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Inquiring Minds with Donna Karlin & Steve Harper

Donna Karlin and Steve Harper have spent over 15 years percolating about life, business, and the myriad of perspectives we have about ourselves within it all and now we’re inviting you to listen in. Inquiring Minds is about life and the conversations we have to navigate it —Conversations to help us learn, evolve and challenge how we think about ourselves and others so we make better, more informed choices.

Episodes

The power of making tiny habit changes

We often try to change ingrained habits that aren't serving us and more often than not, don't succeed. What if we made tiny habit changes instead? Join Steve and Donna in conversation about how to make tiny habit changes that create massive shifts.

Oct 25, 202221 min

What are you listening for?

Donna and Steve discuss 4 reality check questions that can help you focus on what you want to achieve, learn and integrate in a way that will help you see well beyond your present awareness.

Oct 18, 202220 min

There will always be someone...

There will always be someone who questions your value, ignores your talents, overlooks your skills and sells you short. Just don't let that person be you!

Oct 11, 202217 min

It's actually incredible what you'd be able to do if you'd be willing to let go

It's actually incredible what you'd be able to do, see, experience, and feel if you'd be willing to let go of: The past The outcome The need to know Those are all tethers holding you back or possibly steering you in the wrong direction. Join Steve and Donna in conversation about how to identify roadblocks and tethers, let go of narratives that aren't serving you so you can FLY!

Sep 27, 202219 min

Who do you decide to hire, promote or let go?

How is each individual impacting your culture? Team cohesiveness? What can you do when you have a Bully in your midst or someone who just won't take direction? Join Donna and Steve in an in-depth look at how to dance in real time with situations where you might feel blindsided, sidestepped or minimized. #crucialconversations #bullying #leadership #coaching

Sep 13, 202227 min

Want To Do, But Scared To Do, You Must Do!

Steve Bartlett said, "LIfe taught me that the thing you want to do but you're scared to do is what you MUST do! Everything I'm most proud of started with fear and ended with happiness" Join Donna and Steve in conversation about our comfort zones, what will get us past the roadblocks fear puts in front of us and how getting to the other side of that brings such a sense of personal pride! #proud #perspective #comfortzone #coaching

Sep 06, 202220 min

Never do something permanently foolish because you're temporarily upset.

Have you ever pressed 'SEND' on that email and immediately knew it was going to dig you in deep? Have you ever blown a gasket because you reacted instead of responding in a way that didn't cause conflict? Join Steve and Donna in conversation about how to redirect your anger and respond instead of blow! #reaction #temper #response #coaching #inquiringminds

Aug 30, 202224 min

We're not our negative thoughts until we let ourselves be.

Is our self talk helping move us closer to our dreams, success, growth? Or is it holding us back? Are you giving yourself permission to self-bash and limit what you even try to do just in case you might fail? Join Donna and Steve in conversation about how our thinking can be our worst enemy and how to turn that around. #negativity #coaching #selftalk #inquiringminds

Aug 09, 202221 min

Have a WHY that's bigger than you

Are you so focused on getting that promotion or bonus that it's all about you? What if your impact could make a huge difference in someone else's life, to your team, the planet as a whole? Join Donna and Steve in conversation about finding that WHY. Looking at what has meaning to you but to so many others as well. When we look beyond ourselves, the rewards that come back to us increase exponentially.

Aug 02, 202220 min

Perfection is the silent dream stealer!

f you strive for perfection and are so focused on that end state, it takes all the joy and magic of realizing your dreams. You're so busy beating yourself up that it's not good enough that you can't enjoy the realization of having embarked on achieving that dream. What's standing in your way of going after your dream? Do you feel it might not measure up? That you won't measure up? Join Steve and Donna in conversation about perfection and how it's not that end state you should be striving for, bu...

Jul 26, 202216 min

Are you picking your dream or someone else's for you?

If you're going to be spending most of your waking hours at work, then why not on your dream? When you're doing what you love to do, want to do, and honor that which has the most meaning to you, it's not work at all. It truly is what we call, "Living the dream" Join Donna and Steve in conversation about what that looks like and how you can choose YOUR dream!

