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Episode 88: Preserving Stories of Survivors of the Holocaust, with Joanie Holzer Schirm

Release Date: 03/11/2020

Episode 99: Recognizing Patterns and Adapting to Crisis, with Dr. Sharon Spano

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Sharon Spano, Ph.D. helps thriving family business owners overcome challenges when life and business collide. As a business strategist, author, and Professional Integral Coach, she leads her clients through specific research-based practices that empower them to realign their business strategy with a life of meaning, accelerated performance, and increased profitability.

Episode 98: Developing a Healthier Relationship with Money, with Michelle Arpin Begina

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Michelle’s earliest memories from childhood all relate to money. And yet, the stories and lessons learned from different branches of her family tree couldn’t be more dichotomous!

Episode 97: Overcoming the Relationship Strains of Shelter-In-Place, with Ken Blackman

The Other Side Of Potential

Ken Blackman is a connection and intimacy expert who has coached couples from San Francisco to Paris to Sydney and trained thousands of students in his workshops on intimacy and relationships. His work has garnered mentions everywhere from Cosmopolitan to Business Insider to Playboy to Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour series. With nearly two decades of experience, Ken’s powerful, unapologetic break from conventional advice is shifting the global conversation around sex, love, and committed coupledom.

Episode 96: Stronger Relationships During Social Distancing, with Randy Parks

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Randy Parks is the founder, owner, and CEO of Parks Motor Group, a family of car dealerships with locations throughout Central Florida. Randy obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami School of Business and received his MBA in business management from Rollins College, before going on to purchase his first auto dealership, Longwood Lincoln Mercury, in 1979. Randy then began the hard work of growing his business, and now Parks Motor Group encompasses eleven dealerships within the region.

Episode 95: Managing Your Life and Health in Times of Stress, with Dr. Sangeeta Pati

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Sangeeta Pati graduated at the top of her medical class at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine, Baltimore, and completed her residency at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. She has worked extensively internationally as Medical Director for a 350-employee non-profit organization, Engenderhealth, on maternal mortality reduction programs funded by the Gates Foundation.

Episode 94: Crisis Communications for Small Businesses, with Bill Coletti

The Other Side Of Potential

Bill Coletti is a reputation management, crisis communications and professional development expert, keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panelist, and best-selling author of Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for both Fortune 500 companies and winning global political campaigns.

Episode 93: Finding Inner Calm and Moving Forward, with Tricia Brouk and Rob Dube

The Other Side Of Potential

During the challenging times of today’s business reality, it can be difficult to find the calmness and clarity you need to lead. On this episode of the Other Side of Potential podcast, encore guests Tricia Brouk and Rob Dube explain why necessity truly is the mother of invention, and Rob Dube offers his thoughts on using meditation practice to help you find calm in the chaos.

Episode 92: Preparing Your Family-Owned Business to Survive the Crisis, with Craig Cody

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Craig Cody is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Tax Coach, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years of experience on the Force. As a Certified Tax Coach, Craig belongs to a select group of tax practitioners throughout the country who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain certified.

Episode 91: Intergenerational Wealth and Transition Planning, with Thomasina Williams

The Other Side Of Potential

Thomasina H. Williams serves as a Strategic Thought Partner, Consultant, and Coach to Enterprising Families. She works with clients to advance generational success as their family legacy, by being as intentional in developing their family’s human capital as they are in growing their financial capital.

Episode 90: Survival Decoded for the Family Owned Business: How to Move Beyond Survival to Thriving in a Crisis, with Dr. Sharon Spano

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Before becoming an award-winning author, Joanie Holzer Schirm worked thirty-five years in the business of engineering, including seventeen at the helm of her own Orlando, Florida firm. Joanie won international attention for her volunteer leadership role in bringing FIFAs World Cup Soccer 1994 to Orlando. The five matches played in Orlando had an estimated global TV cumulative audience of over 2.5 billion and an economic impact of over $200 million. Under her leadership as Chairman of the Host Committee, the Atlanta Constitution proclaimed Orlando the best venue in the best World Cup ever.

Exemplifying her passionate approach to all aspects of her life, Joanie’s engineering business, Geotechnical and Environmental Consultants, earned the designation Orlando’s Best Small Engineering Firm three times in ten years. As a community activist, Joanie served for four years as the City of Orlando Advisory Board for the Governor’s Council for Sustainable Florida, Chairman of the Orange County Industrial Development Authority, founding President of the Orlando Area Sports Commission, and Chaired for Mayor Buddy Dyer the Interstate 4 Design Review Committee.

Now a writer, archivist, and sought-after speaker, Joanie applies her passion to storytelling in her companion books, Adventurers Against Their Will and My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation. Her first book won the Global eBook Award for Best Biography and gained a testimonial from former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Her nonfiction books are based on the discovery of 400 WWII letters by seventy-eight writers corresponding with her Czech Jewish father, Oswald Valdik Holzer, as he traveled through five continents after escaping in 1939 from his Nazi-occupied homeland. Joanie’s discovery of the Holzer collection allowed her to detail her father’s journey, an inspiring story of love, despair, and triumph with echoes from today’s world.

What you will learn in this episode:

Why Joanie decided to share her remarkable family history and her Holocaust survivor father’s stories from the time of World War II
Joanie shares the profound story of her father sharing his experiences and the seven hours of audio interviews she has of him discussing the Holocaust
How Joanie’s father relocated to the United States, attained his citizenship, and worked as a practicing doctor
How Joanie collected a large number of family documents and letters that detailed her mother and father’s courtship, marriage, and life together
What overarching message Joanie wants readers of her books Adventures Against Their Will and My Dear Boy to take away
How Joanie believes her father managed to keep going in spite of the deep sorrow and pain he experienced
How Joanie connects her spirituality to her mother’s faith and father’s Jewish cultural and religious heritage
How Joanie’s efforts to preserve her father’s story have now been turned into a remarkable stage play
What emotional impact Joanie’s decision to donate her father’s letters for preservation and exhibition has had on her

Resources:

Website: www.joanieschirm.com
My Dear Boy by Joanie Holzer Schirm: https://amzn.to/2SY5k9N
Adventures Against Their Will by Joanie Holzer Schirm: https://amzn.to/2wFvbKW
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joanie-schirm-33800611/

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