Category Archives: Life-Relationships

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Episode 030: How to Find Peace in a Chaotic World

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Joining me today is Olivia Sheldon Barnett, the CEO and Founder of Positive Energy Yoga. Olivia began her passion for fitness and health at an early age. At 15, she became a Black Belt in Karate and continued on her fitness path: teaching kickboxing, women’s self defense, and later starting Positive Energy Yoga®. She has been teaching for over twenty years.

You will benefit from this interview. We cover:

Olivia’s observation about how people are doing in general
How to remain positive even under the worst circumstances
How to get centered every day
Why morning and daily routines are so important
How to develop a positive state of mind and a sense of confidence
How small actions can add up to transformative effects
The necessity of health as a foundation for success
Why the “dailyness” of healthy habits is vital
A major misconception people have about fitness and wellbeing
Advice on food and eating
How to tap into the “Fountain of Youth”
A technique to help feel peaceful under any circumstances
And much more…

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Episode 028: How to be Interesting … and Interested

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Joining me for today’s interview, “How to be Interesting…and Interested” is longtime friend, colleague, and one of the most interesting people I know – Dr. Michael Hertz. Michael is a Senior Leader with Progeny Systems, and co-founder of Empowering Haitians, a non-profit that seeks to create economic opportunity, social independence, self-sufficiency, and sustainability solutions in Haiti.

In this interview we cover:

– What makes a person interesting
– How to become interesting
– How to be interested
– How to work a room – even a virtual one
– How to develop confidence
– The greatest impediment to confidence
– Secrets to a success work and personal life

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Episode 027c: Live to Fight Another Day, an Interview with Walter Powell

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In this final interview excerpt, we cover how to survive a police encounter in order to “fight another day.”

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Episode 027b: Police Perspective: George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks

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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.In this interview we cover a forensic police view of the George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks cases.

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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 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?

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Episode 018: Texting Etiquette 101

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Texting has dominated today’s communication. In a previous episode we discussed good email etiquette looks like. Since texting is the other major form of non-in-person communication, we dedicated an episode to etiquette around texting.