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Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)
The premise of this series is to learn about significant moments in each guest's life that have shaped who they are today. We dig into the journey of "becoming". The original series, Winning Wednesday, was created as a way to network remotely during the COVID-19 global pandemic. I used it as a tool to inspire guests & listeners to "win" (and remember!) the mid-week check-in. Both shows were created and hosted by me, Katrina Fuhrman, the @ConnectorQueen; now available here to binge-listen at…
Episodes
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Sales Hacker (GTMnow) Founder on Building the Future of Sales | Winning Wednesday Ep.37
What does the next generation of sales actually look like — and who gets to be in it? Max Altschuler, founder of Sales Hacker, built one of the most…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Partner Sales, Latin America & the Art of Transparency | Winning Wednesday Ep.36
What happens when you take a SaaS product into a brand new market, in a different currency, with partners who may also work with your competitors? Claire…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Being Anti-Racist | A Black Woman’s Truth on Race in America | Winning Wednesday Ep.35 (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this powerful conversation, Kala Garner goes deeper — into the weight that Black people carry every single day in America, the racial reckoning of…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)How to Reset & Restore | Journaling, Community & Manifesting 2021 | Winning Wednesday Ep.35 (Part 1)
As 2020 came to a close — a year that brought more anomalies than anyone could have predicted — Kala Garner sat down to share something we all needed to hear…
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Why Your LinkedIn Isn’t Getting You Clients | Top Voice Content Strategy | Winning Wednesday Ep.34
What if chasing LinkedIn Top Voice status is actually the wrong goal? Sarah Johnston built a thriving career coaching business not by chasing accolades but by…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Building Relationship Currency | How Connections Create Opportunity | Winning Wednesday Ep.33
Markell Blount grew up bused from Boston to an affluent Massachusetts suburb — and didn’t realize until his 30s just how much that experience had…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Change Management Coach | Winning Wednesday Ep.32
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Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Dropped Out at 13, Reads a Book a Week | Sales Secrets of a Five-Year-Old | Winning Wednesday Ep.31
What if the best sales training you ever received happened before you turned five? Mikeal Morgan dropped out of school at 13 in seventh grade — and has spent…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)From Addiction to Connection | How a Time Capsule Video Changed Everything | Winning Wednesday Ep.30
What if the most powerful conversation you could have was with your future self? Danny Shannon spent 17 years in addiction, and the 11 years since have been…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)From Military Linguist to Nike Catalyst | Be Where Your Feet Are | Winning Wednesday Ep.29
What do Serbian, Czech, German, and an interrobang hat all have in common? They’re all part of Kevin Carroll’s extraordinary story of curiosity…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)The Sales Superpower Nobody Talks About | Winning Wednesday Ep.28
What if the secret to closing a deal isn’t asking the right questions — it’s finding the right problems before anyone asks you to? Josh Braun…
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Growing Up in Haiti | One Engineer’s Mission to Bring Clean Energy to All | Winning Wednesday Ep.27
What if nearly dying three times before the age of 10 became the fuel for a life’s mission? Claude-Reynald Christian Lecorps grew up in Haiti where…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Serial Entrepreneur on Why You Only Network When It’s Already Too Late | Winning Wednesday Ep.26
What’s the difference between a good networking event and a bad one? Garrett Halsell — serial entrepreneur with three businesses — has a clear answer…
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Why Learning New Language Changes How You Think | Progress Over Perfection | Winning Wednesday Ep.25
What if collecting different perspectives was the ultimate life skill? Jeremy Gartner grew up in France, moved to Israel at 13, and eventually built a career…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Be the Anti-Salesman | Video DMs, Loom & the Human Game of Sales | Winning Wednesday Ep.24
When COVID wiped out six paid speaking engagements overnight, Allan Langer didn’t hit pause — he hit play. He went from 207 LinkedIn followers to over…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)How Sales Pros Should Really Be Using LinkedIn | Default to Action | Winning Wednesday Ep.23
What if your daycare job taught you more about sales than any training program ever could? Seth Thompson — a sales pro with a refreshingly unconventional…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)The 7 Elements of Story Every Video Creator Needs to Know | Winning Wednesday Ep.22
What does Frodo Baggins have in common with your brand video? More than you’d think. Jason Ellinger — video producer, storyteller, and self-described…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Broke vs. Poor | Money Mindset & Investing in Yourself First | Winning Wednesday Ep.21
What’s the difference between being broke and being poor — and why does that distinction change everything? Dominic Rufran, financial mindset coach and…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)17 Months in Transition | Faith, Networking & Finding the Door That Opens | Winning Wednesday Ep.20
