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SmikleSpeaks
Joanne L. Smikle, PhD is a respected authority on leadership and organization development. She provides learning that helps you soar! Each episode prepares you to lead in our ever-evolving world. Subscribe today...content is updated all of the time! Get more relevant tools from The SmikleSpeaks YouTube Channel and the library at smiklespeaks.com. Contact Joanne for assistance with your individual and organizational development.
Episodes
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See Something...Do Something, Featuring Selena Rezvani (Part 1)
I am continuing in the See Something…Do Something series. Thanks for all of your encouraging feedback on my interviews with world changers. These are the…
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You are authorized!
What would happen if you behaved like you were authorized in every sphere of your life? I heard a sermon by Rev. Virgil Hammett and he talked about being…
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Next Chapters, Featuring Dr. Hope O'Brien of the Headache Center of Hope (Part 3)
Dr. Hope O’Brien is back to share the lessons she's learned as a business woman and physician leader. She is the founder and CEO of the Headache Center of Hope…
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Next Chapters, Featuring Dr. Hope O'Brien of the Headache Center of Hope (Part 2)
Dr. Hope O’Brien is back! She is the founder and CEO of Headache Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio. This business venture is the next chapter in an already…
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Next Chapters, Featuring Dr. Hope O'Brien of the Headache Center of Hope (Part 1)
I am overjoyed to have Dr. Hope O’Brien as my guest on this inaugural episode in the Next Chapters series! I’m featuring interesting people who have taken…
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Aging Well
If you’re over 30 or maybe over 40, you’ve probably become aware that the birthdays keep rolling around…and sometimes it seems like they’re rolling quicker…
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The Duties of Care, Loyalty & Obedience
If you’ve served on a board you know about the duties of care, loyalty and obedience. They’re the most basic, foundational principles for ethical board…
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What are you thinking?
Do you ever think about what you’re thinking about? I mean do you pay attention to your mind? Are your thoughts filled with hope, joy, fret, fear, worry…
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See Something, Do Something Dr. Alyx Porter Umphrey of ElevateMeD Pt 3
Dr. Alyx Porter Umphrey founded ElevateMeD to address physician diversity. Listen to learn more about how she's doing such important work.
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See Something, Do Something...Julie Rosenthal of Food on the 15th
Listen to get more strategies on practical ways you can transform your corner of the world. Julie Rosenthal, founder of Food on the 15th, shares her insights…
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SCARF, Featuring Linda Roszak Burton
Linda Roszak Burton is back to explore the SCARF Model with us. She keeps heling us go deeper on our journey to create grateful hearts.
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See Something, Do Something...Katherine Wells returns!
Katherine Wells returns to tell us more about how to launch an initiative that positively impacts the lives of so many people in the aging services world.
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See Something, Do Something...More with Katherine Wells of Serenity Engage
Listen as Katherine Wells shares more about her path to creating Serenity Engage and co-founding Mavericks of Senior Living.
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See Something, Do Something...Featuring Katherine Wells of Serenity Engage
Katherine Wells saw a big, almost insurmountable need facing families and aging services providers. Listen and hear what she did to create fluid communication…
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See Something, Do Something Dr. Alyx Porter Umphrey with ElevateMeD Part 2
Dr. Alyx Porter Umphrey shares more about how she is continuing to advance physician diversity through her work with ElevateMeD.
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Remember the Bad, Featuring Linda Roszak Burton
Is there any benefit to remembering the bad things that have happened in our lives? Perhaps... Listen as Linda Roszak Burton, author of Gratitude Heals…
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See Something, Do Something Julie Rosenthal is back!
Learn more about how Julie Rosenthal saw a pressing need with hunger among the seniors and what she did about it.
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Post-Traumatic Growth Featuring Linda Roszak Burton
We can't just get over trauma. But, we can learn and grow from it. In this episode Linda Roszak Burton, author of Gratitude Heals, explores growth from trauma.
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See Something, Do Something Featuring Julie Rosenthal of Food on the 15th
Julie Rosenthal saw a need to address hunger among the elderly in her community. She did something! She founded Food on the 15th. Listen learn about this…
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See Something, Do Something Featuring Dr. Alyx Porter Umphrey of ElevateMeD
Dr. Alyx Porter Umphrey, founder of ElevateMeD, saw a need regarding physician diversity and she's doing something to address it. Listen in for strategies you…
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Grateful Processing, Featuring Linda Roszak Burton
We're starting a new year...so many new opportunities facing each of us. We have to be careful not to get mired in yesterday. In this podcast we'll explore how…
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Accelerating Your Agenda
Have you ever noticed that some people are able to get things done? They take no prisoners. They kick tail and take names later. They get their projects off…
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An Explorer's Heart
Try wandering around Rome in the dark after a couple of glasses of really good Italian wine looking for your hotel with your sister and what may be a faulty…
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What's stopping you?
What’s stopping you from reaching your goals? You can start if you know what’s stopping you! And I mean you can start anything if you can figure out what’s…
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Weaponizing Gratitude, Featuring Linda Roszak Burton
It's possible to misuse the concept of 'gratitude'. In this episode author Linda Roszak Burton explores the concept of weaponizing gratitude.
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Change What You're Giving...Change What You're Getting
This podcast is a short mental tune-up for me and for you. My premise is simple: if we can change what we’re giving, we can change what we’re getting. The Law…
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How do you make them change?
