Ronderings

Ron Rapatalo
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In RONderings, Ron talks to his guests about their superpowers, including career advice, diversity, mindset, wellness, and leadership. Ron grew up in New York City, and has been coaching and leading executive searches for the last five years, taking what he has learned from 15 years in corporate, higher education, government, and non-profit contexts. He and his wife are obsessed with reality television, and Ron also moonlights as a men's personal stylist and group fitness instructor. Ron says, "I believe in the power of intuition and deepening one’s self-awareness and impact on others. I believe in the power of connection and transparency. I believe that we must dismantle systems of oppression and racism to recover our fullest humanity. Most of all, I believe our power to change the world starts from changing ourselves first."

  1. Stop Gatekeeping, Start Gate-Opening: Why Nonprofits Deserve Endowments Too and How to Change Philanthropy from the Inside with George Suttles

    3d ago

    Stop Gatekeeping, Start Gate-Opening: Why Nonprofits Deserve Endowments Too and How to Change Philanthropy from the Inside with George Suttles

    George Suttles followed the money. Not for status, for impact, and from inside some of the most powerful funding institutions in the country, he is trying to redesign how philanthropy works. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with George Suttles, Executive Director of Commonfund Institute, Harlem-born and New York City-rooted, for a conversation about power, repair, and rebuilding the system from the inside out. George traces his path from a father who coached every neighborhood team and a mother grounded in faith and service at Convent Avenue Baptist Church, to direct youth work across the city, to tech policy at the National Urban League, to philanthropic advising at U.S. Trust, and now to leading Commonfund Institute and chairing the board of the New York Foundation. The through line he names is older than any of it: generosity, abundance, and taking care of your neighbors, learned long before he had words like "nonprofit" or "philanthropy." The conversation gets honest about the professionalization of philanthropy and the way metrics quietly became a gate. George unpacks the myth of merit-based funding, why the 5% payout was never built to be transformational, and the question he keeps asking in mainstream rooms: if foundations believe endowments are good, why not endow their grantees too? He and Ron also talk about how to actually move an institution, why change starts at the board level, and why nobody is coming to save our communities, so we build our own things. Tune in to hear why George believes radical love and radical imagination are the tools the moment demands.   Chapters: 🎙️ 01:40 Meet George Suttles: Harlem-born, NYC-rooted, and how he and Ron first met🏙️ 02:27 A New York City kid: family, kinship, and a love story across the boroughs⛪ 06:40 A father who coached the neighborhood and a mother grounded in the church🤲 08:10 Generosity and abundance before he had the words for philanthropy🚪 09:46 From frontline youth work to tech policy: seeing the cracks in the system🔍 15:40 Peeking behind the curtain: gatekeeping versus gate-opening📊 18:00 The professionalization of philanthropy and the myth of merit-based funding🏛️ 26:33 Moving the institution: why real change starts at the board level💰 43:29 Why nonprofits deserve endowments too🔧 50:09 Repair, chronic under-resourcing, and building our own things❤️ 55:31 George's Rondering: radical love and radical imaginationLinks: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgesuttles Email: george.suttles@commonfund.org Donate: NYC Racial Equity Endowment Fund Connect with George Suttles to talk philanthropy, fiduciary duty, and values-aligned investing, or give directly to the NYC Racial Equity Endowment Fund and put the endowment idea he champions into practice for the communities that need it.   Connect with Ron: www.linkedin.com/in/rapataloCheck Out Ron's Book: www.amazon.com/dp/1613431473  Leverage Publishing Group: www.leveragepublishinggroup.comPublish a Book That Matters: http://booksthatmatter.orgStart a Podcast That Matters: http://podcastsmatter.comGo from Expert to Thought Leader: http://geniusdiscovery.org

    1 hr
  2. From Automotive High School to Wall Street: Mentorship, Resilience, and Impact Investing with Chris Thompson

    Jun 17

    From Automotive High School to Wall Street: Mentorship, Resilience, and Impact Investing with Chris Thompson

