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ideamix podcast

Coaching is the best tool to enhance performance and wellness. On the ideamix podcast, Jamie Kosmar and Sam Jayanti chat with scientists, coaches, professors, and experts to bring you the most important research and insights to enhance your performance and wellness. Listen here or subscribe.
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Showing Yourself Compassion is More Important Than you Think with Coach Denise

Coach Denise is a certified compassion teacher with 12 years of experience in mindfulness, energy psychology, somatic practices, and healing modalities in all areas of wellness. She helps others understand the importance of showing yourself compassion. If you do not have the tools to help your overall wellness it can affect other areas of your life, especially in the work environment. Allowing yourself to be more mindful and self-aware gives you the ability to connect the mind and body, therefor...

Jun 08, 202317 min

How to Be More Than Just a Logo with Aarti Parmar

Get ready to be inspired by Aarti Parmar, a multi-talented coach and brand specialist! In this episode, she shares her story of how she became a seasoned expert in her field and discovered her passion for coaching. With her unique expertise, Aarti helps companies define their brand identity and message, and maximize their impact on their audience. This week, join us to learn how stepping into the unknown can lead to a fulfilling and successful career. Trust us, Aarti's insights and experience ar...

May 25, 202323 min

Transforming Uncertainty into Clarity with Coach Leslie

Meet Coach Leslie, a seasoned HR and leadership development expert with over 20 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies. With a brain-based coaching certification from the Neurological Institute and executive and leadership coaching certification, she specializes in helping individuals transition back into the workplace by setting goals, gaining self-awareness, and creating strategies for success. Get ready to transform uncertainty into clarity with Coach Leslie's guidance and support. Subs...

May 11, 202314 min

Learn to Trust your Intuition with Cindy Tsai

Join Dr. Cindy Tsai, a board-certified physician turned entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, bestselling author, and coach as she shares her insights on personal health and wellness. Her popular self-help book based in mindfulness, "So Much Better: Life-Changing Strategies to Develop Calm, Confidence, and Curiosity to Become Your Own Inspiring Success Story", is a must-read resource for anyone looking to make positive changes in their life. Cindy's wisdom is both inspiring and actionable, providing pract...

Apr 27, 202330 min

Navigating What Comes After Divorce with Coach Amy

Coach Amy's 12-week program empowers individuals going through separation and divorce. Unlike counseling, which focuses on the past, Coach Amy's coaching approach focuses on the future. Her process includes building confidence and redefining how you speak to yourself. Through her guidance, you can navigate divorce and discover your true self outside of a partnership. Tune in to hear her empowering advice on overcoming the challenges of separation and finding your footing in this new chapter of y...

Apr 13, 202313 min

International Journalism, Leadership, and Relationships with Elise Hu

Elise Hu is a broadcast journalist, host of the TED Talks daily podcast, and is also host-at-large for NPR. In her twelve years at NPR, Elise has gained production experience with many shows and has filmed stories for more than a dozen countries as an international correspondent. Elise also opened the first-ever NPR Bureau in Seoul, Korea. On top of her many professional accomplishments, she is a mother of three children. With her plate full, she gives insight into leadership and the importance ...

Mar 30, 202332 min

Positive Psychology Coaching with Coach Rachel

With a diverse coaching background that ranges from coaching scuba diving to soccer, Coach Rachel joins us today to discuss positive psychology coaching. She defines positive psychology coaching as a way to help individuals achieve their goals, in a holistic way, and also look at what the client is good at already. The essence of positive psychology is to help increase your positive emotions and sense of meaning, boost your mood, and increase both confidence and happiness. Join us to learn how t...

Mar 16, 202316 min

Assembling, Building, and Constructing with Debra Rapoport

Debra Rapoport is and always has been an artist; she creates wearable art pieces from non-traditional materials. Aside from her art, Debra speaks on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to personal style, wellness, and agelessness through the creative process. Debra starts every day with her ABC system; ABC is assembling, building, and constructing with texture, color, and layering. Debra uses the ABC system to create forms upon the body as if it were an armature. Debra’s creativity...

Mar 02, 202327 min

Life Transition Coaching with Coach David

Coach David is a coach of nine years with experience in corporate marketing, entrepreneurship, and humanitarian work. Coach David now works with 35 to 65-year-olds who have identified something is not working for them and they need a change. He tells his clients the three different areas of life transitions, which include being aware of where your focus is, the story you want to tell, and bringing that story into the world. Tune in to hear Coach David explain the importance of life transitions. ...

Feb 16, 202321 min

Self-Talk Shifting with Katie Horwitch

Katie Horwitch is an author, speaker, self-talk shifter, and the founder of WANT: Women Against Negative Talk. In 2007, at 21, Katie came up with the idea for WANT, but it would take coming into her own first to spread her message. Katie grappled with her negative self-talk before helping other women do the same. WANT is the platform from which Katie coaches women to not only change the words they use to describe themselves but also change the lens through which they see themselves. Simply chang...

