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Confidence and curiosity make a powerful tandem. Individually, either could be a positive catalyst or, if misplaced, prove to be a distraction to meaningful progress. But as a combination, they often create a mindset where even failures become learning opportunities and stepping stones along the S Curve.
Bain & Company Chairman Orit Gadiesh has these two traits in spades. From her early school days through her almost five decades at Bain, Oritâs curiosity has never waned. Trained to always ask that extra question, sheâs a student of the world around her, whether the subject is business-related or religiously reading books from all the countries to which sheâs traveled.
When Bain faced severe financial hardship in the late 1980s, it was Orit and Mitt Romney who reversed the companyâs course and steadied the ship. How? Through extreme confidence, often telling curious competitors, âWeâre better than you!â
Today, Bain is considered one of the big three management consulting firms in the world. Orit has occupied the chairmanâs seat since 1993.
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Asheesh Advani isnât just the CEO of Junior Achievement Worldwideâhe was also a participant. The program changed his life when he experienced it in middle school, and as CEO, he has guided the global NGO into more than 115 countries, involving more than 3,500 employees and 500,000 volunteers worldwide. Incredibly, JA annually serves more than 15 million young people.
JAâs disruptive ripple of entrepreneurship is staggeringâcertainly one reason why the organization has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for three straight years. Asheesh believes that those nominations have allowed JA to bring attention to the connection between the economic empowerment of youth and the overall peace and prosperity of their communities.
Listen in as he shares the philosophy behind JAâs fixed, flexible and freestyle framework and why embracing your naive audacity at the beginning of a new S Curve can be the way to go.
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Imposter syndrome is something to which most of us can relate. The idea of doubting our own skills and abilities, even in the face of myriad accomplishments. Itâs a common human experience. Itâs easier to have faith in others than buy into ourselves.
When Tina Vatanka Murphy was called into a meeting with her companyâs CEO and HR director to talk about filling the role of president for Global Healthcare Exchangeâs (GHX) European enterprise, she didnât realize they were asking her to take on that role. She had never envisioned herself in that type of leadership position.
Whatâs interesting and surprising and delightful is that ââ while itâs true that she hadnât seen herself in that role ââ once she came to grips with this unexpected proposal, there wasnât imposter syndrome, her first thought was refreshing. Of course I can do this! âIâm going to go kill it.â
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Itâs often fascinating to pinpoint when someone received the first inkling of what their eventual career would be. For many, of courseâthinking of all the kids who grew up wanting to be professional athletes, movie stars, astronauts, or firemenâtheir idealized career path often follows a long and winding road of self-discovery, full of detours and roadblocks that transport them to an eventual destination that was not on their original radar.
But what if you could date your dream? Get some firsthand experience in your supposed career of choice? Would you remain totally enamored with the opportunity and steadily move toward further engagement? Or, would you, like Seinfeldâs neurotic George Costanza, break things off with a nonchalant, âItâs not you, itâs meâ?
Todayâs guest, Jeanette Bennett, CEO and founding editor of Utah Valley Magazine and Bennett Communications, had that revelatory experience while working as a camera operator at an Idaho TV station when she was in high school. It turned out to trigger the first of many career reframes for this talented entrepreneur and storyteller.
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Thereâs a reason we call it a mental rut â this deep groove in the mud. Itâs a pattern of behavior that weâve dug into our brains, and when we go down this road, itâs where our mental wheels get stuck.
When have you been stuck in a rut? Maybe itâs coming back day after day to a job you hate. Maybe itâs something small, like knowing you should eat lunch at home but finding yourself in line at the Sweetgreen every morning. Getting stuck is human. But so is shoving the wagon out of the rut and cutting a new path.
On todayâs episode, weâre here to talk about what that really looks like. Our guest is Yamini Rangan, CEO of HubSpot. If youâre a small or medium sized business, youâre probably already familiar with HubSpotâs value â helping entrepreneurs track customers, make sales and follow up on those relationships. But the real focus here is Yaminiâs journey to the top, from studying engineering in India, to taking her first step into the world of sales, and eventually â the C Suite.
Itâs been a journey of rewiring herself, learning how to build new mental roads while staying true to her authentic self.