    Chris Thompson, CFA, went from training to be a mechanic at a Brooklyn vocational high school to managing over a billion dollars on Wall Street. The thing that changed his trajectory wasn't talent. It was a math teacher who told him he was good at something he couldn't yet see in himself. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Chris Thompson, impact investor, executive coach, and JP Morgan investment banking alum, to trace one of the most improbable career arcs the show has covered. Raised in Crown Heights by his Jamaican immigrant mother after his father died when Chris was two, Chris enrolled at Automotive High School for one reason: to learn a trade fast and help put food on the table. Junior year, a Jamaican math teacher and a business teacher saw something in him and redirected everything, pointing him toward college credits, a JP Morgan scholarship, and a path nobody in his world had a map for. Chris graduated valedictorian of Long Island University, earned an MBA from Duke and the CFA designation, and worked corporate credit through the 2008 financial crisis. He also carries a loss that reshaped everything: his mother died suddenly in front of him at 43, just as he was planning for business school. Today Chris ties his finance skills to something bigger, deploying capital into affordable housing and community projects, and coaching the people coming up behind him. He and Ron, both children of immigrants who lost a parent young, get into mentorship, legacy, survivor's guilt, and the discipline of putting one foot in front of the other when you want to stop. Tune in to hear why Chris calls that JP Morgan scholarship an impact investment in his own life, and what he'd ask his parents if he could. Chapters: 🌱 01:47 Two island kids, children of immigrants, meet through a mutual friend 🍽️ 02:53 No vision, no path, just trying to see the next meal 💔 04:27 Losing his father at two and growing up with a superwoman mom 🔧 08:21 Choosing Automotive High School to learn a trade and help fast 📐 09:51 The math teacher who said, you're good at this, why not pursue it 🎫 13:18 The JP Morgan scholarship that changed everything 🏆 17:09 Graduating valedictorian and earning a seat at the investment bank 📉 20:08 Reading the warning signs before the 2008 crash 🕯️ 25:25 The hardest part of the story: losing his mother at 43 🤝 28:59 The village that carried him, and a sister he leaned on 🌍 31:42 Tying finance to purpose through impact investing and coaching 🌺 36:00 The question he'd ask the parents he lost 🚶 43:49 The Ronderings value: find a way to keep going, one step at a time 🔗 46:41 Where to find Chris and the work he's doing now Links: Email: chris.d.thompson12@gmail.com Reach out to Chris Thompson directly by email to learn more about his work in executive coaching and impact investing. Connect with Ron: www.linkedin.com/in/rapatalo Check Out Ron's Book: www.amazon.com/dp/1613431473 Leverage Publishing Group: www.leveragepublishinggroup.com Publish a Book That Matters: http://booksthatmatter.org Start a Podcast That Matters: http://podcastsmatter.com Go from Expert to Thought Leader: http://geniusdiscovery.org For more great podcasts like this one, visit: https://podcaststhatmatter.org

    50 min
  3. Referrals Are a 20X Advantage: How Networking, AI, and Smart Strategy Create Luck in Today’s Brutal Job Market with Jeremy Schifeling

    Jun 10

    Referrals Are a 20X Advantage: How Networking, AI, and Smart Strategy Create Luck in Today’s Brutal Job Market with Jeremy Schifeling