Feb 02, 202331 min

The Difference Between Coaching and Therapy

Coaching and therapy are not the same. Coaching is a forward-looking approach; it is not only the recognition of our circumstances and how they affect us but also working on what to do or how to change. Coaching is forwarding the action of fruitful information. It is not to say therapy isn’t essential to gaining self-awareness. Coaching and therapy can grapple with the same issues but handle them differently. Tune in to hear Coach Christi explain the differences between coaching and therapy. Sub...

Jan 19, 202315 min

Introduction to Our 2023 Season

Welcome to the introduction of our 2023 season on ideamix radio! This year we will release episodes in two distinct formats: Coaches You Need and Innovators to Know . The former intends to introduce the wide variety of coaches on our team, while the latter aims to shine a light on successful innovators that believe in coaching too. Join us to hear Sam Jayanti and Jamie Kosmar discuss the importance of coaching and break down ideamix's mission. Subscribe to ideamix radio and stay tuned for new ep...

Jan 05, 202310 min

Passion, Momentum and the Importance of Mentorship with Tony Goldwyn

Tony Goldwyn is not just an actor, producer, director, and political activist but an innovator and friend too. Tony has starred in a wide range, of films and shows, including but not limited to "Ghost," "King Richard," and "Scandal." Tony’s popularity rapidly increased after his role in "Ghost." However, after giving up managerial control over his career and things settling down, Tony found directing and producing. What started as a passion project resulted in his first movie as director: "A Wal...

Dec 01, 202244 min

Habit-Forming Products and Breaking Bad Habits with Nir Eyal

From building and selling two technology companies to writing "Hooked" and "Indistractable," Nir Eyal learned from the masters of persuasion manipulation to ultimately become a behavioral designer. As a behavioral designer, Nir helps companies build products and services that get people hooked on healthy habits. While his first book, "Hooked," is about creating habit-forming products, his second book, "Indistractable," is about breaking bad habits. Nir never did build his third company; instead,...

Nov 17, 202244 min

The Importance of Champions with Hagar Chemali

Hagar Chemali isn’t just a political satirist, writer, producer, television personality, and political commentator because what she does goes far beyond what the news and talking heads can do for our younger generations. Hagar uses her social media platform, to not only inform and educate but also to share her political analysis in a satirical way. Hagar’s time serving in national security and public affairs under two presidential administrations has adequately equipped her to comment and write ...

Nov 03, 202247 min

Trust in Coach-Client Relationships with Dr. Jennie Byrne

Dr. Jennie Byrne is a C-suite leader and entrepreneur with an M.D., Ph. D, and clinical experience. Jennie’s personal use of coaching and her healthcare background help shape her understanding and approach as a coach. She emphasizes the importance of trust in coaching relationships. This means being able to trust the process, coaches, and clients. The pandemic complicated what we know to be true of the workplace by challenging assumptions. Talent is leaving and professionals are resisting the re...

Oct 20, 202240 min

Products that Actually Work with Lisa Creaven

Drs. Lisa and Vanessa Creaven co-founded Made by Dentists and Spotlight Oral Care to provide their patients with consumer products that are safe and clinically proven to work. Both women are full-time sisters, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and mothers who feel that all of their customers deserve to be patients. Companies are born from gaps in the market; in this case, it was the disconnect between what Lisa and her sister knew to be true as dentists and what was being marketed at the time. In ea...

Oct 06, 202239 min

Making the Pivot with Connie Steele

Connie Steele is a consultant, author, speaker, and fellow podcast host of a show titled Strategic Momentum. Connie was a marketing executive for a tech company and made a pivot because she felt the job was no longer a fit. In this episode, Sam and Connie discuss a wide range of topics from Connie’s making a pivot moment to being a first-generation Chinese American to career mash-ups and the importance they are in the workforce. Before concluding their conversation they have an important convers...

Sep 22, 202242 min

Psychoanalyzing Coaching with Rachel Blakeman

Coaching through a psychoanalytically informed lens — how does a psychoanalytic perspective deepen the work and create lasting change? Rachel Blakeman explains how she applies a psychoanalytic understanding to her coaching work. Rachel tells the listener about her journey and how her own life experiences along with her diverse training influences the way she works. She goes on to talk about the universality of historically influenced blind spots — life experiences that continue to dictate how we...

Sep 08, 202221 min

Worth Fighting For with the Founders of Leda Health

“We want to wake up every day and say this is what we want to fight for,” says Madison Campbell, one of the founders of Leda Health. Madison and her business partner, Liesel Vaidya, are fighting against something crucial, sexual violence. Liesel talks about her experience moving to New York and expressing how it is the land of opportunity, emphasizing how the city is a place to be celebrated instead of proving you belong there. Madison discusses her connection to Leda Health and she has taken ne...

