Virtual Coffee

"It’s OK to say “I’m having an off day” It doesn’t mean we get to show up however we want. But there’s empowerment in giving ourselves permission to call out what’s present. "

That's just part of the insightful conversation I got to have with Wade Brill.

Wade Brill is a Mindfulness and Leadership Coach, Podcaster, and Speaker who helps busy professionals around the world experiencing stress and overwhelm be more present, productive, and energized.

At the age of 21, Wade survived Hodgkin’s Lymphoma while simultaneously losing her mother to Leukemia. This major life interruption inspired Wade to realize how precious life is and that practicing radical self-care is smart, not selfish. Wade devotes her life’s work to helping others connect to their own inspiration.

Hi friends! I’m excited to share this podcast for a couple of reasons. 1) I think it’s inspiring and motivating to hear from people who love what they do for a living, and who are really making a positive change, and 2) It’s about emotional intelligence, and resilience, two things we can all benefit from learning more of.

Kim Bilyeu is passionate about training and leadership. She works in education and leads the worldwide team in charge of developing all the training materials for all employees globally, for Johnson & Johnson, in their cardiac department. When I saw her present on “Mastering Emotional Intelligence Training” as a guest on an ATD webinar, I was struck by the story of how she helped introduce EQ training to help resolve issues they were seeing. Surgeons and college grads were struggling to work together. With Kim's recommendation, Johnson & Johnson tried EQ training on a small pilot group and saw that it had a positive impact - so much so that they saw increased success rates with product adoption and a decrease in turnover. EQ is now a fundamental part of training for all employees at J&J.

I thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot from the conversation with Kim. I hope you do, too. 

Bio:

Amber Dawn is a neurodiversity advocate, writer, and coach. She works with neurodiverse people of all ages to support them in building processes and applying tools for resiliency, stress and anxiety reduction, self-knowledge, compassion, and self-advocacy. She self-identifies as gifted and autistic. She is a certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator and a certified Organic Intelligence Practitioner. Through the process of learning to better support her daughters and strengthen herself, Amber discovered Organic Intelligence. Organic Intelligence is a protocol she now integrates into her work for building neurological resilience and expanding capacity to support healing and embodiment with her clients.

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My guest Paul Larsen is a talented speaker, executive coach, and published author. Paul shares valuable insight on how leaders can show up authentically for their teams during times of crisis and uncertainty. 

This episode is the first in a series in which I interview people who are living “cohesive lives”. The idea came to me while participating in a book club with friends from the University of San Francisco School of Management program. We’re working on an insightful project based on the “Designing Your Life” book, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

Burnett and Evans describe a cohesive life as "one lived in such a way that you can clearly connect the dots between what you are, what you believe, and what you are doing."