Clinical psychologist Alex Nogeic, this week's Embers and Wind guest fondly remembers nine nine years ago when he met someone who told him that a patch can help someone heal: "I came to this meeting and I was sitting on the the last row sitting like this (arms crossed) and I was a natural therapist and I was using the Chinese medicine. I sas helping people with Chinese medici, And so I said ''What those Americans have invented?' He said it's acupuncture without needles. Ha ha ha, let me see this acupuncture without needles, you know. ! And Kris was talking about his experience with his daughter. And I was just sitting , uh huh. And, there was a lady with the pain. There was a lady. She had very serious pain and Kris just took those patches and just stick those patches into the body. And the lady just sat. She started to drink some water. We waited like 15 or 20 minutes later, and the presentation go on and on. Then, she just stood up. No she started to walked and started to make noise . 'Whoa is this possible that the pain has stopped?' I couldn't believe this After the presentation, I started looking for this woman to find out if it was a scam."

In this episode, Alex shares that he began to patch family and friends to assess the validity of these patches for healing. He tells inspiring family about how these patches help people. He immersed himself in research with family and friends. Alex confides he incorporates patches into some of his treatment plan for some of his patients. He includes stories of patients and family .

To stay connected with Alex, his Facebook profile is the website for this episode. His email address is alex@myeft.com . To explore how LifeWave patches can help you, Alex recommends sending him an email or a message.

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Guest Hanna Denny shares “If I never love again, I know that the love that I’ve experienced, people never experience throughout their whole life. So, forever I’ll be grateful for that. He’s not with me now, well, in his body, but definitely he’s always with me and will be. What can I say, before, before I before I do that, I just want you all to know that this is the first time I’m talking publicly about my experiences. So, you might hear my voice breaking a little bit. But tune in because this story is real, and I hope it can help you to go through your difficulties.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, guest Hanna Denny shares that her beloved husband, Roy in February 2022. She talks about feeling angry at Roy for leaving him and experiencing other stages of grieving his death stages of grieving. She talks about the stress that she felt and being told that she looks older as stress ages people. Hanna shares that this is the first time she’s spoken publicly about Roy’s death, that she wasn’t ready earlier, hat her newest passion helping people heal from the loss of a loved one. it’s because she wants you to know that healing and aging gracefully is possible. This empowered her to be vulnerable by sharing publicly about both the devastation she once felt, about the youthful energy she feels today. She talks with excitement about when she first saw the men with their scuba diving gear enter the swimming pool, that Roy was a volunteer in a scuba diving class while she had always wanted to try was excited about going scuba diving even though she’d never gone scuba diving before they met. Hanna notes they first developed a close friendship during which he taught her to scuba dive, that their friendship evolved into a deep love. She shares that her healing journey began by helping someone heal from a serious disease and receiving feedback that what she was doing was helping him. Hanna notes she’s a practitioner of multiple healing modalities. She references utilizing Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Reiki, LifeWave patches, meditation, and energy healing. There is hope for all of us. Hanna would be pleased to hold your hand and lead you through your healing process.

To connect with Hanna, her email address is denny.hanna.e@gmail.com . hanna.denny@hannadenny.com. Her Facebook profile is at this web address: https://www.facebook.com/hannadenny2017. Her LinkedIn profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanna-denny/.  Her Instagram profile is the website listed for this website where she posts many reels about aging gracefully. Her Calendly link to schedule a convenient time for a virtual chat is: https://calendly.com/denny-hanna-e/30min

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest and digital marketing strategist Mileh Oztalay shares “Marketing is essentially a problem-solving discipline. It’s not about just throwing ads out there. It’s about understanding when you find a starting point, and you analyze that starting point, what do you do to make the program better, the campaign, the marketing efforts whatever they may be, could be public relations, for example. All these different elements, these are all problem-solving components. As you work through this problem-solving process, really, marketing, in itself, is a process. When you work through the marketing process, you gain a story. The idea is how do you take this story, how do you take this knowledge and how you share it. The best way to share it is just make it simple. Talk about it in a way that people are going to understand. Talk about it in a way that people are going to accept.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Mileh shares his fascination and interest in computers and technology began in his youth. He talks about the many changes that have happened over his 35 year marketing career including the highs and lows. Mileh shares useful marketing tips and stories to empower you. Mileh shares the 4 A’s of change that he frequently shares with business leaders, anticipate change, accept change, adapt change. He states “The second part is accepting change, and I think that’s the hardest part for especially when I’m talking with business and business owners or C-level people is this idea that I’ve just accepted this change and now all of a sudden you’re telling me that there’s this change. My response in most cases is very similar ‘You can fret and fume, fuss, moan and groan about that change. If you don’t accept it and move forward, your competition is going to get ahead of you by a factor of 3 to 5 times. Should you decide to re-engage after you get done fretting, fussing, and fuming, you’re going to be investing an enormous amount of money just to get caught up.’”

To stay connected with Mileh, his company’s website is the website listed for this episode. His phone number is 1-248-568-2241. His email address is melih@smartfindsmarketing.com. The website address for his is LinkedIn profile Is https://www.linkedin.com/in/melihoztalay/. If you reach out, he’ll help you if he can.   

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Guest Lydia Busler Lowery states “And what happened at that moment is I just said ‘There’s nothing wrong with me. This situation isn’t acceptable.’ I had already, I had already let go of the competition. I was not going to be able to go there. But, I sure as heck wasn’t going to let the rest of my life go, that something in me knew that I was not going to, that I had something to do. I had already survived a lot. And I had this overwhelming vision of myself walking again outside in the garden with bare feet, working in the garden two whole legs. I felt it. I saw it. I saw it from above. I saw it from within. I saw it from every angle.“

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Lydia talks about walking again after being told by doctors and other health care professionals that she’d never be able to walk again due to the loss of nerves in both legs. She shares that she used their words as a challenge to heal instead. Lydia mentions a physical therapist who helped her believe in her ability to walk again, an osteopath who helped her regain the nerves in her legs by eating an abundance of eggs. Lydia shares about her first passion acknowledging she’s an international composer who also sings and plays the French horn in an orchestra. She notes if you want to hear her sing that she sings background music for meditation. While Lydia states she will always be a composer and musician, she wants people to Believe You Can Heal, she shares she got great compassion for people in pain which is why she’s also committed to helping people heal

To stay connected with Lydia or to learn from her, her healing website is listed as the website for this episode. Her Linktree web address is: https://linktr.ee/improvisant. She’s also on Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media presence as a healing coach and as a professional composer and musician.

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Guest Sadiq Hussain shares about finding his passion as a coach to share his knowledge and skill to help other people, especially shy, introverted people like he used to be: “What drove me is I one day sat right here behind me on my bed and this was about a year and ½ into my personal development journey as I shared earlier here, reading these books and becoming confident and really learning about life, business, mindset and I thought one day while I was sitting on my bed I was just thinking to myself said ‘Sadiq, the only thing stopping you from extra growth, from extra value putting out into the world, that extra leadership to be fielded by more people.’ The only thing stopping me at that time was the fear of judgment, was other people’s opinions of me. I used to care too much about other people’s opinions, care too much about their judgments. So as I sat there that day, I asked myself ‘Sadiq, why are you being so selfish? You’ve learned all this amazing personal growth, mindset stuff, changed your life and helped you evolve. Why are you being so selfish and keeping it to yourself?’”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Sadiq describes himself as a shy, introverted man who became a role model for consistency. He cites recording daily videos on multiple social media websites as an illustration for how he first broke through his fear of being critically judged by others. He playfully shares that he’s thought about changing his legal middle name to consistency. He shares that his friend started him on his personal development journey when he was 21 by recommending he read Rich Man, Poor Man.  He notes with amazement that reading this book introduced him to mindset. Sadiq notes that he intends for actions to make consistency his legacy. He shares as an example of his consistency that he’s been posting videos daily on all social media platforms. He shares his story to inspire you break through whatever barrier is stopping you from fulfilling your purpose. He talks about his passion for learning and personal development. Sadiq asserts people can learn from anyone if they don’t let their ego interfere. He shares that his Muslim faith influences his work and his life in such a way that he is open and interested in connecting with people from other religions, with people who aren’t affiliated with and religion and with fellow Muslims

To stay connected with Sadiq, his website is the website listed for this episode. You can also find Sadiq by doing a search for Coach Sadiq on the social media website you typically use. To learn from Sadiq, you can find him and then reach out to him on the social media you prefer. His LinkedIn profile can be found at this web address: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachsadiq/.

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Guest Mark Walton describes his passion for Toastmasters “It’s something I love to do. That’s why I’ve gone from visiting one time a week to 4. The other thing that keeps me fascinated by Toastmasters is how effective we are in taking people who are perfectly wooden, terrified and turning them into superb public speakers. That I’ve been a Toastmaster for ten years. Ten years a member of 4 clubs. I’ve got a lot of Toastmasters experience, and yet over and over again I’ve seen members join Toastmasters and in 2 years, they’re much better public speakers than I am. In my own, ahem not very humble opinion, I have a little bit to do with that because I can help people who are terrified of public speaking, but it is a real joy to see that happen.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, guest Mark Walton notes that he considers Toastmasters his hobby during his retirement. Mark shares any one whose company struggles with an engagement problem can visit to explore how you can build communication skills and leadership skills through Toastmasters. He tells a story about recently winning Toastmaster’s humorous speech at the division level. Mark invites you to visit our Columbus (Indiana) Toastmasters club’s open house on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. EDT. He invites you to visit Toastmasters once. If you live in Columbus, Indiana, he encourages you to visit our open house in person at 1531 13th St., Columbus, Indiana in the 2nd floor large conference room at United Way’s Doug Otto Center. If you can’t visit our club’s open house in Columbus, he recommends visiting our meeting on Zoom. Mark recommends that our club be selective in contemplating who to invite as a guest speaker for our open house: “You would probably want someone who’s recognized as being worth listening to.” Mark also shares several inspiring stories.

To stay connected with Mark through Toastmasters the Columbus (Indiana) Toastmasters club iLinkedIn pages listed as the website for this episode is the website listed for this episode. The web address for Mark's Facebook profile is: https://www.facebook.com/mark.walton.121. To explore learning from Mark, visit our Toastmasters club.

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Samuele Barrili, this week’s guest on Embers and Wind, describes how his faith guided him to become the first marketing company to serve waste managements by saving our planet waste through recycling“My faith draws me here and draws me where I’m now. I believe that everything depends on my faith, and it continues to influence my work every single day. I listen a lot to myself, my emotions, my feelings about whatever beliefs and for that I perceive a lot the connection with people. Because talking with small business owners, waste management owners, every single day I learn something. And I share with them feelings about the market, about the situation, about what is possible to do, about how to solve the waste problem in a positive way. Taking care of the opportunity that with waste is offering up.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Samuele Barrili shares both his parents were chemistry teachers where he grew up in Lisbon, Italy. He talks about being drawn to apply his degree in Toxicological Chemistry to educate waste management owners who then educate people under their care to help save our planet from waste by  changing people’s perception of waste. He calls plastic the endless material because there are so many products that can be made from plastics. Samuele mentions Nike as an example because their soles include recycled plastic. Samuele ends the episode with a benevolent Call-to-Action to start thinking about waste as material.

Samuele’s company, Marketing4Waste is the website for this episode. To stay connected with Samuele recommends connecting with him on LinkedIn. The website address for his LinkedIn Profile is:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuele-barrili/. He also mentions his company’s YouTube channel to stay connectged with Samuele. The Mareting4Waste YouTube channel’s web address is: https://www.youtube.com/@Marketing4Waste. To learn from Samuele about doing the right thing for your children and grandchildren, he share that he will have a book available on Amazon titled Making America Great Again Starting with Waste by the end of this year.

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Health concierge coach Leslie Urbas shares “The four main pillars of what I teach right now include the nutrition from the aspect of the secret energy of food and the aspects of what I call detoxing your kitchen. Another piece of what I teach is energy mastery work which is really your energetic piece of yourself and how that’s yielding things. Another piece is the neuroscience aspect. People don’t really think about it but you’re living out what you were taught from the perspective of food and nutrition. So, if your mom chronically dieted, and you always saw her trying one thing after the other never fully satisfied with her body, you’re potentially embodying that. Or, if you’re taught that you eat a certain food, you’re going to look like Aunt So-and-so, you might become Aunt So-and-so just because of how you were taught, things on that aspect. And then the last piece that I really tie into people is the done for you piece and the 100% catered for you piece because it’s very important for nutrition to be 100% what’s right for you.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Leslie Urbas confides her fascination with food drives her. She remembers asking her mom why some foods, like candy were bad for her while other foods were good for her. She shares her fascination with food led to her become a dietician. Leslie talks about her mentor who authored The Secret Energy of Food who she collaborated with in designing her course based on the book. She notes her mentor is an energy healer and that people can use the four pillars of the secret energy of food to heal from a disease. She shares the four pillars: food, energy, neuroscience, and making it easy for you or done for you. Leslie shares an inspiring story about Bob Cafaro, who used the secret energy of food to heal from multiple sclerosis. She shares two tips to help listeners solve their binge eating problem: 1) drink ½ your body weight in water each day; and 2) if you’re having an urge to snack and you’re drinking ½ of your bodyweight in water each day, going too long without eating can be the cause of the urge to binge eat at night. Leslie notes when many people were in school, they were not allowed to get water when they were thirsty which can explain why when they are thirsty, they feel hungry when water is what their body needs. She ends the episode with a benevolent Call-to-Action to apply what you learned in this episode

Leslie’s company website is the website listed for this episode. To stay connected with Leslie, she recommends her Facebook profile. Her Facebook profile web address is: https://www.facebook.com/leslie.fiala.1. To learn from Leslie she recommends joining her free Facebook group at this web address: facebook.com/groups/thefoodemotioncode . She also shares many health tips on her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTV3lTNHRk1hNhOsp7XQdFw.

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 Guest Mark Cox, an embodied healing coach states “When you begin to think positively about what your body is doing physically, it’s amazing the percentage of time that it begins happening. And so, if I’m leading from a place of wholeness instead of beating myself up all the time and emotionally feeling fulfilled rather than feeling drained all the time, if I’m enjoying where I’m at instead of just bending every moment waiting to escape where I’m at, those kind of thought implication to that, have stunning effects on someone’s physical health.  I’ve talked and heard from people all over the place and actually experienced for myself, the kind of sicknesses that come down to just plain stress, just stressed out. Burnout would be another term. Your body knows when you’re about to go back into a stressful environment. There was a period of time in my own life, every time that my vacation was ending with my family, I would get sick.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Mark shares playfully that he learned to sing before learning how to talk because she was passionate about having him sing. He admits that he had not yet done the healing work from past trauma when he was in that leadership position get sick at the end of family vacations simply by his thoughts and the stress his thoughts created because he had not yet healed from past trauma. He shares compelling stories about people he’s helped heal through his work as an embodied, healing coach and as a vocal coach. He talks about the importance of leaders healing from past trauma to be able to live and lead from wholeness and explains if they’ve not healed themselves, they will have more difficulty supporting their team and may even distort their perception. Mark confides that if you’ve never heard Mark shares his love for connecting with people and having a chat to get to know one another. He closes the podcast with this benevolent Call-to-Action, go to his FreeVoice website, click on the contact link which sends Mark an email.

A link to Mark’s company is the website for this episode. The web address for his LinkedIn profile is:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-cox-ab461392/. His Instagram profile’s web address is:

https://www.instagram.com/experiencefreevoice/. Whether you want to stay in contact with Mark or explore how Mark can help you, he enjoys coffee chats on the Internet

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Keith Weedman shares “The next health miracle has to do with arthritis. I had arthritis in my knees. I couldn’t squat for the last 25 years due to arthritis. When in October, I was able to squat again and then I squatted for my annual exam with my physician. In addition to being able to squat, it also calls for balance. And yes, my balance was improving.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Keith talks about the fear, stress and anxiety thoughts about a possible Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis created with his thoughts about his symptoms. He admits that he would normally dismiss someone who claims to offer a patch to activate your body’s stem cells as a scammer and why he didn’t dismiss Hanna Denny. He tells many stories about what he calls health “miracles” that he’s experienced in examining the question, how do you know that you’ve activated your stem cells. While he admits that he’s biased in believing he has, he invites you to decide how you would be influenced by experiencing these same stories. Keith explained why he did not address the reasons that supports his conviction that he’s healing from Parkinson’s Disease. Keith closes the conversation with a benevolent Call-to-Action to go to Life Wave’s website by clicking on the link to this episode to watch a 3-minute video to learn how the X39 patch activates stem cells and a 2-minute video to learn how Life Wave uses phototherapy in the X39 patch and their other patch products.

To learn more about Life Wave’s X39 patch, click on the website listed for this episode. On this website, you can learn about health and wellness benefits, research , customer reviews, and patents. To learn more about Keith’s patch experience, you will find many Facebook Live videos on his Facebook profile at this web address: https://www.facebook.com/keith.weedman/. To connect with Keith on LinkedIn, go to this web address: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-weedman-34335051/.

