PODCAST · business
Working on Purpose
by Talk 4 Podcasting
Do you want TO HELP CREATE a world where people are passionate about their work? Where INSPIRATIONAL LEADERS HELP team members REALIZE THEIR GREATNESS, and capitalism thrives while serving the highest causes? Me, too. The Working on Purpose program is a thought leadership engine that ENLIGHTENS AND INSPIRES listeners with insights from ELITE business leaders and novel subject matter experts. Together, we’re WORKING ON PURPOSE TO STEWARD the future of work and BUSINESS to elevate us all. Working on Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 6PM ET and Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww
Episodes
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Widen Your Lens: Becoming the Panoramic Leader the World Needs
Complex times demand expansive thinking. When leaders only see what's familiar and comfortable, everyone loses ground. Cornelia Choe joins Working on Purpose to share how cultivating panoramic leadership — intentionally seeking all perspectives and honoring every stakeholder — creates a powerful...
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From Cupcakes to Community: The Unexpected Inspiring Pragmatism Behind EETZ Rescue
David Stenson, a social conscious pragmatist, turned an app first built to help his daughter sell cupcakes into EETZ Rescue, a tech-driven way to connect surplus food with people and organizations that need it. His work shows how compassion, practical systems, and entrepreneurship can reduce…
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Your Client Isn’t the Devil: The Myths Keeping Account Leaders Stuck
Finding dealing with clients difficult or even impossible? Seven-time entrepreneur and author Paul Drew unpacks the deeply ingrained beliefs that drive perfectionism, burnout, people-pleasing, performative busyness, fear of criticism, resistance to AI, and the assumption that the client is always...
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Beyond the Scoreboard: The Leadership Lessons Baseball Taught Me
Many people see sports as physical conditioning and competition. Dallas Chief of Police Daniel Comeaux sees them as core preparation for life and leadership. In this inspiring discussion, he shares how baseball taught him to lead under pressure, earn trust, set standards, and steward culture.…
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The Future of Work Needs Compassion: From Extractive to Generative Organizations
A provocative conversation with Carson Kelly, who is pioneering a fascinating shift from extractive to generative organizations, bringing together neuroscience, organizational design, relational trust, and the emerging idea of the ROI of Care. We talk about why psychological safety and human...
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Unleashing Innovation at Scale: The ABCs of Leadership
Scaling innovation requires more than ideas—it demands leaders who embody what Jason Wild and his co-authors call “the ABCs”: architect, bridger, and catalyst. Architects build cultures and capabilities that enable co-creation within teams. Bridgers connect across boundaries to access external...
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The Life You Didn’t Choose: A Reckoning with Who You’ve Become
It’s crazy how “life” sneaks up on you and everyone but you is suddenly running your life. You absorb family expectations, cultural norms, and unspoken rules about who we should become. You’ve learned to contort ourselves to fit what the world rewards. Until we finally realize we’re lost. The...
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Curing the Busy Brain: From Stress-Success to Sleep, Sanity, and Purpose
Join Romie Mushtaq, MD as she unpacks the “Busy Brain”—the stress-fueled cycle behind anxiety, poor focus, and sleepless nights. Learn how her brainSHIFT microhabits help high achievers restore sleep, energy, calm, and purpose without walking away from meaningful work. She shares the personal...
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Fair Share: Making Gender Fairness a Leadership Value, Not a Program
Gender inclusion has too often been treated as an initiative to launch instead of a value to live. And something that benefits women, and not men. Brad Johnson and David Smith challenge leaders to build equitable workplaces through daily behaviors, male allyship, caregiving support, fair hiring,...
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Leading a City by Growing Its People: Inside Lancaster’s Transformation
What if the best way to serve a city is to first invest deeply in those who run it? City Manager Opal Mauldin-Jones shares how Lancaster transformed performance by strengthening its people—through ongoing learning, emotional intelligence, and bias-free hiring. The result: a more capable…
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Why Work Sucks—and How a Results-Only Work Environment Can Finally Fix It
What if the problem with work isn’t people—but the way we measure them? In this episode, future-of-work pioneer Jody Thompson makes the case for a Results-Only Work Environment, where performance replaces presenteeism, trust replaces control, and adults are treated like adults. Leaders gain…
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Friction to Fuel: Turning Team Difference Into Unstoppable Strength
Friction on your team? Conflict brewing? Before you manage around it — stop. Those differences in style, culture, and perspective might be your biggest untapped asset. Authors Susan MacKenty Brady, Stuart Kliman, and Lt. General (Ret.) Leslie Smith share six powerful actions to turn human...
