Authentic Leadership for Everyday People is the podcast where we investigate the connection between effective leadership and authenticity. If you are looking for inspiration and tips on how to become a better leader by being your true self, you are in the right place. The word authenticity is overused and can feel abstract, but when you look at its true meaning, it has a very practical and pretty clear cut application to leadership. Authentic means “the true self”. Authentic leaders clearly ...
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Jolynn Ledgerwood - Leadership In Learning and Training
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37:20Jolynn Ledgerwood is the founder of Elevate Your Talent and host of the Play for Performance podcast. When she was diagnosed with a learning disability in nursing school, she made a courageous pivot to build a thriving career in corporate learning and development, moving from hospitality to cybersecurity and eventually launching her own business. I…
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Delaney William - Building a Job Stacking Business
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50:16Today's guest is is Delaney William, the founder of Elevated Tech, a company that helps people grow their remote income through job search automation and career strategy within the framework of the controversial but increasingly relevant concept of job stacking. In our conversation, we talked about what it means to build a career — and now a compan…
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Paige Lopez - Leadership In Nutrition Science and Weight Loss
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44:05Paige Lopez, is CEO and founder of Awaken 180, a weight loss company. In our conversation, Paige shared her journey from aspiring neurosurgeon to entrepreneur, the emotional challenges of pivoting from a traditional career path, and how she built a business with intentionality and deep connection to her mission. We also explored her transition from…
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Jennifer Langton - Leading Player Safety in The NFL
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55:29Jennifer Langton is the former Senior Vice President of Health and Innovation at the NFL, where she led all initiatives to improve player safety. Her work has played a major role in reducing concussions and transforming how the NFL approaches health, safety, and performance. But Jennifer’s story starts long before. As a star lacross athlete at the …
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Eliztur Bar-Asher Siegal - Leadership in Universities, Middle East Dialogue
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47:48Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal is a professor, linguist, and leader based in Israel. In our conversation, we explored two extraordinary initiatives he is leading in response to the ongoing crisis in Israel and Gaza. The first is Humanitas, a coalition of all the humanities deans in Israel working together to reimagine the role of universities and the hum…
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Greg Larkin - Leadership In A Curated Community For Non Conventional Executives
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51:39Greg Larkin is am entrepreneur, author, and founder of the executive community Punks & Pinstripes, a curated executive community that gathers people who, as he says, are trying to climb their second mountain. Greg’s view of what defines success is a little different. And it is heavily shaped by his personal history. He found success very quickly, b…
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Ron Browning - Leading A Performance Marketing Agency
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40:49Today's guest is Ron Browning, the CEO of IntelliBright, a performance-based digital marketing agency. Ron’s career is characterized by entrepreneurship, digital innovation, and a fierce commitment to accountability. We talked about his unique journey—starting with his first business while still in grad school, diving into the early days of the dot…
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Natasha Braginsky Mounier - Leadership In Investment Management
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57:10Natasha Braginsky Mounier is currently the co-chair of Girls Are Investors, a UK charity, and is a member of several boards. Prior to that, she had a remarkable career in investment management, covering Russia and emerging markets at Capital Group, where she retired from as a partner. We talked about her unique journey. She emigrated to the US from…
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Rishad Tobaccowala is one to the visionaries in the world of marketing and advertising – he founded some of the early digital marketing agencies and has covered several C-level roles for Publicis. Today, he comes back to discuss his latest book, Rethinking Work. In our conversation, we dive into the five seismic shifts reshaping the workplace, how …
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Joseph Rainone - Leadership in a Private Equity Owned Company
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55:16Joseph Rainone is the CEO of Ubique Group, a private equity owned furniture company. Joseph has spent over 30 years working in consumer product companies, making his way from a analyst to manager all the way to CEO. In our conversation, Joseph shares invaluable insights on leadership, including his “Three H’s of Leadership” framework—Humble, Hungry…
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Dina Denham Smith - Leadership In An Emotional World
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44:01Dina Denham Smith, is an exectuive coach with an extensive background in leadership, spanning private equity, consulting, and high-growth startups, and she has a deep passion for the intersection of business and psychology. In our conversation, she shares her journey from management consulting to private equity and eventually to coaching. We also d…
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Haley Forest - Leadership, Creativity and Neuroscience