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Guest Susannah Dawn shares “So, all my life, I’ve basically been put in boxes. Either people told me what I am or who I am. In business, I was always told I had to pick a niche. There was always this feeling of confinement for me, that every time I get labeled some way, that I’m going to get boxed. I’m going to get viewed as X or Z or whatever. Once I did my reinvention going into 2022. What it really came down to was me being able to leave a box in my past. All my life I’ve known that I was a girl, and everybody told me that I wasn’t because of the box that I was in. Now, being able to be myself and not feel confined. This is who I am. This is who I’ve always been, and that’s why my motto is what it is. ‘I’m not what I used to be. I am who I’ve always been.’”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Susannah Dawn shares her personal story about moving beyond boxes. She talks about the different boxes that people placed her in. She notes that awareness of being in a box is a step toward moving beyond boxes. Susannah confides that she does not talk much about being transgender. She asserts that she is much more than her sexual identity. Susannah simply states “I’m not what I used to be. I am who I’ve always been.” She shares her joy in moving beyond this box and confides the fear that used to constrain her. She reveals her passion for helping people and companies move beyond boxes. She notes that her move beyond boxes can help you move beyond whatever box you feel trapped in to achieve your career or personal goals because people can easily feel trapped in a box such as a specific job or a career. Susannah talks about how companies can find themselves trapped in a box such as what the company does and who the company serves. She shares examples how she can help your company move beyond boxes that have previously constrained your company. She notes that she became a storyteller through writing stories. She reveals that her passion for writing is the stories. Susannah notes that she now tells stories from the stage. She talks about her consulting work in diversity, why she recommends diversity guidelines and her concerns about diversity policies. She closes the episode with a benevolent Call to-Action to help you apply what you learned in this episode to move beyond boxes and break through any fear that’s been holding you back from achieving your personal or professional goals.

To stay in touch with Susannah, she recommends connecting with her on LinkedIn. Her LinkedIn profile web address is the website for this episode. Her Instagram profile web address is: https://www.instagram.com/susannah.dawn.writer/ . Her Facebook profile web address is: https://www.facebook.com/Susannah.Dawn.Writer. She notes that reading her LinkedIn posts will provide you a means to learn from the content in her posts include moving beyond boxes and breaking through the fear that’s holding you or your company back from what you or ot they want.  

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Keith Weedman shares “A good friend of mine, his name is Eric Maalt. He’s a college buddy. He was on the Purdue tennis team. He was playing tennis with his adult daughter in 2021. He noticed while playing tennis that there was a young African American male. He was on the basketball court near the tennis court, and he was on rollerblades. He was really good on rollerblades.  My friend, he noticed how good this young man was. He was impressed. This young man was able to do things that most people could not do on rollerblades. After playing tennis, he called the young man over. The young man was a little hesitant. He wasn’t quite sure what Eric wanted. Eric told him just how impressed he was by how good he was on rollerblades. After first looking down, looked up at Eric and said, ‘Do you really think so?’ This was not what the young man expected to hear from Eric because they were of different races. Eric was Caucasian. This was why the young man was quite tentative in approaching Eric. Hearing sincere, positive feedback from this benevolent stranger was totally unexpected. Eric said ‘Yes.’ I want you to imagine for a moment the young man’s face after Eric said this. Then, the young man said, ‘You just made my day!’ Eric replied, ‘Knowing I made your day just made mine too!’”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Keith Weedman shares tips to bring joy to people by giving them sincere positive feedback. He tells stories to inspire you of bringing joy to strangers and about the joy and gratitude he felt when Angelia Sloan was a stranger when she brought joy and gratitude to him. He tells a story about what his wife, Marcia. You can feel his gratitude for Marcia in his positive feedback. He shares tips to accentuate the impact of the joy you bring to people, from strangers to (people-you-love). Tips and stories include heightening the joy you bring by giving them sincere, positive feedback publicly, by generating gratitude for them to have them feel your gratitude in your positive feedback, and by combining all three together.

Keith closes the episode with this benevolent Call-to-Action. Give sincere, positive feedback to (people-you-love) during the holidays. Ensure they feel your gratitude in the way you give them positive feedback. You are invited to join me to join me throughout the rest of the year by seizing every opportunity you see to give people sincere, positive feedback. When you genuinely feel gratitude for them, let them feel your gratitude in giving them positive feedback.

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Guest and cybersecurity expert Jessie Liew shares how she became passionate about helping parents empower their children to overcome screen addiction by finding herself first utilizing more of her knowledge and resourcefulness to prevent screen addiction for her children: “I didn’t aspire to be a parenting coach. So how it actually got started is because of my background. I graduated in computer science, and my husband is also in Tai Chi. So, two of us, we know that the Internet is very dangerous. All these platform devices are very addictive. Part of the side, we also study how to get users to love to use your apps. We know it’s very addictive, especially not super for children. So, I think for my first one, she didn’t get to use the iPad, the smart phone, headsets in the very early age. She’s seven, eight years old, she was always complaining: “Augh, my friend got it. I haven’t got it. So, she’s kind of like kind of jealous. In year 2020, when pandemic came, covid came, my country announced a lockdown. I realized one thing. My children have to be with the screen all the time.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Jessie Liew talks about learning in school how to how to utilize the Internet and social media in marketing to make an app addictive. She shares that her background in computer science and cybersecurity helped her safely protect her children from screen addiction by being aware and proactive. She shares tips for parents to prevent their children from screen addiction and to help parents empower their child to overcome scrren addiction. Then, with her friends’ children. In explaining why screen addiction has become such a pervasive problem, she notes that apps aren’t really free because companies sell your data to other companies who pay them to advertise on your profile in a social media platform to purchase their company's product or service. She shares a compelling story about a friend whose teenage son suffered from screen addiction and about her shock in learning that their fights had become physical. She notes helping her friends empower their children to overcome screen addiction inspired her to become a digital parenting coach..She stresses Internet marketing professionals know how to make their app addictive. Jessie asserts that there is a correlation between the obesity problem and the effectiveness in marketing of companies in the food industry. Jessie closes the episode with a benevolent call to action to prevent your child from having a screen addiction.

To stay connected with Jessie, her Facebook profile can be found at this website address: https://www.facebook.com/jessieliewsp. Her LinkedIn profile can be found at this one: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessieliewsp/. Her free Facebook group is the website listed for this episode to help you reduce screentime for your child and increase family connection. Jessie wants you to know she shares tips to prevent screen addiction and access to free training in this Facebook group.

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Guest Natalia Nutting shares how you can tell a story to elevate employee engagement: “We love feeling engaged because we feel that we are growing. If you overload people with instructions, they don’t feel engaged because you already told them everything that they have to do, and they have no space for their own growth, for them to figure things out. When it comes to storytelling, if the leader is able to inspire the worker with a little story, then the employee is going to feel like ‘Wow! That is interesting. I actually, I would love to do that.’ You’re not telling them what to do. You’re inspiring them with a story.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this bi-weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Natalia shares her unstoppable story about the teacher who became Natalia’s obstacle and how Natalia utilized this teacher as a challenge to prove that there is a different, engaging way to teach, through storytelling. She tells how as a school storyteller, her students taught her to be vulnerable and see the child in every adult, that children just go for it and learn quickly, and that adults really want to do this too. Natalia shares that she learned to move her body through acting without words which helped her overcome her 4th grade encounter with a teacher. She connects what she learned with what she’s learned from Tony Robbins about state, story, strategy. Natalia asserts that storytelling is essential to effective leadership. She shares her passion to help coaches, keynote speakers to become unstoppable storytellers to inspire their audience and grow their business through her signature event, Captivate, that she launches once every 3 months.

Natalia’s Storytelling Campfire for Coaches Facebook group is the website listed for this episode. To stay connected with Natalia, she recommends connecting with her on Facebook or Instagram. Her Facebook profile web address is https://www.facebook.com/NataliaNuttingStoryteller/. Her Instagram web address: https://www.instagram.com/natalianutting/. She encourages listeners who want to learn from N to email her at Natalia@unstoppablestorytellers.com. 

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Guest Jenny Maxwell shares why active listening is essential to leading your team at home and at work “Everybody’s basic needs are love, safety, and belonging, every human’s basic needs. We also want to feel seen and heard. When you’re in the habit of telling somebody what to do, that person is feeling invisible which is what I felt for a long time when I didn’t know how to use my voice and speak up and communicate calmly what my needs were and ask for help, even around the house. Using your voice and being given space to share what’s really going on with you, it requires the person on the other side of the table to sit and listen and give you that space. Not interrupt, not interject, not try and tell you what to do, just listen. That’s a very powerful tool to have and lots of people don’t have it. I notice, well I think actually on my coaching journey, like in the beginning. Because you know when you become a coach, you’re really your very first client because you’re applying everything, you’re learning to yourself. And what I realized was that most people in my circle had no idea what was going on with me because they didn’t ask.”

In this episode, personal development coach Jenny Maxwell talks about moving from Ireland with her husband and two sons. She shares about longing for Ireland and hoping their family’s stay in the U.S. would be temporary. She talks about her frustration when she used to be a people-pleaser, giving people solutions to their problems when they had not asked for her help solving them. She notes how volunteering for the local juvenile justice center empowered her to get out of her slump and become a personal development coach. She stresses the importance of active listening and how that describes her coaching work and at home with her children. She notes mindset and mindfulness can help you lead your team. She shares why she recommends leaders practice active listening at work to empower their team. She shares an inspiring story about a non-for-profit executive and how she helped stop micromanaging her team. She provides stimulating responses to questions posed including the differences between a leader exercising the power of their position versus exercising influence. She describes how she empowers her coaching clients blending active listening with probing questions. She shares tips to help leaders to lead their team at home and at work and a story about a client to inspire you.

To stay connected with Jenny, she invites you to connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram Her LinkedIn profile web address is: https://bit.ly/3soC0dy. The web address or her Facebook profile is: https://www.facebook.com/JennyMCoach. The web address for her Instagram profile is: https://www.instagram.com/jennymcoaching/. To learn more from Jenny Maxwell, her website is the website for this episode. She shares that she has digital downloads on her website that are affordable for those who want to put their toe in the water. She closes with this benevolent Call-to-Action especially for people-pleasers. 1) Instead of giving people unsolicited answers to their problems just listen. 2) Notice how empowering them by listening impacts you.

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Guest Samantha Sanders shares a few of her steps toward finding the right fit in tech “Well, my dad was in DevOps, so I've been surrounded by tech pretty much all of my life. We always had the latest technology and just naturally kept up to date. But really, I didn't really know what I wanted to do when I grew up and spent a lot of time in the retail industry, job hopping a lot, especially as a military spouse, moving all the time. And then I got into project management and really kind of fell in love with all the processes and such. But it wasn't all that flexible as much as I had needed. So, I had pivoted to recruiting and I knew that tech was the future. And being surrounded by it my entire life, I could obviously see that and see it growing in front of me as I aged. And so I learned how to speak tech. I even took a Python programming language course, data analytics course, and just kind of fell in love with it. But that aspect wasn't really for me, so I decided to do recruiting for it instead.”

In this episode, Samantha shares why Missionbox Solutions is the right fit in tech. In addition to her father being a veteran with acareer in tech, she states her husband is currently in the Navy, and they are stationed in Japan. She shares that her affinity helping veterans find the right fit in tech aligns with Missionbox Solutions' (a veteran-owned startup) mission to help company’s find the right fit in tech. She asserts the right fit for a candidate is the right fit for the company because candidates who find the right fit will fully engage, stay longer, and advance within the company. She shares this is why her bias to ensure candidates find the right fit aligns with Missionbox Solutions’ mission to help companies find the right fit. She shares many desirable qualities and behaviors veterans possess to help listeners understand why Missionbox Solutions has many veterans who have found the right fit in tech at Missionbox Solutions. She describes her company’s 5-step process for helping a company find the right fit for a position in tech. She confides that because Missionbox Solutions is a startup, they do not yet have stories to share to inspire listeners. She shares many tips to help both listeners and companies find the right fit. Samantha notes that a complimentary newsletter, Tip for Techs, filled with tips to help job candidates find and land the right fit in tech.

If you want to connect with Samantha, she encourages you to connect with her on LinkedIn. The website for Missionbox Solutions is the website for this episode. Her LinkedIn profile is: www.linkedin.com/in/sanderssamc. Companies interested in exploring whether Missionbox Solutions may the right recruitment agency to help their company find the right fit, can reach Samantha by email  at this email address: samantha.sanders@missionboxsolutions.com. She closes with these two benevolent Calls-to-Action: 1) She invites job seekers to follow her content. She provides a lot of resources to job seekers, from how to get seen on social media by the job you want, to how to do your resume, to how to do the interviews effectively.  2) For companies, if you're struggling keeping up with your reqs and you need help and you need a new hiring strategy for your IT candidates, contact Samantha. She and her colleagues can help. 

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While guest Sarah Dawkins’ new course is still being developed, she was asked to share a story about someone who experienced healing from participating in her first edition “So, one of my friends bought this course, and she’s still working through it. It opened her eyes to things she has to do as a part of her healing process. Like just simple gratitude, expressing gratitude for what we’ve got in life now, helps us to look for more positive things, and it helps to reprogram our mind from looking at more negative things because we need the positives to write down three things every day that you have gratitude for. And it’s always about the little things. So, even if it’s a good cup of coffee or a chat with a friend or a walk in the sunshine, just little things to write down. And she didn’t realize that gratitude would be powerful, a healing process, because most people think of the 50-core when they think of healing; so, eat more green vegetables, do more exercise, and hydrate better. But we need to look at the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of healing, as well, and dig into those because those are what pull it all together.”

In this episode, Sarah talks about her journey from being a registered nurse for 20 years to becoming a holistic health coach. She shares becoming suicidal from clinical depression. She notes prescription drugs she was previously prescribed treated the symptoms without addressing the underlying thoughts and emotions. She notes taking her dogs for walks outside, breathing fresh air, got her back in touch with nature and helped her begin her healing journey, feeling grateful for being alive. She mentions the multitude of health problems she has healed from and how healing herself ignited her passion to help others heal the source of their health problems. She notes how her training as a holistic health coach helped her heal from emotional scars from being sexually molested as a child.  While she notes her strengths from her experience as a registered nurse include her knowledge of disease and human anatomy, she stresses the importance of a holistic approach, including how past experiences influence beliefs and the emotions people experience presently including those do not see the connection. She talks about her book, Heal Yourself, a compilation of stories written by people who have healed themselves from various diseases and published in multiple languages. She stresses every reader will learn how the authors healed themselves to enable others to follow their footsteps. She shares one of the many inspiring stories written by guest authors that are included in her book; this guest healed herself from Stage 3 cervical cancer.

To stay connected with Sarah, she recommends going to her company’s website, the website listed for this episode. Her email address is sarah@SDEssentialHealth.com. The web address for her LinkedIn profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahdawkins/. Other social media web addresses can be found on the website. She wants you to know she will offer a discount when she launches her new course and that she also offers holistic health coaching. Her book is available in 5 languages on Amazon. Additional information can be found on her company’s website.

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Guest Tara Gooch shares “The medium sized businesses, well it’s kind of like being, it’s kind of like being in a sense middle class. Right? You have a high class of people that, you know, maybe in that 1% bracket, and then you have medium, you know, income people and then you have lower income level people. And we can all agree, in this economy, it is kind of dangerous to be middle class. A lot of times, they didn’t realize how important it (branding) was whereas larger companies did and already had branding and all of these services kind of baked in, and medium sized businesses didn’t. And they were struggling, and they didn’t know why. And a big part of that is because they lacked presence on social media platforms. And then, watching that business group whose, you know, leaders in that organization, go from not having a business, a really just kind of throwing up spaghetti at the wall approach to social media to having, you know, well developed presence, good personal branding on LinkedIn took their business off and skyrocketed it.”

In this episode, Tara talks about how her education prepared her to focus on helping executives and entrepreneurs build personal brands on Linked by building her confidence and leverage. She shares that she was the first person in her family to earn a college degree. She laughs in confiding that her bachelor’s degree is in environmental biology. She notes, since graduating, she obtained management certification, then in corporate financial management and then an MBA in business analytics. She shares after launching Best Branding Solutions and experiencing significant business growth on LinkedIn noticing that executives in medium-sized companies lacked having a presence on LinkedIn. She describes a LinkedIn profile as being a billboard for personal brands and posts as a means to reinforce your personal brand including who you are and what you do and build relationships. Tara asserts this is a means to retain employees and stimulate interest among prospective customers, potential employees and other stakeholders. She talks about videos as a free means to build relationships. She notes executives and entrepreneurs who are ineffective on camera will build their skill through practicing. She shares inspiring storis about executives, small business owners and entrepreneurs whom she has helped grow their companies’ business by building their personal brand on LinkedIn. She recommends posting daily and identifies an executive who can be viewed as a role model to follow.

To stay in touch with Tara, she recommends reaching out to her by email at tara@bestbranding.solutions.  She also recommend following her on Linked at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tara-lafon-gooch/. To learn more about her work through Best Branding Solutions,, she recommends going to her company’s website, the link is  listed for this episode.

She closes with a benevolent Call-to-Action to help you build your personal brand on LinkedIn. She asserts your brand needs to be genuine, personalized, and you because people crave authenticity. She shares the pillars of her personal brand include kindness and growth.

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In sharing the meditation guest Tal Singh practices and teaches, he reveals his faith in both Sikhism and Christianity: “The meditation technique that they teach is called saas giraas which places the emphasis on the breath, the breathwork. What the gurus taught us, what Guru Nanak taught us, was that we should meditate with every breath. We should be meditating and so that’s the kind of principle behind it. So, the way I teach is actually quite secular approach. So, it’s a spiritual approach rather than being specific to one religion. And actually, believe it or not, I actually follow two religions. I also follow Christianity. I go to the church every Sunday. I am actually baptized as a Christian also by the Church of England, here in the U.K. But I also every Sunday in the morning I go to church and then after church I go to the Sikh Temple or the Gurudwara or the Gurdwara.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Tal Singh shares his inspiring story about how he found his calling and purpose in life. He states his journey began when he became a vegetarian, which he describes as a small step. He talks about giving up his vices one at a time. He talks about feeling lost before he changed his habits, found his faith in Sikhism and in Christianity. He talks about the unhealthy lifestyle he used to live which included alcohol and cigarettes. He states that he has now dedicated his life to teach others how to find mindfulness through meditation. Tal notes he is 2 years into his journey of faith and meditation. He describes. He talks about the energy he feels from changing his diet. He shares research about how mediation increases dopamine which elevates motivation and provides a natural solution to mood disorders without the adverse side effects of pharmaceutical drugs. He talks about how meditation increases growth hormone which provides healthier skin and facilitates building muscle. He shares that meditating also increases serotonin and some of the benefits. He also shares the research findings of Professor Herbert S. Kindler that meditation improved team problem-solving skills and lowered the stress level among team members.   

