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The Creator Community New Degree Press
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Creation is one of the most powerful forces in the universe for your life and career. In this podcast hosted by John Saunders (New Degree Press Author: The Optimizer) we feature interviews with authors from our community as well as industry experts, who share practical advice you can use to build your community, improve your writing and sell more books through hybrid publishing. The NDP Creator Community Podcast brings you insights and inspiration for first-time authors and creators.
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How to Build an Enlightened Leadership Team | Matt Poepsel | S6 E12
Leadership development requires focus by leaders across an organization.
On this episode of the creator community, we’ll learn the impact of that focus and where to begin the leadership journey.
Key Points:
You must first learn to lead yourself before you can lead other people, other teams or organizations.
Enlightened principles have been around for 2500 years, but we can incorporate them and draw inspiration from them in our modern workplace.
There is an opportunity to move beyond our own self-interest and start to recognize places for compassion, mindfulness and wisdom in today’s leadership.
Author Bio:
Matt is a father, a leadership expert and “The Godfather of Talent Optimization”. He has 20+ years experience as a software product executive and consultant. After serving in the US Marine Corps, he was shocked to learn that most organizations underinvest in leadership development.
He’s now on a mission to teach leaders to liberate themselves from outdated
beliefs and practices. He holds an MBA, a Ph.D. in Psychology, and a Certificate of Management Excellence from Harvard Business School which may explain why his bride thinks he’s a huge nerd.
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Author: Matt Poepsel
Book Name: Expand the Circle: Enlightened Leadership for Our New World of Work
Order Here: [coming soon]
Website: http://mattpoepsel.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattpoepsel/
Instagram: @mattpoepsel
TikTok: @mattpoepsel
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattpoepsel
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How to Leverage the Power of Naivety | Joshua Berry | S6 E11
How could being more naive actually lead to better business outcomes and joy in your life?
Good begets good. The more we do to help others and be curious the better we can deliver results in our business.
On this episode of the Creator Community, we learn how embracing the true meaning of naivety, can drive better outcomes and improve the business journey for all of us.
Key Points:
The time you spend in the workplace can be used in ways to better yourself, better the people you’re serving, better the community and better the environment.
You are innately good and have potential inside of you
Doing good in business is good for business. The small actions that you do, can make many ripples.
Author Bio:
From Bahrain to Bogota, from Calabasas to Cataluña, Joshua has been helping leaders and organizations make space for growth for almost two decades. As the co-founder of Econic, Joshua and his team help companies with their innovation and cultural change efforts. He lives in Nebraska with his wife Trisha and four kids.
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Author: Joshua Berry
Book Name: Dare to Be Naive: Thinking Bigger to Create Business Success and Joy
Order Here: (coming soon)
Website: http://daretobenaive.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshberrygphr/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/josh_berry
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How to Burn Brightly and not Burn Out | Hannah Morgan Austin | S6 EX
As you climb the corporate ladder, you can get so focused on the next prize, that you forget about yourself and experience burnout.
In this episode of the creator community, we learn how to identify this challenge, and how to find a way out and live the live extraordinary life you want.
Feeling stuck? Check out this episode to learn to unpack your darkest moment and turning it into rocket fuel
Key Points
Sometimes it’s the people who are functioning really well on the outside who are struggling the most with burnout. Check in on those people, there may not be signs of burnout.
When you are the “fixer” you don’t want to be broken. You don’t want to be vulnerable, to admit that there is anything wrong. Hello Head Meet Heart teaches the steps to take to climb out of the pit and live your best life.
There is extraordinary inside of all of us. Sometimes we just need a little help to tap into that. Ask for help, be vulnerable and do the work.
Author Bio
Hannah Morgan Austin has been married 16 years, has no kids, and a dog. She is a highly sought-after corporate leader specializing in the management and prevention of burnout in professionals. As the CEO and Founder of SheShatters, she coaches corporate leaders and organizations in management strategies that help them burn brightly without burning out. Prior to founding SheShatters, Hannah spent 20 years working as an executive in the healthcare industry. After experiencing Burnout in 2021, and witnessing her colleagues suffering from burnout en masse, she founded SheShatters in 2021 with the goal of helping employees and managers find balance in their personal and professional lives, and leading an anti-hustle culture movement.
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Author: Hannah Morgan Austin
Book Name: Hello, Head, Meet Heart-How to Tap Into Your Extraordinary Life
Order Here: Book Waitlist - SheShatters
Website: Home - SheShatters
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-austin-sheshatters/
Instagram: SheShatters 🛑the🔥empower🧠❤️ (@sheshattersllc) • Instagram photos and videos
Twitter: 📚📚📚Hannah Skei (@HannahSkei) / Twitter
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The Creator Community podcast is brought to you by these New Degree Press Partners
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How to Master a Wealthy Mindset & Live a Joyful Life | Cassandra Smalley, CFA, CFP® | S6 E9
Why aren’t financial planning conversations more inclusive to women?
What do wealth and financial security mean to you and how do you bring them into your life?
On this episode of the Creator community, you’ll learn how to discover and align with your goals and your WHY, to create the life you want today and the future you want tomorrow.