    Career expert Jeremy Schifeling says a referral used to give you a 10x edge in hiring. In today's AI-flooded job market, it's now 20x, because trust is the one thing a machine can't fake. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Jeremy Schifeling, founder of The Job Insiders and best-selling author of the top LinkedIn and AI job-search books on Amazon, for a conversation about how to actually get hired when applying online has stopped working. Jeremy's story doesn't start with success. It starts with him, by his own admission, sucking at teaching. A kindergarten teacher in Bed-Stuy who once tried to win over a room of eighth graders with a Jeopardy game and got laughed out of the room, he learned the hard way that you have to understand people before you can lead them. That failure pushed him from the classroom to Teach For America, to Echoing Green and iMentor, to LinkedIn, and finally to building his own company helping the next generation find meaningful work. Ron and Jeremy compare notes from both sides of the table: what Jeremy hears from buried job seekers, and what Ron sees as a recruiter watching a thousand applications land in three days. They get into why referrals now matter more than ever, why introverts should reach out to geek out instead of network, and why social connection is as essential as a good diet. Tune in to hear Jeremy's challenge to treat 2026 the way the best of us treated 2006: go build your own luck. 🎙️ 00:39 Jeremy Schifeling on sucking at teaching and why that failure built his whole career 🧠 03:17 Why the people who pick the hard path tend to run everything later 🎒 10:18 The eighth-grade Jeopardy disaster that taught him to understand people before leading them 🛠️ 12:08 How running a school blog in Bed-Stuy quietly became a tech superpower 🚀 18:42 Leaving the safe path to bet on himself, ten years of mistakes and all 🪄 22:49 Turning workshops into a magic show instead of a lecture 📉 25:00 Two career experts compare notes on the toughest job market in years 🤝 32:44 Referrals jumped from a 10x to a 20x advantage, and AI is the reason 🌱 39:07 Why social connection is as essential to your life as a good diet 🧲 40:15 Reach out to geek out: networking advice for introverts who hate networking 💡 53:37 The Rondering: build your own luck and make the world a better place Links:Website: thejobinsiders.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/schifeling YouTube: youtube.com/@jobinsiders Books: Jeremy's best-selling LinkedIn and AI job-search books on Amazon Reach out to Jeremy Schifeling, fellow LinkedIn nerd, to talk job searching, AI, and how to build your own luck. He would genuinely love to hear what you are seeing in the market, so connect with him on LinkedIn and keep the conversation going. Connect with Ron: www.linkedin.com/in/rapatalo Check Out Ron's Book: www.amazon.com/dp/1613431473 Leverage Publishing Group: www.leveragepublishinggroup.com Publish a Book That Matters: http://booksthatmatter.org Start a Podcast That Matters: http://podcastsmatter.com Go from Expert to Thought Leader: http://geniusdiscovery.org For more great podcasts like this one, visit: https://podcaststhatmatter.org

    59 min
  4. Teamship Over Titles: Leading 150,000 People, Bringing the Human Back to HR, and Coming Full Circle with Dr. Patrick Fagan

    Jun 3

    Teamship Over Titles: Leading 150,000 People, Bringing the Human Back to HR, and Coming Full Circle with Dr. Patrick Fagan

    Some leaders climb out of a system and never look back. Dr. Patrick Fagan climbed out of New York City Public Schools and came back to lead it. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Dr. Patrick Fagan, Chief Talent and Human Resources Officer for New York City Public Schools, the largest school system in the nation, for a conversation about what it takes to lead people at a scale most of us will never touch. Born in London to Jamaican parents and raised in East Flatbush, Patrick is a K-12 product of the very schools he now serves. He walks Ron through the full arc: playing trumpet at JHS 285, learning a trade at William E. Grady, and the doctorate in industrial-organizational psychology that taught him to read workplace behavior like a scientist. Then he gets into the leadership. Why he traded "leadership" for "teamship" across his 10 executive directors. Why he refuses to be the bottleneck every decision runs through. Why he says you have to love people, not just like them, to last in HR. And how faith and a 5:30 AM gym routine keep him grounded while he oversees HR for 150,000 employees inside a $44 billion system. There is also the line he tries to live by: every day is an interview. Not for the next job, but for trust. Tune in to hear how Patrick brings the human back into human resources, and why he calls leading 150,000 people a privilege, not a burden. 🎙️ 00:16 Welcome to Ronderings, and a full-circle homecoming 📚 01:59 Want to publish a book that matters? Check out www.leveragepublishinggroup.com 🎺 06:38 From JHS 285 to a trade school, the path was never straight 🏢 17:19 The real scale: 150,000 employees and a $44 billion system 🛞 21:21 Teamship over titles, and why he refuses to be the bottleneck 🥧 30:12 The PIE framework, and bringing the human back to HR 💡 36:38 Got something worth saying? Talk to Dr. Kent at www.talktokent.com 🙏 37:18 Faith, wellness, and every day is an interview ❤️ 45:37 The Ronderings question: leave it stronger for the next generation 🎧 48:52 Podcasts That Matter, and a Stronger Podcast shout-out Links: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/patrick-d-fagan-ph-d-mba Reach out to Dr. Patrick Fagan to talk teamship, building talent pipelines inside the nation's largest school system, and the many careers in New York City Public Schools that don't require a classroom. Connect with Ron: www.linkedin.com/in/rapatalo Check Out Ron's Book: www.amazon.com/dp/1613431473 Leverage Publishing Group: www.leveragepublishinggroup.com Publish a Book That Matters: http://booksthatmatter.org Start a Podcast That Matters: http://podcastsmatter.com Go from Expert to Thought Leader: http://geniusdiscovery.org For more great podcasts like this one, visit: https://podcaststhatmatter.org

