Career Episodes

Dr Chidimma Abuka on Shared Leadership and Team Success | 1,583 Dr. Chidimma A. Abuka is rethinking one of leadership's oldest assumptions: that every organization needs just one person at the top. An author, researcher, and leadership consultant, Dr. Abuka is the Executive Director of Global Co-Leadership Development and Change Management at Polymathes Consulting. Through her doctoral research at Pepperdine University, she developed the Dualis Co-Leadership System™, a research informed framework designed to help organizations lead through intentional partnership rather than individual authority. As the author of Co-Leadership: One Role. Two Leaders. and The Workbook for Co-Leaders, she equips executives, organizations, and leadership teams with practical strategies for building trust, strengthening shared accountability, and creating collaborative leadership cultures that thrive in today's complex world. Dr. Abuka's work challenges conventional leadership models with a po…

Rita Rai on Business Strategy and Operational Excellence | 1,582 Rita Rai has spent her career solving the complex challenges that keep organizations from reaching their full potential. A senior executive and strategic advisor, Rita has led high impact transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 companies, helping executive teams navigate growth, operational complexity, and organizational change. Her expertise spans strategic planning, operational excellence, process optimization, technology strategy, program leadership, and change management. Known for her ability to connect big picture vision with practical execution, Rita helps organizations improve performance, streamline operations, reduce costs, and create better experiences for both customers and teams. At the heart of her work is a simple belief: sustainable success comes from aligning strategy, people, and execution. Through thoughtful leadership and a talent for solving complex problems, Rita helps organizations m…

Todd A. Krause on Scaling a Business with Better Systems | 1,572 Todd A. Krause believes businesses don't struggle because they lack opportunity. They struggle because they outgrow the systems that once made them successful. A CPA, MBA, entrepreneur, and business strategist, Todd has spent his career helping organizations scale with clarity and purpose. As the owner of The Cleaning Authority in Fishers, he grew the business from $1.8 million to more than $4 million in revenue while creating an award winning workplace culture built on strong leadership and engaged teams. Today, through Silversun Consulting, Todd helps home service business owners overcome the challenges that prevent sustainable growth. His work focuses on building leadership, creating scalable systems, and developing healthy workplace cultures that allow companies to grow without relying on constant owner involvement. Drawing from decades of experience across finance, banking, entrepreneurship, and operatio…

Cat Markel is the founder of Cat Markel Creatives, a boutique brand and web studio focused on helping women build businesses that feel aligned, sustainable, and real. After building a successful career in marketing and reaching director level roles, Cat made the decision to step away from corporate life in search of more freedom. What she discovered was a different kind of pressure, one that many women face while balancing family, income, and the desire to create something meaningful of their own. That experience now shapes her work. Cat partners with coaches and small business owners to simplify what they are building, clarify their message, and bring their brand to life through thoughtful strategy, content, and design. Her approach is grounded and practical, helping women create businesses that support their lives instead of competing with them. Through coaching, courses, and hands on creative work, she helps clients move out of overwhelm and into clarity, building someth…

1,488 | Ben Millan on Smart Retirement Planning That Works Ben Millan is the President of Serenity Retirement and a Retirement Income and Medicare Planning Specialist focused on helping individuals shift from building wealth to sustaining it with clarity and structure. With nearly 20 years of experience in financial services, his work centers on the critical transition into retirement, where decisions around income, healthcare, taxes, and timing begin to matter more than accumulation alone. He helps clients design coordinated strategies that align retirement income, Medicare planning, Social Security decisions, tax efficiency, and asset protection into one clear direction. Rather than relying on reactive decisions, Ben’s approach is built on disciplined planning and long-term stability. His focus is on reducing uncertainty, helping retirees understand their options, and creating systems designed to hold up through market shifts and rising healthcare costs. His philosophy i…

Kerilie McDowall is a multi disciplined creative force working at the intersection of music, film, and artist development. Based on Vancouver Island, she is a guitarist composer, educator, and industry mentor who has spent decades shaping and supporting the global jazz community. Her career is layered and unconventional. From performing as one of Canada’s early female jazz bandleaders to producing radio for over 17 years, writing for leading publications like DownBeat, and judging major awards including the JUNOs and Polaris Music Prize, Kerilie has operated across nearly every corner of the music industry. Her work in film brought unexpected global recognition. Her jazz documentary In the Zone: Rick Kilburn reached nearly 1.5 billion views on IMDB Pro, placing her on the international stage after years of grassroots creative work as a volunteer TV director and producer. Today, she splits her time between teaching guitar, composing new jazz works, and mentoring artists in are…