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49:38Haley Forest is a renaissance woman at the intersection of leadership, creativity, and neuroscience. Haley’s career path is anything but traditional—she spent two decades in hospitality, where she developed a deep understanding of human behavior, before transitioning into the world of innovation and business strategy. Now, as she completes her doct…
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This episode is a selection from the original 2020 interview with Rishad Tobaccowala. Rishad Tobaccowala, is an author, speaker and known as a visionary in the advertising industry. He was the founder of two of the early interactive digital agencies in the early '90, and covered several leadership positions at the Publicis Group, including Chief St…
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A couple of weeks ago, our guest was Robyn Bolton, founder of Mile Zero, an innovation consulting firm. In that episode, we focused primarily on Robyn’s career journey. Since she is publishing a book on innovation, I asked her to come back for a second episode to cover that topic, and she said yes. The book is called Unlocking Innovation, so as you…
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Suzanne Dean - Music and Wildlife Conservation
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41:55Suzanne Dean had a long career first as a musician and composer, then as a music educator, and finally as the founder of a grassroots non profit. In our conversation, we focused on the first and the last part of her career. We started with her experience as a musician and the journey to figure out exactly in which part of the industry Suzanne wante…
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Robyn Bolton - Authentic Leadership In Innovation
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37:52Robyn Bolton is the founder and Chief Navigator of Mile Zero, an innovation consulting firm. Robyn’s story is a perfect illustration of the core belief that is at the core of this podcast: if you go through the process of intentionally defining your true values and make decisions accordingly, you will not only be happier but find the right professi…
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Authentic Leadership And Branding - Dino with Jim Schleckser
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39:48Today we feature my appearance on The CEO Project Podcast, where I discussed the topics of Authentic Leadership and Branding. The host, Jim Schleckser, had been my guest on the podcast a few weeks before this session, so this conversation started from there. We talked about how I work with leaders to help them be more authentic. Specifically, we di…
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Ricardo Regalado - Leadership and Building Companies With Family
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51:32Today's guest is Ricardo Regalado, a serial builder and entrepreneur. Ricardo launched 5 companies and is a partner in a 6th. His ventures are in different industries, but his main two companies are all grounded in his deep expertise in the commercial cleaning industry. Rozalado Services, the first business he launched – a cleaning services company…
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Justin Buonomo - Leading In Personal Finance Education
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43:49Today's guest is Justin Buonomo, founder of Journey to Financial Freedom, a company specialized in personal financial education. During our conversation Justin had a very honest discussion on the trauma that he went through in his youth and then talked about some of the key experiences that shape his mindset from being a Division One college athlet…
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We celebrate the end of the year by sharing some of the NFL conversations we had in the 2024 season. First, my analysis of the leadership lessons from the fall of Bill Belichick. Then my conversation with Greg Bedard, founder of the online sport magazine Boston Sports Journal, where I asked him a few hypothetical questions. And finally, from my rec…
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In this episode Dino Cattaneo presents a selection from his previous interviews with Lily Zheng and Claudia Scott on the topic of Equity and Inclusion. Today's guest is Contact Dino at: [email protected] Websites: al4ep.com Additional Guest Links: Contact at: LinkedIn: Instagram: Twitter: Authentic Leadership For Everyday People / Dino Cattaneo Dino o…
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Marques Ogden - Leadership Lessons From the NFL
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48:00Today's guest is Marques Ogden, host of the Get Authentic With Marques podcast and inspirational keynote speaker, coach and consultant. In our conversation he shared the leadership lessons he got from a life in football: Marques played Division I football at Howard University, and was then drafted in the NFL where he played as an offensive lineman …
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Kathryn Valentine - Leading Women To Better Negotiations
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50:20Kathryn Valentine is the Founder of Worthmore Strategies, a research based firm aimed at advancing women in the workplace by partnering with companies to deliver negotiation training to women. Kathryn developed her approach to leadership in the years she spent at McKinsey and at a couple of apparel companies. In this conversation we discuss her jou…
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Christian Muntean - Leading Through Conflict
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47:07Christian Muntean is a strategic coach and consultant based in Anchorage, Alaska, who specializes in leadership transitions and business exits. Christian came into this work from a very nontraditional path. He started his career in the NGO world and specifically doing work supporting medical efforts in Africa and Kosovo. Through this work he became…
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Lily Zheng - Data and Results Driven Leadership in DEI
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57:39Lily ZHeng is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategist, Author and Practitioner. They take a very practical approach, deeply grounded in data and in creating long-term measurable results for the companies they partner with. In this conversation, Lily explains what it means to take a data driven approach to DEI. They share their focus on fosteri…
