Each and every person has their own repertoire of strengths. It’s only a matter of finding them and bringing them to light. Most of Tom Rath ’s life’s work has focused on this. Tom is a best-selling author and researcher who has spent two decades studying how we can improve human health and wellbeing. In this episode, he shares his backstory and his work with Don Clifton, as well as how they came about writing the book How Full Is Your Bucket? He also talks about his work as a senior scientist w...
Apr 01, 2020•55 min•Ep. 676
Improving yourself as an individual is challenging enough as it is. That is why it calls for a celebration when achieved. Improving and fortifying your leadership is a whole other challenge as you have other people’s lives on your shoulder. Internationally renowned business leader and New York Times bestselling author, Doug Conant , believes that creating a high trust culture is key to being a great leader. Bearing 40 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies, he talks about...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 675
In life, people are involved in sales one way or another, whether they know it or not. This is a part of everyday living that can’t be avoided. Author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller Every Job Is a Sales Job: How to Use The Art of Selling To Win At Work, and CEO of Orange Leaf Consulting , Dr. Cindy McGovern , talks about the characteristics you need to build in order to be a great salesperson. Having assisted multiple companies with their growth, she explains how sales is integrated in ou...
Mar 27, 2020•57 min•Ep. 674
You often hear people saying that it’s all about how you look at things, as with the glass half full, half empty dilemma. Shifting your perception in life can shift your direction as well as you start to see things you’ve never noticed before. Co-founder and CEO of Powerful U , James Purpura , explains his take on what perception is. Having been through traumatic events in his childhood, he discusses the effects of trauma on your self-evaluation according to who you are with your surroundings. I...
Mar 25, 2020•55 min•Ep. 673
A lot of jobs are now embracing a remote workplace, and it might not be long before education joins the fray. Online education has been around for quite a long time but has garnered bad rep over the years. In this episode, the CEO of Synergis Education , Norm Allgood, joins Dr. Diane Hamilton to change your mind by sharing the success of his company in producing top notch career changers. He talks about the online education industry’s growth and improvement over the years and how it can help in ...
Mar 23, 2020•55 min•Ep. 672
Who says reaching for your goals has to suck the life out of you? Guest, Andrew Tarvin , believes that you can still have fun while getting better results. In this interview, he talks to Dr. Diane Hamilton about the importance of humor in our daily lives. As the world’s first humor engineer and the author of Humor That Works , Andrew has been improving workplaces with an increase in productivity and creativity and a decrease in employee turnover and stress by using humor as a tool. He shares to ...
Mar 20, 2020•59 min•Ep. 671
Living our day to day lives can feel like a trial. Be it personally or professionally; we face our own set of juries whose opinions we tend to regard the most. These could be our clients, customers, or even our team members. In this episode, Dr. Diane Hamilton seeks the wisdom of Heather Hansen about understanding what our juries see and how we can use that to our advantage. A lawyer, podcast host, and bestselling author with a psychology degree, Heather has the know-how on dealing with our jury...
Mar 18, 2020•56 min•Ep. 670
Contrary to what most assume, we can find moments of reflection even in the most hectic and thrilling times. Not only in the stillness of meditation can we ponder and understand ourselves more. Extreme moments also lend themselves to make us realize what we are capable of. In this episode, Dr. Diane Hamilton speaks with Cathy O’Dowd , a motivational speaker and the first woman to climb Everest from both sides. Cathy shares with us how that adventure went and gives insight into the world of extre...
Mar 16, 2020•56 min•Ep. 669
Experiencing failure, unfortunately, is one of the most natural parts of any venture, especially business. But what you choose to do with that experience of failure – whether you recover or you continue to sink—is completely up to you. Professor Francis Greene , the Chair of Entrepreneurship at the University of Edinburgh Business School , joins Dr. Diane Hamilton to discuss how one should go about the aftermath of experiencing failure in their ventures. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, a...
Mar 13, 2020•57 min•Ep. 668
You don’t need to establish a large corporation in order to make a name for yourself. Sometimes, it’s as easy as going online and using the power of affiliate marketing. This is the business model that John Crestani did and became an expert in. John is a growth hacker known for his contributions in helping companies reach more people and sell more products through paid advertising. In this episode, John talks with Dr. Diane Hamilton to share his insight on how affiliate marketing has changed his...