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Negotiating from the Highest Self: Where Wisdom Meets Win-Win
What if your next negotiation became an expression of your highest self? Beyond tactics and techniques lies a deeper way of engaging—one that honors both your aims and the humanity of those across from you. Dr. Mehrad Nazari shares the principles of Enlightened Negotiation, a spiritually grounded...
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The Culture Ripple: Transforming Invisible Beliefs into Excellent Culture
Discover how invisible beliefs shape behavior, performance, unity, and purpose at work and beyond. Drawing from The Culture Ripple, this conversation with Steve Gandara explores how to replace limiting beliefs with liberating ones, build service-over-self cultures, foster true accountability, and...
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Enter the Mission Generation: Redefining Career, Contribution, and Calling
A new career narrative is emerging—one driven less by prestige and more by purpose. People everywhere are seeking to use their gifts in service of something larger than themselves. This episode invites you into the Mission Generation: a movement reshaping how we think about work, success, and...
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Brand with Backbone: Why Emotional Connection Drives Loyalty
What makes a brand unforgettable? Conviction. Warren Kornblum explores how standing for something meaningful sparks emotional connection, earns belief, and subtly shapes culture. Learn why values must be lived, not stated, and how great brands evolve their voice without losing their core. But...
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The Shattering Within: Facing the Man in the Mirror to Finally Come Home
Men are suffering—often in silence and alone. The cost is devastating. What happens when a man can no longer outrun himself? Every 13 minutes, a man takes his own life by suicide. For many men, midlife isn’t a crisis—it’s a reckoning. A shattering of identity, expectations, and the quiet…
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The Anti-Freedom Truth: Why Constraints Spark Breakthroughs
If you hate rules, this episode might challenge everything you believe about innovation. Rules get blamed for everything—slow progress, lack of innovation, stuck teams. But what if they’re not the problem? In this provocative episode, Sheri Jacobs reveals how boundaries, when used intentionally,...
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From Sunday Dread to Workforce Devotion: Turning Culture into Your Competitive Advantage
Every Sunday night millions of workers feel it--the piercing dread as the weekend fades away. Yep, it’s the “Sunday Scaries” as your team braces for what they must endure in the upcoming work week. But what if learning what is driving that tension and effectively responding is actually your...
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Degrees Aren’t Enough: Why Graduates Still Aren’t Job-Ready
Today’s graduates are doing everything “right”—earning degrees, building credentials—yet many still struggle to land their first job. Meanwhile, employers are searching for talent that can contribute from day one. So what’s missing? Alexandra Levit explores the widening gap between what schools...
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Stop Trying to Do Better -- It’s Not Working
Here’s a hard truth: Most leaders are focused on the wrong thing. They chase performance, tactics, and productivity—yet overlook the one factor that drives it all: who they are being. In this provocative episode, Ryan Gottfredson reveals why only about 15% of people are genuinely self-aware—and…
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Hooked, Wired, and Tired: The Hidden Cost of Constant Connection
What if the very tools meant to make life easier are actually draining you? From endless notifications to late-night scrolling, today’s technology is keeping your cortisol levels spiked—and your body stuck in stress mode. Justin Hai breaks down how this invisible cycle fuels burnout, anxiety, and...
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The Road Back to Yourself: What 40,000 Miles Can Teach You About Living Fully
Sometimes, the longest journeys are the ones that bring you home to yourself. In this heartfelt episode, entrepreneur Michael Yang shares how a 40,000-mile motorcycle journey became a moving meditation on his life—from his early years in Korea during wartime, to immigrating to the United States…
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Stop Making Parents Choose: A Smarter Way to Lead Work and Life
What if supporting new and working parents wasn’t a disruption to your business—but a strategic advantage? In today’s multi-generational workforce, leaders are being called to design workplaces where people don’t have to choose between meaningful careers and meaningful lives. Joined by Beth…
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Leading What’s Alive: The Journey to Mastering the Living Organization
Leadership isn’t just about directing outcomes—it’s about cultivating what’s alive within your organization. In this thoughtful dialogue with Norman Wolfe, we explore the next evolution of The Living Organization and what it asks of leaders willing to grow into it. This episode centers on the…
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The AI Ultimatum: Will You Replace Humans…or Rise With Them?
