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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

The Word LOVE Written in Hands

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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 022: What the fear of losing our job makes us do and what you can do differently

Frustrated Baker

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In an economic environment where corporations can easily outsource work to other countries for less, where salaries are not increasing but are actually decreasing, where layoffs are a reality even in the most robust economic areas, and all so that companies can meet Wall Street expectations – fear of losing one’s job is not only valid but statistically likely. We talk about 10 ways to save your self from job catastrophe.

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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?