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Charles Collins, a best-selling author, audio producer, and journal publisher, emphasizes how we can apply the ways of craftsmanship into our lives to achieve extraordinary results.

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Lynn Yap, Founder of Actv8 Network and a former corporate attorney, shares her reasons for leaving the investment banking world, her journaling practice, and how her curiosity on businesses as a force for good led her to write her book “The Altruistic Capitalist”.

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• 01:32 About Lynn Yap
  
• 02:25 How did you leave the investment banking world?
  
• 06:16 One common myth that people have around businesses as a force for good
  
• 07:32 Message to the leaders who just want to run a simple diagnostics whether their business is a force for good or not
  
• 09:49 Number one thing that people need to know about setting themselves up for success
  
• 14:20 Understanding what is important to you
  
• 16:37 Journaling practice
  
• 18:15 One person that you talk to that brought you to a new sense of enlightenment
  
• 20:29 How can people continue to bring more good into their lives?
  
• 21:18 How to Connect with Lynn Yap
  

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Hanieh Sigari, an entrepreneur, biochemist, and anti-aging disruptor, shares how her journey as an entrepreneur started, her decision-making process in going from a new business venture to the next, and her take on approaching a career in this modern age.

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• 01:17 About Hanieh Sigari
  
• 02:10 About Qyral and the Definition of Chirality
  
• 03:19 Business Ventures: Health Care Start-Up on Aging
  
• 04:59 Business Ventures: E-Commerce Fulfillment and Logistics
  
• 05:39 Business Ventures: Qyral
  
• 06:15 Dealing with Burnouts
  
• 08:07 E-Commerce Fulfillment and Logistics Business Learnings
  
• 09:53 Multilevel Marketing or Network Marketing Business Model
  
• 10:31 Her Inspiration in Being in Business
  
• 13:49 What makes Qyral different?
  
• 15:55 What would your billboard say that screams a motto that you love?
  
• 16:40 Influential persons in the concept of “There’s no such thing as failure”
  
• 17:50 The number one thing to know about setting themselves up for success and showing up authentically to who they are as human beings
  
• 20:00 When a belief is controversial
  
• 21:37 What to change about the way people are approaching their careers?
  
• 24:12 How can people continue to bring more good into their life?
  
• 24:38 How to Connect with Hanieh Sigari
  

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Luke Hohmann, Founder and CEO of FirstRoot, discusses what participatory budgeting is, the importance of defining your personal brand as a leader, and using the game theory in helping you decide your career.

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• 01:28 About Luke Hohmann
  
• 02:53 About Participatory Budgeting
  
• 04:17 Participatory Budgeting in a Kid’s Perspective
  
• 07:40 Being on a Leadership Role
  
• 09:49 Role of Failure in Leadership and Experience
  
• 11:57 How to Assess when an Experience could Damage Someone or a Company
  
• 13:57 The Role and Toughest Part of Being a CEO
  
• 17:00 Leaders with Fear-Based Tactics
  
• 18:48 Employment on Game Theory Perspective
  
• 24:35 Number One Thing that People Want to Know it Setting Themselves Up For Success
  
• 25:43 How can people continue to bring more good into their life?
  
• 27:40 How to Connect with Luke Hohmann
  

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Donald James, an executive leader at NASA, manager, facilitator, communicator, mentor, and author, shared how his career became his tool to influence others, putting emphasis on our manners and accepting people’s feedback that may hurt, as expounded by his book entitled Manners Will Take You Where Brains and Money Won't.

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• 01:42 About Donald James
  
• 03:27 Does NASA look like the same as what we see in the movies?
  
• 04:42 SpaceX and NASA Partnership
  
• 05:55 Is working at NASA an emotional process?
  
• 06:56 Ethos in writing his book
  
• 09:18 What matters in creating meaningful impact in people’s lives
  
• 12:38 Number one tip in approaching our lives with keeping in mind our manners
  
• 14:54 People who you should surround yourself with
  
• 15:44 How to give feedback about a person’s manner
  
• 17:45 Awareness and being appreciative of feedback that might hurt
  
• 19:42 What would your billboard that is put out on the world say?
  
• 22:36 Being in NASA as a tool to influence
  
• 23:25 How can people continue to bring more good into their life?
  
• 24:54 How to Connect with Donald James
  

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Terry McDougall, an executive and career coach with a background as a long-time corporate marketing executive, talks about the importance of networking in a successful job search, the advantages of getting a career coach, and the ethos behind writing her book, Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms

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• 01:13 About Terry McDougall
  
• 03:31 Pandemic as the time of career reflection
  
• 05:09 Advice to clients when they want to pursue something but they are scared
  
• 06:42 Avoidance to risk or danger
  
• 09:21 Mindset of possibility
  
• 10:44 Recommendation to clients who are not seeing the result that they want
  
• 11:56 Candidate pipeline even before the job posting
  
• 13:11 Ethos of her book
  
• 16:06 Humiliation at work
  
• 17:33 Hiring a career coach
  
• 18:14 Number one thing that people need to know about setting themselves up for a successful job search
  
• 19:41 Definition of success
  
• 20:00 Pitfall for high achieving, smart members
  
• 20:49 Biggest life lesson
  
• 21:34 How can people continue to bring more good into their life?
  
• 22:16 How to Connect with Terry McDougall
  

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Mark Noon, an executive coach with 25 years of experience in military and civilian healthcare leadership, talks about the real-life application of leadership principles, that a leadership role does not automatically equate to being a leader, and the collection of his knowledge through his book, Set Up: Timeless Leadership for Your Success.

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• 01:37 About Mark Noon
  
• 02:59 What would your billboard look like on the freeway?
  
• 03:33 Getting into the leadership career
  
• 04:15 The number one myth about leadership
  
• 04:50 Things new leaders should think about when assuming a leadership role for the first time
  
• 05:50 Creating the message to your team on what you envision them to be
  
• 06:17 The number one thing that people need to know about setting themselves up for success so that they can set up others
  
• 07:22 The problem with leaders who make their direct reports feel inadequate
  
• 08:52 Percentage of time his coaching is directive versus straight-up coaching
  
• 10:18 Every investment has a payoff
  
• 11:14 Types of training government invests in the military
  
• 13:27 Difference between military and civilian people’s needs
  
• 14:04 What to change about the way people are approaching being carefree and by caring more?
  
• 14:53 Knowing what brings value to a person
  
• 17:45 The person he looks up to
  
• 19:33 Proximity leaders should be spending with their direct reports
  
• 21:50 Most important learning in life
  
• 25:34 How to Connect with Mark Noon
  
• 26:06 How can people continue to bring more good into their life?
  

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Dr. Gregg Steinberg, a best-selling author, an award-winning professor of human performance, and hailed by Golf Digest as the world's best performance psychologist, talks about how purpose is an emotion, what system he uses in turning adversity into a superpower, and how his book: FALL UP! came to life.

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• 01:11 About Dr. Gregg Steinberg
  
• 02:44 What would your billboard look like on the freeway?
  
• 03:37 One common myth about purpose
  
• 04:23 Purpose is an emotion
  
• 07:12 Process behind turning adversity into a superpower
  
• 10:37 MAP System
  
• 11:26 Mastering your emotions
  
• 12:34 Persons he looks up to
  
• 13:30 Most important learning in life
  
• 16:00 How do people who know their purpose turn this world into a better place?
  
• 18:00 FALL UP! Book
  
• 19:16 How to Connect with Dr. Gregg Steinberg
  
• 20:20 How can people continue to bring more good into their life?
  

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