Episodes

Jan. 26, 2022

Redefining Success

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...

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Jan. 19, 2022

Why People Ghost & How We Can Understand It

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...

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Jan. 12, 2022

Burnout During The Holidays & Beyond

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 ...

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Jan. 5, 2022

Connecting with Anne Catherine Nielsen on Recreating the World of Work

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 t...

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Dec. 29, 2021

Connecting with Kelli Oberndorf on Breaking Down Silos

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...

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Dec. 22, 2021

The Great Resignation

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...

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Dec. 15, 2021

Connecting with Eimear Zone on Establishing Boundaries

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 it...

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Dec. 8, 2021

Connecting with Michanda Lindsey on the Essence of Being

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 no one-size f...

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Dec. 1, 2021

Connecting with Dr. Sean M. Dixon & Megan Blythe on Sustainability in…

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...

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Nov. 24, 2021

Our Recommended Professional and Self-Assessments

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...

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Oct. 13, 2021

Programming Note - End of Season 1

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 our first 46 ep...

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Oct. 6, 2021

Connecting with the Distilled Knowledge of Our Guests (Season 1 Recap…

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 ...

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Sept. 29, 2021

Connecting with the Distilled Knowledge of Our Guests (Season 1 Recap…

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 many, tha...

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Sept. 22, 2021

Connecting Company Values with Our Values

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...

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Sept. 15, 2021

Connecting with Laurie McElroy on Discovering Your Values - Part 2

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...

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Sept. 8, 2021

Connecting with Laurie McElroy on Discovering Your Values - Part 1

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...

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Sept. 1, 2021

Connecting with Taylor Fraser on "Foreward"- Uncovering the Unspoken

This week we shared a particularly vulnerable conversation with Taylor Fraser, the writer, producer, and director of the Foreward Podcast - a narrative exploration of her family's true experience surviving a school shooting a...

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Aug. 25, 2021

Connecting with Sam Moore on Building a "Human" Company

Sam Moore joins this week to explain his business philosophy and inspiring journey of creating Hazlo, his tequila mixer company. Sam illuminates his own journey in entrepreneurship with vulnerability and honesty, discussing t...

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Aug. 18, 2021

Connecting with Suraya Yahaya on Creating Your Authentic Career

Suraya Yahaya is the founder of Khazana, Inc, where she provides fractional COO services for several companies. Her story proves the value of boiling your business down to fundamental values as a means of creating satisfactio...

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Aug. 11, 2021

Connecting with MaryBeth Hyland on Permission to be Human

There's a lot to be gained by realizing and accessing our humanity, and on this episode we get to the nitty-gritty of how to do that with the person who literally wrote the book on this topic: MaryBeth Hyland. Her book ( Perm...

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Aug. 4, 2021

Connecting with Matthias Hartmann on Living Authentically

This week we dig into the core of living authentically with Matthias Hartmann. Matthias founded emBodhi Life Coaching to help people get in touch with their core selves and shares his methods for finding your authenticity, me...

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July 28, 2021

Connecting with Michael Niyompong on Pursuing Well-Being

Michael Niyompong is the Chief Engagement Officer at the Mental Health Center of Denver. He establishes and experiments with the most effective ways of producing well-being for individuals, organizations, and communities. In ...

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July 21, 2021

Connecting with Stephen Jaye on Creating Community

Humans need community to thrive, so this week we're talking to Stephen Jaye whose mission is to understand, replicate, and foster community. This is a key step in fighting the isolation and loneliness, spreading as it's own e...

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July 14, 2021

Connecting with Debbie Muno & Jeff Summers on Improving Emotional Int…

This week we are getting to the core of the social aspect of human nature: Emotional Intelligence. Debbie Muno & Jeff Summers are experts in the Emotional Intelligence space and helping teams and organizations improve EQ, o...

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