For listeners who want to connect with Tal, he shares his website. His website is the website listed for this episode. To contact Tal, he recommends using the email address on the website, hello@soulbrite.co.uk. You can also connect with Tal on LinkedIn at this website address: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tal-singh-soulbrite/. To learn from Tal, he offers group events on Eventbrite. He shares these events on his website and on LinkedIn. For people interested in working one-to-one with Tal, he offers to donate a 15-minute session. He wants human resource leaders to know that he offers meditation training for companies and is open to training trainers to teach meditation to company employees.

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Guest Cindy Allen-Stuckey is nudging you to make small, positive shifts in your life when she compares your shift with a 2 degree shift: “So, I want you to think of an ocean liner, and they need to make change just 2 degrees. So, they need to shift 2 degrees. To begin with, that’s a very tiny movement. So, I want to think about shift being action. It’s a movement. But the further along that they go with that 2-degree shift, it’s a big movement away from where they were going. My definition of shift is conscious movement away from disappointing aspects of your life. So, you can walk them through life enhancing experiences and feelings that really do serve your highest being.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, guest Cindy Allen-Stuckey takes listeners on a journey through her book, The Shift Café – How to STEP into the POWER of your POTENTIAL. She shares about her early childhood trauma, why this resulted in Cindy holding an unfair grudge against her dad, and how something in her dad’s wallet stimulated Cindy to shift from a closed mindset to an open mindset after her dad’s death. She captivates listeners attention as she tells this story. She talks candidly about being born with a heart defect in the 1950s and her heart surgery to correct the problem when heart surgery did not typically have good outcomes for patients. Cindy asserts most people never step into the power of their potential. She wrote the book to help people who want more in life to step into their potential.  Cindy notes that under the direction of her editor, she convened a group of women to read her book and give her candid feedback for process improvement. She shares they became so engaged in reading the book and completing the exercises to glean maximum value for themselves that they did not give as much feedback for process improvement as she hoped for. They did help Cindy confirm that they get more value out of the book when they read it as a group when Cindy or someone trained leads the group through the exercises in the book. Cindy states that she has now led two groups of women and that six of them are interested in being licensed as trainers. She states that she is establishing a licensing process for people interested in becoming licensed trainers to help people step into the power of their potential. Cindy states the first step for someone who may be interested in being licensed as a trainer is to send Cindy an email at cindy@cindyallenstuckey.com.

For listeners who want to stay connected to Cindy, she shares her website which is the website listed for this episode. She has a Facebook page for her book which can be found at this website address: https://www.facebook.com/TheShiftCafewithCindy. Her LinkedIn profile can be found at this website address: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindyallenstuckey/. For listeners who want to learn from Cindy beyond reading her book, she shares that she plans to lead at least 4 groups each year through one chapter each week for 12 weeks as they read her book over the course of the next year. For people who do not want to work in a group, Cindy would be open to coaching them one-to-one. Contact Cindy at the email address above for group training or one-to-one coaching.

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Guest Rebecca Biedler shares what she learned from personal experience when she confides those who join this conversation   “It is ok to seek out help. If you’re in the gym, or you’re trying something new, it’s ok to ask for directions. And it’s ok to try something and stumble a little bit. I even have coaches who have helped me including a personal trainer and a sales coach. And I just invite people to, to just try, seek that out, not be ashamed to ask for help, not be ashamed to be new. Realize your autonomy. Your body is adaptable. Your brain is flexible. And you can decide. Be ok with being different than another person. It’s ok to be different. Don’t discount the positive. Learn from your mistakes and don’t wait for a feeling, like ‘Oh, I need to be in the mood.’ Showing up sometimes is the best thing you can do. Sometimes, it takes more than knowing the reasons for exercise to motivate you. So basically, I would try to summarize that is: Don’t be ashamed. Don’t discount the positive, and it’s ok to be new.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, guest Rebecca (Becca) Biedler states that she became passionate about health and fitness when she started exercising and eating a healthy diet. She talks about her journey and overcoming her personal scrutiny of herself. She shares that her passion led her to become a certified personal fitness trainer with experience in coaching, instructional design, and creating training programs. She notes that she is finishing her master’s degree in Instructional Design and Technology at Purdue University.  She shares that she obtained her certification as a personal fitness trainer from ISSA. She confides ISSA stands for the International Sports Sciences Association and ETC, where she obtains her continuing education units, stands for ETC Exercise Inc. She notes both are online platforms that help students build their skills as a personal trainer. Becca talks about the difference between the empowered fitness that she practices and shame-driven fitness. Empowered fitness focuses on the positives, what people are doing right and engages the student in designing their training curriculum. She talks about the impact of this pandemic on her business. She has learned to work with people online in addition to face-to-face. There is a savings in fees to work with Becca because she does not need to lease a venue when working remotely. She notes that she saves in travel time when working remotely. She continues to offer both options to her clients

To connect with Becca, her website is listed as the website for this episode. She has a company Facebook page which can be found at this website address: https://www.facebook.com/IDFitPrograms.

She has a private, complimentary Facebook group, Girls Do Pushups, where Becca shares information on fitness and nutrition.Here is the website address for Girls Do Pushups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3109990012650302. She also has an Instagram account at this website address: https://www.instagram.com/id_fit_by_becca/

To learn from Becca, she recommends that you go to her website and send her a message to arrange a convenient time to chat.

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Guest Felipe Martinez, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Indiana shares about Living in the Tension, “It is important in human relationships, in community work and family life to be ready for some of that tension to be there, that push and pull. And again, from a theological framework, so that we together discern what the right direction is for us to take. Or so that we together can hear through each other what God, what the universe is trying to say to us. I can’t on my own, I would argue, figure life out. And so, if I’m going to live life as a human, I’m going to have to live life in community. If I’m going to live life in community, there’s going to be tension in the ways in which you and I and others will understand our reality. And so, for us to walk together, as let’s say a town, and not listen to each other, is to simplify something that’s very complex.”

I’m your podcast guest host Jason Carr. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Pastor Felipe Martinez asserts that God speaks through each one of us. He explains that the reason there is tension inherent in listening to God is because we must listen to what God is saying through others in addition to what God is saying through us. Pastor shares that his strengths include diving deep to create win-wins and his commitment to learn from parishioners. He differentiates himself from other pastors and congregations with his passion for social justice and social justice issues and through his adherence to the conviction that God speaks through everyone. Felipe asserts that he is not one who strives to simplify, He notes the win-wins often occur to him in the grey areas. Felipe confides that he feels uncomfortable dealing with conflict. He notes some pastors have a gift for resolving conflict. (Even though Felipe does not talk about his skill teaching biblical and life lessons through his sermons from the pulpit, he would welcome you to visit First Presbyterian Church’s YouTube channel.)

To connect with Felipe, his church’s website is listed as the website for this episode. He welcomes you to reach out to him by email. His email address is: feiipe@fpccolumbus.org. To access the YouTube channel for First Presbyterian Church, the web address is:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dodS7voUvbZgpn9tkwNIg.

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Guest Sanna Kettunen tells what she means when she says that The Best Is Yet to Come: “I mean the words I’m saying that no matter where we find ourselves in life, what situation may occur outside of ourselves that is either challenging or it’s like just good or it’s amazing. But everything is still in front of us. We are constantly evolving, and the future is for us to look forward to with hope and anticipation like I wonder what’s next to come. And that’s for each one of us, but it’s a mindset thing that we have to train ourselves to switch like from the negative hopelessness to seeing the good in it, and it’s there.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Sanna Kettunen shares how lonely she felt healing from unhealthy relationships. She talks about her healing journey to regain her sense of self and the people who helped her heal. She announces that she has dedicated her life to help women and men heal from unhealthy relationships. She talks about her book, The Best Is Yet to Come, a integral piece of the “You Got This” movement that she began in 2019. She shares many ideas from her book that is scheduled to be published in July. She talks about three foundational affirmations that she believes everyone wants to hear growing up: 1) I’m proud of you; 2) I believe in you; and 3) I love you. She stresses the importance of self-awareness, self-love, and self-expression. She describes self-love as essential to be able to love others. She talks about fear as a resource to help you instead of as an obstacle to stop you. She describes how she counters negative self-talk with positive affirmations and how she reads these positive affirmations at the start of each day as she looks at herself in the mirror.  She shares She states that she lives in southern Finland with her three sons. She acknowledges that English is the third language she speaks. She shares her passion and purpose is to raise awareness of the importance of self-awareness, self-love, and self-expression. She intends to be there as a resource to help people heal from unhealthy relationships which is why she wrote her book and became a mindset coach because she understands how scarey and lonely the journey back to authenticity can be. She reminds you that the best is your best.

Sanna invites you to connect with her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yougotthis.sanna/, on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sannasofia.kettunen, or join her Facebook group for her book launch::https://www.facebook.com/groups/599562477960634.

Her YouTube channel is listed as the website for this episode. To learn from Sanna, she intends to publish her book in July, and she wants you to know that she is working on a course. She would love to reply to your email. Here is Sanna’s email address: yougotthis.sanna@gmail.com.

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Special guest Keith Weedman shares how getting a dangerous person to accept his constructive feedback changed two people’s lives with guest host Jason Carr: “The other thing I knew was that he had a felony conviction on his record. He had once attacked a detective from behind with a knife….  Some people perceive the world in a way that brings the worst out of them, frequently, and Mike was somebody that perceived the world, that perceived himself and his situation in a way that brought the worst out of him, typically. And when you interact with somebody, you can help them change their perception. When you help them change their perception, you can elevate their engagement and performance. You could say that Mike was a great role model for what I do today because what I do today is I help leaders learn how to effect change that elevates engagement and performance…. Ten years went by. I was commuting to a job in Bartholomew County, Columbus, Indiana, and it was a one hour and 45-minute drive one way… I stopped at 6 a.m. to get a cup of coffee at a gas station. I bumped into Mike for the first time in ten years. He was dressed like a workaday Joe. I asked him where he was going. He was on his way to work at a different local factory. Mike had changed his life. He had also changed my life because I went to graduate school because of my encounter with Mike.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

 In this episode, Keith talks about how being bullied growing up stimulated his interest in how to get someone to receive constructive feedback in a helpful way. He shares that he learned to give people positive and constructive feedback as a volunteer trainer at the Lafayette Crisis Center. He talks about how active listening as he was trained how to do has a healing effect. He shares a success story from his work as a volunteer trainer. Then Keith tells a story about how he learned that the skills he had acquired were insufficient when an employee reacted to his constructive feedback by calling him the worst supervisor she has ever had. He acknowledges how in looking back that he failed by surrendering being the person with the stronger conviction. He shares how constructivism epistemology that he learned in graduate school is like applying the mindset of a true scientist outside of the field of science by recognizing that nothing can be proven, only disproven.  He talks about shifting selection criteria for the perception and for knowledge you choose to which perception or knowledge is more useful instead of more accurate. Keith talks about perceiving as a creative act and that you are responsible for how people perceive your constructive feedback. He notes in Toastmasters, that Toastmasters give and receive constructive feedback in a helpful way. He states while it can be more difficult for constructive feedback to be received in a helpful way in the workplace that this is still possible.

If you are interested in learning from Keith, he invites you to reach out by email: keith@level3bydesign.com or by cell phone: 812-343-2697. Keith notes that he strives to respond within 24 hours, excluding weekends.

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Guest Deslynn Jaquias shares this about her podcast “Healing with Aloha, I launched it in 2019, and then I put it on pause for a little bit to take care of my grandmother. She was in hospice care and that was her last year was this. And then in 2020 during the pandemic, I realized that initially I was going to do it solo, and then I said, you know, I’m going to start inviting other people on to my platform because I felt that I wasn’t the only one who had an urge to share, that I wasn’t the only one who was dealing with grief, mental health, and desires healing. And I thought well let me open it up so that I can have people and it’s open to anyone to come on and so it’s not limited to just to the Hawaiian Islands but it’s open to people from all walks of life to be able to share what they’ve done to work on their healing or what are the passions they have so that they can be able to embrace life to the fullest.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Deslynn Jaquias shares her journey healing from the death of her sister, Keala, in a one-car accident in 2001 at the age of 23. Deslynn talks about missing Keala so much that she started a journal writing letters to Keala to help Deslynn heal. Her overarching message is that healing is possible, that the road to healing is difficult and worth it. She talks about her first book that she is currently writing. She has already included the letters that she wrote to Keala from Deslynn’s journal. Deslynn shares that she sought psychotherapy to help her heal from her Keala’s death. She talks about her Healing with Aloha podcast whose mission is to help people heal from their loss and work on their mental wellness. She shares inspiring stories from her podcast about helping people heal. Deslynn acknowledges that her passion includes helping her podcast guests heal too. She describes healing as a process that involves making progress over time. Her podcast guests include people who have never before shared their story to help others heal. “I just want people to understand that it does take work to heal,and it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.”

To connect with Deslynn, she recommend watching her YouTube channel and listening to her Healing with Aloha podcasts. Her YouTube channel is listed as the website for this episode. Her podcast can be found on Spotify here: https://spoti.fi/3vAFnAs. Deslynn welcomes listeners who resonate with her message to reach out by email. Her email address is:  healingwithalohapodcast@gmail.com. Her Facebook page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008176180737. Here is her LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/deslynnjaquias. Deslynn notes that she is always looking for guests for Healing with Aloha. Deslynn closes this episode with this benevolent Call-to-Action: 1) Follow Healing with Aloha; 2) Let Deslynn know if there is anything she can do to give back.

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Guest Lisa David Olson talks about her book “It’s called Laughs on Wry, and it’s an improvisor’s memoir finding humor through childhood abuse, failed marriages and other hurdles. And the tagline that I have on there that really defines my life is ‘a life made of choices instead of excuses’. I grew up in a traumatic childhood setting where my mother was a functioning alcoholic who would have fits of rage. And I know now as an adult that she was self-medicating herself. And I wouldn’t have known that then as a kid.” Lisa then shares “My book talks about the severity of the horrid parts of my life. It also talks about the joy that my mother brought me. It was a hell of a roller coaster ride. She’s the one that made me believe I could sing and that I could act and that I was funny. You know, it was the weirdest up and down.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Lisa David Olson shares how finding humor changed her life. She talks about her work as a business humorist which she launched in 2019 to help her clients find joy through humor. Lisa states humor brings joy to the workplace. She asserts that she considers herself to be a prankster. She shares that she only practices harmless pranks. Lisa notes before becoming a business humorist that she spent 20 years writing, running, performing, organizing and producing a sketch comedy troop which prepared her to become a business humorist. She notes that she is different than other business humorists because she likes to interact with the audience and does not stand behind a podium. She talks about her two TEDx Talks, Can Humor Save Your Life is about how she learned to use humor to cope with her traumatic life . Her second TEDx Talk is about her passion for harmless pranks. Lisa shares In addition to working with companies to help them learn how to use humor to bring joy into the workplace that she loves coaching people to prepare them to deliver a TEDx Talk and to bring humor into their speeches

To connect with Lisa, she recommends connecting on Facebook or visiting her company’s website, which is the website listed for this episode.  You can find her on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/lisa.olson.improv.buddy. You can also connect with Lisa on Instagram and LinkedIn. To learn from Lisa, she invites you to send her an email at lisa@lisadavidolson.com. She closes this episode by inviting you to accept this benevolent Call-to-Action: Be bold.  Be brave! Dare yourself daily and stay weird!

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In describing how this episode will be different, podcast host Keith Weedman states “I will share some of the best ideas from four recent guests with the intent of bringing more value to you. I will blend in my expertise 1) that knowledge, like beliefs can be limiting; 2) thatyou can change your selection criteria for the knowledge that you choose to apply from accuracy to useful, which knowledge, that fits reality, is the most useful; and 3) that people often confuse acquiring knowledge with applying knowledge to build skills. I am going to focus this episode on key ideas from Episode #49, Eric Feinendegen is a Distinguished Toastmaster, TEDx Speaker, skilled keynote speaker, and certified leadership coach. His message is ‘Strategies to Lead an Inspired Life’. Episode #48, Ant Blair is a skilled Toastmaster, TEDx Speaker, skilled keynote speaker. His message is ‘Keep Your Eyes on the Prize’. Episode #47 Sonja Martinovic is a certified high-performance coach.  Her message is ‘Pursue Your True Self’. Episode #44, Noelle Turner is a retired professor of musical theater. She lives in Essen, Germany. Her message is ‘Without Rotary… I Wouldn’t Be Here’.

