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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…

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…

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…

Wishing everyone a New Year filled with connections, joy, wellbeing, and fullfillment ✨ 💫 #siamo #uncoverthehuman #humanleadership #humanconnections #peopleskills

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…

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…

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…

We wish our team, partners, clients, supporters, and listeners a magical Holiday Season full of cherished moments and rest. #team #partners #Siamo #humanconnections #weare #uncoverthehuman

The holidays can be stressful between year-end obligations at work, travel, family time, and winter itself. This year we’re also dealing with a pandemic, upended social life, hybrid work experiments, and ever-changing school rules (for those with kids). Considering what we’re facing, it’s not surprising we may be seeing an…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…