StrengthsChat - Stephanie Staples

Stephanie is an award-winning speaker in Canada and published author who honors us with a description of how she made her own dramatic change at an important life juncture.

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Strengths Chat - Lynn McNamee

Lynne has built a successful career by fine-tuning her natural ability to maximize situations. Listen and hear how she uses that strength to build awareness for her client’s brands.

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Strengths Chat - Jeannie Lindheim

Jeannie has taught acting for 30 years and ran her own theater school for 13 years. She is currently director of the Jeannie Lindheim Center for Creativity.

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Blurring the line between Wants and Needs

Nearly everything you do involves a choice. With the exception of breathing and eating, there are very few non-negotiable activities. You can even make choices about what you eat and where you breathe. So, on a micro level, you are positioned more frequently than you realize to “get what you want.”

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Strengths Chat - Nat Williams

Dr. Williams heads a multi-million dollar organization and says he is “the worst person to make decisions” related to the work of his company. He is doing what he loves because a Catholic nun gave him a bicycle when he was a boy and it changed his life.

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Strengths Chat – Dale Brunner

My guest this week on Strengths Chat is Dale Brunner, co-author of three books that help people discover and manage their own personal energy flow.

I was attracted to the books because they all have the words “Surfing Rainbows” in their title. Dale has had a successful real estate career and has always been

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Strengths Chat - Denise Altman

Denise Altman practices what she calls “Strike Force Coaching.” A former partner in a CPA firm, Denise shares her thoughts on activities that make her feel strong.

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Is this guy a flake?

Conventional wisdom has drilled into us that you play around with start-ups for a while, but eventually you settle down and finish a job. But if starting things gives you energy and the thought of sticking around for the long-haul sounds like a prison sentence, why should you opt for being miserable?

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Strengths Chat - Sherrie Palm

My guest this week on Strengths Chat is Sherrie Palm, Founder and President of APOPS, the Association for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Support, Inc. in Wisconsin.

Sherrie plays a number of roles – administrative, fund-raising, legislative – but she’s driven by the one-on-one work she gets to have with women who are experiencing this “silent” condition.

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What if you used only your strengths?

One of my Strengths is “Input.” For a living, I report information, provide analysis, and describe things to other people. All at once, I realized that I needed to do that now, for the parents of the girl. I began writing: “To the family of Jane Doe, I was one of the first motorists to stop at your daughter’s crash on Tuesday…..”

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