    50 min
  5. Living Your Legacy, Not Leaving It: Generational Thinking, Leadership, and the Art of the Handoff with Shawna Wells

    May 27

    Living Your Legacy, Not Leaving It: Generational Thinking, Leadership, and the Art of the Handoff with Shawna Wells

    Most people think legacy is about dying. Shawna Wells builds her whole life around the opposite idea: legacy is about living, and you are leaving one with every choice you make right now. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Shawna Wells, CEO of 7Gen Legacy Group, executive coach, and self-described generationalist, for a conversation about leadership, generational thinking, and what it actually means to live a legacy instead of leaving one. Shawna traces it back to a moment at age 10. She fell off her bike in Northeast Philadelphia, two grown men drove past without stopping to ask if she was okay, and she walked home and told her mom that when she grew up, she would make sure the people coming behind her were alright.  That instinct became a career: teacher, school leader, and now a coach who helps CEOs, nonprofit leaders, and changemakers across the country align their daily decisions with the impact they say they want to make. The conversation moves from the running track, where Shawna anchored relays and learned never to drop the baton, to the grandmother who left Wetumpka, Alabama and opened her home to hundreds heading north. Ron and Shawna dig into why social impact leaders feel under siege right now, why collective legacy beats clawing for funding alone, and the Las Vegas fellowship turning rival nonprofits into partners. Tune in to hear Shawna's Rondering on generational health and the one question that cuts through everything: are you making it easier or harder for the people coming after you? 📚 01:38 Publish your book at www.leveragepublishinggroup.com 🪑 02:02 Meet Shawna Wells: educator, coach, and self-described generationalist 🚲 04:29 The bike fall at 10 and the promise that shaped a life 🏃🏽‍♀️ 09:36 Anchoring the relay and the grandmother who housed hundreds 🍎 12:14 Can you be a generationalist inside a system not built for it ✍️ 20:38 Find support for writing your impact-driven book at www.booksthatmatter.org ⏳ 21:44 Legacy is about living, not dying: the question that changes everything 🚕 25:01 Hamilton, Whitney, and the Uber drivers who tell you their life story 🧭 28:34 How to shift an organization to think in generations ✊🏽 31:22 Leading social impact work when you fear you may not survive the year 🤝 36:06 Intertwining legacies: the Align Fellowship and turning rivals into partners 🌟 39:24 If you are a leader or changemaker looking for support, check out www.geniusdiscovery.org 🔁 44:18 Shawna's Rondering: generational health and not dropping the baton 🎧 50:00 Want a podcast just like this one? Check out www.podcastsmatter.com Links: Website: https://7genlegacy.com Connect with Shawna Wells and the 7Gen Legacy Group team to explore executive coaching, leadership development, and the Living Your Legacy experience, and to find the new Legacy Switch program launching in January 2026. Connect with Ron: www.linkedin.com/in/rapatalo Check Out Ron's Book: www.amazon.com/dp/1613431473 Leverage Publishing Group: www.leveragepublishinggroup.com Publish a Book That Matters: http://booksthatmatter.org Start a Podcast That Matters: http://podcastsmatter.com Go from Expert to Thought Leader: http://geniusdiscovery.org For more great podcasts like this one, visit: https://podcaststhatmatter.org