What do you do when you’re 17 months without a paycheck, burning through savings, and still showing up every day to network, help others, and keep the…
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From Basketball Court to Boardroom | Why EQ Beats IQ in Leadership | Winning Wednesday Ep.19
What does it take to go from athlete to entrepreneur to executive coach? Cornell Thomas built his career on one powerful idea: it’s cool if you get up…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Your Voice Is Betraying You | Voice Communication for Professionals | Winning Wednesday Ep.18
What if the way you’re speaking is quietly undermining everything you’re trying to say? Daya Ottley — broadcaster, voice over actor, and voice…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Why Stretching Your Hamstrings Is Wrong | Brain-Body Connection Explained | Winning Wednesday Ep.17
What if everything you’ve been told about posture, pain, and muscle strength is actually making things worse? Joseph Gonzalez is a movement specialist…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)From Baltimore Poverty to Two Honorary Doctorates | Interrupt Your Norm | Winning Wednesday Ep.16
What does it take to go from government assistance and lima beans in Baltimore to receiving a second honorary doctorate — and inspiring thousands of women…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)TikTok Strategy for Professionals | Stop Showing Up in a Suit at the Pool | Winning Wednesday Ep.15
What if the platform you’ve been avoiding is actually your most powerful marketing tool? Maayan Gordon — marketer, glass blower, TikTok strategist, and…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Global Networking from India | Build LinkedIn Connections Across Borders | Winning Wednesday Ep.14
What does it look like to strategically build a global LinkedIn network from India — before you’ve ever left the country? Ish Sachdeva had a LinkedIn…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Press the Start Button | STEAM, Data Science & Networking as an Introvert | Winning Wednesday Ep.13
What does it look like to be an introvert in a leadership development program where 80% of your cohort are extreme extroverts — and choose to lean in anyway?…
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NFL Wide Receiver to Motivational Speaker | How to Find Your Real Why | Winning Wednesday Ep.12
What does it take to go from the hard streets of northeast Portland to nine years in the NFL — and then choose to adopt five nieces and nephews on the spot? JJ…
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Why B2B Marketing Fails | The Case for Buyer-Centric Demand Gen | Winning Wednesday Ep.11
What if everything your sales and marketing team is doing is actually working against you? Chris Walker, demand generation expert and founder of Refine Labs…
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How Women Are Rewriting the Rules in Male-Dominated Industries | Winning Wednesday Ep.10
What happens when the rules of the game were written by and for someone who doesn’t look like you? Eileen Scully spent years researching exactly that…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Corporate Partnerships That Actually Matter | NEGU Foundation | Winning Wednesday Ep.9
What does it look like when two major corporations stop competing and start collaborating — not just for business, but for kids battling cancer? Renee Lem, a…
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LinkedIn Growth Secrets | Give More Than You Take to Win on Social Media | Winning Wednesday Ep.8
What if the secret to growing on LinkedIn had nothing to do with posting more — and everything to do with giving more? Alex B. Sheridan left a decade in B2B…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)NFL Insider on Process Over Results | Fall in Love with the Journey | Winning Wednesday Ep.7
What does it take to go from the hard streets of northeast Portland to nine years in the NFL — and then choose to adopt five nieces and nephews on the spot? JJ…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Your Phone Is Numbing Your Real Life | Tech & the Embodied Self | Winning Wednesday Ep.6
What if your phone isn’t just a distraction — it’s actually replacing the very experiences that make you feel most alive? dr. doreen dodgen-magee…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)From Scuba Diving to AI Real Estate | Soft Skills Build Careers | Winning Wednesday Ep.5
What do scuba diving, imposter syndrome, and AI-powered office space have in common? Philippe Bouffaut — French-born tech entrepreneur, long-term thinker, and…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Small Business Survival & Food as Medicine | What COVID Revealed | Winning Wednesday Ep.4
What happens when a virus shuts down everything you’ve spent 20 years building — and you can’t even call it essential? Mark O’Donnell knows…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Self-Awareness Isn’t a To-Do | Emotional Intelligence & Intentional Living | Winning Wednesday Ep.3
What if the way you’re showing up during a crisis is exactly how you show up every day — and you just haven’t noticed yet? Dr. Ginny A. Baro, PhD…
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Why I Started Winning Wednesday | Networking, Hope & Human Connection | Winning Wednesday Ep.0
Every movement starts somewhere. In April 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, Katrina Fuhrman — The ConnectorQueen — launched Winning Wednesday with a…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Small Business Survival During a Pandemic | Put Your Lipstick On | Winning Wednesday Ep.2
What does a boutique owner do when the world shuts down and her entire business depends on the in-store experience? Alexandra Daras of The Pretty Pink Rooster…
Becoming You (after Winning Wednesday)Not Why Is This Happening To Me — But Why For Me | Winning Wednesday Ep.1
The very first episode of Winning Wednesday features someone who embodies everything the show would go on to stand for — a connector, a leader, and a man who…