Mind&Body@Work

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Gen Z is entering the workforce with new perspectives and expectations. In this podcast, we’re here to listen to their stories and experiences – their successes and frustrations - and help employers understand the mindset and perspectives of the up and coming workforce. Employers can’t dictate what their young employees find meaningful—what they can do, however, is empower them to create their own sense of purpose and authentic connections. Our curriculum is designed to help them do exactly that, EV Leader Lab is committed to paving the way for more curious, engaged and connected, young professionals in the workplace.

  1. 2D AGO

    A Gen Z Fast Start Success Story

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

    45 min

  2. JAN 22

    Tai Chi’s Unique Embodiment Training Qualities

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

    14 min

  3. JAN 8

    Gen Z Learns to “Play the Game”

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

    47 min

  4. 12/18/2025

    Your History Shapes How You show Up.

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

    13 min

  5. 12/01/2025

    Gen Z and the Design of Your Devices

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

    41 min

  6. 11/13/2025

    The Power of Practices

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

    12 min

  7. 10/30/2025

    What Leaders Can Learn from Marines About Integrating Gen Z

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

    41 min

  8. 10/23/2025

    Leveraging Language to Succeed at Work and Life

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

    14 min
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Gen Z is entering the workforce with new perspectives and expectations. In this podcast, we’re here to listen to their stories and experiences – their successes and frustrations - and help employers understand the mindset and perspectives of the up and coming workforce. Employers can’t dictate what their young employees find meaningful—what they can do, however, is empower them to create their own sense of purpose and authentic connections. Our curriculum is designed to help them do exactly that, EV Leader Lab is committed to paving the way for more curious, engaged and connected, young professionals in the workplace.

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  • Creator
    Timm Esque
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    36
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