In this episode, host Keith Weedman highlights the best ideas he’s learned from these four guests that he believes will be most helpful to you. He acknowledges Eric Feinendegen has reached the finals twice in Toastmasters International’s annual World Championship of Public Speaking. He acknowledges Eric is a certified leadership coach trained by John Maxwell. Keith explains that a certified coach is trained to not give answers, ask open-ended, probing questions, help people solve their own problems, own their solutions, and learn how to solve future problems. Keith recognizes Ant Blair as a skilled Toastmaster with expertise in diversity and inclusion who inspires his African American brothers and sisters to gain access and encourages Caucasians to provide access. Keith talks about certified coach Sonja Martinovic and her dual niche helping entrepreneurs become high performers and helping coaches grow their coaching business. Her expertise includes quantum physics, NLP, mindset, and intuition. Keith shares that Noelle Turner’s message is different because her focus is to give back to Rotary for helping her study the opera in Germany in 1976 after obtaining her master’s degree at Indiana University. She notes Rotary’s motto, Service Above Self is also for self because serving others helps Rotarians succeed. Keith shares about himself and his business acknowledging he will never pursue certification as a coach because his passion is to share the knowledge and skills he has acquired over decades to help leaders solve their employee engagement problem by learning how to effect change that elevates both engagement and performance through brief interactions.

Keith’s company’s website is listed as the website for this episode. Contact information for the four highlighted guest is listed when their episode was recently published. Keith can be reached by email, keith@level3bydesign.com or by phone, 812-343-2697. To learn from Keith, he will be leading a complimentary 30-minute training on Zoom this Friday at 1 p.m. EDS. Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89849467529?pwd=RTFqeW0zRkpsZEJsMytyRXZkQjg4dz09.  

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Guest Eric Feinendegen shares this about his new book, The FEIN-er Things: “The strategies and the philosophies, they’re for everybody, doesn’t matter race, creed, gender, identity, whatever it is. But, here’s where the rubber meets the road. It is not written for someone who wants a quick fix. It’ is not written for someone who wants to take a pill and wake up the next morning and ‘Ahhh , life is wonderful!’ I’m no superman or superwoman! Uh-uh! It is written for people that are willing to get their hands dirty, who are willing to do the mental work, the physical work, people that are willing to be committed, to stay consistent and that are willing to be dreamers. Because, you know, if you look at some of the people who are high achievers, it comes down to desire.

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, guest Eric Feinendegen talks about how playing college basketball at St. Joseph prepared him to lead an inspired life. He notes playing college basketball required accountability, a game plan, a vision, constant practice, rehearsals and everything that goes into winning and competing. He shares that growing up, he envisioned himself as a professional basketball player. He states that he gave up on that vision when he realized that he lacked the height and athleticism to succeed as a pro. He shares that his vision of himself as a keynote speaker started when he was growing up admiring how top motivational speakers could inspire an audience. He shares his 18-year journey in Toastmasters from not being very good at public speaking to finishing twice as one of the finalists from more than 35,000 Toastmasters on the world stage in Toastmasters International’s annual World Championship of Public Speaking. While he is still competing for the World Championship, he has become a skilled keynote speaker through Toastmasters. He talks about the importance of practice, repetition, and learning from failure. He shares stories to inspire listeners including the story of how he met his wife Maggie, one of the many stories in Eric’s book The FEIN-er Things. He shares that his book is intended to benefit everyone provided you understand that this approach requires hard work

For those interested in connecting with Eric, he offers his company’s website which is the website listed for this episode. Eric also recommends connecting with him on Facebook and on LinkedIn. Here is the website address for Eric’s Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/eric.feinendegen. Here is the website address for Eric’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-feinendegen-dtm-05100b1/. Eric closes with this benevolent Call-to-Action inviting listeners to consider this first question very seriously: 1) Where will I be in 5, 10, and 15 years? (Where do you want to be?) (Eric notes that most people cannot answer this first question.) Then ask yourself this second question each morning: 2) How far can I go? (Eric asserts people underestimate what they are capable of achieving.)

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Guest Ant Blair shares with guest host Jason Carr: “The confidence comes from mastery, man. When you know that you know that you know, it’s a wrap. So, when I hit that TEDx stage and delivered that presentation, I knew I was going to kill it. And that might sound like an asshole thing to say, I knew I was going to kill it. I knew I was going to kill it. And when I walked off the stage, after I delivered that speech, I knew that I killed it. And that comes from mastery, man, that comes from mastery. I mastered that speech. Ten years, ten years I was eye on the prize, eye on the prize. Been in Toastmasters for ten years, man.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, guest Ant Blair shares stories from his life starting when he was twelve-years-old and his father gave in to his begging and bought Ant a Commodore 64. He talks about the importance of having a reason beyond ourselves that drives us. Ant shares that his son was his first compelling why, his reason to give up a lifestyle, to stop selling weed on the streets to avoid the risk of getting shot or locked up because his son needed him. He talks about being in the website design industry when demand for websites exploded to experience which led him to launch and grow his own company to 12 people in 2000 before the tech bubble imploded 2001. He notes that he knew more about the Internet than the professors during the first year they included how to use the Internet in their course curriculum. He talks about a core principle he’s learned from personal development professionals and found to be true for himself, that your purpose must be bigger than you, that it must be outside of yourself. He shares his desire to serve this purpose bigger as a keynote speaker. He notes that he knows when he fulfills his purpose because he experiences exponentially more joy and fulfillment from educating and inspiring others than from his own achievements. Guest host Jason Carr confides “As you talked about lighting that match, when you and I first met, you lit that match for me.”

To connect with Ant, he invites you to click on the link to his company’s website. His company’s website is listed as the website for this episode. Guest host Jason Carr highly recommends: 1) watching Ant Blair’s TEDx Talk, Gaining Access (a link to his TEDx Talk can be found on his company’s website.); 2) reading Ant’s white paper “The Five Mistakes Antiracists Make and How You Can Avoid Them”. And if you’re looking for a mentor, guest host Jason Carr highly recommends Ant Blair. 

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Listen for the joy in guest Sonja Martinovic’s voice as she shares a story about a sales manager who, after having earned an ROI being coached by Sonja for two months, he then earned these breakthrough results from investing further in himself: “But what was special is that he really wanted to get rid of this over thinking thing and this perfectionism. So, he hired me only for mindset mastery where we dove into his beliefs and his rules and his values. And within a couple of weeks, he launched (his course) again. And now, he’s like, we had a vision at the beginning of the coaching session, the first coaching session. Now, he’s just manifesting everything one after another, and he’s feeling great for taking action. He let go completely of the perfectionism. He doesn’t experience anxiety. He’s traveling the world. His business is going great. And you know just get to enjoy to see everything that he is manifesting. And the best thing is that he’s not even done 20% of what his potential is.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Sonja shares what drove her to be an entrepreneur and a coach of coaches and includes her passion that drives her today. She recalls questioning how she could dare feel unfulfilled with a six-figure income, a family with children, and a home. She shares her passion for transformation, energy, and strategy to achieve results and for being an entrepreneur. She talks about investing in herself in time and money in her 20-year journey to build an empowering mindset. She defines an empowering mindset as having the grit to get through challenges because you have this inner knowing that you will achieve the result you want. She tells inspiring stories. She shares her coaching approach incorporates strategy, NLP, mindset, her variation of the law of attraction which she invented, and emotional code (releasing emotions trapped in the body).  She notes how she used her intuition to select The Vault as the name for her podcast in spite of marketing concerns expressed by others. She notes with pride that The Vault quickly catapulted into the top 2% of podcasts. She shares that The Vault is for business owners who want this holistic way of living and success and transformation plus tools and strategies, like sales and marketing, to unlock their next level of success.  

For those interested in connecting with Sonja, she suggests connecting with her on Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. You can find Sonja on Facebook here:  https://www.facebook.com/sonja.martinovic.1111. You can find Sonja on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sonja_martinovic_coaching/. You can find Sonja on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonjamartinovic/. She also offers her company’s website as a means to connect. Her company’s website is listed as the website for this episode. For those interested in learning from Sonja, she has workbooks and game plans for people interested in starting a coaching business. She closes with this benevolent Call-to-Action: Listen to an episode of The Vault podcast. See if you like it and you can always get in touch with her.

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Guest Becca Goldsberry invites you to accept this benevolent Call-to-Action: “Say yes to yourself. Say yes to being stress free. Say yes to growth. Say yes to being open-minded, being coachable. Whether coaching is a fit for you or Southwestern is a fit for you, just say yes to yourself. Because when you say yes to yourself, not only are you just helping yourself, but you’re helping your family, your children, your friends. You’re helping the community around you. And yes, means so many different things to so many different people but just say yes and being the very best that you can be professionally and personally. And to me, coaching is just a great vehicle to be able to do that.”

In this episode, Becca Goldsberry shares she is a guest on Embers and Wind to seeking top sales professionals with at least eight years’ experience who are interested in exploring a potential fit with becoming a sales and leadership coach for Southwestern Coaching, a division of Southwestern Consulting. She talks about her love for developing team members and clients to reach their full potential personally and professionally. She notes that the parent company has been around since just after the Civil War with expertise and experience in direct sales. Becca shares her story about how she became a sales and leadership coach for Southwestern Coaching. She states that she knew when she was hired to work for Southwestern Coaching that she knew that she would stay and one day retire from Southwestern Coaching. She talks about Southwestern Consulting creed and how this creed resonates with her faith and her personal values. She shares with pride that Southwestern Coaching adheres to their company creed that states that their complimentary one-hour workshops provided by Southwestern Coaching to introduce companies to their work provides value to help sales team succeed through providing customized content to address the needs that the sales team leader believes will benefit their sales team members. She notes in exchange receiving the complimentary workshop, their company benefits by having the opportunity at the end to sell their one-on-ones coaching for professional salespeople and for their leaders and executives. Becca states that the candidate hired from their comprehensive process will report to Becca. She explains that they have an extensive hiring process to ensure a great fit.

To connect with Becca and Southwestern Coaching, she encourages you to send her an email and she will promptly reply. Her email address is: bgoldsberry@southwesterncoaching.com. Her company’s website is listed as the website for this episode. She invites those interested to connect with her on LinkedIn at this website address: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccagoldsberry/. She invites those interested to follow her on Instagram at this website address: https://www.instagram.com/beccagoldsberryswc/. Becca invites those interested in learning more about the sales and leadership coaching position to email her. She states that additional information about Southwestern Consulting and this position can go to this website:  https://southwesternconsulting.com/.

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Guest Larry McInnes says this about finding happiness: “Oh my gosh, I don’t feel like I have to look for it anymore. I’m so good at finding it. It comes to me. It’s so simple, it’s stupid. You start off with gratitude. I’m grateful for being able to get up in the morning. I’m grateful for the smell of the coffee. I’m constantly grateful for the water that comes out of the faucet because that’s just a miracle to me. Things like sitting in front of you right now and having this opportunity to speak with you is the point of gratitude. I think that’s where a bunch of happiness is rooted”

 I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Larry McInnes shares how his journey to find happiness began when he was sleeping on his friend’s futon with a cat after his wife discovered that he had been involved in a 3-year affair. Instead of filling the happiness when he entered into his affair, he found he had made his life more complicated and then sank to a new low while sleeping on his friend’s futon. He realized then that something had to change and that he was the thing that needed to change. After being on his path to find happiness for 10 years, Larry notes how thrilled he is to discover he no longer needs to seek happiness because he has finally found it. He asserts learning how to generate gratitude was a foundation for his success. For those seeking a life filled with happiness and abundance, Larry recommends starting a gratitude journal to log 3 things you feel grateful for at the start of each day for 7 days, then revisit your gratitude journal at the end of each day. Larry shares his intention is to help those seeking happiness and abundance to collapse how much time it takes them to find both by utilizing the tools and techniques he has developed to learn what he’s learned in a fraction of the time instead of taking their own loopy path.  

To connect with Larry, he invites you to contact him through his happiness and abundance website which is the website listed for this episode. Larry invites you to connect with him on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Faebook. Here is the link to Larry’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrymcinnes/. To connect with Larry on Instagram, he offers this link: https://www.instagram.com/hey.larry.mcinnes/.  For Facebook, he offers this link to his company’s business page: https://www.facebook.com/Happiness-and-Abundance-Challenge-103861591800187/. If you are interested in learning more from Larry, he wants you to know that he has a happiness tool available on his website, developed by the University of Pennsylvania, as a starting place to scientifically measure your current state of happiness. He closes with this benevolent Call-to-Action: 1) start a gratitude journal; 2) start each day by logging 3 things you feel grateful for at the start of each day; 3) keep a notebook close by in case find something to feel grateful for in the middle of the day. 

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Guest Noelle Turner, born in the states and living for 45 years in Germany talks about cultural differences: “In the beginning, it was a difference, and there are still things that bother me, there are many. It’s just little funny things that they don’t sometimes keep a physical distance, like they walk past you and maybe bump into you and don’t notice it. It’s just how their culture is. You know, for us that would be considered rude. Or like, if you’re talking to one of your friends, or something and they’ll say something like ‘You look really terrible today!’ For me, that’s an insult. And Germans do that in a way to show they care. But it still bothers me, you know, ‘You look really tired.’ And sometimes you feel great, and it makes you feel like ‘Oh, is there something wrong with me today?’ I would never think of telling somebody that they didn’t look good that day. But for them it’s a way of showing that they’re interested in you and that they care about you. But I still get insulted when people say that.”

In this episode, Noelle shares how winning a Rotary Ambassadorial scholarship from Rotary in 1975 while finishing her master’s degree at Indiana University in Bloomington opened the door for her to study opera in Germany and learn the German language. She talks about earning the opportunity to stay in then West Germany led to a career as an opera singer. She notes it was her love of musical theater growing up near New York that she developed in high school that enabled her to become the first musical theater professor in Germany because there was no one in Germany with comparable musical theater knowledge and experience as she had acquired from watching a Broadway show every Saturday. She recalls how touched she was when invited to join Rotary 15 years ago because this gave her a way to thank Rotary for the scholarship. She shares the discomfort she felt being the first female member of her club for a full year, a club that included 80 men. She notes she was offered the privilege to serve as club President 5 years later. She notes how serving as club President was a way to thank Rotary for the scholarship. She recounts seizing the opportunity to return to Bloomington, Indiana, in March 2013 to express her gratitude to the Bloomington Rotary club for the scholarship she received in 1975 during her term as President of the Rotary club in Essen, Germany. She recounts being asked by the female District Governor to help start a Rotary Passport club, a club that meets only virtually. She shares with pride that she will become club President on July 1st. While Noelle shares that she retired from her professor position at the Fulkwang University of the Arts five years ago, she feels busy and blessed by opportunities to teach masterclasses and workshops all over Europe in addition to providing private lessons.  

To connect with Noelle, she recommends reaching out to her by email: noelleturner@me.com. For those interested in exploring learning from Noelle, she invites you to contact her by email and Noelle will set up a Zoom meeting to have a chat.  She invites you to accept this benevolent Call-to-Action from this quote by Henry David Thoreau “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” Noelle invites you to accept others the way they and stay true to your calling.    

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Guest Cameron Davidson states: “So it’s actually kind of funny. The first time I heard about Rotary, of course before I knew what it was, I kind of just thought it was a club of just older people who just, you know, hung out and would have conversations. So the very first time I actually heard of Rotary and had an experience with Rotary, was when I was a sophomore in high school. My English teacher had encouraged me to participate in the (Rotary) 4-Way speech contest that our local Rotary club was hosting and the grand prize was $100. So, 15-year-old me thought ‘Wow, $100! What can I not do with $100?’ So of course, I uh, I signed up to participate, and I ended up coming in first place. And this was like the very first experience that I had with the Rotary club…. The Rotary 4-Way Test is kind of like this motto that Rotarians and people associated with the Rotary club follow. And it’s essentially like a guide that guides your actions and your thoughts and what you say. And basically, it’s just ensuring that everything that you say or do is true. It’s fair to everyone concerned. It builds good will and better friendships. And it’s beneficial to everybody concerned.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Cameron Davidson recounts his multiple encounters with Rotary and putting service above self, beginning with winning $100 in the Rotary 4-Way Test speech competition as a high school sophomore. He shares how meeting high school students all around the world broadened his perception by participating in Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) program. He explains how participating in RYLA stimulated his interest in Rotary Youth Exchange. He talks about how attending school for one year in Mexico through Rotary Youth Exchange and living with a host family stimulated his interest in obtaining his education and then committing his career to peace and conflict prevention/resolution, one of the six areas of focus of The Rotary Foundation. He shares what it felt like to win Rotary District 6580’s $40,000 Global Grant Scholarship Award to obtain his master’s degree in Spain in Global and International Studies with a focus on nationalism and conflict management. He challenges people, including older people, to do things outside of their comfort zone. 

For those who want to connect with Cameron, he recommends connecting with him on Facebook or on Instagram. His Facebook page is listed as the website for this episode. This link is to his Instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/cam.davidson99/. He also offers his email as a means to connect with him: davidsonca2015@gmail.com. His benevolent Call-to-Action is to push yourself outside of your comfort zone by meeting new people, trying new things and doing something you would normally never do. 

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Host Keith Weedman states “I was working with a leader who led a team. In the second module, he acquired useful knowledge to apply to build his skill giving an employee constructive feedback in a way that effects change that elevates their engagement and performance. He received a two-week daily call to action to apply what he learned to build this leadership skill in 2 to 5 minutes each workday. This leader shared that he gave constructive feedback to a direct report one day. Then he gave them time to think about it and followed up the next workday. Then he stated ‘But the piece of feedback that I really took out of our last session was letting them kind of end that conversation and go into that reflection mode and then coming back to them a day later to check in was really beneficial because it allowed us to have a productive conversation about going forward. They reflected on what feedback I had given them and then we were able to put together a plan on how to really move forward and take that feedback and really capitalize on it. And that was something I had never done before.’”

