Career Episodes

1,210 | Susan M. Barber Shares How to Step Into Visibility and Influence Susan M. Barber is a leading visibility coach who helps quiet, high-achieving corporate leaders step into the spotlight and become visible, valued, and influential in their careers. With over 25 years of experience in leadership roles at Kraft Heinz, spanning Sales, Supply Chain, Foodservice, and IT, Susan has a deep understanding of the challenges corporate leaders face. She’s also the author of The Visibility Factor and the upcoming Your Journey to Visibility Workbook, both of which offer powerful tools for leaders looking to take charge of their careers and confidently pursue new opportunities. As the host of The Visibility Factor podcast, Susan is passionate about empowering professionals to grow their influence and unlock their full potential. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.susanmbarber.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scr…

1,201 | How Christine Sadry Dedicated Her Life to Service at the United Nations Christine Sadry was born in Krasne, Poland, and was adopted in 1964 by a Polish American couple who lived in the United States. After graduating from West Catholic girls high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Christine worked at the United States, Social Security Administration from 1973 to 1979. She started her 31-year career with the United Nations in June 1979. Christine was a single mother to her daughter and the wife of the United Nations diplomat after dedicating most of her life to Service, she now resides inNaples FL. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://christinesadry.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Dro…

1,195 | How Deidre Gestrin Helps Professionals Conquer Burnout and Reignite Purpose For over 4 years, Deidre Gestrin has made it her mission to help hundreds of high achieving professionals conquer burnout, reignite their passion, and renew their purpose. Her master’s degree in counseling psychology, plus 14 years specializing in stress and trauma treatment, have given her the knowledge and expertise to help others alleviate chronic stress and recover from burnout. Deidre maintains a strong conviction that everyone has the ability to create the life they desire. Throughout her career in the behavioral health field, she has been privileged to hold executive leadership positions, which yielded opportunities emphasizing the importance of life work balance. She gained expertise and knowledge on how to support and to effectively move companies forward in their vision and mission, while supporting employee needs and wellness. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some l…

1,188 | How Rich Kozak Helps Entrepreneurs Create Impact-Driven Brands Rich Kozak is The Voice of Impact Driven Branding. After decades of shaping and launching global brands, he founded RichBrands to serve heart-centered entrepreneurs and professionals who are ready to elevate their unique gifts and make lasting impacts with clarity, longevity, and divine purpose. At RichBrands, Rich personally guides individuals through the 7 Steps of Impact Driven Branding, helping them define and grow brands that are aligned with who they truly are and the difference they are meant to make. With 47 years of deep branding expertise and a reputation for straight talk you can trust, Rich is known as the most connecting, deeply listening, and caring branding expert you will ever meet. Beyond guiding brands, Rich also mentors clients in creating, writing, and publishing books that amplify their message and move their brand forward. His wisdom is simple yet transformative: Clarity for the impac…

1,175 | Ed Hajim Reveals How to Turn Adversity Into Opportunity Ed Hajim is a seasoned Wall Street executive, philanthropist, and author whose life story is a testament to resilience and reinvention. Kidnapped by his father at age three and raised in foster homes and orphanages, Ed overcame extraordinary adversity to build a five-decade career in finance, holding leadership roles at firms like Lehman Brothers, Furman Selz, and ING. He is now chairman of HighVista Strategies and a dedicated supporter of education and opportunity through the Hajim Family Foundation. Ed shares his remarkable journey in his memoir On the Road Less Traveled and his inspirational fable The Island of the Four Ps, offering readers a blueprint for discovering purpose, values, and direction. His message is clear: adversity doesn’t define you—your response to it does. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.edhajim.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos,…

1,168 | Neena Perez Reveals How to Turn Purpose Into Power Neena Perez is a Transformational Life and Business Coach, Chef, Speaker, and host of the podcast Straight Talk No Sugar Added. With over 20 years of experience leading women—whether in high-pressure kitchens or life-changing coaching programs—Neena has a gift for turning purpose into power. Her journey from executive chef to empowering coach is fueled by her personal story of resilience—overcoming teen pregnancy, abuse, and poverty—and rising into her calling to help other women do the same. Through her signature Wisdom to Wealth system and Purpose By Design™ framework, Neena teaches purpose-driven women how to use their God-given wisdom, skills, and life experiences to build aligned, impactful coaching businesses that don’t just make money—but make a difference. Whether she’s leading a team in the kitchen or mentoring a woman into her next level, Neena brings clarity, confidence, and straight talk with a whole lot o…

