Take Your Business Seriously But Not Yourself - Interview with Tracy Wilde Long of Cisco Brewers
Bridges to Leadership
5 years of managing one of the coolest and busiest breweries on the east coast has taught Tracy many lessons. In this podcast she shares her insights on what she has learned and her philosophy on leadership... - how to approach a team that is full of all stars - always listening to the dissenting opinion - learning is life long - "We take our business seriously but not ourselves" - enlightened hospitality Find Tracy on Instagram @tracyciscoofficial
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Leadership, Growth, and Service - Interview with Coach Jason Ridge
Bridges to Leadership
To be a successful basketball coach for 2 decades in Indiana you must be doing something right! Honored to have my good friend Jason Ridge on the podcast this week. has been developing his leadership skills and those around him for over 20 years in the classroom and on the court. He currently is the head women's basketball coach at in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Jason has implemented strong leadership practices with his students and teams that have resulted in great success. He touches on some of the many areas that have helped him and his students, coaches, players, and...
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EQ Boot Camp - Marcus and Waleed Week 5 Interview
Bridges to Leadership
Each summer season, 2 students from my alma mater ferry over to Nantucket Island for a 10 week internship with my company Nantucket Bike Tours. We use this small business to teach them the people skills they will need to be successful in business and in life. We sat down at the end of their 5th week to discuss what they have learned and their general experience. I wanted to know what had they learned in 5 week, could you learn much of anything in 5 weeks? It seems at first glance that improving your EQ in such a short amount of time could be daunting. Marcus...
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Fatherhood Friday Interview w/ Carl Lindvall - Fighting The Battles Early, Knowing When You Are Overbearing, and Treating Your Kids as Peers
Bridges to Leadership
Fatherhood Friday looks at parenthood through the lens of leadership. Being a Dad has many challenges and many victories, which is parallel to all aspects of life. The Dads that I interview haven't written a book on fatherhood and don't have a phD in child development. They are every day Dads from all walks of life and many different family makeups. For this Fatherhood Friday joins us, father of 3 children with his wife Sarah. Carl grew up on Nantucket and has raised his kids here for the past 12 years. It was hard to edit this podcast down to 40...
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Fatherhood Friday Interview w/ Geoff Smith - Being Present, Embracing Your Village, and Handling Snack Time
Bridges to Leadership
Fatherhood Friday looks at parenthood through the lens of leadership. Being a Dad has many challenges and many victories, which is parallel to all aspects of life. The Dads that I interview haven't written a book on fatherhood and don't have a phD in child development. They are every day Dads from all walks of life and many different family makeups. For this Fatherhood Friday we are joined by Geoff Smith, father of a 5 year old daughter. Geoff wasn't sure how his "fly by the seat of his pants" lifestyle would work being a new Dad. Before fatherhood, I...
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Active Listening Part 1 - Negative Listening Habits
Bridges to Leadership
Determining your negative listening habits will help you understand potential hurdles to becoming a top notch active listener. Once you understand and are aware of them, you can then start to minimize them. In this podcast we look at 4 negative listening habits... The Faker The Interruptor The One Upper The Advice Giver Which of these do you find yourself doing the most? What do you do when you catch yourself doing one of these bad habits? Answer: "Call it what it is!" Part 2 of Active Listening, coming in the next podcast, will focus on strategies you can add to...
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Fatherhood Friday Episode #1- Leadership and Being a Dad
Bridges to Leadership
Is fatherhood and leadership synonymous? What's the best way a father can lead within a family? How do you handle advice from other fathers? These are some of the questions my wife, Courtney, asks me in this first episode of Fatherhood Friday. And let's be clear right off the bat, I am not technically a father yet! Still have some time before we through the go-bags in the trunk and head off to the hospital (but not too much time). I am no expert. This interview takes place 4 weeks before my first child's arrival. I figured what's the best way to...
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A Person's Name - The Sweetest Sound in Any Language
Bridges to Leadership
Let's talk about the excuse we all love to make. You know the one, you probably said it recently, "I'm terrible at remembering names". When we make names a priority, we are shifting our focus from ourselves to those around us. In this podcast I talk about WHY its important to focus on names, TIPS and TRICKS on how to remember names, and WHAT to do when you are in a situation when you've forgotten someone's name you've known for a long time. Stop giving yourself permission to NOT remember names. Every time you say "I'm terrible at remembering names", you are allowing yourself...
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Helping Your Staff Move On - Investing in Your Team and Then Letting Them Go
Bridges to Leadership
Here's the punchline...your staff won't work with you forever. The days of 35 year careers are over, especially for small businesses like our coffee shop. So how can you get the best out of your staff and team? Help them move on. That's right. Invest in them to the point where the grow to the top of their position, and then move on. If your company is large, they might be able to move up or over. It hurts when good staff leaves, but the upside is too big not to. Make the best of the time you have with your team and invest in...
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Define Your "Year of..." Theme - Rapping in Your Underwear in Front of 200 People
Bridges to Leadership
New year's resolutions never really worked for me. Over the past couple years I adapted the "resolution" idea to be more effective over the long haul. Each year I come up with a theme to help me focus on something that I want to improve personally. In this episode I share with you my themes for 2016, 2017, and how they helped me grow certain aspects of my life that needed some much needed help. Without direction of these "Year of..." themes there is no way I would have stood in front of 200 people, in my underwear, and rapped (poorly) R. Kelly's Ignition. I even give...
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What are men supposed to do when inappropriate language about women occurs? Obviously we should stand up and speak out against it. But that doesn't always happen. I discuss in this podcast a strategy for emerging male adults to combat this kind of dialogue that is degrading to women, dialogue that is too often exchanged and accepted in male environments and culture. This is an leadership issue and a serious conversation that more men have to have.
Over the years I have worked with many male college students who don't have the tools and strategies to stand up for women in these situations. When you break it down into 3 actions it gives a path to what we all want...to shift male culture. I discuss a quick strategy for these situations...
1) Leave
2) Change the subject
3) Speak out
This podcast is for all men and anyone who wants to help men to no longer become what Jackson Katz calls the "bystander". Check out his TED talk here, its well worth the 17 minutes!
This is a very complex subject and I don't presume to have all the answers. This comes from years of working with my interns for our bike tour company, giving them tools to use when they head back into college life.
If you wonder if I really am recording a podcast from a coffee shop on Nantucket, or find an urge to work with me in any way, here's a couple ways of finding out more and contacting me.
email: [email protected]
Website www.jasonmbridges.com
TEDx Talk Practicing Emotional Intelligence
Instagram @jasonmbridges
*music credit in body of podcast - Audiobinger