usually the source of the problem.

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Episode 020: How to Read Faces, with Dan Hill, Ph.D, Author of “Famous Faces Decoded”

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Dr. Hill is an authority on the role of emotions in consumer and employee behavior and an expert in facial coding to help measure people’s decision-making process. He is the founder and president of Sensory Logic, a research-based consulting firm that specializes working with companies to enhance their sensory-emotional connection with consumers. He has appeared on CNN, the Today Show, MSNBC, and Fox Business. He is also the author of Emotionomics, Body of Truth, FaceTime, and First Blush

In this interview we cover some of the following questions:

Q: What is emotional intelligence?
Q: How does someone know if they have a high EQ?
Q: How do you read someone?
Q: Are there ways to tell if someone is trying to deceive you?
Q: What is the impact of Botox and other Cosmetic Surgeries on emotional expressiveness?
Q: How do you think the Coronavirus pandemic will change the way we communicate with others?
Q: In light of the new pandemic environment, what do we need to be more aware of or sensitive to in others?
Q: How do we make the most of our new virtual environment?