Aug 25, 202241 min

Talking Government with the Founders of Political Playlist

Nowadays some might find that politics is a sore subject to discuss, but the three creators of Political Playlist have a fresh, new, and nonpartisan take on the topic. Anna Musky-Goldwyn, Anthony Barkett, and Michael Kristoff gather around a communal table every week to talk about different political matters, but they mainly focus on the young people of Congress. This episode of ideamix radio will dive into how they reach across the aisle and became the founding mother and fathers of the Politic...

Aug 11, 202234 min

Work Hard, Be Nice, And Have Fun With Timm Chiusano

Popular TikTok creator and Vice President of Production & Creative Services at a Fortune 100 company Timm Chiusano joins us today to discuss the mindset that gets him through each day, the kind of work environment companies must create to thrive, what makes him a great leader and how he outperforms the fear that many of us confront in our day-to-day lives. Timm grasps viewers with his 90-second witty motivational bits and continues to show up authentically for his 400k audience to relate and...

Jul 28, 202251 min

A Wellness Journey Through Micro Habits with Coach Ali

Coach Ali is the CEO of MyWellCo, which is focused on people feeling better, living better, and having more of what they want in their lives. Ali was working in the corporate world for 10+ years and was experiencing burnout and getting chronic migraines. She made a move to LA and became an event director. Following her move to the west coast, the pandemic happened. As many of us tried to do, Ali found the silver lining in wellness. She began her wellness journey and turned that self voyage into ...

Jul 14, 202228 min

Tough Transformations with Margy Feldhuhn

As co-owner and CEO of Interview Connections along with being an author and producer of a podcast called "We Get It, Your Dad Died," Margy Feldhuhn finds a way to connect with others through profound losses. After Margy had a huge loss in her family in 2015, she found herself gaining strength and transforming through it. Margy shares how out of the hard times can come an opportunity for a learning experience. Margy offers wisdom she has learned along with her take on the current great debate of ...

Jun 30, 202241 min

Attracting What You Want with Coach Brandon

As a founder and CEO, Coach Brandon knows what it's like to be a leader, so much so that through his book, "Sabotage," and the power of coaching, he is able to help others pulverize the obstacles that often get in the way of effective leadership. This week, we welcome him to ideamix radio to share with our listeners what it means to lead, what it takes to succeed, and how one can have an optimal impact on the companies they lead. Subscribe to ideamix radio and stay tuned for new episodes every o...

Jun 16, 202244 min

Into Alignment with Coach Nikki

She's a "chiropractor for the mind." Nikki Sammet is a clinical psychologist, life and business coach, and mom. She joins us on this week's episode to discuss topics ranging from implications of the pandemic on work-life balance, identity, the uncertainty that comes with making career changes, and tools for managing day-to-day stress responses that she imparts on her clients. Subscribe to Ideamix Radio and stay tuned for new episodes every other Thursday. On Ideamix Radio we speak with entrepren...

Jun 02, 202249 min

Invest in Yourself with Coach Meredith

Finding passion within a line of work is not always an easy feat. Coach Meredith helps clients, whether they are about to make their debut into the professional sphere or finding themselves unfulfilled in their current position, to invest the skills and interests they already possess and put it to use somewhere that brings them more joy. The road to success can be a lonely road filled with multitudes of uncertainty, and in today's episode, Meredith discusses why this drives people to seek out co...

May 19, 202238 min

Reduce Your Carbon Paw Print with Haley Russell

With a growing market for more sustainable and nutritious food, Haley Russell didn't see why the same couldn't extend to our family pets. In this episode, Haley discusses her entrepreneurial journey in founding the sustainable dog food brand, Chippin. and tells us what exactly got her company off the ground. Haley combines a passion for the dog food industry with a growing demand for a healthier and more Earth-friendly canine diet to produce innovative products for dog owners everywhere. Subscri...

May 05, 202227 min

Change Your Personal Narrative with Coach Kimberly

Coach, writer, TEDx speaker, and founder of CrownYourself, Kimberly joins us today with an inspiring personal story of ownership, identity, and pattern formation which has helped to shape the way she coaches clients on their own journey of personal growth. Kimberly discusses how she discovered what true personal growth requires and the parts of ourselves that must be faced for change to occur, in addition to practical business advice that spurred her own success story. Subscribe to ideamix radio...

Apr 21, 202247 min

Finding Your Zen with Coach Jessica

Motherhood can bring great joy but it is often defined by sacrifice. Coach Jessica, entrepreneur and founder of Zen Mommy, felt a loss of identity and purpose outside her care-taking role after she was swept up by motherhood from a young age. Motivated to add purpose to her life, she made it her goal to help other moms start their own self-discovery journeys with the added benefit of becoming the best version of themselves for their kids. Subscribe to Ideamix Radio and stay tuned for new episode...

Apr 07, 202231 min
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