324: Avoiding the Biggest Job Application Mistakes Today
Finding Brave
What if you feel you’re doing everything right in your job search and it’s still not bringing you results? In today’s uncertain market, even highly capable professionals are facing longer searches and lower response rates. On this episode of Finding Brave, we explore what is really happening in today’s hiring landscape and why so many smart and capable professionals are struggling. is one of the founding team members of , an AI-powered resume builder and job search platform. Drawing from analyses of over 1.6 million applications and hundreds of one-on-one coaching conversations, he...
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323: How to Negotiate Success in Your Work, Relationships and Career with Scott Tillema
Finding Brave
Our inspiring podcast guest today, , is an award-winning keynote speaker and negotiation expert who helps leaders navigate difficult conversations with confidence, influence, and trust. Drawing on more than 20 years in law enforcement, including his work as an FBI-trained hostage negotiator and a business negotiator trained through the Harvard University Program on Negotiation, Scott brings rare, real-world insight into what it takes to lead effectively in high-stakes moments. His work focuses on showing leaders how to connect first, influence second, and create outcomes that move people and...
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322: How to Powerfully Market Your Small Business with AI
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Are you using AI to its full potential to meet your marketing, small business, and branding needs? Today’s guest, , is a dynamic speaker, DJ, and marketing expert with nearly twenty years of sales and marketing experience in retail and service industries. His passion for helping small businesses thrive translates into practical guidance on how to leverage AI and freemium apps to create a big impact with your marketing on a small budget. Driven by the belief that people buy from a person before they buy from a brand, his unique approach at helps his clients leverage humor and education to...
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321: How to Be a Likeable Badass
Finding Brave
What if the very traits you’ve been told to soften, like being collaborative or agreeable, are actually essential to your success, not obstacles to it? In this episode of Finding Brave, we explore why so many professionals, especially women, feel trapped between being liked and being respected, and what it really takes to be both. In this episode, Kathy Caprino speaks with , an organizational psychologist, professor at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, and bestselling author of . Drawing on her extensive research on status, power, negotiation, and influence,...
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320: Be Yourself at Work: Show Up, Stand Out, and Lead from the Heart
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What does it really mean to be yourself at work without hiding, performing, or shrinking to fit expectations? In this Finding Brave conversation, we explore why authentic presence is not a soft skill or a personal indulgence, but a powerful leadership practice that builds trust, connection, and impact in today’s fast-moving, emotionally complex workplaces. Today’s inspiring guest is , the world’s first Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX, where she partners with CEO Gary Vaynerchuk to shape culture and leadership at scale. A sought-after speaker and the author of , Claude brings a...
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319: A Talent for Giving: Creating a More Generous Society for All
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The world around us has transformed dramatically—but has philanthropy kept up? For our Finding Brave guest today, , American-British investor and humanitarian and the author of the new book , this question isn't academic—it's deeply personal. His philanthropic journey began humbly, volunteering at a soup kitchen as a teenager. Today, he's recognized globally for transformative work addressing homelessness through London's Passage Day Centre and championing emerging artists through the . In the U.S., he serves on the boards of The J. Paul Getty Trust, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the...
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318: How Organizations Need to Change Their Narrative In Challenging Times
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Everybody wants to believe in something, but the truth is, if you're a leader who shies away from asking tough questions, you're making it harder for people to believe in you. In this Finding Brave episode, we are joined by , known as the Rapid Growth Guy and storytelling expert responsible for five multi-million dollar business success stories. He is the author of and has been featured in Forbes and listed by Global Gurus as one of the Top 30 Sales Professionals. In this conversation, we explore what it truly means to lead through authentic, compelling story, not spin. Matthew unpacks how...
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317: How to Attract Great Investors For Your Products and Business
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Protecting your ideas is a critical step for attracting excellent aligned investors. In this episode of Finding Brave, I sit down with intellectual property expert and attorney , senior partner at , to demystify what it really takes to secure funding and safeguard innovation. Drawing on his extensive experience helping inventors, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals, David shares how a strong IP strategy serves as both protection and proof of your business’s credibility. A registered patent attorney and professor at Temple University, Parsons School of Design, and Radzyner Law School,...