Kathy Karneth builds ecosystems where healing, leadership, and impact come together. After more than three decades advising global companies like Intuit, Yahoo, Honeywell, and Kaiser Permanente, she saw a gap that strategy alone could not fill. People needed connection, alignment, and a deeper path to well-being. That realization led her to found Sangha Healing. Sangha Healing is more than a network. It is a platform designed to connect individuals with trusted holistic practitioners and create space for real transformation. Kathy brings her background in systems thinking and team alignment into the wellness world, helping bridge structure with healing in a way that is both grounded and expansive. Her work is driven by personal experience, environmental awareness, and a belief that collective healing starts with individual responsibility and community support. Kathy’s focus is clear. Build communities that heal, empower people to take ownership of their well-being, and con…

1,460 | How Scott Doggett Helps Leaders Build Better Teams Scott Doggett is the Founder and Chief Servant Leader of the National Academy of Leadership Development and author of Priceless! See People Differently. Lead People Better. With nearly 30 years of leadership experience, Scott has seen firsthand how small, everyday interactions quietly shape culture, performance, and the way people see themselves. That insight now drives his work, helping leaders shift from managing tasks to truly valuing people. His message is simple but powerful. When people feel seen, supported, and understood, everything changes. Engagement rises. Trust deepens. Performance follows. Today, Scott is leading a growing movement to rehumanize the workplace, challenging leaders to rethink how they show up and reminding organizations that their greatest asset is not strategy or systems, it is people. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.national…

1,454 | Justin Ferland on Turning Teams Into Thriving Cultures Justin Ferland is the General Manager of Sales and Operations at Serendipity Labs Costa Mesa, where he drives growth through community focused partnerships and a people first, advisory approach to sales. With more than 15 years of leadership experience across hospitality, consulting, and operations, Justin has built and scaled teams while leading successful operational and cultural turnarounds. He is known for creating environments where professionals thrive through trust, collaboration, and meaningful connection. Guided by the belief that a rising tide lifts all ships, Justin brings a leadership style rooted in partnership and shared success, showing how strong relationships fuel both business performance and personal growth. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.serendipitylabs.com/us/ca/costa-mesa-pacific-arts-plaza/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, o…

1,452 | Brimstone Shares His Journey in Entertainment and Media Brimstone is a multi-talented entertainer and entrepreneur whose career spans more than four decades across a wide range of industries. His work includes professional wrestling, radio and podcast hosting, acting, voice acting, writing, music, philanthropy, food criticism, and appearances in horror, comic books, animation, children’s media, and video games. Often described as a modern Renaissance figure, Brimstone has built a reputation as a seasoned entertainer and dynamic personality who continues to evolve and expand his impact across entertainment and media. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.therealbrimstone.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like t…

1,451 | Mary Lou Panzano on Leading Through Change and Loss Mary Lou Panzano is an award winning communications executive turned leadership coach, advisor, and speaker with more than 35 years of experience guiding organizations through complex change. After a profound personal loss, she stepped away from her corporate career to focus on what matters most to her, helping people grow, adapt, and truly prosper. Today, she works with individuals and leaders to navigate change with clarity, confidence, and resilience, both in business and in life. Mary Lou is a best selling co author of Cracking the Rich Code, Volume 18 and a contributing author to The Art of Connection: 365 Days of Resilience. Her upcoming book, Cementing Change: Cracking the Code for Communications that Work, is set for release in 2026. Deeply committed to service, she is a former board president of her local Habitat for Humanity affiliate and remains active in her church and community. Mary Lou lives in New …

1,416 | Hyacinth Morrison on Growing Leaders Who Drive Results Hyacinth Morrison is a global HR executive, leadership coach, and founder of SDA People Partners, where she helps organizations lead with both performance and humanity. With more than 20 years of senior leadership experience across industries such as manufacturing, banking, education, and consumer goods, Hyacinth advises CEOs and executive teams on building stronger cultures, developing leaders, and aligning people with purpose and results. Her philosophy is simple. When leaders grow, organizations transform. By combining strategic insight with compassion and practical leadership tools, Hyacinth helps companies create workplaces where people feel valued, trusted, and motivated to contribute at their highest level. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://sda-peoplepartners.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our m…