Jim Tracy is the “Curator of Culture” who grew up in rural South Dakota as the 6th of 8 children. He was a welder working in remote locations when he fell head over heels in love and attended University with his new wife Sarah. Together they have built a family, successful business exits and worked through 45 years of change and growth. They are the parents of 5 kids and grandparents to 16! Jim spent over 3 decades in senior management including 23 as CEO of Legacy Telecommunications, Inc. Jim is a type rated jet pilot who was inducted into the Wireless History Foundation’s Wireless Hall of Fame Class of 2021. He spent time in private firms, family enterprises and private equity owned ventures. Today he is a high demand keynote speaker, author, and award winning podcaster who helps executive teams execute through strategy, coaching, board membership and advisory services. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://thejimtracy.co…

1,163 | Ray Roberts Reveals How to Tackle Life After the NFL Ray Roberts is a former NFL offensive tackle, primarily known for his time with the Seattle Seahawks and Detroit Lions. He was the 10th overall pick in the 1992 NFL Draft, selected by the Seahawks. Roberts played four seasons in Seattle before finishing his career with the Lions. He was a two-time Jacobs Blocking Trophy winner at the University of Virginia and earned first-team All-American honors. After retiring from football, Roberts has been involved in coaching, education, and motivational speaking. He currently hosts a podcast focused on mental health called "Big Ray's Garage Grind". ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://mindfultherapygroup.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands …

1,159 | Delphia L. Howze's Mission: Leading Inclusion From Anywhere You Are Delphia L. Howze has emerged as a new author with her new book, "Including You! Leading Inclusion From Where You Are." She is the CEO and Founder of D. Howze Solutions, LLC, a consultancy specializing in inclusion strategy, and serves as an executive for a large-scale national laboratory. With over two decades of experience, she is recognized as a forward-thinking leader in Human Resources and inclusion strategy, adept at helping organizations harness human capital and diversity to cultivate inclusive environments. Known as the Inclusion Strategist, Delphia's expertise lies in developing and implementing HR and inclusion strategies, facilitating talent development through training, mentorship, and leadership coaching, managing compliance, and delivering impactful keynote presentations. As a thought leader in the field, Delphia is often sought after for her insights and expertise on diversity and inclusion …

1,158 | Beth McDonough: From Breaking News to Breaking Free! Beth McDonough was a tenacious, resourceful, and seasoned television crime and public safety reporter. With a sparkle in her eye, an inviting smile, engaging personality, All-American good looks and a friendly demeanor, she was a paradox. Beth thrived on uncovering scandals, breaking news stories and holding those in power accountable. Her tv news job covering other people’s lives was everything to her until Beth was ultimately forced to dig deep and confront perhaps the darkest story of all, hers. Two DUIs completely ruined her life, and now she is speaking out on her recovery and 16 years of sobriety. Her journalism career began in the small town of Joplin, Missouri. She moved (a lot) and worked her way up from a rookie reporter and anchor into major markets like Oklahoma City, Houston, Philadelphia, New York and Minneapolis. During her broadcasting career, she worked for some of the biggest network owned affil…

1,155 | From Circus Drummer to Pinstripe Legend: Dave ‘Letterfly’ Knoderer on Art, Horses & the Road “All you have to do is paint a picture.” This advice during an early creative writing class launched a lifelong endeavor to capture memories from his turbulent, exhilarating and colorful life. Dave Letterfly Knoderer first found his voice as a show drummer in the circus. As his journey evolved, he began performing with liberty horses, capturing the hearts of audiences under the big top. Passion for performance, travel, and creative expression accompanied Dave while climbing the ranks in the circus culture, becoming an award winning Haute E’cole horseman, meaning a horse schooled to the highest level. Developing finesse for classic horsemanship showed up in his mastery with brush and paint. His diverse portfolio includes painting theatrical sets, amusement park décor, gilding antique fire engines, restoring vintage carousel horses, designing award-winning storefronts, and cre…

1,149 | Be Unexpected: Marva Bailer on Innovation, Leadership & Revolutionizing the Future of Work Marva Bailer has spent a quarter of a million moments in meetings—and she’ll tell you, a smile and eye contact can outshine any title. As she writes in her bestselling book Be Unexpected, “Showing up is the energy and focus you want to radiate to the world.” A bold and purpose-driven leader, Marva is a former executive at IBM, Amazon, Twilio, and Splunk, where she led billion-dollar teams and helped shape the future of sales, data, and innovation. Today, she serves as a board director and advisor, helping companies navigate complex challenges through strategy, storytelling, and servant leadership. Her book, Be Unexpected: Resetting Routines to Revolutionize the Future of Work, was named a 2023 NIEA Top Career Book. It introduces the idea of a personal “walk-up song” and offers modern frameworks for communication, trust-building, and leading with conviction. Recognized as a …

