Episodes

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 this episode, he shares fascinating insights on the concrete and abstract ways to weave connection, ownership, and innovation to deliver larger-than-life results. Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com. Credits: Raechel Sherwood for Original Score Composit...

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 epidemic under the forced social distance of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Stephen shares his experiences and curiosity around how we nurture communities and ourselves along the way. Episode Notes and Bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com Credits: Raechel Sherwood for Original ...

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, one of the most influential skills for workers and leaders in the 21st century. 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/com...

Respect is both a noun and a verb. It is something we experience and a way we treat people (including ourselves). Entailing acknowledgement, appreciation, acceptance, and everything in between, respect is a basic human right. This week Duncan McLachlan joins from Paris to share how we can create and foster respect and makes a convincing case for adding respect as a core personal value, all fueled by his work in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Episode notes and bio can be found at un...

Trust is the cornerstone of healthy cultures, effective leadership, and successful relationships. Knowing this is one thing, practicing it is a far greater challenge. Allison Torpey joins this week to unpack her chosen leadership style - leading with trust. Doing this takes time, practice, and continual deliberate reinforcement, and Allison shares the methods she uses to keep this front-of-mind. Episodes notes and bio can be found at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

Standing at the intersection of 5 living generations, a global pandemic, and endless technologies bombarding us with information all the time, it is challenging to meaningfully connect with those around us. Connection is a central tenant of being human, however, so Barbara Randell created Future Image Group to address the isolation pandemic of our modern era. Listen in as she shares the secrets of building meaningful human relationships in our lives. Episode notes and bio found at uncoverthehuma...

Hailing from Sicily, Italy, Mirko Maccarrone joins the podcast to discuss different paths to conscious living and leadership. After years of practicing developing people and creating an impact on their lives, Mirko started the Mastery Hub to combine his passions in coaching and consulting into a "coach-sulting" practice. Focusing on the best ways to develop people, Mirko is growing the already international Mastery Hub to pursue his ultimate goal - Elevating Human Potential. See full show notes ...

Most people want equality, to be an ally, to improve the world, and make things a little more just - the only problem is that it is very hard. Rebecca Brown Adelman and Trent Norman created Affinity Arts Consulting to give people the ability to practice social justice, difficult conversations, and real interactions with complex topics so we can all be a little more comfortable making the world a better place. They share tips and stories about the ongoing process of improving ourselves and workin...

Leading people is a complex task made up of thousands of tiny decisions and interactions, weaving an intricate tapestry of relationships. Inevitably, we will make choices we wish to improve or to not repeat, so how do we improve at improving? Tony Gambill, author of the book "Getting It Right When It Matters Most" joins this week to share his "SOAR" framework for continually developing our leadership skills and lives in general through conscious self-leadership. Episode notes and bio at uncover...

What if you could make a living and a positive impact on the world at the same time? Jesus Salazar is building that dream with his company Prosono and reveals how he develops his approach to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through his social impact business. Episode notes and bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

Becoming who we want to be requires tough transitions. We change the most in the hallways between versions of ourselves - traversing age, family, careers, and more. Career and executive coach Nina Cashman, who specializes in transitions, shares expert insights into how to navigate these periods of change to find the versions of ourselves we were always meant to become. Episode notes and bio at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

When we are rewarded for "staying on the grind" and shamed for lack of productivity, it can be hard to use the Pause button in life. This week we explore the benefits of taking a break, how to find deliberate rest, and why it lets us get more done. Episode Notes can be found at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

Learning to lead is daunting, particularly given the variety of leadership models to choose from. This week Sean Daly joins the podcast to discuss a leadership style we can all benefit from: Servant Leadership. From his storied career in sports, coaching, academics, and teaching, Sean shares how to put others before the self and inspire a team to unimagined success in sports, business, and beyond. With servant leadership, everyone wins. Episode notes and bio available on uncoverthehuman.wearesia...

This week we are joined by Jeff Carson, who is a novelist and author of mystery-fiction books and Cristina's husband. We dive into collaboration and creativity, how they go hand in hand even in a career that is much more solo oriented. Jeff shares how he ended up choosing the path of fiction writing and the importance of being the "authors" our own lives with the support of people who believe in us and help us brainstorm ideas from the very beginning of their inception. Jeff's books are found on...

This week we connect with Steve Evers, the founder of Healthy Outside, to talk about the connection between nature, coaching, and healthy living. Combining coaching while embracing nature and the outdoors provides unique opportunities for self-reflection, going outside of our comfort zone, promote personal goals, and achieve our goals. Episode Notes can be found at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

Laurie McElroy is back on the podcast to discuss misfiring of our one of our most primal instincts: the fight or flight response. Spawning in the amygdala, our fight or flight responses serve as lighting fast survival instincts...when we are faced with a lion, tiger, or bear. Today, we rarely come across these types of threats, but we still experience the surge of adrenaline and cortisol often. Laurie helps unpack what to do when we feel threatened, and what we gain when we can be aware of this ...

Gail Montgomery joins the show this week to discuss best ways to build cohesive, high performing teams. We can all agree communication and skill are important, and Gail shares crucial insights to find the connections and make teamwork more about team than work. Episode Notes can be found at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

Bucking the idea of "work-life balance" requires us to see the human experience that links different aspects of our life. Cristina and Alex explore the ways the pandemic has forced us to address our common life experiences and how being able to bring our full selves to work boosts rather than hinders team productivity and potential. Episode Notes can be found at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

Confidence coach Eimear Zone joins this week to discuss the pervasive and corrosive experience of Impostor Syndrome. The stakes for living a full life are high and Eimear shares some great insights into detecting and moving beyond our fear of not belonging to access a life well lived. Episode Notes can be found at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is an increasingly hot topic in corporate cultures, but is difficult to "get right." This week, we are joined by expert Uma Gopaldass to find out what is wrong with the typical approaches and how we can do better to unlock full value for humans and businesses alike. Episode Notes can be found here at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

Angela Heyroth of Talent Lifecycle Designs joins us this week for an exploration into how both companies and people win when we go beyond the traditional structure of full time work. Talent on your own terms is what the GIG economy provides for companies so that both employees and employers benefit from its flexibility. Episode Notes can be found here at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

Founder of Ohos, Inc. Dave Needham joins the podcast this week. Dave shares some great experiences around performance reviews and performance management and what drove him to create Ohos to combat the draining experience of performance management too often seen in the workplace. Episode Notes can be found at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

This week we explore one of the stronger and often more implicit value judgments we make against ourselves and others: what is "real" work and what is not? How do you determine what is valuable effort and what makes it worthwhile? And, who decides what counts as "real" work and what does not? Episode Notes can be found here at uncoverthehuman.wearesiamo.com

This week we are joined by Shanté Lamping to discuss the power of the mind as a tool for self-improvement. Shanté works as a personal trainer to help people reach fitness goals, but knows the only way to get there is to work with your mind as well as your body, and she shared her experiences helping clients get out of their own way and access their deeper potential by skipping buzzwords and obligatory self guilting so they can connect with themselves. Episode notes can be found at uncoverthehuma...