1,412 | Dr. Scott Geise on Leadership Through Service and Sport Dr. Scott Geise is a lifelong supporter of the Niagara County community. A graduate of Newfane High School, he went on to attend Hobart College, where he was a two sport athlete. He earned All American honors in football and played defense for three national championship lacrosse teams. In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the Hobart Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002. Dr. Geise received his dental degree from the SUNY Buffalo School of Dental Medicine in 1988 and was commissioned into the United States Army Dental Corps. He served in Germany from 1988 to 1991 before returning home to care for patients throughout Niagara County. In addition to his dental practice, Dr. Geise is a published author and an active contributor to his community. He lives in Newfane with his wife, Larina, and their three sons, Stone, Myles, and Thorne. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check …

1,398 | Bianca B. King on Turning $700 Into $280M in Revenue With nearly 30 years in business and more than 1.6 billion dollars in transactions, Bianca B. King has built a career defined by resilience. That strength was forged early when she left home at 13 to escape instability and create a future on her own terms. She spent over a decade in commercial real estate on a team that closed 1.4 billion dollars in deals. In 2008, she launched Seven5 Seven3 Marketing Group with just 700 dollars. Seventeen years later, that decision has generated more than 280 million dollars in client revenue. Along the way, Bianca realized that the same strategies that build sustainable wealth can also cultivate sustainable joy. She founded Pretty Damn Ambitious®, a global collective for ambitious women entrepreneurs in expert based service businesses. Through her Joyful Ambition™ framework, she helps leaders build profitable companies while aligning success with personal values and fulfillment. …

1,396 | Jakub Polaczyk on Building an International Music Career Jakub Polaczyk is a Polish American composer, pianist, and educator based in New York City. He is a recipient of the Gold Cross of Merit from the President of Poland and the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture, Gloria Artis. He was also named an Honorary Citizen of Stary Sącz, Poland. Educated at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Jagiellonian University, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, and Carnegie Mellon University, Polaczyk has won more than twenty national and international awards, including honors from The American Prize and the Global Music Awards. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Musikverein in Vienna. He has collaborated with leading orchestras and ensembles worldwide, and his music is published and recorded internationally. He previously served as Director of the International Chopin and Friends Festival in New York City. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━…

1,388 | Christopher Rivers on Navigating Ambition Without Losing Yourself Christopher Rivers is a former US Army officer and combat veteran who enlisted at 17 and served in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics with a focus on Nuclear Engineering, along with master’s degrees in Public Policy and Foreign Service from Georgetown University. After his military service, Christopher worked as a policy advisor and strategic problem-solver at the US Department of State and later in the private sector, guiding organizations through complex operational and leadership challenges. His career spans national security, diplomacy, corporate strategy, and a statewide political campaign, giving him a rare, firsthand perspective on how power operates within institutions. His debut book, You Shouldn’t Have to Kill to Get Ahead, draws on that experience to examine ambition, integrity, and the system…

1,384 | Elizabeth De Sevo on Choosing Moments That Shape Your Life Elizabeth De Sevo is a New Jersey native turned Madrileña who lives between the United States and Spain. An author, speaker, and global producer, she has managed the careers of Olympic figure skaters and produced live sporting events and international tours across the USA, Europe, and Asia, including Champions On Ice and Fantasy on Ice. Her work took on deeper meaning after the sudden loss of her mother, a moment that reshaped how she understands life itself. From that experience, Elizabeth realized that life is not measured in years, but in moments, and that we always have a choice in how we live them. This insight became the foundation of her signature concept, MOMents. Elizabeth is the author of Choose Your MOMents: How the Sudden Loss of My Mother Taught Me How to Live, an inspirational guide available on Amazon in 15 countries. Through her MOMents Method, she helps individuals and organizations cultivate …

1,375 | Tania Anderson Reveals What Travel Taught Her About Humanity Tania Anderson is a former Pan American World Airways flight attendant, international traveler, and author of On Butterflies’ Wings, a memoir that captures her extraordinary life across seven countries and seventy-nine destinations. After earning dual degrees in Political Science and International Studies from American University in Washington, DC, Tania began her aviation career with Pan Am, which launched her into a lifetime of global exploration. She later flew VIP charters, press corps, military personnel, refugees, and medical teams, earning the U.S. Air Force Civilian Desert Shield and Desert Storm Medal for Outstanding Achievement during the First Gulf War. A passionate advocate for human rights, Tania also spent years lobbying on Capitol Hill for those without a voice. In 2000, she joined the Screen Actors Guild and appeared in films by Steven Spielberg, the Coen Brothers, and Oliver Stone, as well a…