1,127 | The Power of Personal Branding: Alan McLaren on Leadership, Identity & Global Impact My passion for personal branding comes from over two decades of experience in leadership roles, including public companies, partnerships, and entrepreneurial ventures. Throughout my career, l've recognized the pivotal role personal branding plays in leadership success-helping leaders define their identity, articulate their unique value proposition, and enhance their professional reputation. Serving as the YPO (GOLD) International Chair was a life-changing experience that took me around the world and redefined my understanding of true leadership. The insights I gained and the remarkable leaders I had the privilege to work with have left an enduring impact on me. With STRATA Originals, I'm committed to empowering leaders to maximize their impact through personal branding. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://strataoriginals.com/…

1,115 | Why Learn-It-Alls Win: Damon Lembi on Leadership, Growth & the Future of Workplace Learning Damon Lembi is a 2x bestselling author, the host of The Learn-It-All Podcast, and CEO of Learnit – a live learning platform that has upskilled over 2 million people. Drawing from his prior baseball career, Damon brings an athlete’s perspective to leadership. Through his journey, he has gained invaluable insights into what helps organizations grow, how great leaders learn, and why learn-it-all companies outpace their competitors every time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.thelearnitallleader.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more …

1,113 | JC Chamberlain on Resilience, Racing & Reinventing Yourself JC Chamberlain is a multifaceted individual whose life journey spans competitive cycling, entrepreneurship, and personal development. A silver medalist in the 1975 National Championship 50-mile Road Race, Chamberlain's athletic pursuits led him from Olympic aspirations to a later-life attempt at the cycling Hour Record. His academic path took him to Princeton, where he earned honors in Policy, and was a two-time National Champion and All-American in rowing. Chamberlain's professional endeavors include co-founding AppointMaster, a veterinary scheduling platform for 100 million pets, and serving as CFO for APPPAH, where they managed a perinatal educational platform with students in 40 countries. Drawing from his diverse experiences, Chamberlain's first book, entitled Antidote, introduces his concept of Emotional Wellth™ to help us build resilience that will enable us to "get back from setbacks." As a cancer and Covid…

1,108 | From Google to Family Legacy: Cristian Cibils Bernardes’s Journey I, Cristian, grew up in Paraguay in an incredibly entrepreneurial family. I watched my parents try and retry until they found success building SMS transport infrastructure for the telcos of Latin America and Africa. They are both Computer Scientists, 50% partners in the business, my mom is the CEO and my dad is the CTO. It is the only case of tech international expansion in Paraguay. I was fortunate to study Symbolic Systems at Stanford, adding a layer of psychology, linguistics and philosophy to my love for computer science. I was a software engineer at Google doing full-stack for Google Shopping, and deep retrieval for Socratic by Google, an AI education app for high schoolers that was #1 in the EDU category during the pandemic. Looking to broaden my skillset, I joined the family business as it transitioned from SMS infra to being a family office with a prominent venture arm, focused on empowering the next …

1,106 | Dr. Dominique Carson: From NYC Prodigy to Award-Winning Healer, Journalist & Changemaker Dr. Dominique M. Carson, LMP, H.C., has been remarkable in her current state, Virginia, and her hometown, New York City. She has beaten all odds by becoming an award-winning massage practitioner, freelance journalist, author, and orator. From the time she was eight years old, she used her artistic and writing abilities to inform and inspire others, leading her to greater heights. As a result, she received her bachelor's and master's degrees before she was 25. Carson became the first African American to receive the Brooklyn College Wall of Fame award 2011. Carson has interviewed over 100 figures in popular culture as a freelance journalist. She has received various awards, including 2x Author All-Star, the Global Iconic Changemaker Award, the Global Recognition Award, and the 2025 Courageous Woman Magazine Trailblazer Award for her editorial and health/wellness work. In Spring 2024, she …

1,093 | Mastering Leadership Through Temperament: Brad Dude on Global Management & Team Dynamics Brad Dude has spent over 35 years as a trainer, manager, and consultant in more than 25 countries. He has published a number of books on the topic of temperament and conducts seminars and workshops for organizations wishing to incorporate temperament into their leadership training programs. Brad has served in a number of leadership and management positions for such organizations as Westinghouse, The Center for Nonprofit Resources in New Orleans, Macro International, NDPL & Associates, Inc., The Greystone Consulting Group, and the U.S. Peace Corps. He has conducted a variety of project management, training, and organization development consultations for such clients as the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA/Langley Research Center, Naval Surface Warfare Center/Dahlgren & Carderock Divisions and, the Internal Revenue Service. Brad is a skilled facilitator and speaker and enjoys workin…