    51 min
  6. Trauma-Informed Hospitality: Why Survivors Get Re-Traumatized by the Systems Built to Help Them with Jessica Muñoz

    May 20

    Trauma-Informed Hospitality: Why Survivors Get Re-Traumatized by the Systems Built to Help Them with Jessica Muñoz

    Board-certified psychotherapist Jessica Muñoz calls herself a visible survivor of gender-based violence and an expert in re-traumatizing systems designed to help. She built The Business of Healing™ to train the rooms most likely to encounter a survivor first: hotels, gyms, courts, workplaces. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Jessica, founder of The Business of Healing™ and a survivor leader with Sanctuary for Families, for a conversation about why early intervention blocks lethality and what trauma literacy actually looks like at a hotel front desk. Jessica grew up in Scotland with a Hispanic last name, moved to West Harlem just before 9/11, and went through domestic violence, sexual assault, criminal court, family court, and the New York City shelter system as a first-generation immigrant. She points to the Diddy and Cassie hotel video as a textbook case of what her training is designed to interrupt. A staff member took a $100,000 payment to keep quiet. That, she argues, is the second wave of harm survivors meet after the first. Ron and Jessica get into what trauma-informed hospitality looks like inside hotels, restaurants, and gyms, why the relationship is the vehicle to healing, and why the courts pay forensic evaluators rates so low that no trained professional will take the work. They also talk about Sanctuary for Families, The Bride's March, Kyra's Law, and why patriarchy is not about men versus women but about unearned power that hurts everyone, men included. Tune in to hear why Jessica believes your story is necessary, not just for healing, but because it is the cultural expertise the system keeps refusing to pay for.  Chapters: 📚 01:13 Ron's call for voices: Leadership in a Time of Chaos, a book about saying something real 🛡️ 02:10 Meet Jessica Muñoz: board-certified psychotherapist and founder of The Business of Healing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 04:20 Visible survivor of gender-based violence and expert in re-traumatizing systems ⚖️ 09:06 Patriarchy on steroids in the courts: judges and attorneys not literate in trauma 📜 15:31 Kyra's Law and the fight still on Governor Hochul's desk 🏨 17:14 Trauma-informed hospitality: what the Diddy and Cassie hotel video should have stopped 🌹 18:12 The Bride's March: a grassroots movement run by families who lost women 💪 23:00 The barbell section is therapy: inviting the mind back to the body 🎤 24:57 Hit a referral-only mastermind for impact-driven leaders at speakersthatmatter.com 🤝 27:12 Why the relationship is the vehicle to healing, from front desk to gym floor 💡 40:03 Got an idea that needs to get out into the world? Check out talktokent.com 🗣️ 43:51 Jessica's Rondering: your story is necessary, not just for healing 👥 45:42 Patriarchy is about unearned power, not men versus women 🎧 52:36 Podcasts That Matter makes Ronderings happen, check them out at podcaststhatmatter.org Links: Instagram: @jmunozpsychotherapy Instagram (The Business of Healing): @businessofhealing Sanctuary for Families: sanctuaryforfamilies.org The Bride's March: @bridesmarch Follow Jessica Muñoz and The Business of Healing™ to learn more about trauma-informed hospitality training and the clinical work behind early intervention in gender-based violence.  Connect with Ron: www.linkedin.com/in/rapatalo Check Out Ron's Book: www.amazon.com/dp/1613431473 Leverage Publishing Group: www.leveragepublishinggroup.com Publish a Book That Matters: http://booksthatmatter.org Start a Podcast That Matters: http://podcastsmatter.com Go from Expert to Thought Leader: http://geniusdiscovery.org For more great podcasts like this one, visit: https://podcaststhatmatter.org

