Mind&Body@Work

If you are interested in exploring how you can overcome barriers and absolutely achieve your life goals, check out our next Introductory Course offering here.Episode 27 is our final and summary Episode for our Season 2 which has been an exploration into how Gen Z is doing, entering the workforce as well as what they can do to thrive, and what organizations can do to help them thrive.  Many of the key lessons from Season 2 are touched on in this Episode.  Of course to get the full context of each lesson, you’ll want to go back and listen to individual Season 2 shows. Season 2 also included a number of Episodes of Timm and Amanda sharing key distinctions from their Embodied Leadership curriculum, and how they apply in general and specifically to Gen Z entering the workforce.  We hope you’ve enjoyed Season 2 as much as we’ve enjoyed producing it!Hashtags:#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #leadershipmatters #connectedwork #embodied practice #embodiedlearning

If you are interested in exploring how you can overcome barriers and absolutely achieve your life goals, check out our next Introductory Course offering here.In this Episode, Amanda and Timm share some of the specific benefits of embodiment training.  In general, embodied leadership is about discovering how you are holding yourself back from being your happiest, most effective self at work and in life.Timm and Amanda share the ways that embodied leadership has helped them personally, as well as how their former students have been impacted.Some of the ways we hear students talk about the benefits of embodied learning and embodied leadership:Building Self-confidence and Personal PowerAddressing nagging dissatisfactions in life and workBuilding resilience for stressful timesStaying calm in tense situationsLearning not to create stress for yourselfOvercoming feelings of overwhelm and anxiety.#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #leadershipmatters #connectedwork #embodied practice #embodiedlearning

If you are interested in exploring how you can overcome barriers and absolutely achieve your life goals, check out our next Introductory Course offering here.In this Episode, Amanda and Timm talk about the important role of embodiment in resilience, our capacity to bounce back.This may be a relatively challenging and stressful time to be entering the workforce for the first time.  There will be challenges and disappointments, and resilience is about accepting this and preparing ourselves to bounce back strong.Timm and Amanda share examples of then they’ve needed to be resilient and how that played out.  We also provide some tips for working through any stressful situation.  And importantly, we give a reminder that while techniques for stressful times can be very helpful, they will be most helpful, and you are most likely to tap into them, when you are already in an ongoing embodied practice.Hashtags:#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork #Resilience #Embodied Practice

If you are interested in exploring how you can overcome barriers and absolutely achieve your life goals, check out our next Introductory Course offering here.In this Episode, Amanda and Timm discuss body language.  The science and practice of embodiment show us how important our body is to how we feel and how we show up to others. But whether you are conscious of your embodiment or not, your body is playing a big role and how people listen to and hear you.We discuss some of the many ways that you can deliberately alter your body language to come across effectively and to build trust with others. One of the ways we teach these distinctions in our courses is through an exercise called Open, Present and Connected. Are you conscious of whether or not you are connecting every time you are in a conversation?We share some personal stories of making these distinctions and also provide some tips about how young professionals, and really anybody,  can produce more effective body language every day.Hashtags:#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork #bodyLanguage

If you are interested in exploring how you can overcome barriers and absolutely achieve your life goals, check out our next Introductory Course offering here.Our guest for today’s show is Dr. Chloe Carmichael - aka Dr. Chloe.  She is a Clinical Psychologist, and an author, who works with high powered individuals. Her books are widely used by professionals aiming to foster resilience and improve honest dialogue, even where fear or self-censorship exists. Her work is endorsed by esteemed voices like Dr. Drew Pinsky and Dr. Phil McGraw, and she’s an Advisory Board member for Women’s Health Magazine.In our delightful conversation with Dr. Chloe, we get her insights on how young professionals (Gen Z) can improve their chances in the workplace by being able to show up authentically and open to conversations with others,even on topics where they may disagree.Dr. Chloe explains the science behind breathing and talking and goes on to provide insights to how our behaviors are often predisposed by stories we have about how the world works and our place in it.  She describes how we can use this insight to adapt to all different environments and conversations.www.drchloe.com#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork #CancelCulture #SafeSpaces #Neural Regulation

If you are interested in exploring how you can overcome barriers and absolutely achieve your life goals, check out our next Introductory Course offering here.In this Episode, Amanda and Timm explain how and why they use Chinese Symbols - Ideograms - into their Leader Lab course.  Specifically, we describe 3 different symbols along with their relevance to showing up as your best self, best leader. The episode discusses how symbols have been used for millenia to get across meaning in a way that words and concepts often cannot.  We describe how we connect these symbols to embodied practice and give an example of a symbol that we think is especially helpful for young professionals entering the workforce in these challenging and uncertain times.#ChineseSymbols, #Ideograms, #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork 

