The Intentional Encourager Podcast

Episode 123 with Entrepreneur, Author and Host of the Winning at Business and Life Podcast Professor Pete Alexander

Entrepreneur, Author and Host of the Winning at Business and Life Podcast Professor Pete Alexander joins this episode to talk about: 

• The internalization that professional coaches have. 
• The greatest trait of Leadership.
• Defining a person's top Personal values.
• The LIGHTEN Stress Management model and where stress happens most. 
• How one's formative years affect their adult years. 
• The place where real change happens. 
• Missing out on being a kid,
• Stress raising its ugly head in his Mid-40's due to his parents' health issues and his own business and family issues.
• How clarity goes by the wayside when one is over stressed.
• Being one hour from coma due to extreme dehydration.
• Trading health for anything is a bad trade. 

Connect with Professor Pete on Linkedin or www.petealexander.com

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rR0DeI4ag1s

Episode 122 with Product Marketing Expert and Host of Discover Your Own Self (DYOS) Reggie Waterman

Product Marketing Expert and Host of Discover Your Own Self (DYOS) Reggie Waterman joins this episode to talk about:

• The power of connection and Linkedin magic. 
• What truly happens after a post. 
• The thing that slows down most First-time authors.
• The last opportunity to make an impression.
• The hesitation of posting content.
• Avoiding being POOR.
• Investing the time to find your Superpowers.
• The correlation of a Personal brand and a Conventional brand.
• Filtering out dreams from realities.
• Being scared to fail and be themselves.
• Being the odd person out in his school as the only Black person.
• Observing the dynamics of people.
• Fathering a son at 21 and shaping his mindset to support him.
• Life coming at him in 2's.
• The first time being a job and navigating through it.
• Discovering hidden talents and developing products.
• Embrace the imperfections.

Connect with Reggie on Linkedin and waterman.reggie@gmail.com

Watch this Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nLAYARiafzc

Episode 121 with Former Apple CFO and Transformational Coach Rusty Gaillard

Former Apple CFO and Transformational Coach Rusty Gaillard joins this episode to talk about: 

• The scariest thing about ambitious people.
• The 3 ways to the path of success. 
• More to life than a "Nose to the Grindstone" mentality and getting stuck in the grindstone.
• The expectation and badge of honor of working long hours. 
• The notion of an internal operating system and finding the right time and place to upgrade it.
• Your inner technology.
• The difference between a huge step up and a huge step down. 
• In new situations, our brains check straight to the risks.
• Growing up where everything looked good on the outside but sucked on the inside.
• Building a support network after his divorce.
• Thinking he was a person who never got angry.
• The moment he felt whole and having nothing left he hadn't told anyone.
• Moving to Apple in 2005 and the wisdom of Steve Jobs.
• Being a part of the launch of the iPhone.
• Achieving more than you think you can.

Connect with Rusty on Linkedin or at www.svdreambuilders.com

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZBUKYTpsGjY

Episode 120 with Growth Mindset Coach Simon Parsons

Growth Mindset Coach Simon Parsons joins this episodes to talk about:

• The difference between thrive and survive.
• Abundance versus Scarcity mindset. 
• The definition of fear and the % of fear that manifest.
• The definition of #fullsend.
• Where the damage occurs in taking risks.
• The perfect example of Tribalism and caring about what others think. 
• What you get when you're authentic.
• Finding the childlike version of yourself.
• Walking to school in High School and wondering what life would be like.
• Finding out people are all the same.
• Having a path of ups and downs and getting dialed into the right mindset.
• Being $100K in debt and turning around in less than a year.
• Not accepting going bankrupt and creating a business that erased the debt.
• The #1 regret of the dying.

Connect with Simon on LInkedin and Instagram @simonparsons76 or www.simonparsons.com

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bevGUfuU8jg

Episose 119 with Australian Leadership Coach and Founder of Leadership by Design Pushpa Vaghela

Australian Leadership Coach and Founder of Leadership by Design Pushpa Vaghela joins this episode to talk about:

• The profound events of the last year. 
• Seeing anxiety, fear and depression around her and offering help. 
• Building relationships through trying circumstances.
• Coming from a place of empathy and understanding.
• Working with the Tony Robbins organization.
• Her mother teaching her leadership from an early age. 
• The five decisions involved in her business.
• Looking after her family as a child after her Mom died and her father's depression from it.
• Having to leave school to work and finding the love of her life.
• Finding her business mind through a trying time in their own business.
• Learning saving her after losing her husband.
• Knowing she's here for a purpose.
• Your intent is your biggest encouragement.

