Episodes

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, or a mother. But those identities are often limiting, putting us in boxes based on what we do, rather than who we are. Join Alex and Cristina for an empowering conversation on identity and how we are all so much more than just our job titles. In this episode, they discuss where we often go wrong in forming i...

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 purpose. Purpose is defined by being, not by doing. It is a continuing journey that we are all on. Rick walks you through his own journey and how to start with changing your fear-based values into fearless values, even how "fun" can be a value. Listen to this episode to fin...

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 change management in a fun way. It's not just inspirational, but addresses how to take action and tangible steps to being a great leader. Discover how the experts in the latest frameworks of modern leadership thinking, such as comedic improv and Emotional Intelligence, provi...

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 believe we want. This episode offers a discussion around what it means to be successful from the inside-out. They suggest having a more fluid definition of success. By using our internal compass, core values, and being present in our lives, we can redefine success on our own ter...

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 feels disrespected without a response. Is there psychology around ghosting? Why do we take it so personally? We are all conscious that time is a precious resource and would like our time and effort to be acknowledged on both sides. This episode provides a discussion about why ...

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 our podcast. You can find the video of this event on our YouTube channel and our website. Additionally, we also developed a free workbook to help you recognize and overcome burnout, downloadable from our website at https://www.wearesiamo.com/burnout-panel.

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 the company she founded, EquaMagna, where she works to connect people strategy with organizational goals. Anne Catherine can be reached as follows: * Equa Magna Website * LinkedIn

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 internally and externally. Breaking them down comes "down" to having the tools and desire to focus on and invest in connecting people, communication, and interpersonal skills.

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 employment. The main reason? People are searching for meaning and purpose, they want to know that their work matters, that they are valued, seen, heard, and appreciated for what they do. Receiving a paycheck is no longer enough, and maybe it never was. After almost 2 years of pandem...

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 is so hard to communicate and set boundaries, how to provide an elegant NO that allows us to maintain respect for the relationship, the recipient and ourselves.

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 fits all and that when we learn to embrace the messiness and just enjoy it, we can just BE and make the most of our experiences.

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 options by building custom tiny homes and camper conversions. Their commitment to sustainability goes way beyond the environmental and financial benefits of tiny living. They apply it in every decision and action they make in their company and life.

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 uncover the hard data behind essential skills in yourself and others. The two assessments we review and recommend are The Working Genius and The Standout Assessment.

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 episodes on your favorite Podcast platform. Thank you for your support. Listen to yourself, listen to others, and remember to Uncover The Human.

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 find all our episodes wherever you listen to podcasts and the latest ones on Youtube. In the meantime, we would like to thank all our listeners and supporters, this has been a truly magical and "bigger than life" experience. We appreciate all of you.

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, that we felt each one should have a proper mention, along with what we learned and enjoyed the most. We are deeply grateful for the availability and willingness to give us a bit of their time, and share their stories and authenticity.

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 company's values. Understanding what behavior reflects our core values helps us make business decisions, align with clients based on our mutual values, and be accountable for the culture we want to create. Our Siamo values are the actions that make our vision and mission tangi...

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, when making decisions, and how they are signals of misalignment when they are being challenged. Laurie also shares what the impetus to understanding and living into he values was, and how her life has changed since then.

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 personal and work life when she felt most alive and energized. We then proceeded to discern the common themes from her stories to help discover what really matters to her - her values. We ended this first part by defining her top values with a few words. Tune in next week for par...

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 and aftermath in the years since. Exploring healing from trauma through the power of sharing experiences, Taylor has been able to connect her community and others who have similar stories, and she shares the power of telling unspoken stories. You can find more information on ...

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 the heavy influence of companies he admires like La Colombe and Chobani, and how he realized the power of treating his business like a person to be created rather than a product to be manufactured. Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com. Credits: Raechel Sh...

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 satisfaction and success at the same time. Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com. Credits: Raechel Sherwood for Original Score Composition.

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 (Permission to be Human) explores how to create conscious leadership and unlock authentic potential in yourself and your team. Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com. Credits: Raechel Sherwood for Original Score Composition. Links: YouTube Channel: Uncover Th...

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, mentally and physically. Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com. Credits: Raechel Sherwood for Original Score Composition. Links: YouTube Channel: Uncover The Human Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wearesiamo Instagram: https://www.instagram.co...