Episodes

If you listen to many episodes of my podcast, you'll note that I keep the intro really short. I'd rather focus on the guest and the ideas as well as any takeaways we can highlight. Same with the outros. I might ask you to rate and review the podcast on your favourite player. I might mention my website www.nolasimon.com or ask you to check me out on LinkedIn but I've never really done a full blown ad for my consulting business Nola Simon Advisory. I don't have a sponsor - I fully fund the podcas...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode When I read Bragging Rights by Lisa Bragg, I knew I wanted to bring her on the podcast because her work validates the approach I've taken to self-promotion for years. She has the research to back it up - check out how she brags about having the largest research study. It's a masterclass in owning your story. Bragging is a good thing. It's a form of self-advocacy and no one knows your stories and your successes like you...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Ever wonder if book blurbs are worthwhile? A blurb is how I found David Burkus. My coach is Kerri Twigg and she has also been a guest on the show. When she published her book, she asked David Burkus to write a blurb. 2 years later, he's a guest on the podcast. I also volunteered to be a beta reader for his new book Best Team Ever! I didn't manage to give him much useful feedback due to my schedule so the least I can do...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Ever wonder if book blurbs are worthwhile? A blurb is how I found David Burkus. My coach is Kerri Twigg and she has also been a guest on the show. When she published her book, she asked David Burkus to write a blurb. 2 years later, he's a guest on the podcast. I also volunteered to be a beta reader for his new book Best Team Ever! I didn't manage to give him much useful feedback due to my schedule so the least I can do...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Today's podcasting experiment is repurposing a LinkedIn Live I did with Gillian Whitney and publishing the audio on my podcast. Kudos to Gillian for her generosity - she's been a guest on the podcast before. She tells me I have a standing invite to be on her show any time and the feeling is mutual. Join Nola Simon & Gillian Whitney for an engaging chat about: Ghosts, Hallucinations & Other Scary Trust Leaps in Using AI...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Karen Eber and I share an odd thing in common. We both have different coloured eyes. It's called heterochromia. Mine is caused by Waardenburg Syndrome - Karen's may or may not be related to eating green crayons. (Check out the cover of her book and the first story she tells - you'll understand). On Twitter one day, we exchanged stories about people's reactions to our eyes. "Did you know your eyes are different colours...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode When Anna Burgess Yang wrote about starting a new series called Perspectives, encouraging people to share their experiences of work so we can learn from them and create better and healthier workplaces in the future, I volunteered to be interviewed. Anna is a writer as well as an automation expert and I adore her work. We came up with the idea that she would write the article but I would interview her for the podcast an...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Mitch Weisburgh is the founder of Academic Business Advisors, a company that helps organizations create educational products that prepare kids for the future. Most of the time when I speak to Mitch it's as part of my futurist buddy group. We rarely spend time on titles - we are too busy talking ideas. Our conversations are far reaching, imaginative and often surprising. Mitch actually made my jaw drop during this episo...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode If you've got a concern about errors and inaccuracies in AI output, how do you address it? To my knowledge, there is not yet a solution for AI hallucinations. I recently wrote a newsletter on LinkedIn and Substack about my concerns about inaccuracies and pure fantasy I discovered using Bing powered by ChatGPT-4. This is a verbal analysis of my thought process of why I wanted to pursue this question. I'm including the...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode "Better branded people get better jobs." - Cher Jones I first discovered the power of personal branding when I tried to move internally at the company I worked for 17.5 years. I worked in the US division for 16 years and I wanted to move to the Canadian division to make sure that my work experience was relevant in Canada. It was like I had moved to Boston for 16 years - the Canadian division kept declining me because th...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode "Better branded people get better jobs." - Cher Jones I first discovered the power of personal branding when I tried to move internally at the company I worked for 17.5 years. I worked in the US division for 16 years and I wanted to move to the Canadian division to make sure that my work experience was relevant in Canada. It was like I had moved to Boston for 16 years - the Canadian division kept declining me because t...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Linkedin recently announced it will remove the location field from the individual profiles and I found the reaction fascinating. I have lived in a location most of my life that has been more of a barrier to my career than it's been a boon so I liked this announcement. People discriminate and exclude you when they find out how far away from the city you live. I've lived this all my life Today's question:. What if we re...