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Jim Schleckser - Mastering Leadership in the CEO Role
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52:44Jim Schleckser is founder & CEO of The CEO Project, a company that serves CEOs and high-revenue entrepreneurs. Their offering combines peer group meetings and discussions with personalized one-on-one coaching sessions led by former CEOs. We start with Jim's path to his first CEO role, and how coming up from the sales side shaped his approach. And i…
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Neta Weiner - Bridging Cultural Divides Through Art and Education
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40:36Neta Weiner is an artist and social activist based in Jaffa. He is the founder and lead singer of the Jewish-Arab hip-hop band System Ali and the artistic director of the Beit System Ali social educational movement. And right now, he is also teaching a Tufts University. System Ali is musical collective of artists of many nationalities and ethniciti…
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Patrick Heron - Leadership in Life Sciences VC
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49:31Today's guest is Patrick Heron - Managing Partner of Frazier Life Sciences, a healthcare investment firm focusing on companies developing novel therapeutics. In our conversation we covered his career, but then we dove into the hard questions: how do you build a successful partnership with a founder? As a VC, how do you balance protecting the intere…
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Maggie Olson - Leading from The Chief of Staff Spot
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52:36Maggie Olson is the Founder of Nova Chief of Staff, the first-of-its-kind destination for Chief of Staff education, certification, and development. In our conversation, we discussed her career and then dug deep into what it means to lead from the Chief of Staff spot. What are the key steps to take when you start in the role, what are the success fa…
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At the end of every episode I ask my guests their "food for the soul" - arts or other things that inspire them. In this episode I answer the question with some of my food for the soul. I start with guitars and specifically, my current favorite guitar, my Powers Electric. Then I talk about two groups of books that have influenced me - the great earl…
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Claudia Scott - Leading Inclusive Entrepreneurship
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46:41Claudia Scott, the Head of Inclusive Entrepreneurship and Director of KIVA North West Arkansas at Startup Junkie. In that role, Claudia leads the development and implementation of strategies that give access to capital and other entrepreneurial resources to underserved populations. We talked about the main challenges that these entrepreneurs face s…
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Today's guest is Damon Lembi – CEO of Learnit, published author and host of the Learn-It-All podcast. As you may guess from the name, Learnit is a learning and training company that helps organizations upskill their workforce. Through college, Damon thought he would be a professional baseball player. He was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in high-sch…
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Joanna Strober - Leading A Change In Women's Health
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33:42Joanna Strober is the CEO and founder of MIDI health, a company that provide tele health services to women in midlife. In the process, she ended up taking a leadership role not just for the company but for society as a whole, as MIDI Health does work that fills a big gap. Like many founders, Joanna had the idea to start the company when she experie…
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Victor Cho - Managing The Fourth Stakeholder - Business and Society
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41:43Victor Cho, CEO of Emovid comes back to the podcast. In our first conversation he mentioned his passion for the topic of the Fourth Stakeholder and the role of business in society. We agreed that since it was a topic we both loved, rather than discussing it in that episode we would dedicate a whole episode to it. So here he is. In the past 30 years…
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Ali Cox Olympian and Food and Agriculture Marketing Leader
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44:01Today's guest is Ali Cox, founder and CEO of Noble West, a marketing consultancy that specializes in food ingredients, agriculture and the entire agricultural ecosystem. Ali is not your typical CEO – before starting her business career, she won a world championship gold medal and an Olympic silver medal, in rowing. At the time she won it, in 2004, …
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An anthology episode including all the answers to the favorite food and drinks by guests of the podcast. Includes answers by: Anna Goldsmith Ginevra Bersani Franceschetti Jason Downie Bryan Adams Jesse Friedman Melissa Kwan Jason Thompson Whitney Hinshaw Sullivan Jeff Bender Debi Kleiman Carlos Williams Don Martelli Mosongo Moukwa Giovanni Vacchi C…
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Jesse Friedman - Open Web Innovator, Leader and Evangelist
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55:55Today's guest is Jesse Friedman, Head of WP Cloud and VP of Innovation and Partnerships at Automattic. We discuss how to build an open and creative culture when leading technology teams and the foundational practices that make Automattic so successful at remote work. Contact Dino at: [email protected] Websites: al4ep.com jesse.blog Additional Guest Li…
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John Torrens - Entrepreneur and PhD with ADHD