    54 min
  7. Community Is Medicine: Healing Schools Project, Trust, and the Three Questions That Change Everything with Wenimo Okoya

    May 13

    Community Is Medicine: Healing Schools Project, Trust, and the Three Questions That Change Everything with Wenimo Okoya

    In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Wenimo Okoya, educator, public health scholar, and founder of Healing Schools Project, for a conversation about why community itself is medicine and why the adults carrying the most trauma are the ones being asked to deliver wellness frameworks for kids. Wenimo's path runs from a Newark classroom (where she lost her job in the Christie-era budget cuts that brought the Zuckerberg money in) to a Master's of Public Health and doctorate at Columbia, to the Children's Health Fund, to the JED Foundation, and now to leading Healing Schools Project, a nonprofit born out of pandemic-era healing circles for educators of color. She introduces herself the way her colleagues at GirlTREK do, by her matrilineal lineage. She is Wenimo, the daughter of Grace, the daughter of Estolita, the daughter of Maude. The thread of women, entrepreneurship, and Caribbean healing wisdom runs through everything she builds. The conversation lands on a simple frame Wenimo brings into every circle she holds: three questions. How are you arriving? What do you need? What do you have the capacity to give? Ron calls it the simplest leadership tool listeners will hear all year. The back half of the episode unpacks why connection has been overcomplicated and why trust is the metric organizations refuse to measure even though they could. Tune in to hear why connection doesn't require innovation and why community is the public health intervention we keep walking past. Chapters: 📚 01:23 Publish your book at www.leveragepublishinggroup.com 🌍 02:35 Meet Wenimo Okoya: Newark teacher, public health scholar, founder of Healing Schools Project 👵 03:32 Daughter of Grace, daughter of Estolita, daughter of Maude: introducing yourself by lineage 🏫 05:40 Teaching in Newark during the Christie cuts and the Zuckerberg money 🎓 08:11 Columbia, Carolyn Belell, and integrating public health and education when no one else was 🦠 13:00 Pandemic healing circles, the JED Foundation, and how Healing Schools Project was born ✍️ 15:14 Find support for writing your impact-driven book at www.booksthatmatter.org 🧪 21:13 Peppermint in the backyard: Caribbean healing wisdom and what immigrants kept 🪑 23:11 The three questions that beat any icebreaker 🌟 32:03 If you are a leader or changemaker looking for support, check out www.geniusdiscovery.org 📊 36:55 Trust is the metric organizations refuse to measure 🏛️ 40:28 Why funders won't pay for what's in the middle 💊 43:23 Wenimo's Rondering: micro-shifts beat massive change 🎧 48:23 Want a podcast just like this one? Check out www.podcastsmatter.com Links: Website: https://healingschoolsproject.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healing-schools-project Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingschools Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healingschoolsproject Connect with Dr. Wenimo Okoya and the Healing Schools Project team to learn more about their work bringing healing-centered practices and educator well-being into schools across the country. Connect with Ron: www.linkedin.com/in/rapatalo Check Out Ron's Book: www.amazon.com/dp/1613431473 Leverage Publishing Group: www.leveragepublishinggroup.com Publish a Book That Matters: http://booksthatmatter.org Start a Podcast That Matters: http://podcastsmatter.com Go from Expert to Thought Leader: http://geniusdiscovery.org For more great podcasts like this one, visit: https://podcaststhatmatter.org

    50 min
  8. Safe Rooms for Leaders: Revenue, Emotional Regulation, and the Business You're Growing Into with Amirah Raveneau-Bey

    May 6

    Safe Rooms for Leaders: Revenue, Emotional Regulation, and the Business You're Growing Into with Amirah Raveneau-Bey

