Lets Have This Conversation

Kevin McShan
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Multimedia Journalist and Motivational Speaker Kevin McShan brings you a multi-faceted and multi-dimensional YouTube Podcast called: “Let’s Have This Conversation. The intention is to provide a large assortment of diverse content in all facets of our news cycle. From news, sports, business technology, fitness, lifestyle, entertainment and politics. McShan hopes to bring the viewers an informative, thought-provoking experience. Stimulating careful consideration or attention on the issues making news today. Let’s Have This Conversation.

  1. 6d ago

    Helping Leaders & Individuals Achieve Holistic Success with: Liz Watt

    Healthy people build thriving organizations. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 82% of CEOs believe workplace wellness initiatives can deliver a measurable positive return on investment, while 56% cite employee productivity as a top reason for investing in employee health and wellness. Those numbers reinforce an important leadership conversation: employee well-being and organizational performance are interconnected. This week on Let’s Have This Conversation, I was joined by Liz Watt, an author, speaker, holistic wellness expert, and co-founder of Be Healthy Utah. Liz believes true success is holistic. When people feel well, think clearly, and live with purpose, they are better positioned to become stronger leaders, healthier employees, more engaged family members, and more impactful contributors to their communities. As organizations continue to navigate burnout, stress, disengagement, and rising healthcare costs, workplace wellness can no longer simply be viewed as an employee benefit. It is also a conversation about resilience, productivity, leadership, culture, and sustainable human performance. Liz’s work is grounded in helping people connect mind, body, and purpose. Through corporate keynotes, employee wellness workshops, executive wellness sessions, and the Be Healthy Utah Natural Health & Wellness Conference, she provides practical education designed to help people make lasting changes in their lives. One idea from our conversation particularly resonated with me: Life is not just about education. It is about learning, experience, and what we choose to do with both. When we intentionally apply what we have learned, we gain the opportunity to change lives—starting with our own. Organizations can invest in technology, strategy, infrastructure, and innovation. But ultimately, people are responsible for bringing all of those investments to life. Investing in their holistic well-being means investing in their capacity to think, contribute, adapt, lead, and thrive. Healthy people. Stronger leaders. More resilient teams. Thriving organizations. Liz joined me this week on Let’s Have This Conversation to tell me more.   For more information: https://www.behealthyutah.com/ Discover More: https://www.elizabethannwatt.com/ Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/be-healthy-naturally/id1473357062 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Sep 28

    Helping People Rebuild After Bankruptcy with: Chad Van Horn

    Bankruptcy filings are rising across the United States. Total bankruptcy filings increased 11% during the 12-month period ending December 31, 2025, with increases in both business and non-business bankruptcies. According to statistics released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, annual bankruptcy filings reached 574,314 in 2025, compared with 517,308 during the previous year. Business bankruptcy filings increased 7.1%, rising from 23,107 to 24,737, while non-business filings climbed 11.2% to 549,577, compared with 494,201 in December 2024. While bankruptcy filings remain well below their historical highs—including nearly 1.6 million filings in 2010—they have increased every quarter since reaching a low of 380,634 in June 2022. So, what do these numbers tell us about the financial pressures facing individuals, families, and businesses? And when someone finds themselves overwhelmed by debt, how can bankruptcy become part of a broader conversation about rebuilding rather than simply financial failure? On this episode of Let’s Have This Conversation, I’m joined by Chad Van Horn, Esq., a South Florida attorney, entrepreneur, business leader, and philanthropist committed to helping people navigate financial challenges and create a path forward. Chad is the founder of Van Horn Law Group, P.A., one of South Florida’s leading bankruptcy law firms. Beyond his legal practice, he has been involved in developing startup ventures that contribute to the local economy and has served his community through organizations including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Broward County. Throughout his career, Chad has built his philosophy around the importance of relationships, shared values, and connecting people with the resources and individuals who can help them succeed. As Chad says: “It’s always better to have a team pulling together than to try to go it alone. However, you need to have the right team with shared values to achieve your true aspirations.” During our conversation, we explore what the continued rise in bankruptcy filings says about today’s financial environment, the misconceptions surrounding bankruptcy, why financial hardship shouldn’t eliminate someone’s opportunity to rebuild, and how individuals and business owners can make more informed decisions when debt becomes overwhelming. We also discuss Chad’s journey as an attorney and entrepreneur, the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people, how relationships can accelerate personal and professional growth, and why helping people regain a sense of possibility can be just as important as solving the immediate financial problem. This conversation goes beyond bankruptcy law. It’s about financial resilience, second chances, entrepreneurship, relationships, leadership, and creating a roadmap forward when circumstances become difficult.   For more information: https://www.vanhornlawgroup.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Sep 23