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenzOur guest is Cameron Santiago.   Cameron is Director of Career Advisor Planning for a Fortune 90 financial services firm where he helps grow and develop financial advisors and their businesses. He has  5 years of experience in finance, and a bachelor's in management & leadership. Cameron has the title and responsibilities of an experienced manager/advisor, but in fact, he is new Gen Z professional.  Cameron attributes his fast start partly to his approach of starting at a community college and getting banking experience at the same time.As an advisor to people that are usually older and more experienced than he is, Cameron has learned and shares his secrets for building trust and influence with other people at work which include verbal and nonverbal behaviors. Cameron has been at the same company for 3.5 years and still going, and he describes several of the things the company and his coworkers do that make it worthwhile to stay and keep contributing.   He also describes some things that still create some frustration in the workplace, which other leaders can use to assess how they are doing at helping Gen Z stay and thrive.#Hybridworkenvironment, #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork 

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenzIn this episode, Timm and Amanda are describing what Tai Chi is and how and why they have made it central to their Embodied Training curriculum. While Tai Chi has inherent overall health and well-being benefits for anyone who practices it, by creating awareness of our mind and body connection, it is also a fantastic part of our toolset for becoming a better leader of your own life and of others in the workplace.   This Episode gives concrete examples of how that works.Given that this season is all about helping young workers thrive in the workforce, we also discuss how Tai Chi can help with challenges that are specific to entering the workforce for the first time.  Of course it is one thing to talk about using Tai Chi as an embodied practice, it is another to put it into practice.  Consider contacting us, through the link above, to learn how the Leader Lab can help you do that.#TaiChi, #EmbodimentTraining #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork 

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenzOur guest for this Episode is Ellen Raim,  author of the book “Play the Game: Insider Strategies to Thrive in Your Early Career Without Compromising Ambition, Values or Wellbeing.  She is the Principle of People Matter, where she advises young professionals entering or having recently entered the workforce.  Ellen was previously a C-suite HR Executive and her background is in law, behavioral economics and organizational design.Ellen tells how advising her Gen Z daughter led to interest from her daughter’s friends and how eventually she realized there was a need for specialists in this area. We learn a lot about why this Generation Gap is getting so much attention.  Why is the gap between today’s young professionals and the organizations they are hiring into so different?  It has to do with how we are all raised, it turns out there have been really big differences in raising children these last 25 years.  When you empathize with these differences, Gen  Z behaviors make a lot more sense.Ellen provides excellent advice (much of it from her book) on how young professionals need to approach getting a job that will really light them up.  She also helps us all understand what it is going to take for us all to bridge this current generation gap.Equally important, Ellen has advice for the leaders of today’s organizations.  In a nutshell, they are missing an opportunity if they fail to invest in making sure this incoming generation of workers can thrive in their organizations.#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork 

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenzThis is the fifth and final episode in our series on SELPH as an acronym for what it means to be human.  The H in SELPH reminds us that we are all Historical beings.  This means that the stories we form about how the world works as we are growing up continue to shape how we show up as adults.  But we are not slaves to this history.  Embodiment training will help you move beyond limiting stories and show up in a way that better serves what you hope to accomplish in the world.Timm and Amanda provide examples of limiting stories from their personal experiences and discuss the importance of becoming aware of how they hold us back.The current cohort of young professionals entering the workforce are showing up in ways that are predictable based on some key events in their relatively short lives. Embodiment training can help them see where their history helps and hinders, but it is important for leaders in organizations to have curiosity about what is shaping Gen Z behaviors as well.#Storiesweliveby, #FactandStory, #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork 

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.Our guest today, Nick Cawthon is a veteran UX Designer, Researcher and Strategist based in the Silicon Valley area.  We asked Nick in to talk to us about how the User Experience industry is integrating Gen Z and how Gen Z, being the first native users of handhelds,  is impacting User Interfaces.Nick is Principle of Guage Consultancy and Adjunct Professor in the Data Laboratory in the Design Strategy MBA program at the California College of the Arts.  He is an organizer for the Interaction Designer Association and Customer Experience Association San Francisco Chapters and does a lot of invited talks at places like Xerox PARC, Google, HeavyBit, PeopleNerds and many others.Nick shares the story of how drawing and design ignited his passion and then the journey of growing from designer to strategic advisor in many different industries.As a technologist, Nick provides some very interesting and unique perspectives on AI, how it can help, how it can hinder and even a general attitude that is more productive than viewing it as one or the other. Nick invites Gen Z to strap on the “jetpack” of AI and use it to show how efficient and effective today’s young professionals can be.

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.In this Episode, Timm and Amanda continue to share Bob Dunham’s SELPH acronym that describes the elements we all embody as human beings. In this episode we hone in on the element of “Practice”.We describe 3 ways we use “practice” in our embodied training curriculum.  First there are practices that developed during our formative years that was may not be very aware of but are part of the way we show up. We also discuss how our courses help you deliberately develop new practices in line with your cares and goals.  And finally we discuss the idea of being in practice to develop new capacities in your mind and body that you can use when you need them in daily life and work.

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. Today’s guest, Olaolu Ogunyemi, is a U.S. Marine Officer,award-winning author, leadership mentor, and the founder of Parent-Child-Connect.Olaolu equips parents, teachers, and aspiring leaders to raise confident kids,lead with integrity, and leave a legacy that outlives them. And lately he issharing his wisdom with lots of young people entering the workforce.  His new book,Lead Last, is a bold callto servant leadership in a world obsessed with the spotlight. More than any other guest we’ve had, Olaolu provides greatinsights into how the armed forces are responding, and in some cases adapting,to the entry of Gen Z. Olaolu begins by sharing his unique way of helping peopleunderstand the differences between how people have been raised in differentgenerations.  His question of what isyour favorite Disney movie really gets the point across. He also shares how Gen Z is showing up differently fromprevious generations in the workplace, including clear strengths such astechnology, autonomy and collaboration, as well as advice for howorganizational leaders can encourage Gen Z rather than alienating them, basedon his experiences in the Marine Corps. Thorughout this episode, Olaolu shares how his ownexperiences growing up  have informed hisadvice for others and has inspired him to reach out to children and adultsthrough writing children’s books. #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #usmarinecorps#leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters#connectedwork #booksforchildren #parenting

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.In this episode, Timm and Amanda continue their series onthe SELPH with a discussion about how all human beings are Linguistic beings.Linguistic philosopher John Austin explained how somelanguage does not just describe the world but actually changes the world whenit is spoken.  Anyone who is married canprobably relate to how this occurs when someone with the proper authority says“You are now man and wife”. One example of this performative language isassessments.  Human beings all makeassessments all the time.  But some of uslet the assessments of others, and even our assessments of ourselves, give awayour power to create a good life. Assessments only have that power if we let them. Another example of performative language are the commitmentswe make to others and the declarations we make about our futures.  Both commitments and declarations can play apowerful role in how we lead our lives and how we lead others to bring aboutthe futures we care about. Gen Z has some heavy assessments about their future, andthis is what is behind some of their work behaviors that can be difficult tounderstand.  Both Gen Z and theorganizations they work in can use language to increase awareness and then actpositively on concerns about the future as well as shaping the future wedesire. #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #speechacts#leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters#connectedwork #performativelanguage #powerofassessments

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.Our guest is Russel Von Brocklen – The DyslexiaProfessor.  Russel is best known forhelping neurodiverse students drastically improve their school performance – turningtheir neurodiversity into their superpower. He is the creator of the Special First Literacy Blueprint and Word AnalysisFirst tools, funded by the New York state legislature.  In our show, Russel describes the role of AIin his methods and explains how the school hacks he has developed can be usedto make a huge positive impression in the workplace.  And this is going to be key as AI expands andentry level employees will only survive by making a strong impression. Russel shares his story of growing up with dyslexia and aparticular incident that caused him to declare he was going to find a way touse his dyslexia to succeed.  It is themethods he developed for other dyslexic students that led to hisrecommendations for entering the AI enabled workplace.Russel points out that the strength he sees in neurodiversekids, both Gen Z and younger, is that they have areas of specialty and interestwhere they are very strong.  And hediscusses strategies he has developed to help anyone use their area of specialtyto solve high leveraged work problems.Specifically for Gen Z entering the workforce, Russel arguesthat you are not just competing with your peers, you are competing with powerful,efficient and inexpensive AI tools.  Hisadvice is to learn to utilize these tools to solve problems that will boostyour reputation and keep you in demand. Russel takes us step by step through how he works with people to usethese tools both to succeed in school and to succeed in the workplace.Resources that Russel refers to as integral to his methodsinclude: The Craft of Research, Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz,  Strategies for Struggling Writers by JamesCollins. #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #neurodiversity#dyslexia #AI #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor#development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace#Leadershipmatters #connectedwork

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. In this episode, Amanda and Timm continue their series onBob Dunham’s SELPH acronym that reminds us of the key elements of beinghuman.  The E in SELPH reminds us that weare all Emotional beings.  All of us get triggered by emotions. This is part of ournervous system that has evolved to help us shift bodily and mentally to dealwith threats and other things that show up in our environment. Emotions tend to run their course through our body in arelatively short period of time. However, they can also trigger moods that linger in our bodies.  The key distinction between emotions andmoods is that we have a choice in how we react to our moods – we can always bechoosing the mood we want to get back to.  We distinguish between opening and closing moods.  Closing moods keep us bogged down inemotional events and the negative stories we have about them.  Opening moods help us move on and centerourselves back into what we really care about.  Moods are contagious. Being aware of our moods and being able to shift into opening moods isan embodied practice.  One of the manyembodied practices we teach at East Valley Leader Lab.#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #emotionsandmoods#openingmoods#leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor#development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace#Leadershipmatters#connectedwork #taichi

