Episodes

Have you ever found yourself getting upset about something, then felt upset with yourself for being upset? This is a meta-feeling: how you feel about the feelings you're experiencing. In our latest judgment-free episode of Un...

When was the last time you were tricked into doing acting exercises? Meridith Grundei's work as a Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Coach teaches us to show up, be present, and own a space. Her applied improvisational m...

What do middle schools and corporations have in common? This may sound like the setup for a joke, but there's a lot to learn from our latest guest, middle school teacher and life coach Justin Oberndorf. As an ex-corporate emp...

Welcome back to Part 2 of our inspiring conversation with Susan Sanders and Rae English. Human first, employee second. This is the approach that our guests Susan and Rae take in their work: Improve the employee experience t...

Human first, employee second. This is the approach that our guests Susan Sanders and Rae English take in their work: Improve the employee experience to build better organizations. Susan and Rae are on a mission to create spac...

If a stranger asks you to tell them about yourself, where do you start? The majority of us would say "I am _____" and fill in the blank with: a coach, or a lawyer, or a CTO, or a therapist, …

Rick Harrigan, certified Life Purpose Coach, joins Cristina and Alex on Uncover the Human this week. They discuss how removing external validation and listening to your inner voice is crucial in finding yourself and your life...

Cristina and Alex interview authors of The Improv Mindset: Change Your Brain. Change Your Business, Gail & Bruce Montgomery on their latest book: CHANGE! A Leader's Guide to Fixing SH*T. This episode discusses leadership and ...

Everyone wants to be successful. Does that mean having $1,000,000, obtaining your dream job, or buying your dream house? Cristina and Alex offer a different perspective than the material success we've been conditioned to beli...

Why do we ghost and get ghosted? From the corporate world to intimate relationships, Cristina and Alex discuss what it means to ghost someone from two perspectives: the person who doesn't like to respond and the person who fe...

At the beginning of December 2021 we hosted our first roundtable discussion on "Burnout during the Holidays and Beyond". We had an insightful and rich conversation with our panelists and guests, so we decided to share it on ...

Anne Catherine Nielsen joins this week to discuss the "new normal," and how we can all bring humanity into the workplace to benefit the humans and the bottom line at the same time using experience from her ongoing work with …

This week we have a wonderful conversation with Kelli Oberndorf on how to connect different silos. As very commonly experienced, silos are widely present in organizations, despite the awareness that they cause deep gaps inter...

The Great Resignation, the Great Awakening, the Great Journey to aligning purpose, meaning, and values with our work lives. We have heard many ways to describe the record level numbers of people leaving their current employm...

Our 50th Episode comes out just in time for this very busy time of the year. We reconnect with Eimear Zone on establishing boundaries as a key skill to not overwhelm ourselves and then burnout. Eimear helps us unpack why …

Life is full of lessons and it is not linear . We explore the multi-facets of life, what it means to find our essence of being, and embrace the journey with Michanda Lindsey. She helps us accept that there is …

For Simply Tiny Development, sustainability is not just a word, it is action. We have the honor to learn from Sean and Megan this week about their incredibly important work in creating environmentally sustainable living opti...

Season 2 kicks off with a recap of the best personal and professional assessments to know yourself and your workplace better. Cristina and Alex discuss the pros and cons of various assessments along with different paths to un...

We are taking a break. Season 1 exceed all our expectations, by a lot. We will be back with Season 2 in November with new exciting guests and fun conversations. In the meantime, you can catch up with any of …

This is the second part of our Season 2 reflections and highlight of our enriching and wholehearted guests. We will be taking some time off to regenerate and get ready for Season 2, coming in November. Until then, you can …

As we close out our first season of Uncover the Human, we decided to reflect back on all the inspiring guests we had the absolute honor to have on our podcast. This is another two-part episode, because they were so …

Continuing with our VALUES focused month, we share our personal values, what we learned from going through our values discovery and how we came together to review for alignment, update, and create an action plan around our co...

In this second part of our Values Discovery and Definition exercise with Laurie, we review SMAFFA (Laurie's values). We then proceed to the action plan. We discuss how she can put them into action in her every day life, w...

This week we changed things up a bit and decided to go through Values Discovery activities with one of our favorite returning guests, Laurie McElroy. This is a two-part episode, where we ask Laurie to share times in her pers...