Turn Your Passion Into a Business with Miriam Schulman: Lead to Succeed 109

Creativity and innovation are the pathways for your business to increase improvement and productivity. That’s exactly why entrepreneurs who think outside the box are those whose businesses are growing faster than the others. In this episode, we’ll dive deeper into the importance of being creative as an entrepreneur, with our guest Miriam Schulman.

Miriam is an artist and founder of The Inspiration Place, where she helps other artists learn how to profit from their passion or become better artists. She’s helped thousands of artists around the world develop their skill sets and create more time and freedom to do what they love.

Listen in and learn more about the importance of creativity in business.

Culture Course Correction with Sophie Theen: Lead to Succeed 108

A toxic workplace culture can result in decreased happiness and satisfaction, and performance at work, particularly with startups. In this episode, guest Sophie Theen shares her tried and true advice on how founders and leaders can improve workplace culture.

Sophie Theen is an award-winning Human Resources and Diversity and Inclusion professional. She has been featured on the “Women in FinTech Power List” since 2017 and is the first HR professional to win the “Standout” spot. Theen is also widely recognized for her innovative influence on how Human Resources works in technology companies and startups. She now works with companies around the world as an advisor.

Listen in and learn more about the importance of workplace culture.

Encouraging Hope With Johnny Sirpilla: Lead to Succeed 99

It’s never too late to dive into your purpose, even if this means changing your career after three decades. This is what our guest, Johnny Sirprilla, did.

In his early 50s he left the lucrative world of RVs and camping and started focusing on driving meaningful change in the workplace to allow employees to return home empowered.

Johnny, founder of Encourage, LLC., is an entrepreneur, passionate leader, and the author of Life Is Hard But I’ll Be OK: The Power of Hope, Emerging through Pain and Learning to Live with Gratitude.

Listen in to learn more about living your purpose!

Leadership in the AI Age with Neil Sahota: Lead to Succeed 77

AI is rapidly changing the world, and the leaderships space is not an exception. People are living in anxiety because they do not know what the future holds for them. The good news is, no matter how much AI we adopt, the world will always need human creativity and imagination.

This episode features Neil Sahota. Neil is an IBM master inventor, United Nations AI advisor, and Chief Innovation Officer at UC Irvine. He is also a global speaker and author of the award-winning book, own the AI revolution. Neil is an expert in out-of-the-box thinking and has over 20 years of business experience working with organizations and advising entrepreneurs on building strategy, establishing target markets, structuring companies, and developing next-generation products and solutions. Neil’s expertise spans all industries.

Listen in and learn how to prepare for the future world.

Building from the Culture Out with Joel Lieberman: Lead to Succeed 76

If your business failed today, would you be willing to start again? And what would you emphasize most to ensure long-term growth and success?

In this episode, I have the privilege of hosting a great man who had to start again and now his business has over 100 employees. Meet Joel Lieberman! Joel’s entrepreneurship journey perfectly displays the power of starting again.

Joel is the CEO of Mint Capital. His motto of “all you need to do is sign” has made him home buyers’ favorite. Joel derives personal satisfaction when a client closes on their dream home with minimal involvement and hassle. This accessible, honest, and proactive culture filters down Joel’s desk to every mint capital loan officer, processor, and associate.

Besides hearing Joel’s story, you’ll also get tips on building a company culture and a productive team.

Listen to this journey of starting again with Joel Lieberman.

Building Connections with Yehiel Kalish: Lead to Succeed 74

What sets apart the great leaders from all the others? Connections!

And nobody does connections better than Yehiel Kalish.

Yehiel Kalish is a former member of the Illinois House of Representatives and currently serves as the CEO of Hatzalah, the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States.

In this episode, Yehiel went deep on building connections.

I am super excited to share his wisdom and insights with you.

The State of Higher Education with Brandon Busteed: Lead to Succeed 72

We have a lot of discussions on higher education going on. Different people have different ideas and thoughts on the topic. In this episode, my guest, Brandon Busteed, and I will be seeking to dig deeper into this conversation.

Brandon is the president and Global head of Learn-work Innovation at Kaplan. Before Kaplan, Brandon spent over six years at Gallup, first as Executive Director of Education and Workforce Development and later as Senior Partner and Global Head of Public Sector. His career spans a wide range of important work in education as an educational entrepreneur, speaker, writer, and university trustee. Busteed is also the founder and former CEO of Outside the Classroom Inc.

Listen as Brandon shares his knowledge and wisdom.

Reinventing Yourself with Dorie Clark: Lead to Succeed 67

There are two kinds of reinventions that one can have; voluntary and involuntary. What type of reinvention have you had? In this episode, Dorie Clark joins me on the show to talk about reinventing yourself.

Dorie is a top communication coach and keynote speaker and teaches for the Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School. She's an author of Entrepreneurial You, which was named one of the Forbes top five business books of the year and Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the number one leadership Book of the Year by Inc. Magazine. Dorie has been described by the New York Times as an expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.

In this episode, Dorie will share about the upcoming book in September, her career transition and reinvention process, how she handles failure, and her productivity keys.

Are you in the process of reinventing yourself? This episode is for you!

Lead to Succeed dives deep into personal leadership journeys, seeking to understand how leaders got to where they are today, and the challenges & successes that they experienced along the way