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The power of manifesting something into reality might seem⊠well, a bit silly at times. Itâs all over social media, for better or for worse. It can seem silly because we all know itâs not as simple as saying it out loud, or creating a Pinterest board. Getting what you want, reaching mastery on a curve, itâs hard, hard work.
And yet it does start with saying it loud. If we want to turn our dreams into reality, then the first step is defining what you want. If you canât put that dream into words, then itâs hard to put that on a timeline, and you risk others swooping in and defining that dream for you.
Our guest today is an expert in manifesting what she wants. Tarsha Joyner is the owner and head treatmaker of Mrs. Joyâs Absolutely Fabulous Treats, a bakery in Lynchburg, Virginia. Everything from cookies, to caramels and tailor-made cakes. And those cookies are award-winning â Tarsha has appeared on several Food Network competitions, winning the Christmas Cookie Challenge in 2015.
It all started with a graphic design class, where Tarsha had to imagine a brand label for an imaginary company. Sheâll admit it herself â she was a terrible baker back then. But it came down to her confidence, her perseverance, her willingness to dream big â and â keep repeating that dream to herself until it was real.
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Do you know that feeling, when youâve been on a roadtrip for however many hours â or even, days â and you just canât bring yourself to eat another bite of fast food? The food all looks the same, the landscape outside your window starts blending together, and you just crave something⊠different?
Thereâs a part of us deep inside that searches out for the âdifferent.â We want to leave our small town for the big city, start up that new project at work, or even something as small as freshening up a shelf on a bookcase. We want to experience life from many directions, not just one.
Our guest today has made that multi-faceted mindset the focus of both her professional and personal life. Betty Lu is the CEO and founder of Confetti Snacks, everything from dried mandarin oranges to my personal favorite, shiitake mushroom chips. But itâs more than just making sure the next generation of kids grows up eating broccoli, Confetti is dedicated to putting a dent in the worldâs food waste, partnering with organizations like the World Food Programme.
So what perspectives helped Betty build her brand â and build herself, too?
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What does it mean to turn a dream into a business plan? How do you take your vision of a better future, whatever that looks like, and translate that into a company? Itâs a difficult leap! This grand vision has to be broken down into steps, arranged on a timeline. Then your dream becomes tied to the bottom line profits, to your employees and your board.
Weâve had guests before that have made that leap, whether itâs Austin Hillamâs ZipString or Jennifer Smithâs Scribe. But our guest today has a dream we havenât seen before on this showâârevolutionizing how we treat broken bones. Nina Tandon is the co-founder and CEO of EpiBone, a biomedical engineering firm that brings together stem cells and 3D technology to grow bone grafts. Yes, you heard that right â Nina is growing bones.
Her methodâs already been shown to work, but turning those studies into widespread adoption â now thatâs a big dream. So how does Nina balance her two selves â the researcher, and the CEO?
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In 2022, 46 percent of American teens said they were online almost constantly. Around 80 percent of high school seniors said they use social media nearly every day, but only 30 percent say they meet up with friends every day.
Since 2010 â roughly the year touch-screen smartphones and social media apps blew up â the number of girls between 12 and 17 that reported a major depressive episode more than doubled, to 28 percent. Emergency room visits and hospitalizations for girls harming themselves skyrocketed too, along with the suicide rate amongst teenage boys.
Our guest today calls this a total rewiring of childhood, as smartphones and overprotective parenting warp those crucial formative years into a rollercoaster of anxiety and depression. Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at the NYU Stern School of Business, and the author of several books â his latest is âThe Anxious Generation â How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.â
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We all have an idea of what we want our future to look like. Maybe itâs very grounded, and concrete â or maybe itâs just a vague idea of how we want to feel when we get there. But what happens when weâre forced to adapt that vision? Something out of your control gets between you and your dream. How do we muster the strength to find another way through?
In 2004, Melissa Stockwell had a clear vision for her futureââa lieutenant in the U-S Army. But when a roadside bomb in Baghdad took her left leg, the door to that dream slammed shut.
Jumping ahead 20 years, on September 1st, 2024, Melissa will compete in Paris in her fourth paralympic triathlon. Her motivational speeches have inspired rooms full of people. And her non-profit, Dare2Tri, is giving other disabled athletes resources so they can run toward their dreams.