Mar 11, 2020•55 min•Ep. 667
How do you create the frameworks and models to understand organizations so that you can design the change that needs to happen? That’s what Jason Korman and his team at Gapingvoid – a company that aims to make companies more human by recognizing and implementing culture change – do. Jason is a proven innovator who uses unexpected models and ways to create novel effective approaches to business creation and growth. In this episode, Jason talks with Dr. Diane Hamilton to share how he went from the...
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 666
Would you believe that your personality, even your social media one, can have an impact on your career? This is what Professor Paul X. McCarthy and his team sought to prove when they created Ribit . Professor McCarthy theorizes that a student’s personality would impact the job they would eventually get after graduating. He is an author, speaker, and technology consultant based in Australia. His book, Online Gravity: The Unseen Force Driving the Way You Live, Earn and Learn , is about the nature ...
Mar 06, 2020•55 min
The path to success is different for all of the most successful people in the world, depending on their backgrounds and their industries. But their stories have a lot more in common than you might think. Together with Dr. Diane Hamilton, acclaimed “financial genius” and author, Garrett Gunderson, gets into the commonalities that run through the stories of the world’s most successful. The paths forged by the people that have come before might just be the blueprint to your success – or at least th...
Mar 04, 2020•56 min•Ep. 664
Helping people to get to where they want to be in their life is what today’s guest has always been doing. Dr. Diane Hamilton shares the mic with Chris Patterson , a podcast host, inspirational speaker, and the CEO of Interchanges and Live Large Coaching . A digital marketing expert, he shares what he has learned from his unusual background to reach his huge level of success. He talks about how Zig Ziglar became his mental fitness coach and how Zig gave him the opportunity to be who he is today. ...
Feb 28, 2020•54 min•Ep. 662
Finding your purpose may be hard. However, when you know how to empathize without conforming to how others emote or feel, you will be able to gain your true life’s worth. Today, Dr. Diane Hamilton chats with Jacynth Ivey , a multi-award-winning transformational leader, coach, author, mentor and sought-after inspirational speaker, about her work in helping people build empathy and gain more insight towards finding their purpose. So many people get into debt and yet they keep piling it up. Today, ...
Feb 26, 2020•57 min
Whether you believe it or not, looking at the world differently can lead to success. Here to talk with Dr. Diane Hamilton about the concept of her book, The Disruption Mindset , is New York Times bestselling author, Charlene Li. Charlene talks about the importance of creating a good leadership culture while embracing the need to thrive on disruption. Teaching business leaders how to think differently is Charlene’s expertise. With her knowledge in the field, she shares how to have promising profe...
Feb 24, 2020•55 min•Ep. 660
The world is constantly changing, and it’s partly because of the constant turning of the wheel of change that so much of what actually goes on around us is hidden. The secrets of history can only truly be revealed by those who were there to bear witness. Jack O’Halloran is a former boxer, actor, and now, author of the book Family Legacy . Jack shares some gruesome historical secrets with Dr. Diane Hamilton. Throughout his life and career, Jack has witnessed a great amount of events that you will...
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 659
Confronting anxiety is something every person has to go through, but it’s very rare that it’s done in a productive way. International speaker and performance coach Alan Mallory speaks to Dr. Diane Hamilton about the subject of anxiety and the many ways it can affect your life. Alan’s story might help you find the root causes of your own anxiety and find ways to deal with it. Cannabis, as a recreational product, has experienced a boom thanks to new legislation lifting restrictions on it, especial...
Feb 19, 2020•59 min•Ep. 658
There is no exaggeration when we people say that an unhappy working environment is disruptive. It is not only demotivating to those who work but also creates bad business outcomes. On his quest to help organizations create truly great workplaces is Henry Stewart , Founder and Chief Happiness Officer of Happy Ltd . He sits with host, Diane Hamilton, to share to us how he has been doing that while also giving us the idea of how important happiness is in an organization and where the role of the ma...
Feb 17, 2020•55 min•Ep. 657
With many businesses coming out in nearly the same industries, it’s difficult to stand out without embracing the trends no matter how unconventional they seem. This is where Scott Hamilton and Terry Earthwind Nichols come in. Scott Hamilton is President & CEO of the Executive Next Practices Institute and the Managing Director of NextWORKS . In this episode, he talks about how ENPI began and what they do. He discusses the emerging trends and the three big challenges in organizations today and...
