Businesses are People Too! A Podcast Lindsay Harle

What if....businesses were actually neural circuits? with Lindsay Harle, Businesses are People Too! A Podcast! and Quirky Lindsay Harle 

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


How is a team like a neural circuit?
What's a neural circuit?
What's a neuron?
How  each team member see their role within the larger team
How individuals see each others and their roles within the larger team
How one person impacts the larger ecosystem of the team
Neuroplasticity of a team
Values and their role in neuroplasticity and team alignment
Environment priming in supportive of reinforcing a neural circuit
Progress takes time; changing behaviours, attitudes and mindset requires patience
How to build up specific neuron strength within the team neural circuit



Connect with Lindsay


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
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What if....businesses invested in driving passion? with Kira Day, The Passion Centre

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


What cold workplace cultures drive over their people
The impact of functioning in alignment versus functioning in fear
How our childhood experiences shape our beliefs in what we can "have"
Passion focuses on what is meaningful to the individual and whether or not they're able to express this in the world
The Passion Formula: Passion = Meaning x Investment (P = M x I)
What drives meaning
You cannot find passion. You have to activate it from within
What passion drivers are via the study Kira and her team conducted
What parameters impact your ability to feel passion
Angela Duckworth links passion with sustainable performance over time
Kira's Passion Study identifies the internal and external passion drivers
Passion is a holistic experience which is dependent upon the emotions scale
How our emotions are hardwired into our physical experience of passion
People develop emotional diversity based on how they're wired and how they've been allowed to express these emotions/passion
To ask what is driving our passion
What is influencing our access to our passion
Passion is energy positive, whereas an absence or imbalance of passion is energy negative
Passion is personal
Kira's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (33:46)

Links in this episode:


Website: www.thepassioncentre.com
LinkedIn: Kira Day

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment

What if....businesses used this not-so-hidden secret for success? with Kayla Walsh, ISC Health

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


How the brain, body, and environment impact each other (a wee bit of biopsychosocial health)
What is energy management
How are choices impact our understanding of our energy investments 
Why values, boundaries and roles are important for our self image in business
The reality behind the health of the leadership team and it's impact on business
The trifecta of business health and how it impacts our honest energy over supplemental energy
The Sleep - Caffeine - Stress cycle
How to identify what we're doing to hurt ourselves
The cycles we may be trapping ourselves in
The importance of behaviour modelling, not behaviour telling
What rest really means...hint...it's not being on social media
What leaders can model for their people in order for all to be a well-rested team
True rest results in higher quality of work and efficient hustle, not ineffective hustle
Kayla's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (29.18)

Links in this episode:


Website: inspiringselfcare.org
Instagram: @isc_health
Facebook: @isc_health
LinkedIn: ISC Health Program
Sept 2022 Program Registration: Annual Women's Come & Grow 2-Day Retreat

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment

What if...businesses turned down the suck to turn up their possible? with Tim Sweet, Team Work Excellence

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


That business is a relatively new human experience
Work can no longer be a fixed experience, but one that's in constant flux
Why the destruction of old systems allows teams to be stronger and help people achieve their potential
What re-norming is and why it's needed today
In order for teams to grow together, they must feel involved in the culture development
Leaders cannot be passive; they must be active participants in their team
Tim's 3 Trust Pillars: logic through understanding, empathy for greater connection, and authenticity for consistency
Workplaces are emotional experiences
Hybrid teams bring a new threat to team trust
What the difference between suboptimal and optimal/high-performing teams is
What "high-performing" actually means
To question if we have the right metrics for success
Great leaders can still fail if the company structures, processes, design, and strategy are not set up correctly
The interconnectivity of all factors for team failure
The difference between capacity and WILLING capacity
Why leadership is not taught in business school (hint...it's a private journey)
The health of the individual relies on the health of the whole
Tim's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (1:00:52)

Links in this episode:


Discovery Call: twe.team/discovery
TWE Solutions: twe.team/solutions
LinkedIn: Tim Sweet

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment

What if....businesses recognized that WE is greater than ME? with Suzanne Ricard-Greenway, SR Greenway Leadership

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


Feltman's Model of Trust (The Thin Book of Trust)
The theory, results, and insights on how to build trust via the Absolute Trust System
Proactively, consciously building trust means anything is possible. When teams trust each other, they OWN mistakes, take accountability, challenge the status quo, etc.
Trust allows leaders to be engaged and involved with their team
Trust encourages innovation and creativity because of the synergy it creates for teams to thrive and produce
Cognitive elaboration grows from trust - this is where the "impossible" solutions begin to happen
In trusted environments, people love going to work
Trust breeds the extraordinary
2 of the 4 pillars of the Absolute Trust System
Pillar 1: People have different starting points with trust. Some give instantly, others require it be earned, others are somewhere in between
Pillar 2: Our trust blind spots, meaning what we look for in trust is what we show in trust. Our brain defaults to "what makes sense to me makes sense to you," but this is not always the case (rarely)
The simplest way to build trust is to ask them what you need to do to build their trust
Clarity of expectations is crucial to earn or keep your trust. Create the same definition for expectations - finite details matter
Trust building = transparent, explicit, and detailed communication
Leaders gain trust from their people by being transparent, reliable, competent, and being an advocate for their people
Teams who trust each other elevate their level of diversity, connection, and vulnerability. 
Trust between teams become about the we and not the me of the team
Trust is what will move teams out of storming, into norming, and all the way to performing
Suzanne's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (45:37)

Links in this episode:


Website: srgreenway.com
LinkedIn: Suzanne Ricard-Greenway

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment

What if....businesses decided to DANCE with innovation? with Dr. Caroline Brookfield, The Reluctant Creative

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


The #1 skill businesses are seeking for their teams
The difference between big C and little c creativity
How to access our own creativity beyond the traditional sense of the word
93% of businesses say they want innovation, but only 18% of people feel safe taking creative risks in their workplace
The two judgement barriers of creativity - internal and external
Why rejection feels like physical pain
How leaders can model creativity while braving judgement
Why creating a safe space to explore all creative failure is how we get to the “good stuff”
The practice of creative failing to work our creative muscle
Benefits of creativity. E.g., higher income, better leadership, more confidence in uncertainty, etc.
The power of a "literary mullet," fun in the front, data in the back
The biological facts about creativity
Creativity is contagious
Why and how leaders can support teams to step into creativity
Why we tend to fall back into status quo solutions when feeling uncertain and how creativity can reduce this
How to redefine creativity within our business teams
That DANCE helps to democratize creativity in teams (Daydream, Ambiguity, Novelty, Curiosity, and Edit Later)
The difference between divergent creativity (ideating without judgement) and convergent creativity (distilling divergent creativity)
Daydreaming = productive boredom
Tolerance of Ambiguity to build non-status quo solutions
How Novelty builds more data points for connecting to unique solutions in our brains
Curiosity is the foundation of all creativity
Ernest Hemingway was right when he said "Write drunk, edit sober" (separating divergent and convergent creativity)
Caroline's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (42:46)

Links in this episode:


Website: carolinebrookfield.com, thereluctantcreative.com
LinkedIn: Dr. Caroline Brookfield
Instagram: @artfulscience
YouTube: Creative Lifescaping

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment