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Welcome to The Compassionate Leaders Circle Podcast where we feature compassionate leaders who positively impact their communities and the world. For thousands of years, the sages have known that compassion is a powerful force for good. In the last two decades, compassion scholars caught up with these sages, proving an ROI to building loving communities and businesses. This podcast features leaders who can teach us about the power of compassion and is hosted by Laurel Donnellan and Darryl Brown. Laurel is a founder, author, and contributor covering compassionate leadership at Forbes. Darryl is a trusted faculty advisor at Compassionate Leaders Circle with a professional background working in media.
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Discussing Forgiveness with Mark Anthony Lord
In this podcast, I explore the power of forgiveness with my dear friend Mark Anthony Lord. Mark’s passion for spiritual awakening led him to ordination as a Minister and has founded two successful spiritual communities. The Bodhi Spiritual Center in Chicago grew from a handful of members to thousands under his leadership, and Living The Course, a virtual, global A Course In Miracles community that he transformed into a 7-figure business in under three years. What Mark and I discovered through this conversation is that forgiveness is critical for a leader to be compassionate. “The leader always has the potential to change the game and change the story,” says Mark. Listen to learn more about how leaders find and practice forgiveness.
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Leading with Values at SOC Prime
In this emotional podcast, our host Laurel speaks with Marina Aksyonova and Andrii Bezverkhyi of SOC Prime, an American enterprise cybersecurity company with Ukrainian roots founded in 2015. The company builds technology to support collective cyber defense. With about half of the company still based in Ukraine, Marina speaks to the company’s great ambition and values-based culture of strength during Ukraine’s difficult times. The company has grown immensely in the last five years. They work with an incredible amount of transparency to prioritize trust in their client relationships. SOC Prime only hires individuals whose values match the company’s values. We have a lot to learn about the power of compassion and curiosity from this incredible company.
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Understanding the Human Experience in the Workplace
KeyAnna Schmiedl has been asking the tough, uncomfortable questions all her life. Her interest in organizational behavior and organizational psychology started in college, where she was encouraged to ask those questions. Today, she advocates for one’s work experience to be inseparable from one’s life experience. She also stresses the importance of recognizing intersectionality in the workplace to drive the business forward. Her work as the Chief Human Experience Officer at Workhuman is a huge part of putting her personal and professional philosophies into practice. Learn more about her story and work in this episode.
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Discussion on Faith
Some key takeaways from this episode:
-“Faith for me is knowing that I’m doing my part,” says Darryl Brown. It’s a way to live in hope and not fear. It means downsizing your ego.
-There is evil everywhere. It’s better to focus on what you can do in your community than to try and act on things out of your control.
-Reading and reaching out in the morning is essential.
-You can’t stop with gratitude. You have to love what you do. Finding that love, not just gratitude, means taking action. -
The Origins of the Donnellan Method
In this special episode, our co-host Darryl Brown interviews our other co-host Laurel Donnellan about the Donnellan Method. The two co-hosts take a trip down memory lane as Laurel talks about how she came up with the Method and the importance of taking compassionate, intentional action.
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Making Yoga Accessible with Lindsay Junk of YogaSix
Lindsay Junk went from being kicked out of her first yoga class to President at YogaSix, a nationwide yoga studio featuring a range of practices.
YogaSix is unique in that the company offers yoga in places where inhabitants may not fit the stereotypical “yoga types.” This allows them to help yoga reach as many people as possible in an accessible way.
Lindsay speaks on her time with YogaSix as part of a long career with different leadership positions.
Listen to learn more about her keys to being a successful leader and this amazing company!