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Catching North Stars
by Alexis Halkovic
I created this podcast with the vision of engaging in meaningful conversation with individuals who have identified their core values and have created successful business and/or careers that are rooted firmly in those values. As a consultant and executive and leadership coach and a social psychologist, my mission is to help organizations and people align their values with both their careers and their lives. As such, Catching North Stars is a way for me to identify folks who are creating meaningful work and to share their journeys and successes with others. My goals for the podcast are: 1) to learn and share with others how deep purpose can be transformed into meaningful work; 2) to shine a light on the work of inspirational individuals; 3) to use an Organizational Psychology lens to focus on areas addressing work and workplace issues; and 4) to engage in questions about the meaning of the work and its potential impact on society. I hope the journeys of my guests will inspire you as
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Fighting the Silence: Columbine, Body-Based Healing, and the Stories We Think Are Too Small with Krista Hanley
Krista Hanley got out of Columbine High School quickly. She didn't see the worst of it, and she wasn't close friends with anyone who died. For years, she took that as proof she had no story to tell - of course, that was never the truth. I met Krista during a self-defense class I signed up for…
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The Funny Thing about Humans: How Addressing the Elephants in the Room Creates Cultures That Thrive through Major Organizational Change with Ronica Roth
Ronica Roth has elephants all over her house now, and after this conversation I have them running through my head. Ronica co-wrote Practice Makes Culture with Christine Hudson, and has spent 25 years helping leaders change culture, often sneaking it in under the label of agile adoption because...
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Be in the Room Cognitive Privacy, Childhood Development, and What We Owe Kids in the Age of AI with Timothy Cook
Timothy Cook teaches third grade in Amman, Jordan, and has taught in five countries so far. His knowledge of childhood development is grounded in working directly with 9-year-olds in the classroom as well as collecting stories from colleagues who teach children of various ages. In our…
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Fumbling the Bag: AI, Democratic Backsliding, and What Our Systems Reveal About Us with Sofia Romansky
Sofia Romansky studies AI ethics in the military domain, which sounds like a narrow specialty until she explains what that actually covers: not just autonomous weapons, but every decision-support system informing every level of a military command structure. She asks important questions about…
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Just Because We Can Build It Women's Health, the Funding Gap, and What Happens with All That Data with Dr. Rachel Miller
Rachel Miller has been thinking about the doctor-patient relationship since she was 13, when an anesthesiologist made her feel comfortable before a procedure and she decided that was the kind of physician she wanted to be. What she didn't anticipate was practicing inside healthcare enterprises…
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Things with Layers: Branded Selves, Broken Politics, and the Cost of Losing Friction with Jose Marichal
Jose Marichal has spent two decades studying what social media has done to politics — not just how campaigns use it, but what it's done to the way people relate to each other and to their own sense of political identity. In this conversation, Alexis and Jose trace a line from the early Facebook...
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Hyperadaptive and Human: Envisioning the Future of Work, Deliberately with Melissa Reeve
In this episode, I sit down with Melissa Reeve to talk about her up-coming book, Hyperadaptive: Rewiring the Enterprise to Become AI Native. We cover a lot of ground, including: how Melissa become inspired to write this book (spoiler alert - she's got a deep history with lean manufacturing…
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Riding the Sand Worm: Thriving through Tech Disruption with Crystal Street
In the first episode of our second season, we switch our attention to the elephant in the room - AI and other major tech incursions. I have subtitled this season, "Being Cyborgs," borrowing from Donna Haraway's important essay, "the Cyborg Manifesto," which speaks to this moment in ways I am sure...
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Being Alive: Transforming the physical and spiritual using art as an anchor with Nathalie Latham
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I speak with Nathalie Latham, a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work bridges art, healing, and environmental advocacy. Nathalie shares how her creative path took a profound turn after a diagnosis of advanced cancer in 2009. What began as a...
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The transformational power of adaptive skiing with Kevin Wilson
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with Kevin Wilson, Operations Manager at Ignite Adaptive Sports—the organization where I volunteer as an adaptive ski instructor. Kevin shares what it meant to return to skiing after a life-changing car accident in high school, and how that...
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Publishing and Living your Purpose with Jenn T Grace
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with Jenn T. Grace to discuss how she went from self-publishing her own books by trial and error to creating her own hybrid publishing company. She shares about how working brought her through some of her own personal challenges and the…
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Reckless Optimism: Resilience, Leadership, and the Climate Fight with Anna Kelly
In this episode of Catching North Starts, I sit down with Anna Kelly and talk about her career as a leader in the fight against climate change, specifically in the energy space. We'll hear talk about: how AI can save the world (I'm not going to spoil it here, but I guarantee it isn't what you are...
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New technologies and the profound mysteries of coaching with Sam Isaacson
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I speak with Sam Isaacson - coach, writer, and innovator in the coaching and technology space. Sam talks about his experiments with Virtual Reality and Coaching, the possibilities for democratizing coaching by using AI Chat bots, as well as the specific...
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The Power of language, metaphor, and archetypes to transform your view of yourself and the world with Mary Reynolds Thompson
In this episode, I speak with Mary Reynolds Thompson - author of The Way of the Wild Soul Woman: 5 Archetypes to Unleash Your Full Feminine Power (and other books) about her relationship with nature and the wild. We talk about how she became a facilitator of Journal and Poetry Therapy; her love…
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Perseverance and advocacy in medicine, the mountains and beyond with Dr. Linda Keyes
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down to talk with Dr. Linda Keyes who is not only an ER doc and a wilderness doc, but a researcher, world traveler, writer, and advocate for women in science. In our conversation we talk about how Linda linked together her personal and professional...
