How To Instil A Culture That Lends To Your Brand’s Invincibility, with Mike Ganino
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
Release Date: 09/11/2018
When You Wake Up Feeling Lack: How to Shift Back Into Wholeness
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
To feel lack is human. It’s also not the place where your clearest leadership and most powerful creation happens. In this Morning Live, Melissa shares what to do when you wake up feeling lack: how to meet it without shame, and how to shift back into wholeness using a simple “toolkit” of practices. As always, this episode includes a grounding drop-in breath practice (please don’t do this while driving!). Today’s message: Lack creates more lack. Wholeness creates more wholeness. If you want to lead with steadiness, clarity, and resonance, the work is not to suppress what you feel, but...
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Choose Your Thoughts: The Fastest Way to Stop Fear/Doubt and Stay on Purpose
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
Fear is fast. Doubt is persuasive. And mission-driven leaders can't afford to be susceptible to drifting off purpose when fear-based thoughts take over. In this Morning Live, Melissa Agnes shares why your thoughts matter so deeply—and how to reclaim agency when doubt, imposter syndrome, or fear start to creep in. Inside this episode: Why fear takes over quickly (often unconsciously) How fear-based thoughts pull you off mission and into “drift” A practical way to respond to doubt without feeding it Why pairing belief with the feeling of success changes everything A guided...
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Equanimity for Leaders: Stay Calm, Open-Hearted, and Steady in Any Situation
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
Equanimity is the liberating skill of staying calm, balanced, and open-hearted, no matter what is happening around you. In this Morning Live, Melissa Agnes breaks equanimity down in simple terms and shows you how to practice it in real time, using your breath and self-leadership. You will hear: What equanimity is, and why it changes how you lead Why breath is your fastest pathway back to steadiness A self-leadership question to use when something external triggers you The four attitudes of equanimity: gratitude, forgiveness, acceptance, hope A guided grounding drop-in to help you...
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The Real Reason You Want To Achieve Your Goals (And How to Feel It Now)
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
What you crave isn't the actual achievement of your goals. What you actually crave is the feeling you believe you’ll FEEL when you achieve your goals. In today’s Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes, we explore a simple shift that changes how you lead your week: you don’t have to wait for the milestone, the outcome, or the “someday” to feel the feelings you’re chasing. You can choose them now, on purpose, and it doesn’t just feel better. It also supports you in accomplishing your goals with more ease. In this episode, Melissa guides a short exercise to help you name what...
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Feeling Low? Do This One Thing and Watch Your Energy Lift
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
If you’re feeling low, heavy, sad, or stuck in a funk, today’s episode offers a simple truth that can shift your state quickly: do something kind for someone else. When we’re in a low place, it’s easy to feel disconnected. We can get pulled into our own mind, our own stress, and the sense that we’re alone in it all. The practice we explore today is choosing connection through service. A small act of kindness brings you back into wholeness, and you can often feel your energy lift immediately. In this session, I share a Napoleon Hill quote that captures it perfectly: “Find your...
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Letting Go of Control Doesn’t Make You Weak. It Makes You Powerful.
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
Control can look like strength. But here is the hard truth we are working with this week: Control is a tool of fear. In this episode, we go one level deeper with a question that so many leaders carry, even if they do not say it out loud: "If I let go of my need to control, will I be weak? Will I be giving away my power?" The answer is no. Releasing your grasp for control is not weakness. It is how you reclaim your power, because control is fear-based, and fear pulls you into survival. When you are leading from survival, you lose access to the steadiness, creativity, and clear thinking you...
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Control Isn’t Strength. It’s Fear in Disguise.
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
Control can look like strength. But here is the hard truth we explore today: control is a tool of fear. When a part of us does not feel safe, the ego reaches for control. Control of the outcome. Control of the timeline. Control of the situation. Control of other people. It is the mind’s attempt to create certainty so it can feel safe. The twist is that control is also an illusion. When we lead from the need to control, we are not actually in control at all. We are in fear, and fear drives fear-based decisions. In this episode of Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes, you will explore this truth...
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Stop Overthinking Decisions: The Secret to Clear Decision-Making
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
Big decisions can make even the strongest leaders second-guess themselves. When there is no obvious right answer, most of us try to think our way into certainty. The problem is that “thinking harder” often creates more doubt, more stress, and more mental gridlock. In Day 2 of Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes, we explore a different approach to decision-making. One that starts in the body, not the brain. You will learn why relying only on the analytical mind can feed fear and uncertainty, and how to tap into your three intelligence centers for clearer, steadier decision-making: the brain...
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Overcoming Fear and Doubt: A Morning Grounding for Leaders
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
Fear and doubt do not mean you are off track. They often show up when you are standing at the edge of expansion. In this episode, recorded from the very first Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes, Melissa explores the two sides of the unknown and how to relate to fear without letting it drive your choices. This is a short, grounded reset for leaders doing work that matters, especially when resistance, noise, and second-guessing start creeping in. You will also be guided through a grounding drop-in to help you begin your day regulated, steady, and connected to what matters most. In this episode,...
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Emotional Duality: The Leadership Skill That Expands Your Capacity
Morning Lives with Melissa Agnes
What if the strongest leaders aren't the ones who never feel fear, but the ones who can hold fear AND vision simultaneously? In this episode, Melissa explores the leadership superpower that nobody talks about: dual emotionality. As a Visionary Leader navigating change, you don't have to choose between feeling scared and holding your vision. You can do both—and that's actually your advantage. Discover: Why emotional duality is your secret weapon for staying in creation mode when others are in survival How to self-resource using the full spectrum of human emotion The neuroscience behind why...
info_outlineMike Ganino, company culture expert and author of Company Culture For Dummies, joins The Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss how you can assess and implement a strong culture that will lend to your brand’s invincibility.
Whether your organization is a start-up or has been around for decades, no matter its size, type, or industry, Mike provides insights, strategies, and clear tactics that will help you strengthen your organization’s culture in powerful ways.
About this episode
Building brand invincibility is not about having a crisis management plan that sits on a shelf collecting dust, but rather requires embedding a crisis ready culture. Amongst other things, this means implementing a culture that is in alignment with your organization’s values and fosters a work environment that is empowering and attracts and retains the best talent. This culture needs to permeate from the top down, the bottom up, and the inside out.
As this is an essential part of becoming crisis ready and building brand invincibility, it only made sense for me to sit down and chat with a leading expert who helps today’s top organizations implement and strengthen an exceptional culture. That leading expert is Mike Ganino, author of Company Culture For Dummies.
This episode explores:
- What culture is and how every single organization has one.
- How to conduct an audit of your organization’s mindset and culture in order to identify gaps worth strengthening.
- Strategies for fixing cultural issues, no matter what your position is within the organization, ie.: whether you’re the CEO, a member of middle management, part of the frontline team, etc.
- Specific elements and opportunities to look out for when assessing and implementing the right culture within your organization.
- The three pillars of a strong, healthy, and opportunistic culture that apply to every organization in any industry.
Links discussed in this episode
- Order Mike’s must-read book: Company Culture For Dummies
Connect with Mike:
- Interested in working with or learning more about Mike’s speaking and workshops? Check out his website.
- Mike is fun to follow on Instagram! Check him out here.
- Connect with Mike on LinkedIn.
- Follow Mike on Twitter.