1,072 | How High Performers Are Made: Success Strategies from Athlete & Entrepreneur Michael Seiler Michael Seiler combines a background of 30 years in a variety of industries with experience as a high-level endurance athlete for a unique perspective to the path to success. Michael works with organizations, teams, and individuals to support the development of sustainable high performance. His approach is hugely practical, harnessing the simple (but not easy) ingredients of what it takes to deliver sustained success. Michael has over thirty years in the corporate world in a variety of roles and industries including human resources, television and healthcare. For over 20 years, Michael led digital strategy initiatives to solve consumer problems. Michael is also a serial entrepreneur who has founded successful companies in e-commerce, digital strategy and endurance coaching. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.me…

1,065 | From Wall Street to Stillness: How Meditation Saved Tom Cronin's Life Tom Cronin spent 26 years in finance markets as one of Australia’s leading bond and swap brokers. He discovered meditation in the early stages of his career, when the anxiety and chaos he was experiencing had hit a crisis point, and it completely transformed his world, both personally and professionally. Founder of The Stillness Project, a global movement to inspire one billion people to sit in stillness daily, Tom is passionate about reducing stress and chaos in people’s lives. His ongoing work in transformational leadership coaching and corporate training has seen him working with some of the top companies in the world like Amazon, Boston Consulting Group, Oracle, Harvard Business School, Qantas, UBS and Coca-Cola. He has spoken on stage at conferences and events like Adnews Summit, Afest, Wanderlust and Mind Heart Connect. Tom has six books published and produced the hit documentary film The Portal. …

1,063 | She Restarted Her Acting Career at 47, Now She's on Netflix — Anne Alexander-Sieder's Story Anne Alexander-Sieder is a passionate actor and entrepreneur who successfully relaunched her acting career in Germany after a 16-year hiatus. Originally from the U.S., she moved to Germany nearly 30 years ago for love, leaving behind a thriving acting career. At 47, she she decided to dive back into the industry, without any current showreel material or industry connections — you can even catch her right now in the Hallmark Christmas movie A Heidelberg Holiday, streaming on Netflix. To empower others in their journeys, Anne founded Get Better Roles, a program that helps actors finally learn how to take control of their careers and get the opportunities they deserve. She also launched Passion Project to Pro, which helps people, who may also have dormant dreams, turn what they love into what they do without having to be an expert, influencer, or coach. Her story is one of resili…

1,062 | From West Texas to the White House: Bill Williams' Epic Journey in Media & Government Bill started his career in West Texas working his way through Texas Tech as a photographer and writer for the local newspaper and working in the campus radio and television stations while getting a BA and MA in broadcasting and journalism. After graduating he went to the University of Texas at Austin as director of both a four-city instructional television network and the university’s four channel instructional television system. While there he also taught graduate level TV courses and worked on a doctorate in mass communications. From Austin, Bill moved to Ohio where he accepted a position at Bowling Green State University’s new television station to become their Director of Instructional Television and Special Projects. Bill then moved to Washington, DC where he started his own communications consulting firm. His clients included trade associations, corporations, and many govern…

1,060 | How Sean Hopwood Built a Global Language Empire — Polyglot, CEO & Cultural Connector I'm Sean Hopwood, I’m a lover of languages, education, progress, positivity and peace. I’m a polyglot and speak English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German, Hebrew and Portuguese with varying levels of fluency. Different cultures have always fascinated me ever since I was a child, and my passion for languages allows me to put my skills and determination to good use. I’m now President and Founder of Day Translations, Inc, an online global language services provider. We currently have 8 offices across the United States, as well as 3 international locations in Tokyo, Dubai and Seoul. — Let’s make your brand unforgettable. Whether you need polished videos, eye-catching photos, crisp audio, custom scripts, or social media that actually connects, KM Media has the tools to help your business shine. We keep it professional, creative, and affordable! Check us out: https://www.kmmedia.pro/ …

1,058 | He Built a Comedy Empire at 24 — Scott Edwards on Launching Legends Like Saget & Shandling Scott Edwards started his first company at age 17, and at 24 opened Laughs Unlimited, (1980) just the 12th full-time comedy club in the entire United States. Scott was fortunate to fall in with comedy greats like Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Garry Shandling, and many others who helped him develop an extremely successful chain of comedy clubs in Northern California. — Let’s make your brand unforgettable. Whether you need polished videos, eye-catching photos, crisp audio, custom scripts, or social media that actually connects, KM Media has the tools to help your business shine. We keep it professional, creative, and affordable! Check us out: https://www.kmmedia.pro/ 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5532432212426752