Kathleen O’Malley on telling God to F off, what not to send people in the hospital and surviving sickness
Release Date: 10/25/2023
Dr. Ieva Martinaitytė on creativity as a state of mind, embracing polarities and becoming a boss innovator
Balanceness
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 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_outlineIn our fifth Balanceness podcast, we talk with Kathleeen O’Malley, who is a full time working mom and blogger for Forever Chasing Fireflies. Kathleen is on a mission to share her journey of resilience, hope and journey to motherhood. As a breast cancer survivor and IVF warrior, she’s learned that life is worth every struggle and inner strength knows no bounds. She is celebrating the things that tie us all together, sharing her story with a touch of humor and hoping to inspire others to overcome their obstacles with grace and determination.
Kathleen and I have known each other for a few years and, funny enough, she is my former manager. Over the years of working with Kathleen I learned bits and pieces of her story, but it wasn’t until doing the research for this episode that I learned about her years-long struggle to have a successful pregnancy and her eventual cancer diagnosis the day after her twins were born. I feel so honored to have spent the time with Kathleen learning how these experiences challenged and strengthened her faith, how she built a toolkit to fight depression and how she continues to balance “wanting to do everything and never missing anything”.
This episode is for anyone who has struggled with fertility or illness or who wants to hear an unadulterated account of how sickness can test our will to persevere. It is also for anyone who needs to hear an inspiring tale of how little by little we may see glimmers of light that remind us how to take back our lives and live it to its fullest.
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