    Revenue strategist and third-generation entrepreneur Amirah Raveneau-Bey has spent 25 years inside Citibank, Zillow, Trulia, NerdWallet, and Opendoor. The truth she keeps coming back to: you cannot scale a business you are not personally growing into. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Amirah, founder of Grow Scale Develop, to talk about why what looks like a revenue problem is almost always a leadership problem. Amirah traces the entrepreneurial line that runs through her family. Her grandparents built a business on Long Island. Her father became a Broadway drummer who turned arts education into a calling when New York public schools started cutting music. She thought she wanted a nine to five and went to Citibank, where her boss told her to stay in the box. Tech said the opposite, so she built what wasn't there. It made her discover something she could never go back from. Leadership is 10% strategy and 90% emotional regulation. Ron and Amirah dig into why every sales problem is really a trust problem, why bosses who cannot regulate themselves are the bosses people quit, and how Amirah talks to her clients about rest. Rest is not a reward. It is a requirement for the level of leadership we are asking people to step into. And she lands on a Rondering that stops Ron mid-conversation. Every strong leader needs a space where they do not have to be strong. Coaching and mentorship are not luxuries. They are protection. Tune in to hear what 25 years across finance and tech taught Amirah about scaling a business while scaling the leader inside it. Chapters:🌱 00:36 Meet Amirah Raveneau-Bey: third-generation entrepreneur and revenue strategist📚 01:50 Publish your book at www.leveragepublishinggroup.com🎶 03:44 Nineties R&B, Jodeci, and the music that shapes who we become🏝️ 07:17 Long Island grandparents, a Broadway drummer father, and the entrepreneurial line she could not outrun💡 10:19 Saying no to entrepreneurship and getting in trouble at Citibank for thinking too creatively🚀 13:28 What tech taught her that a big bank could not: build the thing that is not there yet✍️ 18:46 Find support for writing your impact-driven book at www.booksthatmatter.org🤝 19:20 Why every revenue problem is really a leadership problem in disguise👋 23:33 People do not quit jobs, they quit bosses who cannot regulate🧠 26:48 Autonomy is the leadership move most leaders skip 🪞 35:22 Who you were as a leader five years ago is not who you need to be today🌟 37:29 If you are a leader or a changemaker looking for support, check out www.geniusdiscovery.org😴 43:19 Rest is not a reward: it is a requirement for the leadership we are asking people to step into🛋️ 49:38 Every strong leader needs a space where they do not have to be strong🎧 56:35 Want a podcast just like this one? Check out www.podcastsmatter.com Links: Website: https://www.growscaledevelop.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirahraveneaubey Substack: https://amirah.substack.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grow.scale.develop Connect with Amirah on LinkedIn or visit Grow Scale Develop to follow her work helping founders and executives turn revenue problems into leadership breakthroughs. Connect with Ron: www.linkedin.com/in/rapatalo Check Out Ron's Book: www.amazon.com/dp/1613431473 Leverage Publishing Group: www.leveragepublishinggroup.com Publish a Book That Matters: http://booksthatmatter.org Start a Podcast That Matters: http://podcastsmatter.com Go from Expert to Thought Leader: http://geniusdiscovery.org For more great podcasts like this one, visit: https://podcaststhatmatter.org

    58 min
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In RONderings, Ron talks to his guests about their superpowers, including career advice, diversity, mindset, wellness, and leadership. Ron grew up in New York City, and has been coaching and leading executive searches for the last five years, taking what he has learned from 15 years in corporate, higher education, government, and non-profit contexts. He and his wife are obsessed with reality television, and Ron also moonlights as a men's personal stylist and group fitness instructor. Ron says, "I believe in the power of intuition and deepening one’s self-awareness and impact on others. I believe in the power of connection and transparency. I believe that we must dismantle systems of oppression and racism to recover our fullest humanity. Most of all, I believe our power to change the world starts from changing ourselves first."

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  • Creator
    Ron Rapatalo
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    99
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2023-2025 Ron Rapatalo
  • Show Website
    Ronderings

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