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. Our Season 1 guest, David Baxter, returns with one of hisGen Z staff members at Bean Chain Coffee, Angel Garretson.  In Season 1, David and his wife and partner Shannon, talked about their unique worker-directed organization model, designed to assist any organization that wants to move towards the worker cooperative model. In this episode, we’ll hear some more about the purpose and charter of Bean Chain, but our focus will be on Angel’s experience entering the workforce first in a more conventional job, and then at Bean Chain where she is a barrista, but also has the opportunity to take on bigger Bean Chain responsibilities like managing Bean Chain social media. Angel shares how her experiences at Bean Chain compare to earlier experiences at more traditional jobs. She talks about her relationship with her Owner/bosses.  Both David and Angle provide their perspectives on unique worker directed practices like solution seeking vs traditional top down feedback.  Bean Chain seems to create a deep employee loyalty with these practices.#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #WorkerDirectedOrganizations#WorkerCooperatives#leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor#development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace#LeadershipMatters#ConnectedWork #Tai Chi

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. In this episode, Amanda and Timm begin a series of discussionsabout how we are all: Somatic, Emotional, Linguistic, Practicing and Historicalbeings – the SELPH acronym created by Bob Dunham.  If we fail to recognize that these are allkey aspects of being human, we miss out on opportunities to lead others and tolead our own good life. This episode is mostly about what it means to be somaticbeings.Somatics is the recognition that we are always operating asboth a brain and a body.  We navigate theworld not just as a central nervous system but as a nervous system that isspread throughout our body. We make reference to author and researcher Amanda Blake, whowrites about the physiology of embodiment in her book Your Body is Your Brain(2018).   We also refer back to the Anatomyof Action which was the focus of Episode 4.#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #Somaticpractice#leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor#development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace#LeadershipMatters#ConnectedWork #Tai Chi

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ In this episode, Timm and Amanda have a conversation aboutmanaging our personal energy.  The energyyou bring to any situation is a factor in whether or not you bring about theresults you desire.  This conversation isabout using Oak and Willow as a metaphor for two distinct ways that people canchoose to show up in conversations about work or anything else. Without any training to increase awareness, managing ourenergy tends to be something that comes slowly as  young adults mature.  Given our intention of helping Gen Z thrivein the workplace, we explain how we can speed up young people’s awareness ofthe energy they are bringing and how to manage that energy to be as effectiveas possible. Since our podcasts are both audio and video, weend this episode with Amanda demonstrating the short Tai Chi form that inspiresour lessons about Oak and Willow.  Wesometimes use elements of this form in our courses to increase awareness aboutthis key distinction.#Tai Chi #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #IntegrateGenZ #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters#ConnectedWork

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, vist www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.Our guest, Rachel Hanson, is a collaborative educator andmultimedia content creator with a strong foundation in higher education and apassion for student-centered teaching.  She is currently in middlemanagement at a public university, and part of her responsibility is hiring andmanaging young workers (often times students) at the college.Rachel points out how economic and cultural factors (e.g.changing gender roles and expectations) create big challenges for everyone intoday’s workforce. One of the things Rachel has noticed from her own experiencehiring and managing young people entering the workforce today is that onaverage, they are quicker than previous generations at identifying when theirneeds are not being met and speaking out or even making a shift (to a neworganization) if they feel the need.  She notes that it is easy to mistakethis for a lack of loyalty to the organization, but she sees it as healthy,self-compassionate behavior, especially if management is not responding toissues when they are communicated to them. Rachel likes to view her workers in the context of what’sbeen going on in the world as they grew up.  And while there has been alot of turmoil while Gen Z grew up, in other ways, the workplace today hasadvantages that didn’t exist for earlier generations.  She emphasizes,managers shouldn’t ever try and make their young employees feel guilty becausesome things have gotten easier.  Among other things, Rachel also pointsout that while younger workers come in with native digital skills, managersshouldn’t assume that they have the same analog skills as older generations.#embodiedleadership #genderroles #EVLeaderLab #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters#ConnectedWork

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaerlab.com/integrateGenZIn this episode, Amanda and Timm share how the ancient internal martial art of Tai Chi is used in embodiment training which can be very beneficial for leading at work and in your life.We'll discuss where Tai Chi comes from and what makes it ideal for embodiement training.  We'll give examples of how Tai Chi can be a vehicle for being more aware of how you are showing up in life and work and learning important distinctions that can be put into practice.Because this season is about helping Gen Z thrive at work, we'll also discuss some specific ways that embodiement training can support young workers thrive in the workforce.  Because Gen z will soon  be making up over a third of the workforce and 10% of our managers, it is important to everyone that they  thrive and succeed.#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership#leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters#ConnectedWork #Tai Chi

