Phillip Van Hooser - Award-winning Keynote Speaker, Leadership Trainer and Author on Engaged Leadership & Communication. When organizations want to transform their leadership talent to drive performance and productivity, Phillip Van Hooser is the trusted advisor they can confidently turn to. From his high-pressure management roles in banking, manufacturing and consumer goods to the lessons revealed through work with 1000+ clients, Phil shares commonsense, results-driving leadership methods t...
Dec 28, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Alessandro Vitale is a Team Krieghoff shooter and nine time All American. He is one of only four people in 2020 to shoot a 400/400 globally and has competed in eight world championships and is one of only four people in 2020 to shoot a 400/400 globally. Alessandro is currently ranked number four globally for NSSA American Skeet. He has a top ten high average leader in all four Gauges & Doubles. In addition Alessandro is a NSSA certified instructor and has shot over 70,000 competition targets...
Dec 22, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Kelly Springer formerly worked as the Division Dietitian at Wegmans Food Markets and as a clinical dietitian at Auburn Hospital working in bariatrics, critical care, and nutrition support. She began Kelly’s Choice in 2012 with a vision to empower people to invest in their own health and wellness in order to live their best lives. Kelly’s Choice now functions as a comprehensive nutrition and health company that offers private nutrition counseling, workplace wellness, educational webinars, media a...
Dec 14, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 87
A U.S. Air Force veteran, Dr. Jannell MacAulay has managed human performance under high-stress situations for over two decades. As a military leader and combat pilot, she experienced the same stress, frustration, and fears that leaders and teams in corporate America face daily in their personal and professional lives. Her own personal journey led to earning her Ph.D. with work in the field of strategic health and human performance. With her innovative leadership style, she was the first leader t...
Dec 07, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Dawn Kirk - executive coach, speaker, and best-selling author of the book Heartbeat Leadership. Best known for being Bold, Brilliant, and Best Practice driven, Dawn Kirk has epitomized consistent excellence in and out of the boardroom. Dubbed one of Georgia’s 100 Most Powerful and Influential Women, Dawn’s real-life approach towards professional and lifestyle management has supported an impressive 26-year corporate climb to senior executive levels at two, Fortune 100 Corporations. Dawn challenge...
Nov 30, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Alyson Van Hooser is an Author, Keynote Speaker, and Leadership Trainer with Van Hooser Associates, Inc. Alyson’s tough beginnings, personal leadership experience in the foodservice, retail, and finance industries, and serving as an elected City Councilwoman — all by the age of 30 — helped her uncover the crux of success in today's world. Alyson works throughout the country and within numerous industries to help leaders bridge the gaps that exist within individuals and teams which cause negative...
Nov 23, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Max Yoder is CEO and co-founder of Lessonly, the training software company that helps teams learn, practice, and do better work. He is also the author of Do Better Work, a book about being a better teammate.
Nov 16, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Lance J. Cunha - international banker, consultant and heart transplant recipient. He received the miraculous gift of a heart transplant. In his 2016 published book, Resolute: My Quest For A New Heart, Mr. Cunha tells the remarkable and emotional story of his difficult journey for a new heart and his utter determination to live. Since his heart transplant, Lance and his wife have been ardent supporters of Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and the Georgia Transplant Foundation....
Nov 09, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Jana Morrin is CEO and Co-founder of Speakfully a platform to help employees and companies grow through the recording and sharing of uncomfortable experiences within the workplace. Speakfully is behind a movement to create psychologically safe environments through its documentation, reporting, and support resources. After experiencing workplace harassment herself, Morrin channeled her passion for changing workplace culture by leveraging design and technology to create a platform that decodes th...
Nov 02, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Kimberly Lou is a Certified Health Coach, and Integrative Life and Corporate Mentor who coaches top CEOs, entrepreneurs, celebrities, and world-class athletes around the world. She helps clients accelerate and thrive through mental focus, emotional fitness and physical training. In addition to Kimberly’s mentoring programs, she is an accomplished author, and a nationally recognized spokesperson for mental health and wellness. With over two decades of experience and extensive education, Advanced ...