In this episode, Keith shares four ways he helps benevolent leaders solve their employee engagement problem: 1) expressing gratitude; 2) giving positive feedback; 3) giving constructive feedback; 4) sharing relevant, inspiring stories. He includes guidance for each of these ways. He tells three inspiring stories to illustrate them. One story he shares is about a benevolent leader he met in Rotary who stands out even among Rotarians by the example he sets putting service above self. He states he began studying and practicing constructivism epistemology in graduate school while he was working in a leadership position which eventually stimulated him to apply what he learned to help benevolent leaders solve their employee engagement problem by learning multiple ways to effect change that elevates both engagement and performance through brief interactions. He shares he invested 20,000 hours building his skill and developing curriculum to help leaders acquire relevant knowledge to build their skill elevating engagement and performance through brief interactions.

To connect with Keith, his company’s website is listed as the website for this episode. To connect with Keith on LinkedIn, this link will take you to his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-weedman-34335051/. His email address is keith@level3bydesign.com. His cell phone number is 812-343-2697. He states he will respond to your contact within 24 hours. To learn from Keith, he invites you to schedule a 30-minute Zoom chat by clicking on this link to his calendar (https://my.timetrade.com/book/J1LRC) to start to get to know one another, learn a little bit about your work, and answer your questions about his. 

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Guest Jason Carr states “I went out to Facebook. I found somebody named Marci Hemby, and I reached out to her. I said ‘Did you go to St. Simons?’ And she said “Yes, I did.’ I said ‘What grade did you go there in?’ She said ‘I was there in the 3rd and 4th grade.’ And we continued to talk back and forth. And I quickly became, I don’t want to say devastated, but a little depressed. And the reason why I became depressed is that all these years Marci had had a profound impact on me, but she didn’t remember who I was. All these years for some reason I had held our friendship high in my mind. And when she didn’t remember me that caused me to reflect on well why, after you said three and a half decades, did I still remember this person from 3rd grade? As I began to reflect on this, I began to understand that she singlehandedly taught me the lesson that’s it’s OK to be yourself. She’s my first friend I ever had that was that demonstration that it’s Ok to be who you are, and you don’t have to seek continual popularity to be happy.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Jason Carr helps listeners understand how impactful brief interactions can be in our life. He talks about being the new kid in school in the second grade and how well he was treated as the new kid. He talks about how his status changed the following year when he was no longer new to the school. He shares how a brief interaction with Marci in the 3rd grade impacted him for 3 and ½ decades. He shares the important life lesson she showed him. He talks about how he applies what he learned from Marci by gravitating toward folks who are not popular. He notes that he finds them to be both interesting and very strong people. He shares how he first became the Toastmasters mentor for Embers and Wind host Keith Weedman and then how Keith became his mentor in giving feedback to people he’s responsible for, servant leadership and in recognizing that you always have an impact on people you interact with. Jason acknowledges that he is writing a book to thank all the people who have made a significant impact on his life. He has not yet decided on the name for his book. He’s been thinking about the title being Thank You. He encourages listeners to write their book to thank people who have made a significant impact on their life.

To connect with Jason Carr, Jason’s LinkedIn profile is listed as the website for this episode. Jason also invites you to reach out to him by email at Jason.carr0815@gmail.com.  

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    Guest Kirk Bouchie, current Rotary District #6580 Governor serving southern Indiana, shares what drew him to Rotary “I joined Rotary #1 because I was asked. One of our board members asked me to join and to come to Rotary. And #2, I thought it was a good thing to do as a community leader, a young community leader. I really didn’t know what I was doing at that point, but I knew that there were a lot of people that were in the Rotary club at that time that I needed to get to know. Many of them I knew. Having grown up here, I knew the names. I probably knew some of the families. I knew a lot of the people that were in leadership at that time, I knew a lot of their kids because I was kind of the next generation. It gave me an opportunity to meet more people in an informal setting. I guess the buzz word now that we use for that is networking.”

    I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

    In this episode, Kirk talks about growing up in Vincennes, Indiana. He notes with pride that Vincennes is a decade away from celebrating their tricentennial He credits Vincennes University for helping him succeed in college. He notes why his family moved back to Vincennes, Indiana. He talks about his passion for baseball and how he got involved in the Babe Ruth League when his sons were five years old. In addition to coaching a team, he also volunteered in administering the Babe Ruth league system. He remains active as the President of Vincennes Cub League Inc., their community name for the Babe Ruth League, where he has served as President since 1998. He talks about how volunteering for the Babe Ruth League fits Rotary’s call for selfless service. He shares that he joined Rotary for networking and stays engaged because he enjoyed the fellowship being among people with benevolent hearts doing good work in their community.  

    Kirk invites you to connect with him through Rotary. The link to Rotary International's website is listed as the website for this episode. He invites those who live in southern Indiana to learn more about the clubs in the southern Indiana District by clicking on this link: https://www.rotary6580.org/. He ends the conversation with this benevolent Call-to-Action invitation:

·        Find a Rotary meeting in your community. (Rotary International's website has a search feature to help you find a club close to where you live.)

·        Consider visiting to meet new people with a benevolent heart to do good in your community.

·        Enjoy your visit.

·        Remember, through Rotary you can make a difference on the world stage, and more importantly, you can make a difference in your own community. 

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Guest Brian Buck states “I’m a huge proponent, I don’t know where this concept came from, but it’s ‘Your attitude is contagious.’ And so are we being purposeful in what we’re infecting others with? Are we infecting each other with respect and positivity? Or are we infecting each other, and like you can feel when someone distrusts you. You can feel when someone thinks they’re above you or below you. And so it is really important that we are conscious about what we really believe about the others around us and how that effects that because it will show up in how your customers feel.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Brian Buck shares that he has 12-years’ experience in the corporate world in the healthcare industry and his expertise in the Lean or Six Sigma or the Toyota Production System and their two pillars. He shares that one pillar is the scientific element of improvement: the plan, do, check, act. He states the second Toyota pillar is relationships. He asserts relationships are essential in building and sustaining quality and notes that companies who focus only on plan, do ,check, act will struggle because the way employees are treated will impact customers. He notes that he believes in both pillars. In response to how his faith influences Brian’s work, he shares that he is a Christian and by helping his clients overcome fear his work is in alignment with his faith to love your neighbor as yourself because fear is the opposite of love. He notes his core values include self-responsibility, trust, respect, and innovation. He admits that he is a Geek and that he loves Stars Wars and especially the Trilogy. He shares his intention to narrow his niche to work with Geeks and help them unleash their superhero. He shares two obstacles he had to overcome as an entrepreneur. One was being comfortable with where he was, a need to manufacture urgency.

To connect with Brian, you can click on the link listed as the website for this episode. He also invites you to connect with him on LinkedIn by clicking on this link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbuck/; or Facebook with this link: https://www.facebook.com/brianrobertbuck; or Instagram with this link: https://www.instagram.com/coachbrianbuck/. To learn more from Brian, he invites you to click on the link listed as the website for this episode.

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While most people remember where they were on 9/11, Guest Mark Pillar recounts his vivid memory being engaged in a Strategic Command simulated exercise, under the direction of Admiral Mies, when Admiral Mies canceled the exercise to respond to the attack on the World Trade Center: “Being a pilot, I mean there’s not a cloud in the sky. And so you’d think that maybe… Certainly air traffic control would not have vectored this airplane into the tower. Probably the guy had a heart attack or something like that and hit it inadvertently. And at the time we didn’t know what kind of airplane it was. We thought it was maybe a private airplane, a small Cessna or something like that. And so as we were watching the first tower burn, we saw the second airplane which obviously was a commercial jetliner, we saw that go right into the building and the fire shoot out the other end. And that changed everything. And Admiral Mies turned and said ‘That’s no accident! We’re under attack. Send a message, messages out to cancel the exercise, and we’ll go into real world operations.’”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Mark Pillar shares his first passion was service to his country which he fulfilled by staying with the Air Force and then the Air Force Reserves long after his ROTC commitment was fulfilled. He talks about his work ethic and his willingness to step beyond his comfort zone resulted in him earning promotions “two levels above my competency.” In response to a direct question, he humbly acknowledges retiring as a Two Star Major General. He shares his experience on 9/11 and how he was engaged in a simulated exercise in the Strategic Command Center when the World Trade Center was struck. He references President Bush’s landing in their midst during the first day of the crisis. He shares how the U.S. Military responded to this attack including to the multiple subsequent threats made against the United States. He talks about how he transitioned from full-time with the Air Force to the Air Force Reserves which enabled him to work full-time for Delta Airlines. He notes while their children were growing up, he limited his engagement to their children’s activities and their church as he balanced two careers and traveling for days at a time. He states his retirement from Delta Airlines and the Air Force Reserves allowed him more time to get engaged in Columbus, Indiana where he lives. He shares that his passion for service before self, his military commitment, pulled him into Rotary. He talks about his passion for the Philharmonic and shares his pride for Rotary when 75% of the board members for the Philharmonic were Rotarians, an example of service before self.

To connect with Mark Pillar, his email address is: mpillar23@hotmail.com. His cell phone number is: 317-514-7323. He welcomes the opportunity to provide his 9/11 briefing to your organization. He will donate his time. He has no company website. He closes with an invitation for you to accept this benevolent Call-to-Action: “Figure out what your passion is. Not everything can be your passion. But you can serve, you can serve others and heaven knows there’s enough need out there…. You don’t have to lead all of them, but you can participate, and you can help.”

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Guest Bob Lewis talks about how he teaches leaders to utilize behavioral interviewing to help them hire and retain top talent: “I tell people that you can have measurable stuff in behavioral just as skill. But you really have to have strong data to support those behaviors. Just like the question of ‘Are you a good listener?’ how can you tell? The predictive answer is that a good listener talks about other people. A non-predictive answer which is kind of a term that they said they talked about themselves. In that answer, I didn’t get a measurement that they have communication skills. But if I give them a predictive answer, meaning that they have the answer to that question meaning they talked about other folks, then I’m going to ask them several questions around communication. I’m just not going to ask one in isolation. I actually usually ask five questions for communication, and they have to get 3 out of the 5 right to say ‘You know what, I think they’re a good communicator.’ All too often, we ask one question, and then we go around the table and they say ‘Who did you like?’ And they hire that person on who they liked and not the actual data from the interview.”

In this episode, Bob Lewis shares many tips leaders can utilize to both hire and retain talent. He notes past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. He encourages leaders to ask their top performers how they would answer a question they intend to utilize in their job interviews and then compare candidates’ answers with top performers'. He draws a distinction between behavioral interviewing and selection and talent interviewing and shares how he utilizes both to hire and retain talent. He shares how he utilizes the data from the job interviews of new employees to give to new employees in the first 30-seconds as a written document and in the verbal overview he subsequently provides. He talks about strengths and StrengthsFinder from Gallup and how much he values what he learned from StrengthsFinder. He states, based upon his own experience, that people can significantly build their strengths while make only minimal improvement on their gaps. He talks about how he utilizes data from new employees’ job interviews to set goals that build on their strengths and manage the gaps they want to manage. He shares inspiring stories from his work that illustrate how he utilizes the ideas he shares. He notes that he sees his leadership role as being a guide to employee success which facilitates employee learning and engagement. He notes that he utilizes Neuro-linguistic Programming and all three learning styles (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic) in his work.He shares the importance of utilizing the learning style of each employee he leads and being respectful of them and what they say they prefer. He shares as an example that some employees like being praised in front of others while others prefer a private setting. He talks about stay interviews, why some of your top talent stays, and how a leader can learn from them.

Bob Lewis’s company website is the website for this episode. To connect with Bob on LinkedIn, he invites you to click on this link to his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-lewis-ms-phr-7a52a45/ He offers his email address: boblewistraining@gmail.com and his phone number, 512-740-0889 as other ways to connect with him. To learn from Bob, he invites you to ask him questions by phone, text message, or email. 

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Guest Lori Phillips states “Through a God wink, a God signal to us, he reconnected us back in 2015. Through just serendipity, we were brought back together and at the time both of us were living pretty miserable lives. Even though you know you don’t show that to people, you aren’t forthcoming with that with people because you’re a little ashamed. Through our reconnection, we were able to go to a women’s retreat. And all we knew was that it was women that we didn’t know coming together, and it was something about positivity. The hand of God, we were placed together in that retreat.

Guest Tonya Hendley added “So we didn’t know what we were getting into. We came together and started learning in this two or three days so much information that there was a different way to live, and that we could create and live how we wanted to. And so I think that it was really empowering to know that life was not happening to us. We were happening to life, and we were allowing life to run us instead of the other way around. And so, I think that we just after that retreat really sat back and said ‘OK, we don’t want to live like this anymore.’”

In this episode, Lori and Tonya talk about being roommates in college and then losing touch with one another. They share their journey learning about positivity after being reconnected with one another. They tell how they started The Positive Vibe Tribe, a Facebook group to help their friends and one another feed their mind positivity because there was so much in spite of all the negativity on their social media feeds. They share how they opened the doors to meet the needs of other people to find more positivity and how their Facebook group has grown to serve 26.9K people. They talk about the Success Principles they learned from their training to become Jack Canfield certified trainers. (Jack Canfield is the author of many books including the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.) One of the Success Principles that they focused on was to take 100% responsibility for your life. Lori and Tonya also learned and now teach people to choose their response instead of react. They share how they became published authors in the bestselling book Permission Granted where twenty women share their inspiring stories about how they gave themselves permission. They describe themselves as the biggest cheerleader for one another. They also hold one another accountable. They talk about their business, Higher Navigation and how it naturally evolved. As they deepened their knowledge and experience with positivity, meditation and healing, people started asking them to provide training and keynote speeches.  

To connect with Lori and Tonya, their company’s website is listed as the website for this episode. Their Positive Vibe Tribe Facebook group can be accessed by clicking on this link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/206626039828963 To learn from Lori and Tonya, they invite you to subscribe to their podcast as a great place to start. Here is the link to their podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finding-your-way-with-lori-and-tonya/id1565893281.

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Guest Richard Villasana states “My empathy for Latino children in foster care came from the fact that they are undeserved in the foster care industry. I have a particular draw to them because of my background which involves doing international business in Latin America, and also, being Latino myself and the fact that these children have special challenges in the foster care system. The foster care system really is not prepared to deal with these children. Because of that lack of resources and education, I feel that these children are being undeserved.”

 I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Richard shares that he grew up In Texas in a household with nine children and loving parents. He shares how he became a champion for Latino children who are in foster care in the United States. He talks about the language barrier and the cultural barrier. He asserts the reason that there are not enough Latino foster parents who speak Spanish is due to cultural differences. He shares stories of children and teenagers who were placed in the home of family and the essential role Forever Homes for Foster Kids plays in helping child protection agencies find family members living in the United States and in other countries. He shares the joy he experiences each time Forever Homes for Foster Kids finds a permanent family relative home for a foster child. He talks about the professional sales training he has received and how that helps him with fundraising and collaborating to help more foster children. He shares his own positive experience utilizing Facebook for fundraising to financially support their not-for-profit organization. He notes Facebook started helping not-for-profit organizations with fundraising three years ago and how that change has “transformed” his agency. He confirms that Forever Homes for Foster Children is helping the federal government reunite children with their parents who had previously been separated by the federal government at the border between Mexico and the United States in accordance with the federal government’s family separation policy. He talks about the book he has already written and is publishing about the effect of this family separation policy on parents and children who were separated. His book includes stories of children who were separated from their parents and placed into foster care that Forever Homes for Foster Kids has helped locate parents and relatives for reunification. His book also projects the long-term effect of this policy upon the United States. 

Forever Homes for Foster Kids website is listed as the website for this episode. To connect with Richard, Richard invites you to visit the Forever Homes for Foster Kids Facebook page by clicking on this link: https://www.facebook.com/FAMILYFINDINGMX. Richard states that the best way to help Forever Homes for Foster Kids fulfill their mission is by providing financial support through their website or their Facebook group. He closes with a benevolent Call-to-Action inviting you to share a post from Forever Homes for Foster Kids Facebook page to help educate more people about the needs of foster children. 

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Paul Glover states “I’m an acquired taste. Only about 20% of those leaders who come to me through referrals actually become clients. Most of the time my approach, by the way I bill myself as the no BS workplace performance coach because I really believe that it is difficult to change. And when leaders come to a coach, they’re looking to improve, to get better, to change. But it’s a hard process and harder than most leaders expect. And I tell everyone that the most difficult person to coach is a person who’s successful. They go ‘You want me to do what and it's going to hurt? Well I’m not so sure that I want to do that. ’ Well that requires commitment. So when I engage in a coaching relationship, there has to be commitment on both sides. I expect the person who I’m going to be coaching to commit to the process. But I also believe that I need to commit, not just my time. So I decided that the way I approach coaching is that my compensation is based on results.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Paul Glover shares his mistakes that landed him in federal prison. He recounts how his hubris resulted in him spending 18 more months in prison. He talks about his journey to own responsibility for his past criminal acts and how it began while incarcerated with time to reflect on his past actions. He shares how coaches helped him to see his blind spots and asserts every leader ought to have a coach, someone to help them see their blind spots. He talks about his choices after being discharged from federal prison. He shares how easy it would have been to let his to leave his criminal acts as his legacy. He owns that his past criminal behavior closed the door on his law career. He explains why he chose to become a coach to utilize his strengths as a persuasive communicator to help small business owners and their leadership teams build persuasive communications skills.  He talks about  antifragility, the ability to use adversity to leap forward, that he discovered in his own journey and how he helps small business owners to use adversity to leap forward. He shares his 3 blind spots that were involved in his criminal acts which led him to prison: the need to belong, the need for approval and hubris. He stresses the importance of employee engagement and the book he wrote ten years ago, Workquake that he is pleased with now because he believes business leaders are ready, thanks to the tsunami of employee resignations, to confront the need to engage employees, a step toward employee ownership he wrote about in his book. 