AI is no longer a future conversation—it’s here, and it’s forcing a reckoning. Will you use it to cut costs and commoditize talent, or to amplify human brilliance? In this episode, we unpack the real leadership challenge of AI: navigating disruption while unlocking empowerment. The winners won’t…
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Don’t Lose Yourself: Staying Strong, Sane, and Grounded in a Divided World
The world feels louder, harsher, and more divided than ever. It’s easy to get pulled into the chaos—reacting, withdrawing, or simply feeling worn down by it all. But losing yourself in the noise comes at a cost. So how do you stay clear, centered, and strong? In this episode, Dr. Ciaramicoli…
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The Curse and Gift of Being “Driven”
Only about 10% of the population are what psychologist Douglas Brackmann calls “The Driven.” They are the entrepreneurs, inventors, and elite performers who build companies, create new industries, and generate much of the world’s wealth. But their superpower comes with a shadow. Driven…
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Why Soft Skills Are Now Hard Core: The Five C’s for Team Thriving
For years, leadership conversations treated communication, empathy, and collaboration as “soft skills.” But in today’s complex workplaces, they’ve become hard core capabilities for team success. My guest Yadira Caro shares her Five C’s framework—a practical method she uses to help teams build the...
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The Heart of High Performance: The Transformative Power of Appreciation
What if the missing ingredient in your engagement strategy isn’t better rewards—but deeper appreciation? While recognition programs spotlight desired behaviors, authentic appreciation acknowledges the whole person behind the work. It carries both intention and heart. And unlike recognition, it...
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Henry David Thoreau on Business: Radical Simplicity for Complex Times
Henry David Thoreau is often remembered as a writer, environmentalist, thinker, surveyor and activist. A closer, more appreciative look also reveals his creative and eclectic thought leadership and contributions to business operations and leadership. What can we learn from the man who spent two...
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Painting New Pathways: Creativity as Medicine for Workplace Burnout
Burnout is on the rise, and traditional solutions fall short. Enter Dr. Tolia, a former medical doctor turned visual artist who now prescribes beauty and creativity for vitality. Her work shifts workplaces from tense and transactional to calm and inspiring. Together, we uncover how intentional…
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You Don’t Feel Ready—Good. That’s Where Leadership Begins
Real leadership doesn’t emerge in moments of certainty—it’s forged in ambiguity, discomfort, and self-doubt. No matter where you are on your leadership journey, you will face moments where you don’t know the answers and can’t see the road ahead. In this thoughtful conversation with leadership...
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Return to Office Mandates: A Step Forward or Backward?
Remote and hybrid work opened the door to greater autonomy, focus, and balance for millions of workers. Today, that door is closing as companies reinstate return-to-office mandates. What’s fueling this reversal, and what are leaders overlooking? In this episode, Monica Browning Mitchell unpacks…
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Another Tumultuous Era: Why Cultivating Inner Peace Is the Leadership Work of Our Time
From the Great Depression to the Information Age, and countless times before, periods of upheaval have always reshaped how we live and lead. Today’s convergence of AI, cultural disruption, and evolving workforce expectations is no different—except the pace is faster and the stakes higher. In this...
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Camelot or Corporate Mediocrity: Choose Your Leadership Legacy
If your leadership vision doesn’t feel a little audacious, it’s probably too small. In this episode, Gray McDowell and I explore why King Arthur’s Camelot remains a powerful leadership provocation in an age of disruption and distrust. Honor, quest, and excellence aren’t outdated—they’re precious...
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Upgrading the Leader Within: Why Your Vertical Development is Everything
Most leadership programs fail to deliver results because they focus on what leaders know and do. Vertical development is effective because it focuses on who leaders are becoming. Rather than downloading more skills, it elevates a leader’s mindset and ability to make sense of complexity with…
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Gen Z Isn’t the Problem—They’re the Upgrade Leadership Needs
Every generation is accused of lowering the bar. History proves the opposite. Gen Z is raising expectations around emotional intelligence, earned authority, and meaningful work—and leaders are feeling the pressure. In this episode featuring Gen Z expert Tim Elmore, we explore why resisting Gen Z...
