Back2Different Mac Bogert
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- Society & Culture
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Change always creates resistance and fear. As we move through this crisis, let us take the chance to re-align our focus to what's important and to what we each can do to create change, empathy, and community.
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Michael Padurano - Showering in the Dark
We can be successful in business, outwardly merry, envied and admired. At the same time, we may be carrying a corrosive load of trauma, unhealed emotional and spiritual bruises that can lead to broken relationships, thoughts of suicide, and addictions both behavioral and chemical.
Spend some time with Michael Padurano and me as we explore the pain that leads to showering in the dark, and the redemption of a healing oasis. -
Tamsin Astor - A Pillar of Pleasure
No stone left unturned in this one. Tamsin Astor is fearless, peripatetic (as in she's been all over the place geographically and educationally), and embracing. I would love to get together with all the back2different community, walk together for a while, then just sit and listen. I am very blessed to be part of this wondrous crowd, and Tamsin is no exception.
Tamsin and I run through the Irish goodbye, the dance of the universe, being a good faker, feeling too much, change as life, and all within the organizing principle of A Pillar of Pleasure.
Put your top down and have fun. -
Jim Burke - Be Careful Not to Should All over Yourself
Jim Burke appeared through my connection with Craig James, and each connection enriches the other. I finally got some time with Jim and off we went, looking carefully into kinds of questions, since the questions we ask, not the answers we find, shape our reality. We batted around living through "Have you thought about this?"
We agreed that we both don't know nothin' and just had a grand time traveling through our stories together, both having reached a wonderful step in our road and reaching this conclusion: Be careful not to should all over yourself. Join us for some fun, please. -
Phil Williams - Sit in the Dining Car with Total Strangers
I hate scratching my head with "I wonder what s/he meant by that?"
First of all, I'm an inept fill-in-the-unspoken-part practitioner.
Hence my pleasure at getting together with Phil Williams. He wears no barriers and carries no shields. We travel through Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, time in the burn unit, his family and their home, music, and 'the great perhaps,' among other things.
We both dreamed of being engineers, the choo-choo kind, but for very different reasons. Nothing is out of bounds, including his argument why we might consider the advantage if we can sit in the dining car with total strangers. -
Ileana Ferber - This is Your Hummingbird
So Ileana and I explore trees, quiet, burls, pushing less and being more, Cra-Cra, chickens, naps, a sky with no airplanes, and "the moment you start laughing at yourself, that's when you're free."
Ileana grew up in Venezuela, worked 24 years with Exxon Mobile, then skipped out (like a happy child) to found Colibri Business Development. She helps local and international businesses, especially those in the energy market, with their growth and development.
Once she went out on her own, she realized this is your hummingbird.
She's transparent, excited, and a joy. -
Ozlem Brooke Erol - Everybody is Waiting for Friday
Brooke left behind her home country - Turkey - and her successful career at IBM to find a new home - San Diego - and to start her own consulting businesses:
purposeful.business is a site for the organizational side of work, yourbestlifeinc.com is for individuals.
She made her giant step as she realized that who she was, the singular and only Ozlem, was vanishing. Her humanity and identity were falling away as a requisite for success in the world of corporate homogeneity. She's fun, smart, shining with the energy that builds when we focus on becoming ourselves, not ego but survival.
We talk about loyalty, millennials, values, success, and why change toward humanity at work is "common sense but not commonplace," for starters.
Join us, please, for our questions and conversation about why Everybody is Waiting for Friday.
Customer Reviews
From a Writer’s Perspective
As a fellow writer and editor, I really appreciate Mac’s interviews.
I am fascinated by what I learn and am able to glean from both him and his guests. So much so, that in his recent interview with Mark O’Brien I found myself listening several times. Starting and stopping, going back to take notes, it is really powerful and enlightening. Thank you Marc for inspiring your listeners who are writers, to become better in their process. Fantastic!