    Qualified Isn’t Enough How to Stand Out in a Competitive Job Market with: Margaret Buj

    According to LinkedIn, 50% of recruiters report that poor interview performance—or a candidate’s inability to clearly articulate their experience under pressure—is a primary reason qualified candidates are rejected. That raises an important question: How do talented professionals make sure their value is understood when the pressure is on? This week on Let’s Have This Conversation, I’m joined by Margaret Buj, an interview coach and international recruiter who helps professionals communicate their value clearly, confidently, and convincingly so they can pursue the roles they truly want. Since beginning her recruitment career in 2005, Margaret has worked with thousands of job seekers across the UK, Europe, the United States, and beyond—from ambitious graduates to senior managers and C-suite executives. She has also personally coached more than 1,000 job seekers, helping them strengthen their positioning, improve their LinkedIn profiles and résumés, prepare for high-stakes interviews, and develop more effective job-search strategies. What makes Margaret’s perspective particularly valuable is that she understands both sides of the hiring table. She knows how organizations assess talent—and where highly qualified candidates can struggle to communicate the value they bring. Her work sits at the intersection of hiring, professional positioning, and interview strategy, helping companies build stronger teams while helping professionals compete more effectively for the right opportunities. Margaret’s career advice has been featured in Forbes, the Financial Times, Business Insider, The Guardian, Fox Business, CIO Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and other leading publications. She has also been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice. Margaret joined me for an in-depth conversation about: • Building a more intentional job-search strategy • Positioning yourself effectively on LinkedIn and through your résumé • Preparing to communicate with confidence during interviews • Understanding what recruiters and hiring managers are really evaluating • Standing out when competing against other highly qualified candidates • Turning your experience into a compelling professional value proposition Your qualifications may open the door. Your ability to articulate their value can determine what happens once you walk through it. Tune in to this insightful conversation with Margaret Buj on Let’s Have This Conversation.   For more information: https://interview-coach.co.uk/ LinkedIn: @Margaret Buj Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Sep 21

    Beyond the Wellness Program: Building a Culture Where People Can Thrive with Robin O’Grady

    The Strategic Priority Gap: A report highlighted by Benefits Canada found that while 49% of HR leaders rank general engagement and retention among their top priorities, only 28% view employee well-being itself as a central strategic priority. What if organizations stopped treating employee wellness as an initiative and started viewing it as a fundamental part of workplace culture? Robin O’Grady is an international speaker, fitness industry leader, corporate culture specialist, and founder of O’Grady Consulting. She is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to pursue attainable wellness goals that contribute to healthier, more engaged, motivated, and sustainable workplace cultures. Robin believes wellness doesn't have to be complicated. Through simple strategies and actionable tools, she helps organizations make well-being achievable and accessible while strengthening employee engagement, team motivation, productivity, and connection. Drawing from her diverse experience as an operations director, fitness industry leader, dance instructor, and aerialist, Robin brings energy, authenticity, and practical insight to conversations about what it takes to create environments where people can thrive. During our conversation, we explore the relationship between employee well-being and workplace culture, why organizations should think more strategically about wellness, and how leaders can move beyond short-term wellness initiatives toward sustainable practices that become embedded in the everyday employee experience. We also discuss the connection between personal wellness and professional performance, the importance of setting attainable goals, what leaders can do to reignite engagement and motivation, and why sustainable organizational change often begins with giving people practical tools they can actually use. Outside of her professional work, Robin enjoys dancing, group fitness, aerial arts, and—just for fun—doing handstands. Based in Calgary with her husband and two boys, she brings her belief in balance and sustainable wellness into both her professional and personal life. Robin O’Grady joined me this week to explore how organizations can close the gap between talking about employee well-being and making it a meaningful part of workplace culture—and why helping people thrive can ultimately help organizations thrive.   LinkedIn: @RobinO'Grady Email: connect@robinspeaks.ca The Strategic Priority Gap: A report highlighted by Benefits Canada found that while 49% of HR leaders rank general engagement and retention among their top priorities, only 28% view employee well-being itself as a central strategic priority. What if organizations stopped treating employee wellness as an initiative and started viewing it as a fundamental part of workplace culture? Robin O’Grady is an international speaker, fitness industry leader, corporate culture specialist, and founder of O’Grady Consulting. She is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to pursue attainable wellness goals that contribute to healthier, more engaged, motivated, and sustainable workplace cultures. Robin believes wellness doesn't have to be complicated. Through simple strategies and actionable tools, she helps organizations make well-being achievable and accessible while strengthening employee engagement, team motivation, productivity, and connection. Drawing from her diverse experience as an operations director, fitness industry leader, dance instructor, and aerialist, Robin brings energy, authenticity, and practical insight to conversations about what it takes to create environments where people can thrive. During our conversation, we explore the relationship between employee well-being and workplace culture, why organizations should think more strategically about wellness, and how leaders can move beyond short-term wellness initiatives toward sustainable practices that become embedded in the everyday employee experience. We also discuss the connection between personal wellness and professional performance, the importance of setting attainable goals, what leaders can do to reignite engagement and motivation, and why sustainable organizational change often begins with giving people practical tools they can actually use. Outside of her professional work, Robin enjoys dancing, group fitness, aerial arts, and—just for fun—doing handstands. Based in Calgary with her husband and two boys, she brings her belief in balance and sustainable wellness into both her professional and personal life. Robin O’Grady joined me this week to explore how organizations can close the gap between talking about employee well-being and making it a meaningful part of workplace culture—and why helping people thrive can ultimately help organizations thrive.   LinkedIn: @RobinO'Grady Email: connect@robinspeaks.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Sep 20