Jul 19, 202220 min

When we blame others, we give up our power to change

If it's someone else's fault, then we don't own our contribution to what happened or desire to change to make things better in some way. Join Steve and Donna in conversation about what happens when it's everyone else's fault and how we can turn it around.

Jul 12, 202222 min

Rippling with the incredible Laurie Wagner

Laurie Wagner is a writing teacher + coach, author of 7 books, mixed-media artist, fervent collage-maker, mother of two, and one-time amateur racquetball champion. She's the author of Living Happily Ever After: Couples Talk about Long Term Love and Expectations: Women Talk about Becoming a Mother, as well as Holding the Dream – The Art of Marlene Louchheim. Learn more about Laurie and her great work - 27powers.org

Jul 05, 20221 hr 3 minSeason 7Ep. 15

Everything starts and ends with our minds; how we think, view the world and ourselves within it.

We can rationalize what we did or change things for the better. We can strive for more and always measure ourselves against people and status or we can want less and be happier. We can compare ourselves against others or against who we were yesterday and stretch and grow today. Join Donna and Steve in conversation about how we think, what serves us and what doesn't.

Jul 05, 202220 min

Are you REALLY the smartest person in the room?

You can believe that or you can approach life from a place of curiosity and inquisitiveness and then ACTUALLY be the smartest person in the room. Join Steve and Donna in conversation about what it looks like when you turn the camera back on yourself and truly look through an honest lens.

Jun 14, 202219 min

There is no self-development without self-awareness

You can read as many books or take as many courses as you want but if you're unable to read yourself, you'll never learn a thing. Join Donna and Steve in conversation about what you really need to look at in order to learn and move forward in your life and your work.

Jun 07, 202218 min

Do you act out of obligation or choice?

Do you act out of obligation because you haven't set boundaries? Have a difficult time communicating no? Do others know that when you say yes, you're doing it by choice and respect the 'Nos' more because of that? Join Donna and Steve in conversation about how we approach life from this viewpoint and, in turn, strengthen relationships at the same time.

May 31, 202218 min

How do you use your voice?

Is it to support? Advocate? Demolish someone? Be supportive? How do you want to be seen and heard? Join Donna and Steve in conversation about presence, contribution, point of view and all the other facets of what this question brings to mind.

May 17, 202220 min

How can you get curious about who you can become?

What would you like to discover about yourself? Are you pushing yourself to be a certain way, do something you always thought you should be doing? Or are you curious about what you don't know about yourself and set off on a journey to find that out?

May 10, 202218 min

Are you stuck in reverse?

Are you living life looking at what was rather than what is or what can be? So many of us rest on our laurels or lament how things in the past were so much better. Join Donna and Steve in conversation to look at when we do this and how we can (literally) turn it around.

May 03, 202220 min

How do you see the world?

How do you see the world? The world as a whole and your place within it? Everything is about interpretation. What if things weren't exactly as you initially saw them? If you make decisions, judgments and take actions based on interpretations it can get you and so many others into trouble. Join Steve and Donna in conversation about our viewpoints and how we can validate or challenge them.

Apr 26, 202218 min

What's your inner dialogue?

Are you aware of how much you criticize yourself? Are you placing limitations on what you can do because of that? Or are you embedding an idea in someone else's mind that you're sub-par? Join Donna and Steve in a conversation about how you can be your worst critic and the ramifications of it.

Apr 19, 202215 min

How do you measure success in life?

Is it by the promotion you just got? Size of your bank account? Status? Join Donna and Steve in a conversation about success and all its facets.

Apr 12, 202220 minSeason 2Ep. 15

Is it possible to think of nothing?

We are encouraged to meditate and find space in our lives to think, but how can we not think, or think of nothing? Is it possible? Join Steve and Donna in conversation about how our minds work and some tips to disconnect at a fundamental level.

Apr 05, 202222 minSeason 2Ep. 14