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZOur guests in this episode have chosen to use theirinfluencer identities - Ruby and Zatare (or just Z).  Ruby and Z are in a relationship and they actually met through their respective influencer channels.  Both Ruby and Z entered the workforce as young adults and both of them have chosen to focus on charting their own course rather than seeking a career through employers.Be patient in learning about Ruby and Z’s background and experience, because interspersed are some of the key cultural and philosophical issues.  We learn how Ruby and Z see the tradeoffs that Gen Z workers will be making as they decide to how to shape their path to making a living and living a good life.For example, one insight is that while doing your own thing provides much greater flexibility, it comes with the constraint and pressures of still needing to make a living.  Ruby shared that she prefers self-employment because there are days when for health reasons she physically cannot accomplish all of her typical tasks but she can stay engaged in her work goals while taking care of her health needs.  In contrast, in a typical employment setting, she’d either have to buck it up and neglect her health, or call in sick and not contribute or get paid at all.The interview also touches on: what Gen Z workers aspire to and what they believe is possible, what is behind the rise in do it yourself, crafts and trade, how Ruby and Z view leaders and leadership opportunities, as well as is Gen Z feeling lonelier than previous generations? And much more.#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork #GenZInfluencers

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfullyintegrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.Our guest, John Scudder is a native Arizonan whoworks as a human resources manager in the public school system. Hepreviously served as an elementary and middle school principal, and he taughtfor 10 years prior to that.  One of John’scurrent responsibilities is hiring new public school teachers into his district.In this show we explore how the current demands andchallenges for teachers and how new young teachers just entering the schoolsystem are managing those demands.  Johnexplains why now more than ever, we need these young teachers to succeed andthrive.John references the 3 primary motivations of workers(purpose, autonomy and mastery) by Daniel Pink , and “The Art of Science andTeaching by Robert J. Marzano as he explains what he thinks it is going to taketo keep young teachers in the profession and the roles that schooladministrators need to play to facilitate desired result.#genzworkforce, #publicschoolteachers, #EVLeaderLab #LeaderLabAZ #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.This is one of this season’s short episodes where Timm andAmanda discuss ways that we help Gen Z integrate and thrive in the workplace inour embodiment curriculum.In this episode, we discuss the Anatomy of Action, afundamental framework for understanding where results come from.  The Leader Lab adopted this framework, withpermission, from Bob Dunham of the Institute for Generative Learning. The Anatomy of Action explains how the resultsorganization’s desire are connected to the deeply engrained cares of theiremployees.  We also discuss how theAnatomy can be applied to help Gen Z thrive in the workplace, and why this isimportant to all of us.#genzworkforce. #embodiment, #Leadership, #GenZ, #EVLeaderLab, #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab/integrateGenZ.Our guest, Jorge Sanchez is Senior Programs Manager at Aliento, where he oversees daily operations, staff professional development, and ensures compliance with grants and programmatic requirements.  He is also the direct supervisor of Guadalupe Reynoso Jiminez who was our guest in Episode 2.Jorge explains how, like Guadalupe, most of his team of Project Coordinators are Gen Z and they come in through Aliento's client base of "Dreamer" kids and their families. It is sort of a built in workforce development pipeline that gets their Gen Z employees off to a great start.Jorge cautions other organizations and mangers that keeping the same standards as they always have for promotional opportunities (e.g. need 10 yrs of experience to move up) is missing an opportunity because this generation picks things up and adapts so fast.  He also highlights the importance of focusing on soft skills development with young new workers. They set professional standards for communicating and showing up on time as part of their basic employee development which, as we could see in our interview with Guadalupe pays dividends in how they show up to customers and everywhere else.And, as successful as Aliento is at developing new young workers, he does share some of the challenges they've found managing this generation and how they use "full reflective practices" and other techniques to help their younng workers thrive.To learn more about Aliento, view or listen to Season 1, Episode 2 of Mind & Body@Work for an interview with their Executive Director.#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork #dreamers, #defendDACA

