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Maria is an executive leadership coach and she helps CEOs and leaders go against the grain of corporate thinking to create cultures of belonging and high performance. While most of the consulting industry follows the model of traditional business, Maria is committed to helping leaders and their teams feel more connected, so they perform at a higher level than they ever thought possible. Maria's expertise spans leadership, training and development, product management, client service, business process innovation, and organizational process optimization. She is the creator of THE SCALE FACTOR FORMULA program and the creator and host of the weekly podcast and TV Streaming Series "Finding the Upside," launched in 2022.
As the CEO and Founder of Training Innovations and MDR Brands, she has helped thousands of businesses, both large and small, to restructure, grow and transform. She possesses a wealth of knowledge and expertise, cultivated over many years while working with a variety of clients across numerous industries and through numerous changes. Her impressive track record includes working with over 1600 companies across more than eight business sectors, presenting over 5800 times, and training over 200,000 people. She is a Certified Personal Empowerment Coach (PECC), Certified Master NLP Coach and Master Practitioner of Hypnosis and TimeLine Therapy (TLT). A passionate advocate for female entrepreneurship, Maria actively supports women in business through education, mentorship, and by challenging outdated societal norms. She serves on the advisory board for Seton Hall University's Stillman School of Business CX, Customer Experience program and is committed to continuous learning and personal growth. 
Maria's mantra, “Transformation is on the other side of implementation,” encapsulates her approach to achieving real business change through innovative thinking and proactive leadership.
In this episode, we discover the following:

What is the best way to train and develop someone?Why challenging the “status quo” has its perks.How companies and people have changed over the past 30 years regarding leadership and development.Maria is known as the “Straightforward Leader”; we find out how Maria navigates resistance from those she is developing.
With podcast host: Mark Sephton
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Carla Marcos López is a Clinical Hypnotherapist who practices Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, helping her clients use their minds to their advantage so that they can find their unique balance and bring more of what they want into their lives. Alongside her passion for hypnotherapy, Carla is also a Lawyer and a Qualified Nurse. Being a qualified nurse, her delivery as a hypnotherapist combines her knowledge of how the mind works, together with a caring and holistic approach that takes into account the interconnection of body and mind.
 
This, taken together with her lawyer’s solution-focused approach, drives Carla’s enthusiasm to work with clients and help them achieve their goals so that they can start living their best lives as soon as possible. Carla is a firm believer that improving a person’s emotional state also helps improve the lives of those around them. She absolutely loves to see her clients not only finding their unique balance but also becoming an example of positive change for others; their families, friends, co-workers, and ultimately an inspiration for the wider community.
 
Carla speaks several languages and offers hypnotherapy services globally online.
In this episode, we discover the following:

What is solution-focused hypnotherapy?How can we get the best out of our minds?Can we simultaneously stay in our primitive and intellectual minds?How improving our emotional state also benefits those around us.
With podcast host: Mark Sephton
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Drew Binsky, a Phoenix, Arizona native, is one of the youngest people in history to visit all 197 countries in the world. He completed this goal at age 30 and is one of 225 people to do so. He works as a full-time content creator with an online community of over 10 million, and his videos have garnered more than 5 billion overall views. Drew first got the travel bug after studying abroad in Prague, during his junior year of college. Then, shortly after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he took a job as an English teacher in South Korea, where he lived for two years. During that time, he started a travel blog which evolved into making travel videos on social media. His main goal is to inspire others to travel because the world is a beautiful place and traveling is the best education that you can have.
In this episode, we discover the following:

Why should everyone travel?How can we become better travelers?What’s the secret sauce for getting as many eyeballs on our content?What are Drew’s most exhilarating, scary, and blissful moments on his travels?
With podcast host: Mark Sephton
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Adele Tevlin is the creator and founder of The C.E.O Blueprint, a Transformational Development Company. She is a behavioral expert and pattern interrupter who uses a masterful combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), neuroscience, spirituality, energetics and psychology to ensure clients achieve the transformation and breakthroughs they are committed to making in their lives. She changes patterns, beliefs and behaviors by helping people rewire their subconscious mind. Over the past 20 years, Adele has specialized in helping business owners, entrepreneurs, naturopathic doctors, physicians, lawyers, realtors (and more!) create and produce massive elevations in their leadership and performance. Not only does her work apply to the business environment, it allows her clients to incorporate her methodology into their personal lives and relationships. 
In this episode, we discover the following:

What is a behavioral expert and pattern interpreter?What are the most common problems people have with money?How do we change our relationship with money?How can we change and heal our minds?
With podcast host: Mark Sephton
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Julija started her healthcare journey during the global health pandemic in March 2020. Caregiver burnout hit her hard- working in a Level One Trauma Center in Chicago and she knew she needed a shift in her career that was more aligned with your soul's purpose. Julija became an accredited Board-Certified Nurse Coach. After launching her online business, she quickly realized this was the type of nursing she was looking for all along! 
In this episode, we discover the following:

What is nurse coaching?How to transition from being busy to being productive.Why pen and paper are so useful when we feel overwhelmed?How to find clarity when faced with complex and overwhelming tasks
With podcast host: Mark Sephton
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Pam is an insight activator, curious co-creator, culture whisperer, and, according to her 4th-grade teacher, "the spice that every classroom needs" always learning and learning all ways. She knows a lot about the power of potential in work and life and, more importantly, how to connect it. Her expertise stands on a solid foundation, including certification in fitness and nutrition, a Bachelor of Adult Education, a Master of Arts in Leadership, and numerous facilitation and coaching certifications. It springs to life through her diverse experience of fitness teaching and nutrition counseling, award-winning learning facilitation in higher education, being a people and culture developer, and being the Director of Culture Activation at WestJet Airlines, one of Canada´s most admired corporate cultures.
Today, she is a trusted partner for high-performance organizations worldwide through her firm, Connecting Potential. Pam expertly guides them and fiercely champions the potential already there in three dimensions of organizational performance: within us as individuals, between us in relationships and teams, and around us in this thing called "culture". Her range and depth of experience in each dimension give her a unique trifecta of expertise in the people and culture development space as she fluidly facilitates connections between them for exponential impact. Pam is also a sought-after speaker, known for her infectious energy and experiential, activational messages. Her first book, Potential – How to Connect What´s Already There for Exponential Impact, synthesizes her rich, lifelong learning into a simple yet powerful mindset shift, operating system, and core practice for individuals, teams, and organizations to navigate today`s uncertainty with greater energy, ease, and effectiveness.
Daily movement and delicious food fuel Pam; yoga and contemplative practices ground her; a wonderful husband and adult sons burst her heart with gratitude, and she loves to laugh – a lot!
In this episode, we discover the following:

What turns potential into ability?How we can go deeper in our learning and development.Why organizational development is important in the workplace.How we can become more insightful.
With podcast host: Mark Sephton
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