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Leadership as generosity: Jill Rosenberg Jones on Philanthropy, Purpose, and Service
Today's guest for Catching North Stars is Jill Rosenberg Jones - an inspiring leader in the financial services industry who has been called into philanthropy. As a servant-leader on Walls Street for many years, Jill has inspired many of her people to lead with empathy. She sees caring about and...
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Re-thinking Assumptions - About Others and Ourselves with Corinna Freitag, PhD
In this episode of Catching North Stars, Alexis speaks with Corinna Freitag about her journey from Chemist to Coach. Corinna's first career was in the industrial chemical and automotive industries where she studied in worked in a number of different countries. She discovered that she cared more...
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Radical Self Care for Personal Transformation with Kalia Garrido
In Catching North Stars, Alexis Halkovic interviews inspiring individuals whose core values have driven their careers. In this episode, we speak with Kalia Garrido - entrepreneur and co-founder of Hike2, creator of Healthy Women Leaders, public speaker and author of "The Well Within: Unlocking…
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Creating Joy for yourself and your community
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with coach, researcher, professor, and author Pamela Larde, PhD - aka "The Joy Whisperer" or the "Joy Researcher" to talk about how she became a coach and built her own coach training program. We also dive into her new book, "Joyfully Single: A...
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Leading with Empathy
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with psychologist, coach, CEO, and author Nadia Nagamootoo about her new book, "Beyond Discomfort: Why inclusive leadership is so hard (and what we can do about it)" which invites leaders to explore their own relationships to inclusion and…
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Embracing Emerging Technologies, Rethinking Innovation
In this episode of Catching North Stars I have a conversation with Charlie Oliver about her wide-ranging career in media and technology, starting out in film and television and moving into new media and tech as the technology - and the possibilities evolved. Charlie started Served Fresh Media in...
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Finding Happiness in Solving the Biggest, Hardest Problem:
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I speak with Susi Snyder - a Nobel Peace Prize winning, life-long activist working towards the elimination of nuclear weapons and greater possibilities for peace for all human beings. She shares about the path that lead to her following her passion to…
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Building Entrepreneurs for the Public Good in Slovenia and Beyond
In this episode of Catchng North Stars, I sit down with Matija Goljar - entrepreneur and mentor to many young entrepreneurs in Slovenia and all over the world to talk about how he became an entrepreneur and the possibilities for building the social good through entrepreneurship. We also talk…
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Raising Consciousness through Coaching:
Jazz Rasool started his career as an astrophysicist, but moved on to study neurobiology, Chinese medicine, and mind-body medicine before landing on coaching-where he brings his expansive background to bear. In February 2024, Jazz founded the AI Coaching Alliance, with hundreds of coaches and...
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Crafting with the Psychology of Relationships
On this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with Ty Tashiro and talk about his journey from academia to becoming a writer. Ty is a psychologist, writer, speaker and consultant with a particular interest in the psychology of human relationships. He is the author of 2 books - The Science of...
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Corporate Responsibility:
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with Asher Jay - artist, designer, National Geographic Explorer and founder of Henoscene - a start-up that helps environmentally-conscious organizations build transparency into their end-to-end process. Asher discusses the philosophy of her...
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From Cyborg to Patronus
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with Amber Case to have a deep conversation into the ways in which technology can be used to create protective identities, the use of Generative AI as a tool and the importance of Calm Tech. Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and serial...
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The Power of Play:
Starting out as a fine artist, Eric Zimmerman recognized that game design makes important contributions to culture and decided to make a career out of game design. With over 3 decades of designing games on numerous platforms, including Sissyfight 2000 and Diner Dash, Eric is also an educator and…
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Becoming Anti-Racist:
As her long career in the field has evolved, Kathy Obear, PhD, has made the shift from furthering diversity to advocating for anti-racism policies and perspectives and leading white accountability groups. Hear why as she shares her story of becoming an anti-racism educator, consultant and…
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Dare to Love
Many of the world’s most caring teachers have made a commitment to love every one of their students, regardless of racial background, but how does this work in practice? Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, PhD, has been exploring how racial literacy facilitates personal growth for educators and other...
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Youth Inclusion in Program Design
A Consultant, educator and a scholar, Asia Lyons, EdD works with organizations to create environments and programs in which young people of color can thrive. Dr. Asia Lyons develops onboarding systems, develops and assesses programs and curriculum, and provides coaching to organizations. in order...
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Personality Assessments for All
Self-awareness is missing in many of today’s workplaces and can make a big difference for leaders of organizations and team members. While personality assessments are an important tool to help people better understand themselves, most come at high price points. In addition, the results are…
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Entrepreneurship as UNusual:
I am Alexis Halkovic, PhD host of the Catching North Stars podcast. In this podcast, I aim to highlight the work of individuals who have identified their core values and developed careers/business rooted in those values. I have several goals: 1) to learn and share with others how deep purpose can...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I created this podcast with the vision of engaging in meaningful conversation with individuals who have identified their core values and have created successful business and/or careers that are rooted firmly in those values. As a consultant and executive and leadership coach and a social psychologist, my mission is to help organizations and people align their values with both their careers and their lives. As such, Catching North Stars is a way for me to identify folks who are creating meaningful work and to share their journeys and successes with others. My goals for the podcast are: 1) to learn and share with others how deep purpose can be transformed into meaningful work; 2) to shine a light on the work of inspirational individuals; 3) to use an Organizational Psychology lens to focus on areas addressing work and workplace issues; and 4) to engage in questions about the meaning of the work and its potential impact on society. I hope the journeys of my guests will inspire you as
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