What can we learn from Melissa, and her journey â from that Baghdad hospital, to the Paralympic podium?
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In your day-to-day, who counts on you? Weâre all interconnected in these webs of care, everyone leaning on someone else for support. Even Henry David Thoreau, who chose to live the hermit life at Walden Pond â asked his mother to help with laundry. We long to be cared for, and to care in return.
How does being that steward feel, in your heart and in your head? What does genuine care mean to you? Our guest today has built his life and his career around discovering and implementing the best ways to care for another human being. Rob Allen is the CEO of Intermountain Health, a non-profit healthcare system with 33 hospitals across several states west of the Rockies.
Robâs business is caring for patients, of course, but also caring for the caregivers â all 68 thousand of them within Intermountain. So how does he do it â and what can we take from that hospital setting, and bring into our own lives?
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Ask any comedian what the hardest part of their job is, and theyâll probably tell you itâs being the second act in a show where the person before you just brought the house down. Suddenly youâre backstage, doubting your material, listening to this thunderous applause and wondering if you can even get close to that.
Itâs not just a comedianâs dilemma â we all experience this follow-on problem at one point or another. How do you put your own stamp on things, and do so⊠with confidence? Our guest today has been through that ringer at one of the highest levels, as the second CEO after the companyâs co-founder and original leader. Matt Sharrers is the former CEO and current executive chairman of SBI, a B2B firm dedicated to, as Matt says, âhelping you sell more stuff.â
And today, heâs out with a new book, aptly titled âThe Second CEO: Accelerating Scale When Following The Founder.â What can we learn from Mattâs journey, not just in growing the business, but growing as a person, too?
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Risk is all around us. Itâs baked into everything we do, into every day of our lives, a feeling that danger â and loss â lurks around every corner. Itâs even baked into our brains, back when we were scanning every branch and every bush for something that wanted to eat us. So now that our world is much more than just the forest floor, how are we managing modern-day risk?
This July 4th weekend, weâre celebrating almost 250 years of Americaâs history â and how often the country took on all kinds of risks, and came out on top. In that spirit, I wanted to bring back a conversation I had with one of our countryâs leading scholars on risk management. General Stanley McChrystal led special operations in Iraq during the 2000s. Later that decade he was put in charge of all forces in Afghanistan. When we spoke, the retired four-star general had just released his book âRisk: A Userâs Guide.â
So how can we approach risk management in our own lives? How can we keep an eye out for danger, without letting the fear overwhelm us? Well, the general has some thoughts, and youâd be surprised who the real enemy is. It might just be⊠ourselves.
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In just about a month, on the 26th of July, 10 thousand athletes from all over the world will gather in Paris for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Being an Olympian has a way of consuming a personâs image. Olympians dedicate their body and their mind to the perfect backstroke, or the perfect arrow release, or this year â even the perfect breakdancing routine.
So when an Olympic athlete hangs up the towel⊠who are they? How do you leave behind the biggest S Curve of your life? Although heâs better known for the Winter Olympics, Apolo Ohno has some ideas. The most decorated American in the Olympicsâ chillier half, Apolo is known the world over for his gold-medal talent at speed skating.
I wanted to bring back my conversation with Apolo, in light of the Olympic Games on our doorstep, but also as a reminder this summer that although we should honor our past, we are never tied to it when it comes to trailblazing our future. What did retirement look like â what did slowing down look like â for the man who built his career around being the fastest athlete on the ice?
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How many times have you looked back across your whole life, looked at all those S Curves youâve taken on and thought â wow. âI guess things do come together in the end,â even though, in the moment, those S Curves seemed so treacherous, and we felt so lost and afraid climbing them.
Thereâs an element of faith in that statement, sure, but just as strongly, thereâs an undercurrent of grit, determination, stick-to-it-ness. We appreciate the journey a lot more if we also can appreciate having felt lost and afraid â and then pushing through it.Our guest today has had an unusual trajectory, to say the least. Lisa Shalett started her career in 1990s Tokyo, producing those classic game shows â then she zig-zagged to the world of equities at Goldman Sachs, â zagging again to its compliance division â and then in charge of the bankâs entire brand during a PR disaster. And today, sheâs the co-founder of Extraordinary Women On Boards, a community dedicated to supporting high-achieving women.
