Working on Purpose

Founding and developing a successful business over the last 22 years in publishing is admirable in and of itself. But Milli Brown has done something beyond what many other publishers have managed. Not only is she still standing when traditional publishers have gone out of business - she’s also helped disrupt the industry toward employing a “relationship approach” and allowing authors to retain the rights over their own work. In this episode, we talk with Milli about how she got started in the publishing business, the journey she’s taken to stay relevant and strong in the industry, and how she works with authors to help them share their messages and market to reading audiences.

The 3 Dimensions of Emotions is a new way to understand emotional intelligence and find your relational “sweet spot”– the dynamic intersection of power, love, and mindfulness. Human reactivity is the source of most of our interpersonal problems and pain. The 3 Dimensions of Emotions introduces the concept of working the triangle, a unique practice that provides a compelling yet practical road map that can help you move from painful reactivity to productive pro-activity in your relationships. And it works just as successfully for a CEO of a Fortune 500 company as it does for a parent struggling to communicate with a teenager.

The 3 Dimensions of Emotions is a new way to understand emotional intelligence and find your relational “sweet spot”– the dynamic intersection of power, love, and mindfulness. Human reactivity is the source of most of our interpersonal problems and pain. The 3 Dimensions of Emotions introduces the concept of working the triangle, a unique practice that provides a compelling yet practical road map that can help you move from painful reactivity to productive pro-activity in your relationships. And it works just as successfully for a CEO of a Fortune 500 company as it does for a parent struggling to communicate with a teenager.

What can we learn when life serves up enormous challenges that bring us to our knees? How we respond to extraordinary circumstances is often the difference between being overtaken by the event or rising to a higher level of functioning. The same is of course true for our experiences at work across the course of our careers. After living large and enjoying a rare view from the top, Todd Lamense has had the opportunity to experience some exceptional things in life – like building a successful company and then being subsequently fired from it, along with a long list of other incredibly challenging life events. In this episode, we discuss some of those life experiences that helped make Todd who he is, some of the key lessons he’s learned along the way about life and work, and how negativity can be eliminated in the workplace.

What can we learn when life serves up enormous challenges that bring us to our knees? How we respond to extraordinary circumstances is often the difference between being overtaken by the event or rising to a higher level of functioning. The same is of course true for our experiences at work across the course of our careers. After living large and enjoying a rare view from the top, Todd Lamense has had the opportunity to experience some exceptional things in life – like building a successful company and then being subsequently fired from it, along with a long list of other incredibly challenging life events. In this episode, we discuss some of those life experiences that helped make Todd who he is, some of the key lessons he’s learned along the way about life and work, and how negativity can be eliminated in the workplace.

Following a youthful fascination with outer space and what lies beyond the stars launched Robert (Bob) Benkowski into his first career as a senior engineer working for McDonnell Douglas in the Space Station Project Office at NASA, Johnson Space Center. Serendipity would catapult his career into medicine and inform his curiosity and ability to consider many intriguing questions, such as, how are the fields of aerospace and life sciences medicine related and support each other? What can we learn from NASA’s research on human physiology and what does it mean to our lives today? What critical considerations need to be made in developing implantable blood pumps and artificial hearts? And where does artificial intelligence and robotics meet and for what benefit in future medicine? All these questions and more are the subject of this episode as Bob Benkowski narrates in crisp detail his life-long love and dedication to the fields of science and medicine.

Following a youthful fascination with outer space and what lies beyond the stars launched Robert (Bob) Benkowski into his first career as a senior engineer working for McDonnell Douglas in the Space Station Project Office at NASA, Johnson Space Center. Serendipity would catapult his career into medicine and inform his curiosity and ability to consider many intriguing questions, such as, how are the fields of aerospace and life sciences medicine related and support each other? What can we learn from NASA’s research on human physiology and what does it mean to our lives today? What critical considerations need to be made in developing implantable blood pumps and artificial hearts? And where does artificial intelligence and robotics meet and for what benefit in future medicine? All these questions and more are the subject of this episode as Bob Benkowski narrates in crisp detail his life-long love and dedication to the fields of science and medicine.

Helping startup companies and new executives for existing companies to make sense of the Human Resource technology terrain is John Sumser’s specialty. And he’s been at it for years. John travels relentlessly in an attempt to understand the HRTech landscape as it blossoms and grows. His firm HRExaminer aims to provide an up-to-date, cutting edge point of view designed to make their audience think. They publish reports and regular updates. They examine the state of the art in HRTech and report back to their audience. After all, it's the experience of the technology that drives and shapes the experience of the job and the work people do.