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to listen to the emotions. RTO is happening right now but it won't always feel the same or be the same. It's failed at least 5 times already. What would you love to see happen in the future? Sure it feels like two steps back right now but what can you achieve by strategically negotiating and adapting now in exchange for a future that looks closer to your ideal? What will t...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Karen Ferris is a kindred spirit. She lives 14 hours away on the other side of the world from me in Melburne, Australia, but when you listen to us talk, we laugh a lot. It's not that the topic is silly but more that is so nice to chat with someone with such a similar mindset towards change, leadership and the future of work. The work that we both do challenges the status quo and established mindsets. That's why Karen's...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode "🌟 Discover the truth about work-life balance! 🤔 Join us on an inspiring journey as we debunk the myth and explore the power of agency in Work Life Bloom. 🌸✨ Kudos to Dan Pontefract for shining a light on resilience and redefining success. 🙌 #WorkLifeBalance #Resilience #Agency" #WorkLifeBloom #FindingAgency #ShiningALight #HarrowingJourney #PerseveranceAndResilience #HatTipped #Resilience #NoWorkLifeBalance #WorkAndLif...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode I expected that this episode would be a conversation about leadership development, maybe with some talk of Sarah's book Don't Feed The Elephants and how leadership in hybrid/remote needs to be different from what we've always done. Sarah started the conversation with "I'd really like to talk about retaliation." Wow. That's not a topic most people acknowledge as reality in work and to have a whole discussion centred on ...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Pamela Kellert has a background in strategy and she brought this to the podcast prep with a 2 page document outlining the topics she hoped we could cover. It's a thing of beauty, covering leadership development while working hybrid/remote, culture, opportunities for women and minorities and a detailed chart of how improved leadership is a benefit and opportunity for organizations. Pamela and I met during YouMap coach c...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Jen Warrington and I used to work for the same company but never knew each other except via LinkedIn. We have a similar experience with working hybrid/remote for many years before the pandemic and in being restructured. She was laid off in March of 2020 and I was gone December 2020. It's been fascinating watching her build her business and how she incorporated the past into the future. We talk about all things hybrid/r...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Gillian Whitney is a LinkedIn Video Marketing Coach. She believes every business professional needs to be using video to market themselves. Video boosts your online visibility, increases sales, and promotes your brand like no other marketing tool. As a LinkedIn Video Coach, Gillian helps business professionals make videos in a way that is comfortable for them. She loves sharing Easy Peasy solutions to help folks get st...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode I met Amanda Lewis in a meditation class with my coach and podcast guest Kerri Twigg. Amanda edited Kerri's book as well as Leslie Ehm's book. I'm fascinated with network science and how people come to know one another. When I found out Amanda was publishing her own book, Tracking Giants, I knew I wanted to talk to her about the process of writing a book as an editor, the practices that support her creative process and...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Marti Konstant and I share an interest in futurism and shifting mindsets to help people succeed in the future of work. In this episode, we talk about the importance of being adaptable, combining your existing skills and interest to create innovative new ones and how to experiment with AI and why it's important to at least consider how you'd use it. Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist with an agile mindset. She is a...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Nikolas Badminton FRSA, Chief Futurist at futurist.com Nikolas Badminton FRSA is a global futurist speaker that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to explore desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning. He has spent 30+ years working with leadership at over 300 leading organizations at the frontline of foresight, strategy and disruption - including NASA, Un...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode It's rare that I get to speak to anyone with 54 years of experience but particularly rare when that person is a change leader - one of the first directors of transformation as far as I can tell. Rose Fass founded a company FassForward with Gavin McMahon McMahon 2 decades ago. We've never spoken but I got to know Gavin on LinkedIn last year (I was the first person to tell him about being featured by LinkedIn News - now ...

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Recently I had to sort through an ethical dilemma. I was approached by an organization to help with their return to office mandate. There was to be a keynote and a panel interview. It got cancelled yesterday but I still think it's important to talk about my approach to resolving this conflict. If you know anything about my work at all, you know that I'm in favour of autonomy. Autonomy and mandates are polar opposites...