Key Points:
Looking to the future, discovering where you want your money to end up, how you want to spend your time and your life can help lead you to how to use and invest your money today.
Oftentimes in a household, one partner is in charge of daily spending while the other makes many of the long-term financial decisions. It is important to open conversations between both sides because dividing and conquering can cause gaps.
Getting wealthy and staying wealthy are two very different things. There is a change in mindset that needs to occur over time to align to your values and make sure you can live how you want to in the future.
Author Bio
Cassandra Smalley is the mother, spouse, formerly competed nationally in baton for University of FL gatorettes, and Founder and CEO of Cassandra Smalley Wealth Management, a financial planning and wealth management practice. She is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. She is on a mission to empower women to define and use their voices at the financial table to ensure they can enjoy a fulfilling, purposeful, creative, and joyful life.
She has been recognized by Forbes and SHOOK Research as America’s Top Women Wealth Advisors 2020-2021, Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisor 2017-2020, Working Mother Magazine and Top Wealth Advisor Moms 2017-2020, among others.
After 15 years in the financial services industry, Cassandra felt called to publish a book based on her experiences. The book centers on the challenges women face in building wealth and pivots obstacles into action by turning one’s unique perspective into one’s power to design their best life.
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Author: Cassandra Smalley, CFA, CFP®
Book Name: The Why of Wealth: Mastering the Steps to a Wealthy Mindset to Live a Joyful Life
Order Here: (link coming soon)
Website: https://www.cassandrasmalley.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandrasmalley/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cassandrasmalleywm/
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The Creator Community podcast is brought to you by these New Degree Press Partners
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How to Build a Values-Based Network in a Digital World | David R. Olivencia | S6 E8
Do you think Networking is a useless effort?
Effective networking is a superpower, but it requires work!
On this episode of The Creator Community, we learn how to build a successful roadmap for networking, through a better understanding of your values & helping others first.
Key Points:
Networking takes work. It is not easy, but if you make the connections, add value, build relationships and leverage social media, the work can pay off.
The deeper understanding we have of ourselves, the stronger the energy, the stronger the light and the stronger our network will be.
Your values change throughout your life so it requires a constant reevaluation and regular work to remain aligned to your values.
Author Bio
David Olivencia is Senior Technology Executive, unicorn investor, and exponential leader. He has leveraged networking and delivered outcomes at leading companies Accenture, NTT Data, Ford, Oracle, Softtek and Verizon, as well as supporting a broad portfolio of early stage tech startups including several unicorns. David serves on multiple boards that utilize his approach to networks and deep technology expertise and has co-founded leading organizations HITEC and Angeles Investors that have grown due to networking.
David has been recognized as 40 under 40 by Crain’s Detroit Business, Crain’s Chicago Tech 50, and Hispanic Business Magazine’s Most Influential Hispanics in America. He has an engineering degree from Rose-Hulman, an MBA from Notre Dame and an honorary Doctorate from Bentley University. He loves fishing!
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Author: David R. Olivencia
Book Name: NetWORKing Excellence
Order Here: coming soon
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidolivencia/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prdaveo/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dolivencia
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dolivencia
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAlor-4Hnv2DMTBP-gJMVDw
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The Creator Community podcast is brought to you by these New Degree Press Partners
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A DISRUPTIVE DIGITAL AGENCY, FOR BOOK PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS.
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How To Thrive From an Adult Gap Year | Suzanne Roske | S6 E7
The higher you go in the corporate food chain, the less control you have over your life.
How do you find yourself decades after you thought you already had?
In this episode of the Creator community, we’ll hear how one brave soul took control back through an adult gap year in Oaxaca Mexico, with her family.
The learning and growth in courage were immense and put her on her path to finally being present in her life and finding her journey to joy & entrepreneurship.
Key Points:
There is a different way to approach this life we get to live that can maximize and make the most of the one life we have.
Live a life that is authentic to you, not what you think is someone’s version of what you should be doing.
On the other side of courage is joy and beauty and satisfaction and fulfillment
Author Bio
Suzanne Roske is a leadership coach, taco and mezcal enthusiast, public speaker, and now an author. For 25 years, she was the picture of objective success, a partner at a global management consulting firm guiding Fortune 500 companies through business and team transformations. And then she embarked on her biggest transformation yet—her own. Suzanne stepped away from her corporate life and into an adult gap year in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Suzanne is the founder and CEO of Vamonos Executive Coaching, where she helps people and teams connect to their values, purpose, and mission, so they can harness their momentum, show up as the impactful leaders they were meant to be and unlock their full potential.
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Author: Suzanne Roske
Book Name: I’m Supposed to be Doing This: An Adult Gap Year
Order Here: https://www.amazon.com/Im-Supposed-Be-Doing-This-ebook/dp/B0BS1MPGWZ/
Website: https://vamonoscoaching.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanneroske/
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[#adultgapyear #knowyourvalue #Imsupposedtobedoingthis] #WritingCommunity #Books #ModernAuthors
The Creator Community podcast is brought to you by these New Degree Press Partners
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A DISRUPTIVE DIGITAL AGENCY, FOR BOOK PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS.
https://zopto.com/home
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