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316: Taking the Brave Leap to Live Your Life Purpose
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Why would someone walk away from a lucrative, 15-year career in software engineering? For , it came down to one thing: learning to prioritize the "spirit mind" over the "material mind.” That perspective shift gave him the inner clarity—and the bravery and courage—to finally move into a life and career of deeper purpose. Jeffrey is a spiritual teacher and energy healer whose work has empowered thousands of people, through ’s Healing Programs and through his own courses, trainings and years of individual and group work with thousands of people around the globe. His mission is to make...
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315: FAWNING: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves
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On the surface, you may look like the model employee, partner, or friend: always dependable, always agreeable. But beneath the surface, you may be carrying a lifetime of survival strategies that keep you invisible in your own life. This is the story knows both personally and professionally, and it’s the story she helps so many of us begin to rewrite. Dr. Ingrid Clayton is a licensed clinical psychologist with advanced degrees in transpersonal and clinical psychology. She has maintained a thriving private practice for more than fifteen years and writes the popular Psychology Today blog, ,...
info_outlineUncertainty has become the defining condition of our time, yet most of us still struggle to find our footing in it. What if you could reframe change itself as a source of strength? Today on Finding Brave, we’re joined by global change advisor, futurist, and author April Rinne to uncover how to cultivate a “flux mindset” and discover the hidden opportunities within constant change.
April, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and one of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, is a trusted advisor to organizations from Airbnb and Nike to the World Bank. She is the author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change, a book that helps readers reimagine leadership, success, and well-being through eight powerful practices. Grounded in her global career and shaped by personal tragedy, April’s work invites us to step into uncertainty with greater courage, compassion, and clarity.
In this conversation, April reflects on her own journey with flux, beginning with the sudden loss of her parents at age 20 and the lessons she learned from rebuilding a life turned upside down. She explains how journaling, curiosity, and cultural wisdom shaped her approach, and why letting go of what no longer serves us can open space for growth and freedom. Far from being quick fixes, the “flux superpowers” are daily practices that help us navigate both personal and professional uncertainty.
April also offers insight into what it really means to be a futurist: blending research with lived experience and intuition to recognize patterns and possibilities. She invites us to see change not as something to fear but as the opportunity of a lifetime to evolve how we live and lead. If you’re ready to shift your relationship with uncertainty and explore new ways to design your future, this episode will leave you both grounded and inspired!
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Introduction to April Rinne and the concept of a flux mindset. [02:07]
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Why Flux was not a pandemic book, but became even more relevant during it. [05:47]
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The personal tragedy that shaped April’s lifelong relationship with change. [09:04]
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Learning from global cultures and wisdom traditions about navigating uncertainty. [10:29]
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The eight “flux superpowers” as daily practices, not quick fixes. [17:13]
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Building a portfolio career as an alternative to the career ladder. [25:45]
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The role of curiosity, journaling, and self-reflection in adapting to flux. [26:53]
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What it really means to be a futurist: blending research, intuition, and pattern recognition. [32:59]
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Seeing change as the opportunity of a lifetime to reshape how we live and lead. [39:50]
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Quotes:
“There is more change, uncertainty, unknown, flux. There's going to be more flux in the world every year that passes, not less.” — @aprilrinne [0:06:24]
“These are not superpowers of the kind that will instantly make you Superwoman. They're not birthright gifts. These don’t drop from the sky. These are practices that we have to practice every day.” — @aprilrinne [0:17:21]
“I had to practice trusting others, I had to practice vulnerability. I had to practice lots of things that ended up in Flux, in the book, as superpowers. But I certainly didn't have those on day one.” — @aprilrinne [0:24:21]
“We are all works in progress, and no sooner than you think you're good at one of [these skills], some other change is going to happen, and it's going to humble you.” — @aprilrinne [0:24:53]
“Curiosity will beat certainty any day.” — @aprilrinne [0:27:06]
“When you journal — you're really cultivating a relationship with yourself and your self-awareness and your intuition.” — @aprilrinne [0:31:05]
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