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.Our guest, Guadalupe Reynoso Jiminez, is Leadership Development Coordinatorat Aliento, where she supervises their Arizona’s Future Fellowshipprogram.  Aliento is a non-profit thatprovides advocacy for, and support to, students as well as undocumented,dacamented and mixed status families. Lupe is also a product of Aliento and the first university graduate inher family.Lupe is an example of someone who sought out and has foundwork aligned with her purpose. She believes Gen Z in general feels moreempowered to find fulfilling work – not just get a job.  That being said, she also feels like theenvironment is making it tougher to feel economically sound enough to do that.Lupe relates that she has found it important for employersto be a little flexible in how they expect the new generation to carry outtasks and meet the stated goals rather than training them to do everything theway it has always been done.Lupe is so well spoken and competent that we were surprisedwhen she told us that her biggest challenge in entering the workforce has beenfighting back internal fear and self doubt. And our audience may be surprised to learn what Lupe says she and herfriends talk about when they aren’t working.In an upcoming episode, we’ll be having a conversation withLupe’s direct supervisor at Aliento.#genzworkforce, #dreamers, #defendDACA, #EVLeaderLab  #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ. Timm and Amanda introduce Mind & Body@Work’s SecondSeason – “Helping Gen Z Thrive in the Workplace”.  This season we will be talking to youngpeople entering the workforce as well as some of the people who hire and manageGen Z employees.  In shorter episodes, betweenguest episodes, Timm and Amanda will discuss some of the ways they use embodimentpractices to increase well-being and leadership in their Leader Lab courses. It is in all of our interests that the latest generationthrive in the workforce.  Come see whatSeason 2 is about!#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being).Our guests are David and Shannon Baxter, Founders of Beanchain, which is both a coffee shop and a long term plan to improve the lives of workers.David and Shannon have an operating coffee shop and community hub in Mesa Arizona.  But their vision is much bigger.  David suffered from poverty as a teenager and young adult and he is committed creating opportunities so others can achieve financial well-being and without having to experience that suffering.  Shannon also shares her dream of helping people and animals through horse therapies and other methods. The current Beanchain store is intended to test a template for worker directed businesses (which can be an interim step to a worker owned cooperative), where centralized services are automated and run through a non profit so that there is more profit to share among the workers as they learn to become the decision makers and direct the business. The next phase they envision is attracting other existing businesses to this model and providing the roadmap for transitioning from privately owned and directed to the Beanchain model. The model can apply to any business, not just coffee shops.If you are local, come see the atmosphere David and Shannon have created in the center on the NE corner of Alma School and Southern in Mesa, along with their variety of food and drink offerings (e.g. amazing cinnamon roles!). If not, you can learn more about their model and plans online and on social media platforms at bchain.coffee.  David mentioned you can also learn a lot of about worker cooperatives at disco.coop and recommends “Care for Capitalism: Democracy at Work” y Richard Wolf and “Manufacturing Consent” by Noam Chomsky#mind&body@work, #embodiedleadership, #wagetheft, #beanchain, #workerownedcooperatives

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). Our guest Jacob Talbot is Managing Partner of “SixthDivision” and a grief counselor, along with being a husband, father, author and hobbyist.SixthDivision helps small businesses succeed, by helping them master marketing tools and other elements key to business success, AND a good life.  Their technical expertise creates an opportunity to do some sophisticated leadership coaching, measured at least partially by improvements in their clients revenues.We learned what some of this coaching could look like as Jacob described how his organization operates.  How they hire and onboard people to ensure they won’t have to fire anyone.  How they take care of each other whenever someone is dealing with health or other distracting issues. How they operate on trust and have a simple set of values that they help each other really live by.  Not to mention a lot of fun “shiny” benefits they share with their employees (e.g. massage Fridays!).Jacob’s leadership and coaching are informed by his other vocation of grief recovery counselor.  And his story of how he got into this and how he works with his clients leads to another of his big ideas - “The Giver Method”, which is about developing your gifts into superpowers and offering them to others without asking for anything in return (because the Univers will always pay you back).  Jacob’s book of that title will be coming out soon. You can learn more about Jacob and his passions at SixthDivision.com, AZGriefREcovery.com, TheGiverMethod.com and you will also likely find him by searching “Jake the Comic”.

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). Our guest, Bob Dunham, is Founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership and developer of the discipline of Generative Leadership IGL is an international organization with hubs on 4 Continents. Bob has led the organization since 1993, teaching intensive multi-year courses on Leadership and Coaching in organizations, as well as consulting with companies around the world.Bob co-authored The Innovator’s Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation (with Peter J. Denning), and most recently "The Power of Owning Up" (with Sameer Dua).Bob provides a great summary of what is meant by generative leadership, how it begins with a full understanding of action in the world, and how it is a "full body contact sport."  He describes individual and organizational success stories where people discovered blindspots and used them as portals to greater possibilities for themselves and others.Bob shares a powerful acronym to remember about who we are - SELPH.  We are all Somatic, Emotional, Linguistic, Practicing, Historical beings, and effective leadership and the good life require attending to all these aspects.  Bob explains that in order to have personal and organizational well-being, and enabling others to be healthy, we need healthy conversations, healthy connection, and healthy listening skills.To learn more about Generative Leadership and IGL, go to https://generateleadership.com/,  or pick up Bob’s most recent book, The Power of Owning Up.

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being).Our guest Jude Tarris is the President of Valley of the Sun Homecare.  Jude tells the story of how he unexpectedly entered this industry, the early days of his personal caregiving and how that evolved into a successful and still very rewarding enterprise.  Jude helps us discover what caregiving for the elderly can teach us about well-being and dignity anywhere, including the workplace.  He also discusses the impact that caregiving can have on workplace productivity.More information and the services Jude’s company provide can be found at www.valleyofthesunhomecare.com#mind&body@work, #embodiedleadership , #caregiverstress , #eldercare