So what can we learn from Lisaâs journey?
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Is there a particular conversation youâve had with someone, that keeps resurfacing as you grow and get older? In difficult moments, you find yourself traveling back to that day at the cafe or whatever it was, sitting down for a conversation you didnât know would shape you as much as it has. For me, itâs my talk with BrenĂ© Brown, all the way back in 2019.
In case new listeners need an introduction, she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair as a research professor at the University of Houston. You might know her best as the writer of Daring Greatly, or The Gifts Of Imperfection, or as the speaker for one of the most popular TED Talks ever. When we spoke, she had just released her Netflix special, The Call To Courage, and it was a conversation that reminds me even today to appreciate the meaning that emerges from the human condition.
I want to bring back that conversation today in light of her most recent book, Atlas Of The Heart â all about the thousand different ways our body generates emotion. Like Emma McAdam says, stop trying to feel better, and get better at feeling â thatâs something Iâm still working on today. BrenĂ©âs work on the link between emotion and the meaning we make for ourselves is just as important today as it was in 2019.
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Itâs not a pretty truth of life, but we all argue with family, eventually. In fact, those arguments can be some of the most explosive moments of our lives. But why? Is it just that the folks closest to us know how to push our buttons? If so, how can we overcome that to grow? And grow alongside our family?
Our guest today has a couple ideas. Cathy Carroll is the president and founder of Legacy Onward, a leadership coaching business dedicated to helping â you guessed it â family businesses. All those images I just conjured up, of fighting with your family: now add money, a lot of money, to the mix, and thatâs where Cathy operates. She even comes from a family business herself â rodeo equipment manufacturing.
Today, Cathyâs out with a new book, Hug of War, a real guide to navigating that tension between the good of the business and the good of the family. So what do we do when weâre fighting with the people we love most? Is it possible, as Cathy claims, for both of us to be right? And if so⊠then what?
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Think of a relationship in your life that youâd describe as a true partnership. Why did that person come to mind? There are words and phrases that come easily when youâre describing a partnership that works: feeling supported, encouraged, the sense that when I have my back turned, youâve still got my back.
So where do those feelings come from, and how do we solidify them? How can we grow a new relationship into a partnership? How do you pick the people you can trust?
Today weâve got two guests that are partners on paper, at the private equity firm Brand Velocity Group, but as youâll hear, it goes much further than their roles. Steve Lebowitz is the founder and managing partner of BVG, and Eli Manning â well, you might recall his S Curve with the New York Giants, but this episode is all about a new S curve.
So how did the first overall draft pick in 2004 partner up with a revolutionary in private equity â and what do they do to make it work?
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Back in July, we tried something a little new for this show â episode 329 was all about hearing from the listeners of Disrupt Yourself. What was important to you while you were listening, what insights you wanted to bring back from older episodes and refresh.
It was a lovely experiment, so today weâre bringing you another roundtable. This time, weâve got three coaches instead, all of whom are Smart Growth certified. We wanted to explore what that initial call to action was for all three of them, as well as what certification meant â practically â for their clientsâ success.
Today weâll be joined by Sarah Glover, Jordan White and Rebecca Woodard, all independent coaches in the process of growing their practice.
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Self-fulfilling prophecies â and falling into their trap â are part and parcel of being human. From ancient Greek tragedies to television like Breaking Bad, theyâve popped up time and time again. We just canât escape our flaw of telling ourselves stories about the future, and then making them reality.
But what if it⊠wasnât a flaw? What if there was a real power, a real gift in being about to tell yourself a story and see it through? You might know Steph Curry from his legacy at the Golden State Warriors, but would you believe he wasnât even scouted coming out of high school?
Our guest today is a big believer in turning the self-fulfilling prophecy stigma on its head. Nathan Tanner thought he finally had it all with a cushy investment gig at Lehman Brothers. The problem was, he joined up in 2008, right before Lehman went through the biggest bank collapse in history. To hear him say it, it would have been the easiest thing to write a personal story⊠of failure.
But since then, Nathanâs worked through top positions at LinkedIn and DoorDash before settling into his own coaching practice. Today, heâs out with a new book, suitably titled The Unconquerable Leader â Mastering the Internal and External Game. Itâs all about learning to show up for yourself so that you can properly show up for others.
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