Helping startup companies and new executives for existing companies to make sense of the Human Resource technology terrain is John Sumser’s specialty. And he’s been at it for years. John travels relentlessly in an attempt to understand the HRTech landscape as it blossoms and grows. His firm HRExaminer aims to provide an up-to-date, cutting edge point of view designed to make their audience think. They publish reports and regular updates. They examine the state of the art in HRTech and report back to their audience. After all, it's the experience of the technology that drives and shapes the experience of the job and the work people do.

The holiday season is a special time to celebrate what we appreciate about our lives and the people in them, show grace and humility in whatever way our spirituality guides us, and allow ourselves to be swept away by the mystical wonder of the time. For many of us, the season ushers in a precious time to reflect, give thanks, and help others. And sometimes we see in ourselves and others rare and perhaps even fleeting moments when we transcend ourselves to a higher level of being and service to others who may not otherwise be known to us. This magical power of the season can cascade and inform the entirety of our lives, if only for the moment and sometimes, if we’re really blessed, for a lifetime. In this episode, the host shares a heartfelt conversation about the beauty and wonder of Christmas with Santa Claus, while also broadcasting via Facebook LiveStream.

The holiday season is a special time to celebrate what we appreciate about our lives and the people in them, show grace and humility in whatever way our spirituality guides us, and allow ourselves to be swept away by the mystical wonder of the time. For many of us, the season ushers in a precious time to reflect, give thanks, and help others. And sometimes we see in ourselves and others rare and perhaps even fleeting moments when we transcend ourselves to a higher level of being and service to others who may not otherwise be known to us. This magical power of the season can cascade and inform the entirety of our lives, if only for the moment and sometimes, if we’re really blessed, for a lifetime. In this episode, the host shares a heartfelt conversation about the beauty and wonder of Christmas with Santa Claus, while also broadcasting via Facebook LiveStream.

With the ever-changing landscape of the global marketplace and how business gets done, we are hard-pressed to look into a crystal ball and try to predict the future. Yet doing so is a useful exercise if only to cast our thinking and planning into a future state and transcend today’s day to day functions and comparative limited state. A well-crafted approach to consider our future would be to include the vantage point of experts who have spent considerable time and focus on studying and contributing to their industry. Since so much of what makes the world and business go ‘round revolves around the key resource of people, and as we near the end of 2016 and cast our gaze on the New Year, this episode features a Human Resource and Recruiting expert and futurist who will share his vision for the workplace as far as 2025, along with some of the key recruiting and human resource and changes in how the field uses technology.

With the ever-changing landscape of the global marketplace and how business gets done, we are hard-pressed to look into a crystal ball and try to predict the future. Yet doing so is a useful exercise if only to cast our thinking and planning into a future state and transcend today’s day to day functions and comparative limited state. A well-crafted approach to consider our future would be to include the vantage point of experts who have spent considerable time and focus on studying and contributing to their industry. Since so much of what makes the world and business go ‘round revolves around the key resource of people, and as we near the end of 2016 and cast our gaze on the New Year, this episode features a Human Resource and Recruiting expert and futurist who will share his vision for the workplace as far as 2025, along with some of the key recruiting and human resource and changes in how the field uses technology.

Executives today are constantly challenged to promote innovation within their organizations while entirely transforming them to higher levels of operation, often in tumultuous times and in highly scrutinized environments. Such is the experience of this episode’s guest. Attempting to recreate the first meeting between Paola Saibene and the host, this episode showcases her executive experience and some of her proudest moments of her leadership career, which is full of colorful examples that tested her creativity, perseverance, and competence. Paola will share career highlights from her 15 years of successfully implementing cybersecurity, by utilizing a holistic ecosystem, that cuts cost dramatically and galvanizes the workforce to adopt the strategic initiatives of the organization, through purposeful and meaningful engagement. Her experience is specialized in advancing and progressing environments that have the tightest constraints, face enormous challenges and have strong limitations.

Executives today are constantly challenged to promote innovation within their organizations while entirely transforming them to higher levels of operation, often in tumultuous times and in highly scrutinized environments. Such is the experience of this episode’s guest. Attempting to recreate the first meeting between Paola Saibene and the host, this episode showcases her executive experience and some of her proudest moments of her leadership career, which is full of colorful examples that tested her creativity, perseverance, and competence. Paola will share career highlights from her 15 years of successfully implementing cybersecurity, by utilizing a holistic ecosystem, that cuts cost dramatically and galvanizes the workforce to adopt the strategic initiatives of the organization, through purposeful and meaningful engagement. Her experience is specialized in advancing and progressing environments that have the tightest constraints, face enormous challenges and have strong limitations.