136: How to Build the Tenacity to Lead as an Innovative Organization with Debbie Dekleva
Release Date: 04/14/2020
159: Another Look at the Psychology Behind Changing Your Mind
Voice of Influence
We’ve talked this month about the fact that change challenges us. As part of this theme, I had a conversation with Dr. Espen Klausen last week about the psychology behind how people change. In that conversation, Dr. Klausen described some of the differences between assimilation, which he says is bringing new ideas into old schemas, and accommodation, which he says involves significant paradigm shifts. This week, Roseanne Moore is on the show to help me dive deeper into the concepts of assimilation and accommodation and how they can help us embrace change. In this episode, we discuss some...
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158: The Psychology Behind Changing Your Mind with Espen Klausen, Ph.D
Voice of Influence
Espen Klausen, Ph.D., is back on the show! In case you’re not familiar with this frequent guest, Espen is a licensed psychologist and speaker based in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His work in public community mental health includes individuals, couples, and family therapy with clients of all ages and he conducts psychological assessments. He is the lead psychologist for several County programs. He consults for Social Services. As a speaker, he runs seminars on a wide range of subjects for professionals groups, company wellness programs, ministries, County departments, and community groups. In...
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157: Why Don't People Trust Experts?
Voice of Influence
With all of the global crises that have happened this year, people are stressed and we’re finding ourselves in the middle of a great divide when it comes to our perspectives on many important topics and it’s certainly having an impact on how we’re able to be a voice of influence. In this episode, Rosanne and I discuss the growing lack of respect and trust for expertise and how you can get people to buy into your ideas in spite of that, the parallels between parenting and getting buy-in on your ideas from those around you, the importance of understanding that some people react based on...
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156: Greatest Hits: Episode 100 - The Elements of a Voice of Influence®
Voice of Influence
In this special episode, we're taking a look back at episode 100 of the Voice of Influence® podcast! Our team is thrilled with where we've been and we're excited for where we're going with the show in the years to come! In today's show, I share the ways the podcast has shifted and what has remained the same since the beginning. Then I discuss one of our biggest ah-ha's from interviewing guests, the six elements of a Voice of Influence, so you can utilize the framework for yourself.
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155: The Value of Bringing Your Diverse Experience and Talents to Work with Colin Crowley
Voice of Influence
Earlier this year, I had a great conversation with Colin Crowley and I’m excited to have him back on the show today to talk about the value of bringing your diverse experience and talents into your work. Colin is the VP of Customer Experience at Freshly, where he directs a two-hundred-person department across five locations in the United States and beyond. He specializes in building customer service departments from the ground up with a focus on scalability, infrastructure agility, technological innovation, and gold-standard quality and efficiency. Something you wouldn’t know from...
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154: How to Handle Rejection as You Get Back to Work with Kyle Gillette
Voice of Influence
Kyle Gillette is an ACC certified coach, behavioral profiler, and author. He’s been coaching for over 15 years, turning professional in just the last couple of years. He focuses on helping his clients become more self-aware and unlocking the talent within. He is the creator of the SAGE Mindset Podcast and The SAGE Mindset course. In this conversation, Kyle shares about the value of assessments and how you can come to such self-awareness through those assessments, how we can create processes to get small wins that would really help with challenging circumstances; especially...
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153: Key Differences Between Healthy and Unhealthy Influence
Voice of Influence
Today we're extracting the key takeaways from the series we've done this summer about power dynamics and the abuse of power. We started this series because we recognized how important it was to directly address the unhealthy imbalance of power and unhealthy use of power. The first step is to be able to clearly recognize the abuse of power and then to stand up in the face of the abuse of power. In this episode, we're covering why all of this matters, how to know when we should step in, how to step in without causing additional pain, and so much more.
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152: Be a Voice for Wholeness and Human Flourishing with Jason Kanz, Ph.D
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Jason Kanz, Ph.D is a Neuropsychologist at the Marshfield Clinic in Eau Claire, Wisconsin where he lives with his wife and three children. Jason is the author of Soil of the Divine and Notes from the Upper Room: Lessons in Loving Like Jesus, as well as the editor of Living in the Larger Story: The Christian Psychology of Larry Crabb. Jason talks and writes about the concepts of wholeness, integration, and reconciliation through the lens of neuroscience, spirituality, and creativity. For many of us, there's always some sort of tension in our lives, whether in a relationship, in our own...
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151: Institutional Health and Leadership In Difficult Times with Dr. Neal Schnoor
Voice of Influence
Dr. Neal Schnoor is Chief of Staff to the President at California State University, Long Beach where he operates in various functions in support of meeting the mission of the University. Dr. Schnoor was also my Professor when I attended the University of Nebraska at Kearney and he taught me as a Music Education Major and in a leadership class. I still remember being in that class and being struck by his conviction about leadership and really calling us to be great leaders so when I started the Voice of Influence podcast, I really wanted to bring him on to share his voice. That was about three...
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150: When Narcissism Comes to Your Organization with Dr. Chuck DeGroat
Voice of Influence
Dr. Chuck DeGroat is Professor of Counseling and Christian Spirituality at Western Theological Seminary Holland MI, and Co-Founder and a Senior Fellow at Newbigin House of Studies, San Francisco. He is a licensed therapist, author, retreat leader, and spiritual director. Chuck has been married to Sara for 25 years and has two daughters. Chuck is also the author of the new book, When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse. Today we're tackling the subject of narcissism, the systems that allow it, and how to deal with it. This conversation is...
info_outlineDebbie Dekleva is a recent recipient of the Innovator of the Year award from the Nebraska Business Development Council and the Wild Idea Cultivator at Monarch Flyway; a company that makes products out of milkweed. She also founded Sustainable Monarch in which she heads up Monarch Flyway’s habitat conservation and non-profit efforts.
In this episode, Debbie and I discuss how Monarch Flyway got started using milkweed of all things, how I’ve used milkweed balm to help sooth my own children’s pain over the years, how feedback from a cancer patient helped them create their milkweed balm, why they started Sustainable Monarch, how being part of my Voice of Influence Academy “turned on some light bulbs” for her and helped her develop her own voice of influences, how she has handled the many setbacks in her business over the years, and more.