    Inclusive Leadership: Building Trust and Workplace Culture with Natalie Holder

    78% of American workers said it was important to work for a company that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to the April 2021 CNBC/SurveyMonkey Workforce Happiness Survey. What does it take to turn those employee expectations into a workplace where people feel valued—and leadership delivers? On this episode of Let’s Have This Conversation, Kevin McShan welcomes Natalie Holder, Esq., SPHR, an employment attorney, award-winning speaker, author, executive coach, and senior People and Culture leader. Drawing on experience across academia, technology, law enforcement, and highly regulated industries—including roles with Stanford University and the United States Capitol Police—Natalie brings a practical perspective on inclusive leadership, organizational culture, and HR compliance. Natalie approaches diversity, equity, and inclusion as a leadership and accountability discipline embedded in everyday decisions. Her work connects organizational trust, legal risk, and employee performance, helping leaders build systems designed to withstand regulatory scrutiny, leadership transitions, and external pressure. Her career results include increasing applicant flow by 82%, increasing hiring of underrepresented talent in technology by 23%, and increasing hiring of women in a law enforcement agency by 15%. She has also delivered court-ordered compliance training and built succession planning, employee relations, and performance management frameworks across industries. In this conversation, we explore: • How inclusive leadership translates into everyday workplace practices. • Why accountability matters when building employee trust . • How organizations can connect HR compliance with a stronger workplace culture. • What it takes to attract talent and develop future leaders. • How executive coaching helps turn professional potential into meaningful impact. If you’re an executive, HR professional, people manager, or emerging leader, this episode offers a fresh perspective on building an organization where people and performance can thrive. What’s one action leaders can take to make employees feel valued? Share your perspective in the comments, and subscribe to Let’s Have This Conversation for more conversations on leadership, inclusion, and positive change.   For more information: https://natalieholderspeaks.com/NatalieHolderSpeaks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Sep 18

    Nathalie Blais: Connection Is Not An Assumption; It Is a Skill

    What if the greatest competitive advantage in an increasingly automated world isn't another piece of technology—but our ability to genuinely connect with one another? Executive coaching has increasingly become a strategic leadership investment. Benchmark research has reported returns ranging from 529% to 788%—roughly 5.3 to 7.9 times the initial investment—while research into human-centered leadership continues to highlight the importance of empathy, authenticity, communication, and meaningful connection. On this episode of Let’s Have This Conversation, I sit down with Nathalie Blais, Founder and CEO of Coach Academy, TEDx speaker, and ICF Master Certified Coach, to explore a powerful premise: connection is not an assumption; it is a skill. At a time when communication can feel increasingly reactive and transactional, Nathalie challenges us to rethink how influence is built, how people create meaningful change, and why coaching skills are ultimately connection skills. For Nathalie, coaching isn't about fixing people or simply telling them what to do. It's about creating the conditions for insight, responsibility, growth, inclusion, and meaningful exchange. Her philosophy positions coaching as a language leaders can use to deepen relationships and create sustainable change across organizations, cultures, and systems. Nathalie brings extensive experience to this conversation, including more than 50,000 hours in facilitation, learning design, research, and education development. She has designed multiple ICF-accredited coach education programs and trained thousands of leaders and coaches around the world. Her research explores the deeply human forces that shape how we relate to one another—including fear, motivation, grief, compassion, and connection. Her forthcoming 2027 book examines why human-centered connection may become an even more critical capability as automation and artificial intelligence reshape how we live and work. Throughout our conversation, we explore the ROI of executive coaching, human-centered leadership, authentic influence, emotional intelligence, inclusion, organizational change, and the skills leaders will need to remain distinctly human in an AI-driven world. If connection can be learned, strengthened, and practiced, the question for every leader becomes: How intentionally are you developing it?   For More Information: https://canadacoachacademy.com/ Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/connection-experiment-by-coach-academy/id1708030774 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Sep 15

