Sue Harvey is Founder & Principal, New Direction Strategy. Sue established New Direction Strategy to help organizations do change better. Her work builds on two decades of experience in complex organizations, deep communications expertise, a system-level perspective, and a belief in the power of a team’s innate wisdom and creativity to solve problems in unexpected ways. Over her 25-year career in business, non-profits, and government, Sue has been involved in organizational changes from ever...
Jan 14, 2021•35 min
Building on a thriving corporate career, Donna Teitelman started Impact Executive Consulting in October of 2002. She helps entrepreneurs and executives maximize business outcomes related to people, processes, and promotion. Over the years, she has worked with corporate executives to increase their promotability, and more often, entrepreneurs refining their leadership competencies as CEO. At the time when a start-up is reaching high-growth, Donna provides support on organizational development, le...
Dec 08, 2020•33 min
A respected entrepreneur and executive, Sunny drives the promotion of global brands for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device. She founded Xavier Creative House (XCH), a healthcaremarketing agency that builds BOLD and EVOCATIVE designs, pushing the edge of creativity. Sunny is the point person for helping to position brands as Powerhouses. As,CEO, she leads Operations and Client Management utilizing a wealth ofexperience gained from her roles in communications, compliance, and sales inrapid...
Oct 21, 2020•19 min
Heather Ingram is an author, consultant, trainer, designer and illustrator. She has worked with a variety of clients across multiple sectors where she has helped thousands of people, improve efficiency, be more productive, happier and creative. She recently published Applied Flow: Stop Burnout. Be Awesome. a practical guide for anyone who wants to not only survive in business but also thrive. it’s a quick accessible and occasionally witty read - with a ton of examples and modalities from game th...
Sep 25, 2020•32 min
Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio speaks about his purpose – to foster health, sanity and justice in the world. Ken helps us understand how the exercise of domination disrupts the natural balance and interconnectedness of life. Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio, LMFT, SPHR, is an award-winning leader and keynote speaker in the field of workplace mental health. He also delivers keynotes on power, bias, and inclusion in the workplace, as well as on parenting, couple relationships, and healing after loss. Ken is the autho...
Apr 21, 2020•33 min
“I want to paint. I want to paint!”. After veering away from a fine arts career path, Michael’s inner voice kept nagging at him. So, he began with a class at the Art Students League. In our conversation, Michael offers practical advice about following your inner promptings. Michael was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and was introduced to the art-making process by his two grandfathers: one was a carpenter and the other a dressmaker. They both took Michael to museums where they would draw t...
Jan 15, 2020•34 min
Intro As a creative person, Jeff Berman’s purpose is to connect with others and have a positive impact on his world. At a deeper level, his desire is to collaborate in the co-creative flow between his endeavors and the larger energies of the universe. What helps him do this? Awareness and intentionality. Take a listen. Bio Jeff Berman is a New York City-based composer, guitarist, and percussionist, with a background in ethnomusicology and a B.A. in Music from Wesleyan University. Jeff brings tog...
Dec 13, 2019•36 min
Steve Porcaro is passionate about helping leaders and teams achieve their goals through game-changing sales, marketing, and business development strategies. his clients come from a wide variety of industries, including medical device, service, and hospitality. Steve’s mission is to empower improvement and growth by providing tools, techniques and support to businesses, teams, and individuals who want to level up. Steve is an executive coach, trainer, and inspirational speaker with over 25 years ...
Nov 25, 2019•29 min
Max Thomas is an advisor to start-ups and growth companies on executive leadership, business development & sales, digital analytics, and mergers & acquisitions. Max is a serial entrepreneur who has built, sold and transitioned several companies in the fields of digital marketing, online retail, and publishing. Max is a member of the angel-investor syndicate Gaingels, a mentor at StartOut, and an advisor at ERA NYC and Innovation Norway. He holds a BA from Columbia University and an MBA f...
Oct 14, 2019•34 min
Peyton Pugmire is the founding director and owner of Creative Spirit, a center for creativity and personal transformation in Marblehead MA. Peyton first connected with his own creative spirit as a child in Georgia when he would paint, color, write, cook, dance, sing…AND mount full blown theatre productions in his family’s basement! Since then, the strength he acquired through his art has fueled his personal journey of embracing his full self. Today, Peyton strives to live as authentically and cr...
Sep 30, 2019•36 min
Wendy Wollner is the Founder and CEO of Balancing Life’s Issues (BLI). With over 25 years of experience she has built and overseen a network of over 1,500 BLI trainers who bring work/life balance programs to corporations, not-for-profit organizations, employee assistance programs, and educational institutions. BLI trainers create custom-tailored curriculum for programs that focus on topics that include: emotional intelligence, managing stress with humor and health and wellness. https://balancing...
Sep 09, 2019•29 min
Shalini Rikhi describes herself as a human being who tries to live by some basic spiritual principles that she practices each day. Shalini began her Yoga practice over 20 years ago and has lived her purpose by sharing space and the practice of Yoga with the amazing community she serves. She believes that the core of what humanity stands on includes compassion, empathy, truth, love and service.