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). Our guest, Heidi Wayment is a Regents’ Professor at Northern Arizona University. She earned her PhD in social psychology at UCLA and joined the faculty at Northern Arizona University in 1996. A successful teacher and scholar, she is named Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Association of Psychological Science and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.Heidi and her colleague, _____, coined the term Quiet Ego to describe the leadership stance of living from your values for the benefit of yourself AND others.  To paraphrase, it is not about holding back, but simply supporting and making room for those around you to thrive as well. One of their key findings has been that most people understand and have the capacity to take action from this stance, but that it seems we could all also help from reminders - cues to interrupt the tendency to fall back into egotistical or self-protecting thoughts and behaviors (why me, this isn’t fair, etc.).The conversation also dips into many related topics such as how we can measure the physiological benefits of a quiet ego and where does wisdom come from?To learn more about the Quiet Ego, Heidi recommends this article https://bit.ly/3W5b7LP or simply Googling the Quiet Ego, also her book collection of articles on the topic - Transcending Self-Interest:Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego, co-edited with Jack J. Bauer.#mind&body@work, #embodiedleadership, #wellbeingatwork, #quietego

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). In this Episode, George Wittemyer, elephant researcher shares what he’s learned about elephant leadership styles and how the matriarch guides her herd through risky situations.George considers elephants as very similar to humans in their intelligence and the importance of their social structures.  As many herd leaders have been impacted by human poaching, George describes how the survivors repair the fabric of their intricate and important social networks (maybe some things we humans could learn from this?)   George is a Professor of Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, specializing in determining how landscape, humans, and climate  - impact demography, distribution, behavior and movement of at risk wildlife populations – specifically elephants. George’s team works to actively translate research into policy actions and apply them globally.  He is the Chair of the Scientific Board of Save the Elephants and on IUCN’s African Elephants Specialist Group.To learn more about George and his research, and/or to contribute to efforts to conserve these amazing beings, go to SavetheElephants.org.  And George reminds us, think about the impact of consuming wildlife products (like ivory or pangolin scales, etc.) before you act!

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). Our guest, Chris Cassilas gave up the lifestyle and big bucks of Silicon Valley start-ups to return to his small home mining town in Arizona and see if he could help make it a better place. He started a non-profit called Regenerating Sonora (a reference to the Sonoran desert where his town resides) and is working with others in his local community to focus on the well-being of the town, the people in it and the environment they all live in.  Chris explains where his place-based philosophy comes from and provides numerous excellent examples of how they are systemically putting it into practice in and around Superior Arizona.  One example is how they have incorporated the Vital Conditions for Health Framework which you can learn more about at Health.org under Recovery and Resilience then “Framework”.www.RegeneratingSonora.org (or just search on Regenerating Sonora).

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being).  In this episode, Mind & Body@Work hosts Amanda and Timm review the previous episodes for themes and takeaways.  It is a good place to get an overview of the many different perspectives being revealed on Well-being in the Mind & Body@Work podcast series.  We encourage you to also listen to the individual podcasts if you can because the rich stories of our guests are just as valuable for learning about Well-being.Amanda Stradling learned embodied practices from an early age.  She is a Master Tai Chi instructor and a 3rd Degree Kenpo black belt.  Timm Esque consulted with leaders and teams for 25 years before co-Founding East Valley Leader Lab with Amanda.  Timm is the author of No Surprises Project Management (ACT Publishing, 1999) and Making an Impact (2001, Center for Effective Performance).

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit www.evleaderlab.com.  Our guest for this episode is Master Peter Hill. Peter is Integrated Martial Artist who became a middle school teacher.  He is a Master because of his mastery of the philosophy and the arts as well as how he lives his life consistent with this philosophy. We learn about how and why Peter transitioned in mid-career from running martial arts schools to teaching at an inner city school.  Peter took what he had learned about life and self-defense and created an evolving program for kids called “Get it Together”.  He notes that some of these kids stories have been documented by a local police man in the book “Badge 411” (Kurt Nieman, 2022).Peter explains why language idiograms (like Chinese writing) can be much more effective at getting across key life concepts than verbal language.Peter explains the importance of purifying our intent to accomplish what we hope to in life.  Also how so much of our success (or lack there of) follows from the energy we cultivate.This is why somatic (mind/body) training is so important.Peter shares his perspective on Well-being and where it needs to start in organizational settings.  And much more.Peter references “The Chronicles of Tao” by Deng Ming Dao, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, courses he took from Carlos Casteneda and a number of historical and contemporary Masters he learned from.  Peter’s books are G.E.T.  I.T. Together, and Warrior Work, both available at Amazon.  You can also find his YouTube videos by searching Peter Hill Warrior Work.