We need tools to spark behavioral change. That’s what this podcast is all about. It’s about sparking the behavioral change that will help you lead people to…
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Practicing Excellence
This podcast is all about habits of excellence of individual leaders and their organizations. This is a never-ending, transformational process that is not to…
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Compassionate Leadership...Compassionate Living
If I’m not careful, I fall into the trap of only noticing the worst leaders, the worst organizations, the worst situations. That’s perhaps because people often…
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The Grass and the Lawnmower
A friend, her name is Dot, and I were discussing a problem shared with us by a mutual friend, whose name I won’t mention. She had bravely extricated herself…
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Interviewing...I blew it!
I interviewed for a faculty position and I didn’t get it. I made it down to the final two and they picked someone else. I was really disappointed. I really…
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Self-Leadership
I’m going to quickly share my understanding of and thoughts on self-leadership. I think of it as a tool for what Parker Palmer calls 'letting your life speak.'…
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Perfectly Imperfect
I want to talk about how we can accept the fact that we are perfectly imperfect. It is impossible to be physically, mentally or spiritually perfect, so don’t…
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Living With Stress
If we continue to live we will continue to have stressors in some shape, form or fashion. My Mom used to say the only people without stress were in the…
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Career Setbacks
The list of possible career setbacks goes on and on. The setbacks are real. They’re hurtful. They’re damaging. They can have lasting, lingering effects on our…
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What I Learned on My Back
I had surgery this summer and had to spend a lot of time on my back. I’ve got a comfortable mattress and lots of pillows so time on my back was pleasant. But…
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Regret to Resolve
There are times when I can dredge up every mistake I ever made. I can find every failure, every misstep. I try not to fall into this trap often, but I…
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The Focus Factor
I don’t believe there really is any such thing as life balance. I think the best we can do is to blend the components of our life. The first thing required to…
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Do more than you think you can. Really??
I was in yoga class and one of the teachers started the class by saying she read something that said Finish what you start, Do more than you think you can, Do…
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What would you do? Perspectives on Support
Thanks to so many listeners for your positive feedback on the "What would you do?" scenarios that I did a couple of months ago. Who knew they’d be so popular?…
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Are we doing well with DEI?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to ensure that DEI efforts are impactful. Progressing in this are requires a clear strategy. If you’re a regular…
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Obstacles to Collaboration
Collaborative efforts, face obstacles. Some of the obstacles are related to individual behavior, others to organizational structures, and still others to…
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Collaborative Leadership
Lately I’ve been working with a lot of leaders on how they can build teams and strengthen collaboration. This is important because so many projects require…
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Healing & Wholeness, Featuring Kathryn Neel, PhD
This is the third episode in this series on resilience. Dr. Neel provides tools for using resilience to live whole, satisfying lives.
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Mental Health & Resilience, Featuring Kathryn Neel, PhD
We're going to explore the relationship between good mental health and resilience. Dr. Neel is back to help us delve into this topic.
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The Psychology of Resilience, Featuring Kathryn Neel, PhD
This episode is a deep-dive into resilience. What does it mean? How does it play out? Do we all have it? Dr. Kathryn Neel is the founder of Cornerstone…
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What would you do? Another DEI Dilemma
This is the fourth of the podcasts that focus on scenarios that are drawn from my consulting life. Here’s another one on DEI for your consideration. This is a…
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What would you do? Perspectives on Upward Mobility
This is the third of the podcasts that are different. Here’s another scenario for your consideration. I'll read the scenario and you'll think about your…
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What would you do? Performance Issues
This is the second of the podcasts that are a little bit different. I’m going to share a few more scenarios. They’re real situations. Listen tot he scenario…
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What would you do? DEI Dilemmas
I’m doing a few podcasts that are a little bit different. I’m going to share scenarios that I’ve been dealing with in my consulting life. After sharing I’ll…
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Get to GO...6 Essential Advisors
You made up your mind to make changes, try something new, invent something, to pursue a new path. You have the drive, the motivation and a plan. But you can’t…
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Stop with the apologies!
Apologizing is good when you’re genuinely sorry. It’s good when you’ve hurt someone. It’s especially good when you’ve made a mistake. The problem is when we…
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Unleashing Personal Power
Personal power! We all have it. Some of us fear it. Some of us wield it like a mighty sword. What do you do with yours? Are you willing to unleash it so that…
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The Promoted But Not Prepared Syndrome
You were great in your subject matter…maybe an awesome engineer, a great teller, a fantastic professor, a gifted architect, an outstanding doctor. Then, you…
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You're Not Dead Yet!
You’re not dead yet! You still have lots of living to do! There are opportunities at every stage of the life span. My sister Susan says that we don’t need…
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Life Reimagined…Life Reinvented
Isn’t interesting how many of us would be doing something different if we could. I mean different in our careers, in our relationship, in our lives. WE can! We…
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The Courage Factor
There are times when I get frustrated, flabbergasted, and flustered with spineless leaders. I know the word spineless sounds harsh but that’s what I see far…
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Paths to Peace, Featuring Dennis Courtney
Peace is possible. Peace is probable when peace-seekers unite with intention. Dennis Courtney shares strategies that we can use to create peace on the micro…
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Self-Compassion, Featuring Dennis Courtney
Self-compassion is the ability to be kind, gentle, and loving to ourselves. It enables us to silence our inner critic and give affirming messages. Dennis…
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Let go...Let GROW
There are times when we have to let go of people, of habits, of practices. The theme of this podcasts is let go, let grow. My premise is that when we hold on…