Oct 26, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 80
John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker, and author of Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, Duct Tape Selling, The Commitment Engine, and SEO for Growth. His newest work, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur: 366 Daily Meditations to Feed Your Soul and Grow Your Business taps into the wisdom of 19th-century transcendentalist literature and the author’s own 30-year entrepreneurial journey to challenge today’s entrepreneur to remain fiercely self-reliant while chasing their own version of su...
Oct 19, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Brian Parsley is a Certified Professional Behaviour Analyst and Human Capital Strategist, and is rated one of the top business speakers in the U.S. He guides business leaders to increase sales effectiveness, delight customers and build profits. Not only a talented speaker, Brian has been a regular contributor for magazines like South African Airways and broadcast media. As a Human Capital Strategist, he consults with a select group of organizations each year to assist them in building winning cu...
Oct 12, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Steven A. Robinson is a consultant, author and speaker on organizational culture design & leadership, brand strategy development, marketing planning, and distinctive advertising principles. He is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Chick-fil-A, Inc., 1981-2015. Prior to joining the company, Steve was the director of marketing for Six Flags Over Georgia theme park in Atlanta, Georgia. This role was preceded by marketing positions at two other Six Flags propertie...
Oct 05, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Andrew Zimmern is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable personalities in the food world. In February 2020, Andrew returned to television with What's Eating America, which premiered on MSNBC, and in 2021, he will premiere Family Dinner, on Chip & Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network. As the creator, Executive Producer and Host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods franchise, Andrew Zimmern’s Driven by Food and the Emmy Award-winning The Zimmern List, Andrew has devoted his life to exploring and pr...
Sep 26, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Having delivered thousands of presentations over 2 decades, Jason Hewlett is the only speaker in the world teaching leadership in a performance of uncanny musical and comedy impressions, utilizing the legends of stage. “The Promise” is a keynote speech that feels like a show, with proven processes and immediately implementable takeaways to transform your business and leadership skills. His new book, The Promise to the One is now available on Amazon.
Sep 18, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Celebrity Chef, Nutritionist and Reiki Master, Serena Poon has made it her mission to promote further education around the mindful combination of food, nutrition and healing intuition inwhat she has coined, “Culinary Alchemy®.”
Sep 10, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Cory Oliver is a multi-talented actress and beauty expert who is best known for starring in the feature film "God's Not Dead" as well as starring in the original series "Beverly Hills Pawn" for the REELZChannel. Behind-the-scenes she has been a licensed make-up artist and hairdresser for Hollywood's A-list, which led to her developing her own beauty balm skincare line "Beverly Hills Balm." Currently, she is co-hosting "Hollywood Westlake," a streaming lifestyle series with Ryan O'Quinn, that pre...
Sep 02, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Dr. Tim Elmore is the Founder and CEO of Growing Leaders, a non-profit organization created to develop emerging leaders. He and his team equip secondary school students, college students and recent graduates from thousands of campuses across the US and around the world to think and act like authentic leaders. Tim is the author of more than 30 books, including the best-selling Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future, Habitudes®: Images that Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes, Life G...
Aug 06, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Dr. Allen is the Medical Director of Rushford, Chief of Psychiatry at Midstate Medical Center, and Vice President of Addiction Services for the Behavioral Health Network of Hartford Healthcare.
Jul 17, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Jon Macaskill is a Navy SEAL Commander turned mindfulness and meditation teacher. He’s a Naval Academy graduate and has his masters in Opera-tions Research from the Naval Postgraduate School. Jon has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, off the coast of Somalia, and in Panama. He now runs his own consulting company, Macaskill Consulting, LLC, bringing mindfulness and meditation to high performing teams to aid in dealing with stress, anxiety and depression all while increasing focus, creativity, and prod...