    Persevering Through Collapse, Recovery, & Restoration with Ezra Vancil

    Sometimes the most important chapter of our lives begins after the one we thought would define us completely falls apart. My guest today knows what it means to experience that kind of collapse—and what it takes to rebuild afterward. Ezra Vancil is an American singer-songwriter, artist, and speaker based in Dallas, Texas. He has spent decades writing, recording, and performing across rock, pop, experimental music, and Americana. But the most powerful story Ezra has to share isn't simply found in a song. It's found in the life he had to reconstruct. Ezra is now 13 years sober. His journey has included addiction, depression, a felony DWI, divorce, and the unraveling of the identity and life he once knew. Recovery required him to rebuild much more than his sobriety. He had to rediscover discipline, repair relationships, reconnect with family, reclaim his creativity, and redefine his sense of purpose. That rebuilding process eventually became Morning & Midnight—an expansive creative project consisting of two albums, a book, and original artwork created during the recording process. The project also became a family affair, featuring vocals from his daughter Cozi, editing contributions from his son, appearances from Paco Estrada, and flamenco guitar from legendary guitar technician Rene Martinez. However, today's conversation goes beyond the music. We're talking about collapse, recovery, restoration, and what sustainable change actually looks like when life forces you to start over. Ezra and I explore how failure can redefine our understanding of success, why creative blocks can sometimes signal personal misalignment rather than a lack of talent, and why lasting transformation requires something deeper than temporary motivation. We also explore how creativity can help us make sense of experiences that don't fit neatly into categories. Ezra's songwriting reflects the entire spectacle of being human—marriage and divorce, children and parents, heartbreak and loneliness, addiction and recovery, faith and spirituality, nature, love, failure, and hope. Because life doesn't fit neatly into one genre—and neither does recovery. When everything you thought defined you disappears, how do you rebuild a life that is not simply successful, but sustainable, meaningful, and authentically yours? Let's have this conversation with Ezra Vancil.   For more information: https://ezravancil.com/ Instagram: @ezravancil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Sep 15

    Connection-Centered Leadership: Melissa Swonger on Building Cultures Where People Flourish

    What if sustainable leadership transformation begins not with strategy, systems, or titles—but with connection? In this episode of Let’s Have This Conversation, Melissa Swonger, known as the Architect of Connection-Centered Leadership™, explores the invisible architecture beneath effective leadership: the beliefs, relationships, behavioral patterns, and cultural dynamics that shape how people lead themselves, influence others, navigate change, and build organizations where people can flourish. Melissa is a scholar-practitioner, change theorist, international bestselling author, keynote speaker, executive coach, and organizational culture advisor. Her work bridges psychology, leadership development, organizational culture, change theory, human behavior, and whole-person development to help leaders move beyond surface-level solutions and create sustainable transformation. According to Gartner research, 90% of HR leaders believe that focusing on the human aspects of leadership is necessary for success in today's workplace. Yet recognizing the importance of human-centered leadership and consistently putting it into practice are two very different things. Melissa's work addresses that gap through Connection-Centered Leadership™ and her Integrative Transformation Blueprint™, a research-informed approach built around three stages: Awareness → Connection → Movement The framework challenges leaders to examine not only what they are building, but what they are building on. Sustainable organizational change requires understanding the underlying beliefs, relationships, behaviors, and informal systems influencing how people communicate, collaborate, make decisions, and respond to change. Throughout our conversation, we explore why leadership begins long before someone receives a title, how self-awareness influences organizational culture, and why meaningful connection can become a catalyst for stronger leadership and sustainable change. We also examine Melissa's concept of radical kindness and why kindness, connection, and human-centered leadership should not be confused with avoiding accountability. Instead, they can help create the conditions for trust, honest communication, meaningful relationships, and transformational performance. Melissa shares insights from her work across executive advisory, leadership and culture consulting, speaking, workshops, retreats, and author development through The Muse & The Method™. In This Conversation, We Explore: At its core, this conversation asks leaders to consider a powerful question: What are you building—and what are you building it on? For executives, HR professionals, people leaders, entrepreneurs, organizational development professionals, and anyone interested in the future of work, this episode offers a deeper examination of how connection-centered and human-centered leadership can create sustainable transformation from the inside out.   For more information: https://www.thesagehillproject.com/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Multimedia Journalist and Motivational Speaker Kevin McShan brings you a multi-faceted and multi-dimensional YouTube Podcast called: “Let’s Have This Conversation. The intention is to provide a large assortment of diverse content in all facets of our news cycle. From news, sports, business technology, fitness, lifestyle, entertainment and politics. McShan hopes to bring the viewers an informative, thought-provoking experience. Stimulating careful consideration or attention on the issues making news today. Let’s Have This Conversation.

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