To connect with Paul, his company's website is the website listed for this episode. You can reach Paul by email:  paul@paulglovercoaching.com. You can connect with Paul on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulglovercoaching/.

To learn more from Paul, he offers a complimentary coaching session which enables you the opportunity to assess whether his style is a good fit. He also publishes articles on LinkedIn and Forbes. His book, WorkQuake, is available at book stores.

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Keith Weedman states “May you and your family be blessed during the holidays. May some of these blessings extend to every day of every year.  Whether you are a Christian, have a different faith or consider yourself to be an agnostic or an atheist, you can experience these benefits each and every day of every year. These benefits are two positive emotions many associate with the giving and receiving of gifts with people they love. They are joy in giving and gratitude in receiving. These emotions are entwined with one another. The more gratitude you feel and express in receiving a gift from someone you love, the more joy the giver feels in giving this gift to you. The reason you want to experience these positive emotions every day of every year is both emotions elevate performance. They do not just elevate performance; they also elevate engagement.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Keith Weedman shares that many people experience joy in giving and gratitude in receiving Christmas presents with people they love. He notes these positive emotions elevate engagement and performance. These are the benefits he invites you to experience each and every day of every year. He talks about his Toastmaster mentor Jason Carr and how he helped Keith build his public speaking skills. He shares his desire for more people to benefit from Toastmasters.  He talks about the Bartholomew County Works Program (BCW) and the faith Keith has in Jason Carr and Dr. Felipe Martinez (Keith’s pastor) to teach Keith’s curriculum to BCW participants. He shares some of the feedback Dr Martinez received from teaching these training modules earlier this month.  Keith also shares stories to inspire you. He closes with an invites you to express your gratitude to people you love for their Christmas gift to you on Christmas and then express gratitude for the next two weeks for one person you work with each workday.

The website link for this episode is Keith’s company. To connect with Keith, his email address is keith@level3bydesign.com. His cell phone number is 812-343-2697. His LinkedIn profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-weedman-34335051/. Keith enjoys getting to know people on Zoom, learning about their work including their successes and challenges. If you are interested in learning from Keith, he offers a complimentary 30-minute, one-to-one leadership training utilizing Zoom for you to learn ideas you can immediately apply to generate benefits from your benevolent action. 

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Reflecting why he chose this title for this episode, guest Steven English states: “Stepping past the comfortable and the familiar, so many people, including myself, we live in that comfortable and familiar. And when I look back on the last three years, yeah three years, three years and a month, something like that. It actually goes even further back now that I think about it. There were a lot of steps where I was stepping past the comfortable and the familiar. As the end of my biography introduction goes, my background is in science. I was a product and process control engineer, product quality and reliability engineer, reliability engineer, all of that in the semiconductor industry for all those years. And what would have been the default would have been to just stick around in it and not allow myself to express what I really, really felt was the gift that I was given. That’s why I chose that is I feel like if we could have a conversation that’s going to serve somebody, I feel that I want to make that the cornerstone because I know there’s so many people out there who have talents and passions and characteristics that are just not expressed because they are stuck in the comfortable and the familiar.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Steven talks about some of the challenges he has confronted in his own life. He shares he was once an introvert and how Toastmasters helped him find his own voice. He tells how, over the past several years, he kept finding himself stepping past the comfortable and the familiar to utilize his gift and unleash his passion. He shares his belief that introverts can change the world if they choose to step past the comfortable and familiar and invest in themselves. He talks about his personal problem with alcohol. He confides how abusing alcohol led to two arrests and spending time in a jail cell. He shares stories about professionals he has helped change their lives including those who choose to set aside alcohol. He notes that he typically helps his clients address other challenges before they share about their desire to set aside the bottle. He talks about his philosophy to help a professional who chooses to resolve their problem with alcohol in a way that aligns with their beliefs and values. He talks about his TEDx Talk and his willingness to be vulnerable to serve others. By joining this conversation, you may see what this podcast host sees, that Steven’s has the passion and the skill to help professionals unleash theirs.

To connect with Steven on LinkedIn or Facebook, please click on this LinkTree link:https://linktr.ee/stevenenglish512. His company's website is listed as the website for this episode. To learn more from Steven, he has blogs on his company website, vlogs (video blogs) on LinkedIn and Facebook. He also has a link to his TEDx Talk through the LinkTree link. He offers a complimentary 15-minute coaching session that can be accessed from his company's website.

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Guest Julie D’Ann states, “Honestly, I have to say, I feel like my entire life has prepared me to come to this moment. I remember when I was growing up always just wondering ‘How do you figure out what you want to do in this life?’ There’s just so much, and there were so many places I wanted to go. I just couldn’t figure out anything. I just wanted to experience things. And now that I look back on my life, I realize that all of those experiences were preparing me for this moment, to come to the realization of my true purpose in life. And finding that purpose is why we’re all here. You have to go through life and experience life to figure out what it is that you want and you don’t want and then you discover your purpose. And my purpose I believe is guiding others, specifically children, to figuring out that there is a process to discovering your true nature and purpose in life. And so it is amazing and it’s a wonderful feeling to have finally arrived. And now being able to share this with the world is so empowering, and it gives you a sense of confidence and resentment? and resolve unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before.”

In this episode, guest Julie D’Ann shares how her experiences in meditation, yoga, law of attraction prepared her to fulfill her mission helping children become resilient. She tells how meditation inspired her to create a program for children that blends movement with breathwork with directing her mind and what she learned from the law of attraction. She explains what she means by empowerment. She shares stories to inspire parents and teachers. Julie shares her vision for what self-empowered children will achieve with teachers and parents as her partners in helping children be resilient. She references teachers and parents as role models for children and motivates them to be positive role models. She asserts everyone has a purpose in life. It is up to each person to discover theirs for themselves. She shares tips and tricks you can utilize to discover your purpose. She talks about what she learned from law of attraction, that thoughts are electricity and feelings are magnets. Her message is uplifting. You  can feel Julie’s pull to take action to discover your purpose. She closes with an invitation to act.

To connect with Julie, she invites you to send her an email or call her. Her email address is illuminateyourlife@gmail.com. Her telephone number is 865-773-7787. Her free Facebook group is the website link for this episode. Her personal Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014005230828.

To learn more from Julie, please reach out by email or by phone. Please consider yourself welcome to join her free Facebook group where she shares videos, stories and other things. She would be pleased to share resources she created to help children. 

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Karen Gibson states “A lot of parents don’t see the need for a parent coach. For tutoring, I made the most when the economy was at its worst because parents will do anything for their children. But they don’t realize when you invest in themselves as a parent, and when you become a better parent, guess what? Your children will benefit from your parenting skills because if you parent the way that you were parented… I mean a lot of parents say ‘I turned out fine.’ But you know how we talked about unawareness. How do you really know that what you’re teaching your child will build resilience? If you’re frustrated with your child. That means when you find yourself saying ‘Why can’t they be more responsible? Why aren’t they listening? What am I doing that’s wrong? It really does take, like you said, parent resilience. Yeah, that’s actually a good course, Parents Resilience Training because we don’t realize that the way we speak to our children can cause childhood trauma. The way we speak to our children can build their self-confidence or destroy their self-confidence.”  

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Karen talks about her career transitions from special education teacher to student tutor to parent coach. She shares how as a tutor she found herself being a resource for parents. She talks about how in the process of becoming a certified life coach, she decided to learn Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to be more effective coaching her parents. She explains what NLP is and what mindset means. She shares why she needed her daughters’ permission to publish her first book. She shares that she published her second book, 100 Parenting TipsShe shares inspiring stories about how she has helped parents through her coaching and students through her tutoring. She

To connect with Karen, her company’s website is the website for this episode. You can also susbscribe to her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMVnelNweEg1_OCp51_aXRQ  She can be found on Instagram by clicking on this link: https://www.instagram.com/lettinggowithaloha/. She can be found on Facebook by clicking on this link: https://www.facebook.com/karen.k.gibson. You can also reach Karen by email: karen@lettinggowithaloha.com..

To learn from Karen, she has two videos from her parenting summit on her YouTube channel. She has two published books available on Amazon. Momma’s Got to Let Go: How to Let Go without Losing Your Sanity: https://amzn.to/2ZHqfnW; One Hundred Parenting Tips Inspired by the Pandemic: https://amzn.to/32EGVgN;   She also provides one-to-one coaching for parents. Her first coaching session is a complimentary session.

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Keith Weedman states “Because my passion is benevolent leadership, I found myself captivated by the possibility that a leader can generate and accentuate their feeling of gratitude within themselves and elevate their own engagement and performance while also expressing gratitude for someone they lead and elevating theirs too. For those who know me well, you know that everything you learn from me is relevant in both personal and professional relationships.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Keith shares how reading High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard influenced him to explore the benefits of expressing gratitude. Because Thanksgiving is this week, Keith draws a correlation between feeling thankful and feeling grateful. He shares how the pilgrims on November 25, 1621 celebrated Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag Indians. He notes how in 1621 the pilgrims felt thankful for being alive after losing more than 50% of their fellow pilgrims during their first harsh winter. He then compares how many people take for granted today their life, life amenities and people they love. The emphasis of this episode is to ensure you feel and express your thankfulness for people you love.  you may want to contemplate whether Keith draws parallels between feeling thankful for people you love with feeling for people you lead. If you believe you have been taking people you love for granted, Keith invites you to express your thankfulness for them to them this Thanksgiving.

To connect with Keith, you can reach him by cell phone at 812-343-2697 or by email, keith@level3bydesign.com. His company’s website is listed as the website for this episode. He prefers to connect with people on LinkedIn. His LinkedIn profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-weedman-34335051/. 

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In describing how he helps people keep their dream job after helping them land it, guest James Kennedy states “So in terms of helping them keep it, well in terms of the skills and stuff that I’ve given them, Keith. Okay, what’s a dream job one day might not be what they want to do forever. Right. So the tools I’m giving to people as part of the resume course as a part of the training and everything I give them, is a skill for life. So that when they’ve had enough of that one job, they can start looking for the next level in whatever the next level is for them. Because when I work with people, I say your resume is a living document, right. The next job that you get into, there’s going to be stories, there’s going to be problems that you’ve had there that you need to keep documenting all the way through so that when it comes to the next job you already have the stories there, you’ve kept up to date, to help people go on to the next level whatever the next level is for them.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, James shares how his journey through six careers over 20 years prepared him to help unappreciated high performers find their dream job. He talks about what it feels like to be pigeon-holed by his employer. He notes he knows what is going on in the mind of a hiring manager from having been a hiring manager. He talks about how he helps people he works with to utilize the Star Method in job interviews to help job candidates address those responsibilities in the past by sharing their stories and experiences. He shares how about viewing job descriptions as a list of problems that a hiring manager wants a job candidate to solve. He shares how he helps people write their cover letter and CV (curriculum vitae) to respond to the problems a hiring manager wants a job candidate to solve. He shares stories to imspire those who join this conversation about people he has helped find their dream job. Through the stories he tells, you will notice that many discover their passion after meeting James.

To connect with James Kennedy, his LinkedIn profile is the website listed for this episode in the Show Notes. He posts a video every day on LinkedIn and enjoys connecting with people on LinkedIn.

To learn from James, you can join his free Facebook group: Dream Job Search Support Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/449373452409333. He believes connection comes first in a coaching relationship. He offers a free coaching session to be helpful. This provides a means to assess whether James could help you further.

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In talking about his Communications Mastermind, guest Larry Kettle states: “People hear you with their ears, but they listen with their heart. In that course we talk about if you talk to a person in a language they understand they will hear you. But when you talk to them in their language, they will listen to you. And sometimes people don’t understand different one’s love languages. We don’t speak the same language even if the language we’re speaking is English. Not everybody looks at things the same way or talks about things the same way. And so learning how to listen is one of the greatest components of connection instead of just over talking. For instance one of the things we go over is that when people are listening to somebody talk how many times are they in their own minds going over what they are going to say when this person gets done. And so they’re listening to respond instead of listening to understand or listening to support. And so in this course we teach people how to listen to understand.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Larry shares his story about how he felt called by God to become a pastor. He shares his experience serving as presbyter for the Assemblies of God and being responsible for many pastors in this role and the life coach training he received through the church while in this role stimulated his interest in life coaching. He believes serving as a life coach is how God wants him to be an encourager of others. He talks about becoming a student of leadership expert John Maxwell who is also a pastor. He shares how what he learned as a life-coach helps him in pastoral counseling empower his parishioners to get a grip on their current reality. He asserts his belief that acquiring these life coaching skills could help other pastors in a similar way. He provides an overview of how he helps people he serves grip their mission, vision and values by utilizing their left hand as a metaphor. He shares stories about people he has helped through his passion to serve people. He shares tips to helps those who join this conversation such as the tip in the quote above to listen to understand and support instead of thinking about how you are going to respond.

To connect with Larry, you can reach him by phone at 719-429-7006. Due to spam phone calls, he utilizes voice mail. He will return calls within 24 hours. You can also reach Larry by email. His email address is: larry.kettle@findmypurposellc.com..To learn more about Larry and his work, his website is listed as the website for this episode.

To learn from Larry, he offers a complimentary coaching session. He encourages those interested to utilize either his phone number or his email address to contact him. He welcomes the opportunity to answer your questions about his business and the services he provides. 

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“Decades ago, I was disengaged when I was a leader, and I was exploring career options. I enrolled in an 8-day course to learn how to help people solve their own problem in one conversation. By participating in this course, I wound up getting a graduate degree. And it was only after I had my graduate degree that I was able to perceive my role in my job differently. And I could see that there was a tremendous opportunity right in front of me. And I chose to stay and seize it instead of leave. I want to help every leader who wants a benevolent advantage to learn how they can do this too with minimal investment of time and effort.  When you do this, you elevate your engagement and performance too.”  

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Keith will share how reading the Gallop Report’s State of the American Workforce brought to his attention the need to speak in a different English language, to use the words employee engagement. He shares two engagement stories from decades ago and another from 5 years ago. He asserts no employee aspires to be disengaged from their work. He notes that helping someone who is disengaged become engaged involves helping them change their perception. He notes two ways leaders can elevate employee engagement and performance: 1) express their gratitude for an employee to them; and 2) give an employee sincere positive feedback can help them change their perception. He asserts each time a leader succeeds in elevating an employee’s engagement and performance, that leader also elevates theirs. He closes the episode by inviting you to invest 2 to 5 minutes daily for the next 5 workdays to: 1) Express your gratitude to one person each workday; Do this with the intention that they feel your gratitude by the way you express it; 2) Be attentive to their verbal and non-verbal response; Utilize their response as feedback for continuous process improvement; (Gleaming eyes and a shining face are preliminary indicators your expression of gratitude had the effect you intended;) 3) Watch for any subsequent change in their engagement and performance; 4) Log in a personal journal any significant observations, including stories you can tell to elevate engagement and performance.

To connect with Keith Weedman, you can schedule a 30-minute Zoom chat by clicking on this link: https://my.timetrade.com/book/J1LRC. You can reach him by email at: keith@level3bydesign.com. His company’s website is the website listed for this episode.

If you are a benevolent leader with an employee engagement problem, click on this link to schedule a 30-minute complimentary session to help you elevate employee engagement: https://my.timetrade.com/book/H4W6P. 

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Keith Weedman states: “I believe we’ve all been called to serve others, and I believe we’ve all been given an abundance of gifts much of which we’ve never used. Autophagy is an example of a gift that we all have. Yet most people don’t even know that they have this gift let alone use it. Something else that I’ve learned is a gift too. We all have this gift but it’s never been taught in traditional schools. And if I share it with you, because you’re probably smarter than me, you could easily acquire this knowledge to build your skill to elevate employee engagement and performance…. I intend to utilize autophagy to extend how long I get the privilege of doing this.”    

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Keith how after recording Michael’s episode, Keith learned more about the benefits of fasting to experience autophagy. He talks about Japanese Biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his autophagy discoveries that Michael introduced Keith to. He describes autophagy as your body’s self-cleansing mechanism: after 3 days of fasting, your body will eat fat cells, damaged cells, unhealthy protein and other debris in your body. He talks about the YouTube video by Dr. Annette Bosworth describing autophagy as a means to prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease which led him to conduct his own research. Keith shares his personal experience from last week’s 4-day fast and the lessons he’s learned from it. He shares a story to bring a smile to your face and others to inspire you. He shares the fear he feels and why he is focusing this episode on the benefits of fasting to experience autophagy. He explains that last week’s fast marks the beginning of his personal research to explore whether autophagy can help him prevent Alzheimer’s Disease. He notes this type of research where the researcher immerses themselves in their own research is called a heuristic inquiry. He notes adherents of heuristic inquiry assert objectivity is not possible because you cannot remove the observer from the observed. He shares multiple ways he utilizes heuristic inquiry in continuous improvement processes in his work. He references his passion to help benevolent leaders elevate engagement and performance within people they lead.

To connect with Keith Weedman, his company’s website is the website for this episode. You can reach Keith by email at keith@level3bydesign.com. You can also find Keith on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-weedman-34335051/.

To learn more about autophagy, you can click on this link to Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi to find his YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAkvnvX0W8 . You can also listen to last week’s episode of Embers and Wind to learn about autophagy from guest Michael Christian utilizing your favorite podcast platform. To learn more about Keith's work helping leaders elevate engagement and performance in people they lead through his company Level 3 by Design, please email Keith.