1,373 | Kathy Eastwood Reveals the E3 Leadership Code for Sustainable Results Kathy Eastwood is the CEO and creator of the human-first E3 Leadership Code, a leadership strategist, and executive advisor with more than thirty years of experience as an operator across Ernst & Young, Hewlett-Packard, high-growth startups, and private equity-backed companies. Her upcoming book, The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance, offers real-world insights and actionable strategies to help executives achieve consistent performance, measurable ROI, and thriving cultures without burning people out. Through her work, Kathy reveals why trust must be built, not hired, and how leadership behavior shapes whether purpose turns into predictable results. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.eequalswhy.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmed…

1,363 | Lindsay Friedman Shares a Smarter Way to Prepare for Caregiving Lindsay Friedman began her career as a nursing assistant, working across long-term care settings. That professional path became deeply personal when she became her grandmother’s primary caregiver, an experience that transformed her understanding of what families truly face. After a serious accident, Lindsay spent several years as a care recipient, gaining firsthand insight into both sides of the caregiving journey. Later, as a cross-generational caregiver supporting her parents and caring for her chronically ill daughter, she learned to approach every challenge with empathy, resilience, and perspective. An experienced entrepreneur and the author of Plan Today, Protect Tomorrow, Lindsay founded CareBloom, a caregiving support tool, and LTCareNav, an AI-powered long-term care planning platform that provides families with free care plans, concierge support, and connections to trusted care resources. Throu…

1,361 | Maria Cristini Shares How to Move From Vision to Action Maria Cristini is an executive coach, facilitator, and author of Two Feet In: Finding Clarity, Purpose, and Passion in Your Life and Career. For more than 25 years, she has helped leaders, creatives, and change-makers move from imagining the future to actively living it. Maria’s work is rooted in joy, values, and her signature philosophy of “living with two feet in” – embracing uncertainty and transformation with courage, clarity, and purpose. Through her coaching programs and book, she provides practical frameworks that guide people to align who they are with what they do, so they can create meaningful impact in their work and lives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://mariacristini.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price t…

1,360 | Dr. Melanie Gray on Building Workplace Cultures Where People Thrive Dr. Melanie Gray is a trauma-informed leadership coach, speaker, and founder of Dr. Melanie Gray Solutions, where she helps organizations transform workplace culture, prevent burnout, and build environments where both people and performance thrive. Early in her healthcare career, Melanie faced the realities of burnout firsthand — long hours, constant pressure, and the quiet erosion of confidence that comes from always giving but rarely receiving support. She saw dedicated professionals around her struggling too, feeling unseen, undervalued, and emotionally exhausted. Determined to find a better way, she immersed herself in trauma-informed care, leadership development, and workplace wellness. What began as personal healing evolved into a mission: helping leaders and teams move from burnout to breakthrough. Through her coaching, workshops, and organizational trainings, Dr. Gray equips professionals t…

1,346 | Hyacinth Morrison on Human Centered Leadership That Transforms Culture Hyacinth Morrison is a global HR executive, leadership coach, and founder of SDA People Partners—a purpose-driven consulting firm championing Human-Centered Leadership. With over 20 years of C-suite and senior leadership experience across industries including manufacturing, banking, education, and consumer goods, Hyacinth partners with CEOs and executive teams to transform how organizations lead, grow, and care for their people. She believes that when a leader’s mindset shifts—from control to clarity, from fear to trust—entire organizations change. Her work integrates strategic excellence with empathy, guiding leaders to build cultures where people feel valued, empowered, and connected to purpose. Known for her calm, courageous presence, Hyacinth helps leaders navigate complexity with humanity and intention—proving that strong leadership and human leadership are not opposites, but partners. ━━━…

1,335 | Lin Yuan-Su on Creating Ease, Alignment, and Joy in Business Lin Yuan-Su is a Mindset Trainer and Strategist who helps high-achieving, heart-centered entrepreneurs create meaningful success with ease, alignment, and joy—starting from within. A former registered dietitian who left a successful yet unfulfilling career, Lin rebuilt her life through mindset mastery, inner awareness, and energetic alignment. Her journey taught her a powerful truth: 80% of success comes from how we think, not how hard we work. Through her Enlightened Success Institute, Lin guides entrepreneurs to release limiting beliefs, embody their potential, and build soul-led lives and businesses that feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside. Her mission is to help leaders rise in purpose, peace, and prosperity—proving that true success begins in the mind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.EnlightenedSuccess.com 🎬 Ne…