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The Power of Teaching Through Story: Putting Fear, Change, and Diminishment on Trial
Discover how learning to share unforgettable stories can turn you into a fearless, visionary leader. Emmy-winning reporter and broadcaster Monica Pierre takes the stage in a powerful theatrical performance, putting fear, change, and diminishment “on trial.” Learn how to confront what holds you...
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Design a Life You Love: How to Use Your Life Score to Guide the Way
Most of us are sprinting through life without a dashboard—mistaking motion for progress. In this episode, Bill Zujewski shares how to design a fulfilling life using ZenScore, a self-assessment tool from his book What’s Your Life Score? You’ll learn how to measure satisfaction across 8 life…
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Leading with Excellence: The Power of Continuous Honing in Tumultuous Times
Excellence today is not achieved through one-off transformations, but through the ongoing discipline of honing. Leaders who champion this mindset foster a culture of precision, resilience, and elevated performance. By continuously refining their approach and making constant micro-adjustments…
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Your Inner Revolution: Becoming the Leader Only You Can Be
Every great movement begins with a single brave step inward. This episode invites you to discover your unique mission and align your leadership with your deepest truth. By embracing your values, amplifying your strengths, and reconnecting with your emotional depth, you can spark a revolution of...
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Getting Back Up: Cultivating the Resilience That Keeps Us Human
Machines can calculate and crunch mega loads of information in lightning speed, but they can’t yet navigate heartbreak, disappointment, or the grit it takes to stand back up when life throws a its punches. Resilience is a deeply human force—a mix of emotion, intuition, and lived wisdom. With AI...
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Widening the Aperture: Finding Freedom from the Habits That Keep Us Small
Cecily Mak joins us to reveal how dimming behaviors—like overworking, numbing, or self-soothing—quiet our inner truth. As she unpacks her own journey, she shows how facing what we avoid grants clarity, emotional depth, and renewed choice. This is your invitation to learn about reclaiming…
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When Work Becomes a Death March: One Leader’s Wake-Up Call
In today’s hustle-obsessed culture, overwork is often glorified as loyalty. For Roderick Jefferson, that mindset nearly cost him everything. After a devastating health collapse, he was forced to face the consequences of relentless drive. Now, he shares how faith, family, friends, and fun helped…
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Evolving into the Secure Leader You’re Meant to Be
Every leader carries a story that shapes how they relate, influence, and inspire. Whether you lead from security, anxiety, or avoidance, you can rewrite that story. Learn to reexamine your personal narrative, extract its wisdom, heal old scripts, and consciously reauthor your path toward…
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Why Work Isn’t Working: The 6 Overlooked Motivations Leaders Must See
Why do so many employees feel drained, unseen, or stuck at work? Often, it’s because leaders unknowingly still architect work as if everyone is driven by the same rewards. The truth? People come six distinct motivations, rooted in personal history, values, and nature itself. When organizations...
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Leading in Chaos for High Performance: Wisdom Straight from the C-Suite
Leading for high performance in today’s complex, ever-changing world takes seeking out and drawing on a wealth of guidance from experts who can help you “see around corners” you didn’t even know existed. A leader in eleven successful mergers, transformations, and reinventions himself, Ken Banta…
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The Culture Cure: Healing Toxic Workplaces from the Inside Out
Toxicity spreads silently, eroding morale, health, and performance. Marilyn Vetter, who transitioned from executive leadership in big pharma to leading a nonprofit, brings her wisdom on what it takes to identify toxicity and cure it. We’ll dive into what leaders must unlearn, why the C-suite…
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Unleashing Meaning: The Secret Fuel of Fulfilled, High-Performing Teams
In a time of unprecedented change at work—remote teams, burnout, shifting values—one timeless force continues to drive engagement and performance: meaning. In this episode, we explore how leaders can activate meaning as the powerful engine behind both fulfillment and results. Discover three key...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Do you want TO HELP CREATE a world where people are passionate about their work? Where INSPIRATIONAL LEADERS HELP team members REALIZE THEIR GREATNESS, and capitalism thrives while serving the highest causes? Me, too. The Working on Purpose program is a thought leadership engine that ENLIGHTENS AND INSPIRES listeners with insights from ELITE business leaders and novel subject matter experts. Together, we’re WORKING ON PURPOSE TO STEWARD the future of work and BUSINESS to elevate us all.
Working on Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 6PM ET and Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww
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