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Guest Michael Christian states: “I want to turn around and help those who haven’t reached that happiness, that fulfillment. It doesn’t matter if you’re a CEO or if you’re a guy over at McDonalds. Anyone can reach that attainment of sheer joy and happiness. It’s really just how we reprogram ourselves and our view, our perspective, how we clean our glasses and put them back on. Sometimes we need somebody who’s been through those challenges to help us get there a lot sooner. That’s what I love to do, to help and support people to the life they dream.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Michael Christian shares the challenges he’s overcome to find joy and happiness in his personal and professional life. He talks about dropping out of high school, joining the U.S. Army as an escape and how it became a blessing because it helped him grow up. He shares how he became dependent upon alcohol in the Army and then other drugs. He talks about his father, a physician, who taught him to take prescription medications to treat symptoms. He shares that his father had a problem with alcohol too. Even though he has always wanted to be an engineer, he acknowledges that he became one because he believed that he needed a desk job because of his back injury. He notes, like many engineers, how he became complacent and gained excess weight sitting in front of a computer. He states he did not learn about fasting and autophagy until years later when he was overweight with high blood pressure and high cholesterol. He recounts being at his doctor’s office and remembering his father who took prescription medications every day.  He talks about changing his mind, referring to the mind as the world’s strongest supercomputer that people had not learned how to program. Michael shares that he learned how to program his mind by changing how he perceives and reacts to things. He learned from well-known thought leaders how to strengthen his mindset. Then he ended his reliance on medications. He dives into fasting and autophagy which helped him get his blood pressure and cholesterol levels in a normal range without needing prescription medications. He talks about the Japanese biologist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Science in 2016 for discovering autophagy, how the body eats fat, dead cells and other junk in the body when people fast for more than 3 days. He shares some of the supplements he takes when fasting for extended periods of time. He recommends beginners start by giving up sugar and high fructose corn syrup. He discourages the use of substitute sweetners and diet drinks. He shares the essential oils he uses for his skin to clear up skin conditions that he once believed were with him for the rest of his life.

To connect with Michael, his LinkedIn profile is listed as the website for this episode. You can also find Michael on Facebook by clicking on this link:

https://www.facebook.com/michael.christian.750331. and on Instagram by clicking on this link: https: //www.instagram.com/michael_christian_sr/. If you want to have a 30-minute video call with Michael, then click on the website link in his Instagram profile

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Laura Diaz in talking about her book Choosing Confidence: 21 Ways Women Can Increase Self-confidence states “The book is about how I decided to choose confidence for me and build a position of strength and I’m sharing that so that way for the reader to realize that all of us can choose a position of strength which I define as choosing confidence. And in this book, I talk about 21 ways …that I chose to really accelerate the confidence and the position of strength for me to just keep going for my own self-actualization and my own personal development and to share that as the way for other people to really learn from this. And I mention here for women because I’ve known more women that I’ve worked with that confide in me about their lack of confidence.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Laura shares her story how she became a life and business coach. She tells how her life coach helped her gain confidence and clarity. She shares how Toastmistress helped her overcome her fear of public speaking and build her leadership skills. She shares how fulfilled she feels from having chosen a life purpose of serving professional women who are going through a personal or professional transition through bringing joy and harmony to them as she helps those interested to choose their life purpose.  She shares how two of the twenty-one ways she built her self-confidence and how she wrote her book, Choose Confidence: 21 Ways Women Can Increase Self-Confidence to help professional women build their confidence. She encourages people to be willing to reach out and ask for help.”

She shares how her sales coach Eric Lofholm inspired her to write her book by participating in his Write a Book in a Day class. She talks about the differences between a coach and a mentor and encourages listeners to have both.  She shares about the transition from employment to retirement and the importance of having a plan for what you intend to do during your retirement years. She stresses not having a retirement plan is a risk to your emotional, mental and physical health. She talks about the uncertainties associated with career transitions which she helps professional women work through. She shares continuing education is a must for her as a coach and encourages it for other professions.   

To connect with Laura Diaz, her company’s website is the website for this episode. She can be reached by email at laura@inharmonycoaching.com. To learn more from Laura, she offers a free coaching session. She provides individual and group coaching. Her book is available on Amazon as an e-book or paperback by clicking on this link:   https://www.amazon.com/Choose-Confidence-Women-Increase-Self-Confidence-ebook/dp/B08VHRWDHC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Choose+Confidence%3A+21+ways+women&qid=1634018741&sr=8-1

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Keith Weedman asserts: “A leader is always accountable for the results, for what happens in response to the words they say and the actions they take. The story that I told you earlier that happened when I was 27 years old; I consider her crying, then sobbing, and then lashing out at me as criticism. It is useful for me to utilize that as feedback and look for value. What can I learn from what happened? I know that I brought less than the best out of her…. You could say that a leader is accountable, at any given moment, to bring the best out of the people they lead.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Keith shares how he became engaged in building his skill giving and receiving constructive feedback to elevate engagement and performance. He shares how he acquired rare knowledge to build uncommon leadership skill to elevate engagement and performance. He talks about the mandatory staff development he implemented to share the knowledge he acquired to help employees build their skill engaging people they served and one another. He shares how this stimulated his interest in building his skill to give constructive feedback to elevate performance. He shares how the pain associated with losing community volunteers stimulated his interest in building his skill receiving constructive feedback and criticism to elevate volunteer and employee engagement. Keith shares the correlations he sees between employee engagement problems and engagement problems with society and life for people who have received public assistance for an extended period of time. He shares many stories to inspire you. He asserts each time you know that you succeeded in giving or receiving constructive feedback to elevate engagement and performance within someone you lead that you also elevate your engagement and performance. He provides you a continuous improvement process to build your skill giving and receiving constructive feedback to elevate engagement and performance. He shares his belief that there is value in any criticism a leader receives and shows you how to find it.

To stay connected with Keith, you can reach him by email: keith@level3bydesign.com. This link is to Keith’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-weedman-34335051/.

To learn more from Keith, subscribe to Embers and Wind because he will be back frequently with new content to help you build your skill elevating employee engagement and performance.  If you want to receive a weekly friendly email nudge with a story to inspire you to take benevolent action to elevate engagement and performance in people you lead, then send Keith an email and he will add your name to this group.

If your people struggle because their work is not fulfilling; if your employee turnover rate is too high; if you lose sleep worrying about how to elevate engagement and performance of people you lead; if you are a benevolent leader; if you want to be the first of many internal champions with the intention to impact your corporate culture, then send Keith an email to schedule a Zoom chat.

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“And he grew up in poverty without a father and started working at age 14 so he taught us the value of hard work.... and to appreciate people. He’s very caring. His Catholic background is very important to him. And I worked for him in a couple of his different businesses throughout the years. And one thing he always taught me was 'When you hand out that paycheck, you thank the employee.' And so when I’m working with people, I always like to thank them. 'I don’t care if they messed up big time at the end of the night. I want you to thank them because you’re not in business without those people.' And so I use kind of that same theory with the participants. I always thank them for being there at the end of the day. And that I look forward to seeing them in the morning, So that's really the biggest coach of my life and to this day." Special guest Bartholomew County Work's coach Dawn Bieberle shares in describing her father.

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, Dawn defines what she means by lighting a spark in others. It includes doing whatever it takes to help participants overcome barriers. She shares her story how she enrolled in BCW in her 50s after earning her college degree, then applying for 76 jobs, having 12 job interviews and no job offers. Longstanding BCW volunteer Harriett Armstrong, Purdue referred Dawn to BCW.  She enrolled to build her job interviewing skills because she had never interviewed for a job before getting her degree. Then she shares how her former BCW coach encouraged her to apply for BCW coach when her former coach retired. Dawn shares her current role fulfills her personal vision. She shares that the program begins with 32 hours of classroom training which includes mock interviews. She relies heavily upon community volunteers whom she calls community partners to present on topics that include healthy eating, legal issues, empowerment and how to deal with stress. She stresses how much participants benefit from their mock job interviews and the feedback they receive to build their interview skills. She notes how participants build confidence throughout the week and is humbled by the positive feedback participants provide her at the end of the week and beyond. She feels warm inside knowing she made a difference. She shares two stories to illustrate how much participants are helped by BCW.

She appreciates Yes Cinema and Sans Souci for providing work experience to build job skills for those who need work experience and positive work habits. She shares that after the workshop, she maintains weekly contact until they land their job. Then she stays in touch through text messages and Facebook Messenger.

To learn more about the Bartholomew County Works, their Facebook page is the website listed for this episode.  To email Dawn, her email address is:  bcworkscoach@gmail.com. She is always looking for volunteers and is currently seeking volunteers to help prepare resumes for participant and for volunteers who can help Dawn access credit reports for participants. 

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Guest Peter Hobler states “As a parent, everything we say and do teaches and impacts our children. Especially in nasty divorce scenarios, contentious divorce scenarios, there’s so much arguing, fighting, accusations. There’s no communications. There’s no more trust. And every single aspect of that, of every interaction, whether the kids are present or not, and again this is partly why they are the innocent victims, they have nothing to do with it. Sometimes they’re not present but it will still affect your kids and the potential for life long emotional and psychological trauma is huge for children whose parents are going through or already divorced as long as all of this is still happening.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Peter shares his story about going through a divorce where his greatest fear was that his child’s mother would deprive him of having contact with his daughter. He talks about how JT, his life coach at that time, helped him through a coaching session that focused on personal responsibility. After hanging up the phone he remembers looking in the mirror and asking himself who is responsible for his angry reactions toward his estranged spouse. He knew it was the person in the mirror who was responsible. He started assuming responsibility for his reaction. When he got angry at his ex, he apologized after calming down. Peter applied the lessons he learned in his first marriage to become a better husband for his second wife, Laurie. Ensuring his then 3-year-old daughter thrived in spite of his divorce was his priority then. Several years ago, Peter committed himself to helping divorcing and divorced dads help their children thrive in spite of their parents divorce, he founded the Ex-Factor, created course curriculum and wrote two books. His love for his daughter is still the driving force behind setting his intention to help divorcing dads have the love for their children be the force that drives them.  His wife Laurie helped him edit his book, Split Harmony: Turn the “Ex-Factor” from Chaos to Compassion by bringing to Peter’s attention that forgiveness belonged in his book. Peter has already launched a Masterclass and he has a second course nearly completed.

To connect with Peter his company’s website is the website listed for this episode. He offers a free clarity exercise to help dads going through a divorce gain clarity. To access this free tool, click on this link: www.Theex-factor.com/clarityexercise. To reach Peter by email, his email address is peter@theex-factor.com.  

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In describing their volunteer work at Robert’s Wish, guest Lisa Hunter states “We’re there. We listen. We let them talk, express what they’re feeling, express their frustrations, their fears. We listen to what they’re saying. They feel heard. They feel like they’ve got someone to turn to. But more importantly, they feel like they are not alone. And that’s the biggest, biggest message that we can give to anyone who is struggling is that you are not alone and that’s exactly what we do. Based on what the person says, we actually then from there point them in the right direction of resource…. We’ll then connect them with an organization that can help them even more.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, we talk about Lisa’s first encounter with bullying in high school in South Africa. She was bullied because she was different, having grown up in a different geographic area in South Africa. She talks about a different type of bullying she experienced in the workplace where she felt pressured to help management build a termination case. She shares that her personal experiences being bullied helped her develop her sensory acuity for the needs of others. She how her friend Robert taking his own life led her to become an advocate and start Robert’s Wish, a place where people who have been bullied or their parents can find a caring person who will listen, affirm them and refer them to resources to help resolve bullying. She shares two stories of people who have been helped by Robert’s Wish, a teenage boy who was bullied in school and the parents of a teenage daughter who was bullied. Both were bullied for their sexual identity. She notes that Robert’s Wish will help with any type of bullying at any stage of life. She talks about her faith. She believes God wants people to accept and love others unconditionally. While she has experienced some push back from a minority of Christians, most are supportive of the work of Robert’s Wish.

To connect with Lisa Hunter, you can click on the website link for this episode. She welcomes those seeking help to address bullying to reach out to Roberts Wish website. Her podcast, Seen and Heard with Lisa Hunter can be found by clicking on this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seen-and-heard-with-lisa-hunter/id1564673275.  If you have expertise in addressing bullying, Lisa is looking for podcast guests. If you have a story to share about how you worked through being bullied, Lisa is also interested in having you as a guest because sharing your story could help someone else address their problem.  

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Keith Weedman, quoting a person of influence, states: “His name is Charlie Brown. He once said ‘Sigh, doing a good job around here is like going to the bathroom in the swimming pool. You get a warm feeling inside, but no one else seems to notice.' Have you ever worked anywhere where you felt like your good work was not appreciated? I’ve been asking this question for many, many years, and I have never heard a ‘No’ yet. The key question is do people feel appreciated where they work now with you? Do you express your sincere positive feedback in a way where they feel and know that you value them, that you appreciate their work?”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Keith shares knowledge about positive feedback that people joining this conversation can apply to build their skill giving positive feedback to elevate performance. He stresses the importance of being sincere when giving positive feedback and explains how to utilize a continuous improvement process by utilizing how people respond to your action as feedback to build your skill giving positive feedback to elevate engagement and performance. He talks about the preliminary indicators that your feedback was received effectively including a smile, a shiny face, and a thank you. Receiving an unanticipated response provides a means to deepen your relationship by seeking to understand why. He states giving people positive feedback can change how someone you lead perceives themselves and their situation in a way that evokes positive emotions within them which then generates positive emotions within you. He emphasizes the importance of accepting positive feedback from people you lead and talks about the unintended consequences of failing to accept positive feedback. He share several stories that illustrate the impact positive feedback can have upon both the giver and the receiver. He closes with a 5-day Call to Action that can be done in 2 to 5 minutes each workday to apply what you learn in this conversation to give someone you lead sincere, positive feedback and experience the benefits that result from taking this benevolent action.

To connect with Keith Weedman, you can go to the Embers and Wind website listed with this episode. You can also reach Keith by email: keith@level3bydesign.com or by cell phone, 812-343-2697. Keith offers a complimentary 30-minute one-to-one introductory leadership training session on Zoom. In this session, you will learn how to effect change that elevates engagement and performance through brief interactions. He does not ask you to buy anything during this session. He wants you to experience the benefits that result from a two-week daily Call-to-Action applying what you learn in 2 to 5 minutes each workday.

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Special guest Bruce Hodes states “I like what I do. I mean several times in this interview I mean I get excited about what’s possible for people and what’s possible for groups of people and in that I get what’s possible for me. And as long as that’s exciting and engaging and worthwhile, I’m in! And when it ceases to be that way, I’m out.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Bruce talks about growing up in a family where his father was a business executive, and his mother was a psychotherapist. He followed in both parents’ footsteps. Bruce shares his love to interact with people through his company, CMI Teamwork so they have more possibilities, more freedom and more ability to make a difference and elevate their performance. We talk about Bruce's expertise working with family-owned business and taking the family dysfunction out of family business to help their business succeed. He tells a story about working with a family-owned business where the CEO had to have a conversation with his semi-retired father to get his father to stay home, stop interfering and allow the son to lead the company. Bruce shares he gets asked to help business teams who are having trouble functioning. He becomes the catalyst to help them perform effectively. He also gets contacted to help companies develop and execute strategic plans. Bruce talks about the Keyne Methodology that he utilizes to help companies execute their strategic plans. He shares a story about how a company turned their business around after ½ of their customers did not want to renew their 5-year contracts. They dramatically improved their customer service and now have one of the best customer service ratings in their industry in the country. Their profitability improved, customer retention improved, and their employee satisfaction ratings and employee retention statistics improved. We talk about Stupid Games and how Bruce utilizes these games as practice fields to help teams problem solve and collaborate effectively. Bruce notes that unlike sports teams and military teams, business teams do not typically practice. Through practice, Bruce helps them elevate their performance. Bruce shares a story about how he utilized Stupid Games to help a company overcome silos.  

To connect with Bruce Hodes, his company’s website is the website listed for this episode. His email address is: bhodes@cmiteamwork.com. His phone number is: 708-476-7970. He is excited to learn what you’re doing and support you. 

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Special guest Liesel Mendoza states: “I mentioned that I had to go into discernment mode thinking on what give back would I do. Should I join some companies that are doing good around world hunger, around health or scientific exploration because I think I can offer my program management, business development, as well as operations management skills? And so I had to continue discerning, and I realized that one of my passions is really developing people. Ever since I became a manager at 24 years old, I find myself training people in the technical aspects of the work, but I also find myself sharing my values with them. Little things like if you promise somebody something, make sure you deliver it on time and on quality. And if you can’t do it, make sure they know. And I’ve seen a lot of people mature professionally in that way and I feel good that I have been part of that process.”

In this episode, Liesel describes herself as an immigrant. She shares that she grew up in the Philippine’s before immigrating to the United States. She shares how she felt pulled to give back after investing 30 years as an information technologist in Silicon Valley. She talks about how fulfilled she felt developing people. She shares how she learned about the unmet need for mentors listening to Millennials. She defines what it means to be a mentor in The Mentoring Club and what they expect from mentors and mentees. She shares the importance of mentees having “skin in the game” and how they provide it. She draws a distinction between mentoring and coaching. After initially envisioning mentees as Millennials, she shares that she now sees the need for mentors in mid-career transitions and among senior leaders. She shares their mentors and mentees come from 6 continents  and 22  countries.  Her vision for The Mentoring Club includes mentee alumni becoming mentors. The silver lining in this pandemic is the ability to meet globally on line. In addition to utilizing Zoom extensively, The Mentoring Club is meeting two times each week on Clubhouse. 

To learn more about The Mentoring Club, click on the website link for this episode. The Mentoring Club is on many popular social media platforms.    