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit www.evleaderlab.com.Our guest is Kay McDonald.  Full disclosure, this is the first episode we recorded, and we were all finding our way, AND, it is well worth watching because it helps identify why well-being is a hot topic right now in organizations.  Our thanks to Kay for helping get this train rolling!!Kay is Principal of KM Human Resources Consulting where she does HR consulting and Executive Coaching for large and Small companies. Kay has over 20 years in HR leadership across multiple global industries including names we all know like Intel and American Express, as well as start-ups and smaller businesses.Kay explains why it is in a company’s interest to care about well-being.  She shares positive and negative examples of attending to well-being based on her experience as an HR Executive and a consultant running well-being programs.A theme that comes up multiple times is the necessity for finding balance in organizational policies to both achieve company goals and attend to the well-being of employees.Kay mentions the Gallup Polls in multiple contexts.  Gallup has been polling on well-being for several years running in addition to their even longer running surveys on employee engagement.  Here is a link to their website page with Well-being resources:  https://www.gallup.com/topic/category-wellbeing.aspx

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit www.evleaderlab.com.Our guest for Episode 5 is Reyna Montoya, Executive Director of Aliento - a non-profit organization that serves undocumented, DACA, and mixed immigration status families to transform trauma into hope and action.Reyna is a 2016 Soros Justice Fellow, a 2017 Echoing Green Fellow , a Forbes: 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, and an ATHENA 2019 recipient by the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce among many other awards.  She also was born in Tijuana Mexico and migrated to the US with her family that was fleeing violence in 2003. Reyna describes her experiences growing up undocumented and how that created challenges early on, which she has transformed into taking action at the local and the federal policy level. The approach Aliento takes with community members is informed by liberation psychology and reconciliation practices like those used to create change in Rwanda and South Africa.  On liberation psychology, Reyna cites Ignacio Martín-Baró and says she was also much inspired by Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as well as Desmond Tutu and Oscar Romero.Reyna describes her holistic model and process for improving well-being in her clients, her team members at Aliento and herself.To learn more, go to AlientoAz.org.  You can also find Aliento on most social media platforms including Facebook, Instragram, TikTok, X, and others.To learn more about East Valley Leader Lab, go to evleaderlab.com or email us at [email protected] or [email protected]. 

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit www.evleaderlab.com. In this episode, guest Shari Reichman shares many years experience helping children and adults with naturopathic therapies, with an emphasis on her practice of neurotherapies.  Shari explains how neurotherapies work and what benefits to expect from them.  Shari explains from her perspective, why well-being is lacking for so many people today, from young children as well as adults in the workplace. She also shares her perspectives on naturopathic medicine as compared to conventional medicine.  Resources referenced in this episode include the books: You are the Placebo by Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Your Body is Your Brain by Amanda Blake.  Shari practices her neurotherapies at  East Valley Naturopathic Doctors in Mesa Arizona.#embodiedleadership, #well-being, #neurofeedback

In this episode we interview the “Punk Rock Teacher”.  Aaron Leatherbarrow became very concerned about teaching to tests, and more importantly the need to address student well-being in our children’s classrooms.  Aaron has taken on the social media persona of Punk Rock Teacher and brings lots of constructive energy to shake up the system for the sake of the kids. And he is making some waves, with over 600 K followers across social media platforms.Aaron preaches and practices radical empathy as a practice for really getting at well-being in the classroom and with any other human being.Aaron’s non-profit…  has started a program called Punk Rock Pantry where they encourage and help schools to have food and other things on hand that students need in order to really show up to school and learn. Find out how and why the Punk Rock Teacher has chosen this path and how school administrations have responded.Please Like, Share and Subscribe to our East Valley Leader Lab channel or wherever you listen to your podcasts.  You can learn more about our affordable Embodied Leadership curriculum and Contact Us at www.evleaderlab.com.

This episode features first hand experience and ancient “history” as the fodder for stories about well-being in the workplace.  Guest Jeffrey J. Cohen is is the dean of Humanities in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University overseeing 360 full time faculty  and serving   thousands of students on campus and online. He has just completed his fifth year as Dean and had been chair of an English Dept in Washington DC before that.In this episode Jeffrey talks about his role as Dean of Humanities, the very inclusive culture at Arizona State University, and his latest book “Noah’s Arkive: Toward an Ecology of Refuge”.  And he manages to connect all these topics under our overall theme of Well-being in the Workplace.Please Like, Share and Subscribe to our East Valley Leader Lab channel or wherever you listen to your podcasts.  You can learn more about our affordable Embodied Leadership curriculum and Contact Us at www.evleaderlab.com.

In our first podcast episode, Timm & Amanda “flip the script” and get interviewed by their guests from Altus Growth Partners (Dan and Elayna have their own podcast Missing Conversations)Timm & Amanda share their stories about how they came to teaching Embodied Leadership at East Valley Leader LabThey describe the impacts that embodied leader training has on individual leaders and teams.They explain the origin and intent of their well-being offering for teams and organizationsThey explain how and why Tai Chi is a useful vehicle for teaching embodiment and mindfulness practices in the context of recent neuroscience with reference to Amanda Blake and her book “Your Body is your Brain” (Trokay Press, 2018).Please Like, Share and Subscribe to our East Valley Leader Lab channel or wherever you listen to your podcasts.  You can learn more about our affordable Embodied Leadership curriculum and Contact Us at www.evleaderlab.com.