Feb 14, 2020•59 min•Ep. 656
We live in a modern world of technological advances, the education space being no exception. This is where Jaime Casap comes in. Jamie is the Global Education Evangelist at Google, Inc. Using the power and potential of the web and technology, he collaborates with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders focused on building innovation and iteration into education policies and practices. In this episode, Jamie talks about how he started in Google and how that has allowed him to enter...
Feb 12, 2020•55 min•Ep. 655
Your life’s success strongly depends on your perseverance to outgrow your misfortunes and turn them into your fuel to becoming a better person. In this episode, Dr. Diane Hamilton, chats with Danny McGhee , a freestyle soccer entrepreneur and a US Ambassador for the Prince’s Trust . Learn from Danny as he shares to you how he is marketing and differentiating freestylers from footballers in the US and UK. The medical industry is also a huge marketing industry. Here as well is the secret weapon of...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 654
Innovation is key to every company’s growth. How one business succeeds solely depends on how it is run by a leader. Today, Dr. Diane Hamilton interviews Kaihan Krippendorff about innovation and leadership. Kaihan is a strategy, innovation, and transformational keynote speaker, author, the Senior Advisor at Coplex , and the Founder of Outthinker . Join Kaihan as he talks about how they are making innovation easier for leaders and breaks down INOVATE, sharing how entrepreneurial actions and intent...
Feb 07, 2020•59 min•Ep. 653
As individuals, humans are infinitely powerful once their minds are set to it. But working as a community is a whole different ball game because there is so much to consider. Jono Bacon , the Founder of Jono Bacon Consulting , gets down to brass tacks about the importance of finding a way to work as a community, because you get to harness the power of infinity multiplied. Struggling to lead or work with a group beyond yourself? Let this be your beginning! Travel is often seen as a luxury, and in...
Feb 05, 2020•57 min•Ep. 652
So many things impact our everyday decisions, and behavioral scientists take it upon themselves to have a better understanding of this. Today, Diane Hamilton talks with Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman , a professor and vice-chair for clinical affairs at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University. With his book, The Molecule of More , he puts the focus on dopamine and how it affects us in terms of love, sex, creativity, and everything else – determining the fate ...
Feb 03, 2020•57 min•Ep. 651
Naturally, being an innovator is something that highly desired in whatever field you’re in, but innovation is not something you can just attain without doing the right work to get to that point. Being an innovator requires you to be able to work well while keeping in mind both the past and the possible future you’ve envisioned from the data you’re observing. Professor Roger Martin is a writer, strategy advisor, and is currently the #1 ranked management thinker in the world. Roger speaks to Diane...
Feb 02, 2020•57 min•Ep. 663
Technology does have some pros and cons, but innovation has brought light to its goodness. Today, Dr. Diane Hamilton chats with Mike Steep , a prominent keynote speaker and author and the Founder & Executive Director of the Disruptive Technology & Digital Cities Program at Stanford. Mike talks about the goal of their technology program and touches on innovation and how it leads to the success of any company in the world. He also explains how other companies like Apple have innovated and ...
Jan 31, 2020•55 min•Ep. 648
Projecting a message to the universe takes true grit anchored with the right skills and team. Dr. Diane Hamilton and James Sommerville share their ideas on curiosity, branding, immersion, and how all these three blends to create a winning campaign. James is the Co-Founder of the UK design firm Attik , where he was responsible for the massive redesign of Coca-Cola’s brand and visual identities. Honing his skills as a teenager, he shares how he got involved with Prince’s Trust , and offers some ad...
Jan 29, 2020•58 min•Ep. 649
Living a life of purpose gives your name a wonderful mark in this world. Today, Dr. Diane Hamilton talks to Dr. Omékongo Dibinga who is an UPstander motivational speaker, trilingual poet, TV talk show host, rapper, and professor of cross-cultural communication at American University. Dr. Dibinga shares the ordeal he went through with bullying, being suicidal, and finding hope amidst all the circumstances. Reshaping the hip-hop world and focusing on helping people find common ground in these unco...
Jan 27, 2020•58 min•Ep. 647
With the vast technological access we have today, a bigger room for experimentation opportunities has opened up. Talking about the great and exciting things in the world of technology and bringing that information through his educational programs is Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education at MIT Sloan School of Management, Dr. Peter Hirst . In this episode, Dr. Hirst shares with Dr. Diane Hamilton his journey from London to MIT along with the latest about artificial intelligence and access...
Jan 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 646