Jun 27, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Jordan Fladell is CEO and Co-Founder of MLevel, the award-winning micro learning platform designed for the enterprise. He brings a unique viewpoint to the learning world and for the past twenty years Jordan has been delivering and educating corporations on disruptive technologies witnessing firsthand the engagement challenge companies face today. The excitement and passion for helping companies successfully drive advancement via education is what Jordan brings to the table each and every day. Pr...
Jun 19, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Charles Atkins, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, speaker, and author of nearly twenty fiction and nonfiction books. His short stories and articles have appeared in publications from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) to Writer’s Digest Magazine. He’s penned two recent textbooks on co-occurring substance use and mental disorders, and opioid use disorders, which are used nationwide. And has written two plain-speak books on Alzheimer’s Disease and Bipolar Disorder. His firs...
Jun 10, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Linda Bernardi is a technology disruptor and innovator. She’s a successful serial tech entrepreneur, two-time award-winning author, keynote speaker, and has held key executive positions such as Chief Innovation Officer at IBM. More than anything, Linda is massively passionate about the innovation capacity in every human being around the world, and truly believes that once mindset changes, everyone can innovate without limits. Her technology focus is AI, Data, and the future hyper-connected world...
Jun 04, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 67
David Covington, LPC, MBA is CEO & President of Recovery Innovations, Inc. He is a behavioral health innovator, entrepreneur and storyteller. He is also a partner in Behavioral Health Link, and founder of the international initiatives “Zero Suicide,” “Crisis Now” and “Hope, Inc.”
May 28, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Cort Davies was diagnosed with malignant paraganglioma in November of 2017. He was given just three years to live. Instead of folding under the intense stress of having a late-stage cancer, Cort set out on a mission to save his own life. After 7 surgeries, half of his bladder removed, and almost being paralyzed, Cort realized his biggest challenge was actually his greatest opportunity. He also realized that chronic stress was a major deterrent in healing for millions of cancer patients, includin...
May 21, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Joshua Dobbs is well known for his role as the quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers from 2013-2016. He graduated from the Tickle College of Engineering, in May 2017, where he completed a five-year Aerospace Engineering degree and a Business Administration minor, all within four years. He then entered the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers and now is currently the Quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
May 14, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Andy Lipman has cystic fibrosis, but cystic fibrosis will never have him. On his 38th birthday, Andy passed the current median life expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis (also know as CF). At 46, his life expectancy now exceeds the expected. Andy is a positive role model, who defied all odds to become a college graduate, Olympic-torch bearer, runner, advocate, author, husband, and father. He is dedicated to finding a cure for this genetic disease. Andy’s fourth book, The CF Warrior Project:...
Apr 30, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Dr. John Santopietro. He is the physician-in-chief of the Hartford HealthCare Behavioral Health Network, Connecticut’s leading provider of addiction and mental health services. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. A nationally recognized leader, Dr. Santopietro comes to Hartford HealthCare from Silver Hill Hospital where he served as president and medical director....
Apr 16, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Jon Gordon's best-selling books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world. His principles have been put to the test by numerous Fortune 500 companies, professional and college sports teams, school districts, hospitals, and non-profits. He is the author of 20 books including 8 best-sellers: The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, Training Camp, You Win in the Locker Room First, The Power of Positive Leadership, The Power of a Positive Team, The Coffee Bean and his latest Stay Positive...
Apr 09, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Dr. Aaron P. Brinen is a primary developer of Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy along with Aaron T. Beck, MD. Under the guidance of Dr. Aaron T. Beck, Dr. Brinen has worked to formalize the treatment, Recovery Oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R), adapt it to a group model, team-based approach, and milieu. He is a co-author in the upcoming manual of CT-R for schizophrenia, and has been active in the training of community therapists from around the world. Dr. Brinen is an assistant professor in th...
Mar 19, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 60
