Dr. Ieva Martinaitytė on creativity as a state of mind, embracing polarities and becoming a boss innovator
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Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Ieva Martinaityte, who has been researching workplace creativity and innovative behavior for 15 years. Her research findings have been published in leading journals, such as Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Ieva has taught courses at the University College London and the University of Cambridge and is now a visiting lecturer at University of East Anglia in the UK. She is also the founder of a CreativityLab () whose mission is to demystify creativity and make...
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Rowan Gray on Gestalt, resilience as a tool for change and rebounding from blockers
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Kevin Noble on integrating polarizing thoughts, testing the limits of balance and building the mind-body connection.
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Today we welcome Kevin Noble on the show. Kevin is a tech industry veteran with 17 years of cross-functional leadership experience. He started his professional life with a masters degree in mechanical engineering, and soon transitioned into broader business roles. Today his expertise spans across hardware and software system design, operations, finance, manufacturing, and more. He has run large global teams and led complex transformation projects across numerous functions. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Kevin is a family man with a wife, three children, and two...
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Gabe Wieder on start up life, empathy fatigue, the importance of representation in business and second chances
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Today we are talking with Gabe Wieder, Head of Operations and Product at , a mental health platform for teenagers. He started the company having a background in Product Design from Stanford, as well as history of crisis work in the mental health field. SOMETHINGS was able to raise a seed round of $3.2 million led by General Catalyst this past year, and is still growing! Gabe is currently transitioning out of his role at Somethings to move into venture capital. This path has been spurred on by his involvement with Gaingels, the work he has done for the One Mind Accelerator, and experience...
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Episode 16: Indra Gutiérrez on intention setting, time management and value prioritization
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For episode 16 of Balanceness, we welcomed Indra Gutiérrez to the podcast. Indra has over sixteen years of experience working in the construction industry overseeing multi-billion-dollar Engineering, Procurement and Construction projects across the Gulf Coast Region. She is the Owner and President of Gutier, a General Construction company located in Houston, TX. She oversees Gutier’s business operations, business development and organizational strategy. She has received an Executive MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.S. in International Business from Houston Baptist...
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Matt Golt on sustainable living.
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Episode 15: Matt Golt on sustainable living. In episode 15 of Balanceness, I had the pleasure of interviewing my Sidebar colleague Matt Golt. While Matt’s official bio is short, “I love writing on growth and leadership. Lover of fitness, people, and coffee”, his fitness resume goes deep. At the young age of 23, Matt became the Co-Owner and Manager of Montreal's well-known and popular gym Blackout Fitness. He parlayed this experience into his own boutique gym and the build out of a fitness-based application that would track the progress and metrics of his clients. When the...
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Episode 14: Fátima Sani on remaining open, staying relevant and seeking purpose.
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It was my absolute pleasure to welcome Fátima Sani on this week’s episode of Balanceness. Fátima and I were connected by a colleague at work and after a quick introductory conversation over Zoom we became fast friends and penpals. We are both curious souls raising toddlers in cities that are not our own and seeking purpose in both our professional and personal lives. The rest will be history my friends. Every stage of your life can be a honeypot, which is how Fátima reflects on her life after working for Google for 13 years, living as an expatriate in London, Spain, Singapore...
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Tiffany Caprarella on nomadism, multiple lives and grounding activities.
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This week’s guest, Tiffany Caprarella, has lived multiple lives. Tiffany and I met during one of these 22 years ago while on a public bus traveling to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. I noticed that her then boyfriend had a Canadian flag tattooed to his ankle, so being the good Canadian that I am, struck up a conversation with the two. We spent the next few nights ogling over ant formations, diagnosing the wildebeest-like noises coming from the jungle (turns out they were Howler monkeys) and sampling gallo pinto. We learned that we were both slated to move to Toronto, Canada after our Central...
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Samantha Miller on getting out of your head, building resilience and finding humor in everything.
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Happy 2024! It was a pleasure to kick off Season 2 of Balanceness with my confidante and sister Samantha Miller, MSW, RSW, a clinical social worker, who has worked in a number of settings including chemical dependency, partial hospitalization programs, and private practice. Samantha currently provides hospice and bereavement services, which entails bereavement support and clinical services for those with a life limiting illness and joins us to shed some light on the levity and beauty of her work. When thinking about how to kick off this season’s podcast, I couldn’t think of a...
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Aaron Thweatt on empathy, trying to be more than do and preparing for the biggest negotiation of your life
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It’s always a treat (and a brain workout) having Aaron at GrasshoppHer. Aaron Thweatt, a Certified High Performance Coach and Principal Compensation Consultant, is on a mission to connect talent, ambition, and purpose for those intent on achieving their life’s work while feeling engaged and joyful. He built a successful career spanning financial services, oil and gas, sales and marketing, human resources (compensation), and satellite ground station site acquisition at AECOM, Activision Blizzard, and SpaceX before founding Respark Coaching to deliver transformation in the six principles of...
info_outlineDr. Beth A. Livingston is the Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, an internal advisor with the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest, a NIOSH Center of Excellence, and the faculty director of the Dore-Tippie Women's Leadership program. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and her MBA from the University of Kentucky, she began her career at Cornell University in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations before moving to the Midwest. She is passionate about studying human resources, gender & diversity, and the management of work and family in the service of employee well-being. Her research has been highlighted in the New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Business Review, and she has been published in multiple top academic journals. Dr. Livingston has also done executive education, speaking engagements, and consulting for companies and non-profits such as Accenture, John Deere, Yves Saint Laurent Beauty, Allsteel, and Hollaback! and is the co-author of "Shared Sisterhood," from Harvard Business Review Press.
Given her extensive work in the area of work and family, I wanted to know if Beth believes in balance. She does not. And, she believes the metaphor (picture stacked rocks on the beach) is bogus! Join Beth and I as we talk about recognizing and honoring our work preferences, not hitting ourselves with a second dart (aka guilt) and congratulating ourselves when we’re in the groove. We also talk about how couples negotiate whose career takes precedence, how we reinforce gender norms in our relationships, and how emotional labor is often overlooked.
Give this episode a try if you’re looking for an alternative way to think about managing your daily tasks and the time frames surrounding them. It’s also great if you’re thinking about who and what can push your boundaries and how you and your partner negotiate money and decisions. I know you’ll find nuggets of value in Beth’s sweeping research on life at work and home.
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