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Guest Ethan Crough states “Achondroplasia is the type of dwarfism I have. And so, in my TEDx Talk, I talk about achondrophobia, which is a made-up thing because occasionally I’ll meet people who are afraid of me because of what I am, not who I am. Just the dwarfism itself frightens people which is odd.” About Ethan’s passion to educate people about dwarfism “It really got lit 15 years ago when our first child was born because then I knew I was an agent of change and an agent of service to a broader, a bigger cause.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, we talk about how Ethan discovered his passion for teaching. You will learn about dwarfism and achondroplasia and his passion to educate as many people as possible about dwarfism, diversity and inclusion. Ethan talks about his gift as a communicator that he attributes to achondroplasia. He shares that it is uncommon for two, normal height parents to bear a child who has achondroplasia. He shares how much the odds increase when a parent with achondroplasia has a child. Ethan shares about his experience with dwarfism as a minority group that often unintentionally gets excluded from dialogues about diversity and inclusion. He shares stories to make his point.  We talk about Ethan’s 5-year journey in Toastmasters and how Toastmasters prepared Ethan to deliver his TEDx Talk. We talk about his friendship with Toastmaster Ant Blair and how Ant and Ethan challenging one another resulted in both of them getting onto the TEDx stage. Ethan talks about his work at Cummins Inc. in corporate responsibility and the calling that he felt which led him to transition back into teaching as a full-time Tech Ed teacher for Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation.  We shares that his work experience at Cummins was helpful to Ethan in rewriting the tech ed curriculum to make it a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) lab.

You can contact Ethan through his LinkedIn profile which is listed as the website for this episode. He would be pleased to have a conversation with you if he can help you. You can reach him by email: ecrough@gmail.com.  And if you want to watch his TEDx Talk, then click on this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlr3T9uf7iY&t=8s.

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I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Bas shares how his mother’s death when he was 12 influenced him to become a life coach and how he moved into executive coaching.  You will learn about Bas’s first coach who was a cross fit coach. You will understand how a life coach could have helped him expedite his 3-year process to move from the corporate world into the coaching world and how he became a life coach through the Health Coach Institute and then got into lifestyle coaching including diet and fitness. He sees lifestyles as symptoms to deeper problems which he likes to tackle. He shares life and executive coaching stories to inspire you.  He shares how his 25-year career in corporate finance prepared him to become an executive mindset coach. He shares tips you can immediately apply such as finding little steps you can take every day and what to do when you get triggered. He enjoys working with executives because of the ripple effect. By helping an executive, Bas can also help the people that executive leads. He describes how he helps with high performance.

To learn more from Bas, you can visit his company’s website which is listed as the website for this episode. You can also find Bas on LinkedIn and additional contact information by clicking on this link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/baslebesque/. If you want to explore coaching, Bas offers a free coaching session to ensure a good fit and that he can help you with the issue you are dealing with. 

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I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, we talk about how writing a book about the first year of the recovery from the flash flood in Columbus, Indiana and reading the essays written by the leaders of not-for-profit organizations integrally involved in flood recovery deepened his affinity for Columbus, Indiana and the role these organizations play. He talks about his role as a case manager in flood recovery and how his mission trips to help New Orleans recover from Katrina prepared him and his church. Eric talked about how the Pleasant Grove neighborhood was destroyed, how the empty lots that were devastated by the flood fueled him to help create a flood memorial park where the houses used to stand. His desire to create a park has led to a love for native plants, pollinator species, birds insects, and bats. Then he got involved in first creating a people’s trail at Blackwell park. Eric has become a steward of the environment and enjoys organizing people. He serves on a Columbus Pollinator Committee established for the Pleasant Neighborhood Park that is focused Looking to create a pollinator park. He shares about landscape architect Rachel Kavathe, and her company, Loci Creative has donated her landscape architure services to design the landscape for Pollinator Park. and the leadership from Columbus Parks and Recreation staff in getting Columbus to earn the first B city in Indiana. He also shares what attracted him to join Rotary. Eric shares how his employer, Cosco, supports his involvement in the community.  

If you are interested in getting involved as a volunteer, you can reach Eric by email: eric.riddle@coscoproducts.com. Community events are typically listed in the Friends of Pollinator Parks FB group. The website address for this Facebook group is listed as the link for this episode.

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

In describing his work, guest Paul Levin states “I work with people’s minds, and I help them change the way their mind works, the way it functions, the way it processes information. And the reason we do that, you see Dr. Wayne Dyer, who is no longer with us, he was very famous in the world of metaphysics. He told us that when we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change. Well by changing the way the mind functions, we can change the way you look at things. And as a result, those things you are looking at will change and your life will become perfect which is the name of my business: I Deserve a Perfect Life (because you do).”

I’m your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.

In this episode, you will learn how Paul felt called by the Spirit to help people live a perfect life after learning how to live one himself at the age of 50. You will learn Paul is an electrical engineer and computer engineer before feeling called to pivot into teaching people how to live a perfect life. You will find out that Quantum physics and the work of Dr. Wayne Dyer influenced Paul to first create a perfect life for himself before being called to teach others. You will learn that Paul was not happy before he turned 50. In his words, his life sucked before he made it perfect. This is why the title of his book is Your Life Sucks No More: The Ultimate Guide to Manifesting Your Perfect Life.

To learn more from Paul, he has a free 30-minute video. You can access this webinar by clicking on the link: IDeserveAPerfectLife.com/BeMoreHappy. In this video, Paul teaches you how to be more happy. He notes being more happy will improve other areas of your life including your health.  Paul asserts that this is the first step to have the perfect life you deserve.     

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I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, you will hear a story about how Terri’s teacher planted the seed for what became Terri’s lifelong passion for writing when she was only seven. “I had a teacher, a very inspirational teacher, who said you’re going to write books and be an author.” You will learn about Terri’s entrepreneurial journey from speech pathologist, to coach, to consultant. You will laugh when she shares her story when other coaches were empathizing with her when they learned that she had only one coaching client. You will be astonished to learn she has written 47 books and by the high profiles of two of her co-authors.  You will discover what it means to be a heartpreneur and can assess how well you fit this definition. You will engaged by the story of how she became a heartpreneur. Terri will share some of the powerful ideas in The Conversion Equation, her 47th book. You will learn why this book is relevant to you. You will find out about her consulting company’s plans for the future. You may find value in her final teaching moment. It is a question you can utilize to focus your brain in a healthy direction. 

To learn more from Terri, she has a private Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/heartrepreneurswithterrilevine where she provides free training weekly; She also has a free masterclass that you can reach by clicking on this link: https://www.tlwebinar.com/training-conveyorbelt. The Kindle version is available now. 

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I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Jeanie Cisci-Meth talks about Viktor Frankl and how his book Man’s Search for Meaning influenced her work. She shares her first encounter with bullying growing up and the reasons why she was bullied. You will learn how she helped her children deal with bullying. Then you will find out how as a teacher she became intrigued with why some students are devastated by being bullied while other students simply dismiss it. You will understand why Jeanie strongly disagrees with zero tolerance policies. Discover how God guided Jeanie’s purpose and hear her commitment to affirm God as she fulfills her purpose. You will learn two Bible verses Jeanie frequently leans on. She shares statistics on bullying in school and asserts why she firmly believes the statistics are too low. She explains what she means when she says they are mute and we are blind. Jeanie acknowledges she was blind to the seriousness of her daughter’s problem. You will learn about the internal bully, the one that lives in your own head.  You will understand how Jeanie’s experiences as a parent and a teacher are the foundation for her book, a home-study course, where she teaches: Bully Proofing You: Improving Confidence and Personal Value from the Inside Out.  She provides a free workbook to help you apply what you learn.

If you want to learn more from Jeanie, you can visit her website: https://bullyproofingyou.com/. You can listen to Jeanie’s weekly Bully Proofing You podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/al/podcast/bully-proofing-you-improving-confidence-personal-value/id971908617?mt=2. You can reach Jeanie by email: jeanie@jeanieciscometh.com.  

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I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, we talk about Felipe’s passion for social justice. We talk about what the words “all are welcome mean” and why they are important to Pastor Felipe, First Presbyterian Church in Columbus Indiana, and Presbyterian Church (USA). You will learn about his Columbus church’s initiative to build relationships with the GLBTQ community and why this is important to Pastor Felipe. You will learn how the Black Lives Matter movement intersects with his faith. You will learn about Pastor’s penchant for learning from people of different faiths and people who lack faith in an established religion. You will learn how growing up in Monterrey, Mexico impacted his life and about his parents’ influence.  He shares how his culturally diverse background helps him build bridges across cultural differences. You may notice his curiosity to explore and learn from differences.

To connect with Pastor Felipe Martinez, you can find his contact information at https://fpccolumbus.org. From this website, you can find links to First Presbyterian Church on multiple social media websites. 

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I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, you will see how Keith’s professional colleagues confused acquiring knowledge about vision with applying knowledge to build their skill applying vision to effect positive change. Keith will share how he waited decades after acquiring knowledge to apply that knowledge to change his physiology to change his emotional state. You will learn how to effect change that elevates two people’s performance through brief interactions, yours and someone you lead.  You will also learn how to overcome the obstacle that prevents most people from rapidly effecting change. You will be given a 5-day, daily Call to Action, to both effect positive change that elevates performance and build this learned leadership skill in 2 to 5 minutes each workday. If you take action and apply what you learn, then you can build your skill to effect positive change that elevates performance.

To learn more from Keith, you can schedule a free 30-minute one-to-one introductory session utilizing this link: https://my.timetrade.com/book/H4W6P. In this session, you will learn how to own perceiving as a creative act, a means to effect change that elevates performance through brief interactions. Keith will also learn a little bit about you, your leadership role with your company, your personal work-related vision/goals and any obstacles you are confronting in your work. You will participate in one of the modules from his introductory course. To make efficient use of your time, this introductory session will be on Zoom. Unlike most introductory sessions, Keith does not intend to utilize this one to sell his services.  

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I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, you will learn about Jeff’s mom, how she led her life, and how her early death drives him to serve you and help you get more value out of yours. You will learn how this pandemic forced him to close his gym and pivot into delivering messages from stages and high-performance coaching.  His passion is to help you develop a morning routine to get more value out of your day. You will learn how Jeff inspired the Ember and Wind host to develop a morning routine. You will learn that this host found Jeff’s book, Rise, Fight, Love, Repeat: Ignite Your Morning Fire to be a compelling read. Jeff will teach you what to include in your morning routine and what you can do during the rest of your day to increase your productivity. You will learn what to do at the end of your day to set yourself up for success the next day.

To learn more from Jeff, you can pick up 2 free chapters from his book on his company website. https://www.themorningfire.com/ . You can find Jeff on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-wickersham/ . You can access his Morning Fire for Entrepreneurs podcast on the major podcast platforms. You can purchase his book from Amazon.

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I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, we talk about Deepti’s penchant for learning and how this led her to become an entrepreneur. You will learn how growing up in Pune, India and living in Columbus, Indiana today each contributed to her. She talks about her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and the gender biases she sees around the world when women step into roles traditionally filled by men. She shares how earning her MBA in Marketing and her Master’s in Business Analytics planted the seeds for becoming a high-performance coach. Learn how Toastmasters impacted Deepti, the leadership roles she has already fulfilled in Toastmasters and why she intends to always be in Toastmasters. Discover how her Indian culture contributed to her passion for philosophy and spirituality. You will learn about her background in Hindu religion which she practices today and her experience with Christianity through attending Catholic school for 12 years. Then consider whether having these experiences could help you value all faiths and see the strengths she sees in their commonalities. She shares how your faith can provide a backbone for high-performance. Learn how she blends philosophy with spirituality to guide people to perform at a high level in work and in life.  

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“One of the needs was me on a Sunday getting up and giving a message to about 30 or 40 people and these were people who don’t have a lot of biblical knowledge; who have a lot of faith and are looking for truth” states special guest Ant Blair.

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, you will learn how Ant benefited from positivity and utilizes positivity to help others. You will learn about his life living in Flint, MI. You will hear stories about how Ant gained access and some of the people who helped him change his life by providing access. Getting access made the difference for Ant. With access, he still had to earn his success. Ant combined access with hard work to support his family as an entrepreneur in the advertising industry for 25 years. He notes that even though it is easier for successful people to share their excess and for others to receive it, he wants his African American brothers and sisters to experience the benefits that result from gaining access.

Ant talks about the current chapter of his career which includes inspiring audiences as a keynote speaker. He notes that he is applying what he learned in Toastmasters and his first TEDx Talk. 

Ant feels driven to help his African American brothers and sisters gain access. His mother is a devout Christian. Ant adheres to the values of wisdom and universal truth to fulfill this benevolent calling. Combining his experience speaking from pulpits with his skills as a keynote speaker, Ant would be honored to deliver an inspiring message of empowerment from the pulpit of your church. He will tailor his message to best fit your congregation.

You can reach Ant on his website at https://antblair.com. You can find Ant on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antblair/. 

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Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Special guest Nadine Grace states “I refuse to move on to my next life without fulfilling my purpose for this life.,,. They say the graveyard is the richest place and it’s the truth….  So many people have so many untapped potential that they carry to the Grave with them.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, we talk about Nadine’s journey. Born in Jamaica, she moved to the United States at the age of seventeen. She obtained her undergrad in accounting and then her Master’s in business. Then, she discovered her work in accounting was not her purpose. Having strengthened her mindset, she lives a purpose driven life. Her purpose is to help you lead a fulfilling, purpose driven life.  While she does not want to see your purpose in the graveyard, she respects your right to choose whether to live life on purpose. Whether you are aware or not, she firmly believes you have a purpose, a reason for living, that only you can discover. You will learn how Nadine became a vegan and a Reiki Master. She will share how she first struggled as a parent and blamed her infant son for her struggles. She will share how she used Reiki to heal herself and then became a Reiki Master to heal her mother.  Her purpose in life is to serve you. Nadine would be honored to support you in your journey to live a purpose driven life.

You can reach Nadine by email at hello@iamnadinegrace.com. You can visit her podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universal-grace/id1564674639. You can find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Universal-Grace-1875592872747635 and on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/universalnadinegrace/. 

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In this episode, Keith Weedman states “I immerse myself in my own research. I started feeling and expressing my gratitude for people.”

If you express your gratitude for people, what would you discover? Can you accentuate your feeling of gratitude to ensure the person receiving it feels your gratitude? How does taking this benevolent action impact your performance? Can you evoke positive emotions within the person who feels your gratitude? What difference can you make in their performance?

In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, you will learn about an angel who befriended my family after our house fire and how I expressed my gratitude for him. You will learn how my sister extended my father’s life giving him four quality years and how and why I express my gratitude for her more than a decade later. You will learn how my expression of gratitude impacted my new virtual Facebook friend whom I met in the midst of this pandemic. From listening to these stories, you may feel pulled to discover whether the gratitude you express for people is contagious.

We will have a conversation about the benefits of feeling and expressing your gratitude for people. You will learn how expressing your gratitude for people can elevate their performance and yours.

You will receive a 5-day daily Call-to-Action that entails investing 2 to 5 minutes each workday to immerse yourself in your own research. You will be invited to generate and express your feeling of gratitude for someone you lead or serve. You will be in the perfect position to assess how taking this benevolent action impacts their performance and yours.

If you choose to accept this Call-to-Action, you will apply the knowledge from this episode to effect change that can elevate performance. You can utilize their response to your benevolent action as feedback to elevate your skill expressing gratitude to elevate their performance and yours.  You will become immersed in your own research, a heuristic inquiry. 

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Welcome to Embers and Wind Podcast!

“Confidence is like a muscle. You have to build it” states this week’s guest Jason Carr. Choose to be around people who believe in you and your capabilities to help you build confidence. Learn a useful definition for empower and how this is often differs from how this word is typically used.

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In this podcast episode, you will hear stories shared by Jason. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, we will talk about how Jason found people who believed in him in Toastmasters. He shares a story about an associate pastor who stuttered when he joined Toastmasters. This pastor gained confidence in Toastmasters and stopped stuttering. Then, he earned the head pastor position, the goal that he wanted to achieve when he joined Toastmasters. We will talk about servant leadership and how Jason has been influenced by his boss where he works. He will share how his work fits with his passion to provide extraordinary customer service. We will also talk about Jason’s experience volunteering for a United Way-funded program to help families become financially self-sufficient. Jason defines what empower means within this program and compares this to what managers typically mean by empowering employees in the workplace.  

Contact Jason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-carr-437a862/

Contact Jason on Twitter: @jay2k

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Perceiving is usually seen as a passive act when it is actually a creative one. We perceive people and situations in multiple ways, and we choose what we believe is more accurate. Once we decide which is the more precise way of perceiving, we proceed without realizing that our choice affects the outcome. We can help someone we lead or serve to change their perception in a way that will open new possibilities for their future and expand the horizon of what's possible for them and people they interact with. 

I'm your host, Keith Weedman, and in this podcast, you will feel a tender wind on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, my guests and I will have conversations with the purpose of blowing a gentle wind on your embers and adding kindling. It will be your choice to use the wind and kindling to reignite your embers. 

In this episode, we will talk about how I helped a good friend change his perception in a work situation. I will also share the first useful assumption I invented. While I was working in a Social Service Agency then, my story with Mike illustrates the significant impact you can make with people you lead and serve. We will talk about leadership and how to apply Constructivism Epistemology as a leadership skill into our work and our lives. Finally, I will give you a call to action to implement with people you lead, serve, and love while building your skill giving positive feedback to elevate performance.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• How helping someone perceive differently can help them expand their horizons (3:28)
• My first encounter with Mike (6:45)
• What Mike and I learned from each other and its relevance to you (12:22)
• What it means to be a leader and what is the most effective way to influence people (15:26)
• What a little change in your habits can do for you and people you love (17:27)

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