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40:34John Torrens is an entrepreneur, founder of two successful healthcare related businesses, and a professor of entrepreneurship at Syracuse University. What makes him unique is that he accomplished all this, including getting a PhD. in business, while having adult ADHD. In this episode, you will hear about how John adapted once he got his ADHD diagno…
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Victor Cho - Building Authentic Communication with AI
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39:16Today's guest is is Victor Cho, a tech entrepreneur, former CEO of Evite, and current CEO of Emovid, a company that uses video messaging to deliver more authentic communications at scale. Unlike many people, Victor knew from an early age that when he grew up he wanted to be the CEO of a software company. In our discussion he shared how that clarity…
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Carlos Williams - Design, Branding, and Leading a Black Owned Agency
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45:02Today we talk about branding and leadership with Carlos Williams, the founder of DBC, a creative agency that leverages data and equity to connect brands with their audiences. Carlos shares his unique perspective on leadership influenced by historical city-states. We started the conversation going way back to his experiences in elementary school, wh…
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Our guest is Bryan Adams, one of the pioneers of the employer branding discipline and the author of the book “Give and Get Employer Branding” a book that is considered the bible of the discipline. He is the founder and CEO of two companies: Ph. Creative, an agency that focuses on employer branding, and HappyDance, an enterprise career technology co…
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Giovanni Vacchi - Leading a Family Business as an External CEO
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39:11Giovanni Vacchi is the CEO of Colombini Group, a family owned company that has been one of the leaders in the Italian design and furniture sector for over 50 years. Giovanni had a variety of experiences across countries and industries, and in this conversation shares how authenticity and effective leadership are pivotal in diverse business environm…
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David West - Leading a Medical Software Startup
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39:36David West, co-founder and CEO of Proscia, shares his journey from student/researcher to founding and building a medical software company whose goal is to improve cancer diagnosis through technology. We discussed how he developed his vision of authentic leadership while building the company as he transitioned from a scientist/hands-on entrepreneur …
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4th Annual Business Jargon That Drives You Crazy - Part 2
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36:55In today's episode we revisit all the answers to the question: what is the business expression or jargon that drives you crazy. If you missed it, make sure you check out 4th Annual Business Jargon that Drives You Crazy - Part 1, which came out on Memorial Day. Here are our featured guests: Ginevra Bersani Franceschetti Jason Thompson Dr. Amanda Bla…
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Rachel Labi - Leading Financial Literacy for Youth
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38:46Rachel Labi is the co-founder of Building Financial Freedom, an organization that develops financial literacy programs for youth. As she discusses her journey from advocating for mandatory personal finance education in Indiana to founding Building Financial Freedom she builds a strong case for the necessity of systemic changes in financial educatio…
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Anthony Frasier - Self Taught Tech and Podcasting Entrepreneur
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47:53Anthony Frasier is the CEO and Founder of ABF Creative, a media company specialized in multicultural audio content for children. Starting out right after high-school, Anthony followed a unique entrepreneurial path, going from tech to educating fellow entrepreneurs to entrepreneur in residence and podcast producer. We talked about the mental resilie…
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Simon T. Bailey - Leadership and Resilience
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44:17Our guest today is Simon T Bailey, anAward-winning keynote speaker, coach, and author who spent his formative years working in the hospitality business, working for companies like Hyatt and Disney. In our conversation, we discussed Simon’s approach to leadership and developing people and his fascinating journey. Simon’s story began as the classic A…
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Kelly Campbell - Trauma Informed Leadership Development
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44:23Today's guest is Kelly Campbell, a former CEO turned Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach. She is also the author of Heal to Lead: Revolutionizing Leadership through Trauma Healing (Wiley), an inspired keynote speaker and a longtime conservationisttrained by Al Gore as a Climate Reality Leader in 2017. In this candid and raw interview, Kelly discusses …
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4th Annual Business Jargon That Drives You Crazy - Part 1
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30:58Some business expressions become so overused that they end up losing their meaning. At the end of every episode of Authentic Leadership for Everyday People I ask my guests what is the business jargon that drives them crazy. It's a question that was designed to get to know them a little better, and maybe be a little irreverent. What I learned 140 ep…
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Amy Vaughan - Leading a Professional Community of Women
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46:49Our guest today is Amy Vaughan, owner and Chief Empowerment Officer of Together Digital, a professional community whose purpose is to educate and empower women within digital and provide them with network where they can help each other succeed in digital. In our conversation Amy shares her journey from the healthcare sector to advertising to joinin…
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