Aug 26, 2019•33 min
Gretchen M. Michelfeld is an eclectic writer, a sheepish Mets fan, a hopeful feminist, and a proud mom. Her essays and poems have appeared in TalkSpace, The Good Men Project, Real Simple and Open Thought Vortex. A former actress and member of the comedy troupe, Lesbian Pulp-O-Rama! , she is now a playwright and screenwriter. Her feature film As Good As You is available on iTunes. gretchenmmichelfeld.com...
Aug 19, 2019•40 min
Priya Kaul brings a spunky energy and compassion to her work in talent development. Early in her career with at-risk populations in hospitals, Priya discovered her calling when she was invited to facilitate a program for aspiring leaders. Priya finds her professional rhythm in being a strategic partner and collaboratively working with teams to unlock leadership potential. Having worked globally, Priya uses her academic base in Psychology to center her work with people in their leadership develop...
Aug 12, 2019•30 min
Michelle Clayton’s story about purpose is a personal one, which has led her on a ‘scenic path’ of experiences and major milestones. Born in Dallas to an American father and Irish mother, she grew up in a bicultural family, eventually living on two continents. The dual nature of her background felt like the two sides of a coin, fostering her belief that, in order to grow and evolve, we have to recognize the merit in our challenges as much as in our successes, the melancholy as much as the happine...
Aug 05, 2019•33 min
Emily Neustadt is an Executive Coach, Leadership Consultant and Meeting Facilitator with 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies and non-profits. She helps individuals and groups have courageous conversations to create a path forward toward high performance, innovation and full team engagement. She designs and facilitates off-sites and meetings for team development. She teaches the Masterclass in Coaching at NYU’s School for Professional Studies and has been a guest lecturer at...
Jul 29, 2019•30 min
Jenn is a listener of souls. She spent twenty years as United Methodist clergy before she honed her listening skills and moved into the counseling field. She works as a therapist with adolescents in a residential treatment facility helping them through mental health and substance addiction struggles. She also sees clients in her Spiritual Direction Practice, helping people ask some fundamental questions about “Life, Love, and other Mysteries.” Underlying all of her work is a deep belief in heali...
Jul 24, 2019•33 min
Sean Harvey is currently the Chief Compassion Officer & Founder of Symponia Studios & The Compassionate Masculinity Project. His work in personal, organizational, and societal transformation is inspired by over 20 years of Talent and Organization Development consulting combined with a decade of college teaching experience at Cornell, NYU, and Baruch College CUNY in the areas Organizational Behavior and Change. Sean is contributing as a writer, speaker, and consultant to a new narrative a...
Jul 15, 2019•33 min
Maeve Callagy is a staff attorney at Part of the Solution (POTS), a non-profit organization whose mission is to be a loving community in the Bronx, which acts as a “one stop shop” for those who seek its services. At POTS, Maeve is an advocate on behalf of poor and indigent clients who are facing eviction in housing court, and with regard to benefits like food stamps and public assistance. Through her work she also advocates on behalf of clients with other governmental and charitable agencies. Ma...
Jul 08, 2019•35 min
Lesley Mazzotta is the founder and executive director of One World Girl, a nonprofit organization, working in NYC and Long Island, to empower and champion girls to reach their full potential, build leadership abilities and become changemakers in the world. For over 20 years, she has worked as a producer, educator, workshop facilitator and spiritual director, conceiving and producing unique programming, imaginative events and creative learning opportunities on Broadway, in entertainment and in re...
Jul 01, 2019•30 min
In this episode, I speak with John Steele. Though in the early stages of his professional life, John profoundly articulates his sense of purpose as the process of growing into oneself. John supports this by paying rigorous attention to his inner life, attempting to strike a balance between his desire to push forward and allowing things to unfold organically. John Steele is a founding member and senior associate at The Diversity Quotient™, a firm that seeks to empower organizations and communitie...
Jun 23, 2019•37 min
Although Kasey Bergh spent the early years of her life paralyzed by shyness, by the time she reached her twenties, she was determined make a shift. She spent the better part of the next 30 years boosting her self-awareness through therapy and reading, listening to powerful speakers and aligning herself with dynamic people. Throughout her life, Kasey has met with multiple challenges, and found unexpected delights. She faced a diagnosis of kidney disease at 28, a kidney transplant at 35 and an une...
Jun 16, 2019•30 min
Patrick Paul Garlinger is a writer on spirituality and human consciousness. He is a former professor of Spanish literature who specialized in gender and queer theory. After teaching as a professor at Northwestern University, he embarked on a career in the law. In 2009, he graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law, and began to practice law at a litigation boutique in Manhattan. In 2010, he experienced a powerful spiritual awakening that led him to his teacher, Mirabai Devi, the renowned i...
Jun 09, 2019•36 min
Deborah Madelaine - “I am a prototype.” Deborah worked for over ten years as a packaging scientist in FMCG but she somehow always knew it wasn’t her calling. She had ambitions to have a positive impact on those around her, but like many of us felt too small, paralyzed to take action. An unexpected gift provoked a journey of self-exploration that led to surprising results including a collaboration with the former prison guard of Nelson Mandela, writing a personal development book, dying her hair ...
Jun 01, 2019•24 min