Connect with Pushpa on Linkedin or at info@leadershipbydesign.com.au

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bxkNcKaNvI4

Episode 118 with Linkedin Connection Expert and Founder of Leverage Up LLC Deanna Russo

Linkedin Connection Expert and Founder of Leverage Up LLC Deanna Russo joins this episode to talk about:

• How connection really works. 
• Getting to know people offline as well as online. 
• The intimidation factor. 
• A false expectation of who people really are.
• The two ways ways to decide to connect. 
• The power of leveraging up.
• Realizing Linkedin was more about connection and engagement.
• Times you have to disconnect.
• Knowing your ideal connections.
• The events of March 6, 1998 and the words her sister said to her in their last conversation.
• Her sister killed instantly in a car accident with a drunk driver.
• The drunk driver stopped by the police five hours previous.
• Speaking out against drunk driving and helping people who've walked similar roads.
• Her parents being the strongest people she's ever known.
• What the world missed by her sister not being in it.
• Ignoring people who tell you to "get over it."

Connect with Deanna on Linkedin and at www.leverageupllc.com

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a70-cea8Aa4

Episode 117 with Personal and Leadership Development Coaches Sherri McManus and Lou Everett

Personal and Leadership Development Coaches Sherri McManus and Lou Everett join this episode to discuss:

• Being born for this moment in time. 
• Leaning in to coaching.
• Giving value to others and finding more ways to give. 
• Proactively reaching out to their coaches and mentors. 
• Aligning yourself with the right people. 
• Feeling it to be sinful not to share information.
• Leading out of confusion and into clarity.
• The power of impact on change and being intentional about it. 
• Starting their company in 2018 and leaving Corporate America. 
• The life event of August 13, 2018 that changed their trajectory.
• The rare disease that caused Sherri to burn from the inside out.
• Finding the root cause of Sherri's illness and the newfound purpose that emerged from it. 
• There's no such thing as a straight line to the top.

Connect with Sherri and Lou on Linkedin or go to www.loueverettgroup.com

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JU4jq7Uxa8Q

Episode 116 with Speaker, Coach, Best-Selling Author and Podcast Host Matt Crump

Speaker, Coach, Best-Selling Author and Podcast Host Matt Crump joins this episode to talk about: 

• Seeing doubt and fear most often in his community. 
• The selflessness of service. 
• Volunteer versus Servanteer. 
• The thing missing most in Leadership.
• His battle with cancer and the impetus for writing his book.
• Overcoming a bleeding brain tumor and having 24-48 hours to live.
• God putting him at the right place at the right time. 
• Growing his beard due to losing his hair and a symbol of his cancer fight.
• A nurse at Duke University Medical Center praying with him and became a daughter to him.
• Ministering to her family and the bracelet she wore when killed in a car accident.
• One of the toughest questions we ask in the midst of sorrow. 
• Joining the Army out of High School and getting on the path to being a drug and alcohol addict. 
• Being on Guard duty with a Christian and former drug abuser.
• Seeing a sky in the desert. 
• Having an insatiable appetite for the Bible after giving his life to Jesus.
• The power of the sparrow.

Connect with Matt on Facebook and Linkedin and watch his Hope Revealed broadcast.

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xPbq4D8VKLQ

Episode 115 with Author, Minister and Host of the Delivering Dunamis Podcast Matthew Deibler

Author, Minister and Host of the Delivering Dunamis Podcast Matthew Deibler joins this episode to talk about:

• Creating more clarity and truly understanding priorities.
• The great revival coming from the pandemic.
• Spending lots of time outside.
• Beginning each day at prayer and exercise.
• The transition from darkness to light and the encounters with Satan that led him to write his book.
• Beginning to blog in 2011 and sharing his Mental health issues.
• Stepping forward in faith and not having to figure it all out.
• Adapting behaviors as a child to accommodate OCD thoughts and hide them externally. 
• Using football to escape in High School and dreaming of playing at the Division 1 level.
• Getting overwhelmed in Junior College, quitting football and feeling his let his father down. 
• Experimenting with drugs that leading to one of the worst nights of his life.
• Betting on a Women's soccer game, losing his temper at the results and smashing his TV.
• A man intervening in his life and repeating something he said in his apartment. 
• Asking God to forgive him and turning his life around.
• Inching his way out of captivity.

Connect with Matthew on Linkedin and Facebook; www.lamponthestand.com and Lamp on the Stand Ministry on Facebook

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ReRHi6z9InE  

Episode 114 Social Media Marketing, Linkedin Content Expert and Founder of Impaxs Alex B. Sheridan

Social Media Marketing, Linkedin Content Expert and Founder of Impaxs Alex B. Sheridan joins this episode to talk about:

• Never coming back to where he was in a day's time. 
• Starting his business in a pandemic.
• The opposite of playing it safe. 
• Come out swinging when your back's against the wall. 
• Not fast-tracking around truly connecting with people. 
• Being a human being on Social media.
• Getting ego out of the way in interactions.
• Meeting emotion with emotion and logic with logic.
• Going to 3 different High schools and getting in trouble with the law.
• Being a creative teenager but not having a great relationship with his Dad.
• Giving a speech in college that changed his life. 
• Going through a separation and ultimately a divorce.
• Not being happy in the Corporate world and hearing the same voice he heard in college. 
• Getting ultra clear of what you really want in life. 
• Finding out who you need to become. 

Connect with Alex on Linkedin or asheridan@impaxs.com

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/63LWpkAjIUw