The Intentional Encourager Podcast

Episode 83 with The People Gardener and Host of The Leadership Simplified Podcast Rhonda Delaney

The People Gardener and Host of The Leadership Simplified Podcast Rhonda Delaney joins this episode to talk about: 

• Adopting and practicing adaptability, being grounded and being still.
• Having philosophies rooted and grounded in nature and not listening to the noise.
• The dehumanization of the workplace.
• The thread of love, care and honesty her podcast guests have shared.
• Realizing she hadn't scratched the surface on Leadership and doing better to work on subjects to be more aware.
• Being a leader since Kindergarten and always loving people. 
• Spending 9 1/2 months on crutches after a car accident, losing her Athletic career and realizing 10 years later, she'd never fully grieved. 
• Dealing with her daughter's Asthma and subsequent Oxycontin addiction.
• Learning to be at peace in the midst of chaos and having gratitude for life as it is.

Connect with Rhonda on LinkedIn; www.rhondadelaney.com

Check out The Leadership Simplified Podcast

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

 

Episode 82 with Business Coach and Life Enhancer Jesse Brisendine

Business Coach and Life Enhancer Jesse Brisendine joins this episode to talk about:

• Making a sure bet on yourself in Social engagement.
• Compensating for the lifetime of underpreparedness and preparing now to overcome it.
• The intuitive feeling developed with repetitive preparation.
• Playing poker, strategy games or altering routine to develop intuition. 
• Living in alignment with Core values, when in the past, it hadn't been a priority. 
• Producing the product people expect and avoid becoming something you're not. 
• The critical need for Values clarity and creating a success framework.
• The importance of Mission alignment and being in the moment.

Connect with Jesse on LinkedIn; jesse@jessebrisendine.com or @jessebris on Twitter

Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VpVc56hR0tg

Episode 81 with Wellness Warrior Caren Cooper

Wellness Warrior Caren Cooper joins this episode to talk about:

• The definition of a "Wellness Warrior" and being sick and tired of being sick and tired. 
• Quitting smoking and not feeling as good as she wanted to feel. 
• Being on the go with her children's sports and not eating like she wanted to. 
• Always being a "People Therapist," and having a mind-shift change.
• Learning she had a choice and taking inventory of herself.
• Working with people that are skeptical they can change.
• Losing her father and needing an outlet to fill that void. 
• Doing things she thought she would never do and feeling incredible doing them.
• Her Corporate job ending as COVID-19 began.
• Dealing with Secondary infertility before getting pregnant with her son.
• Being proven wrong by her Mother. 

Connect with Caren at www.carencooper.isagenix.com or on LinkedIn and Facebook

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MxFMTzw7HfQ

 

Episode 80 with Global Entrepreneurs and Business Coaches Tam and Tanya Pluckrose

Global Entrepreneurs, Business Coaches and Twin sisters Tam and Tanya Pluckrose join this episode to talk about:

• The differences in handling COVID-19 in Australia where Tam lives and in Los Angeles where Tanya lived until moving to Las Vegas.
• People returning to Australia from being outside the country and Domestic travel resuming.
• Tam believing Australia exploding with travel after the pandemic ends. 
• Tanya going home to Australia in 2019 after being away 5 years and coming to the United States to fulfill a calling.
• Tanya believing America is the greatest country to support the desires of people to make greater impact.
• Growing up in South Africa and moving to Hong Kong at 10 years old.
• Always having a playmate and being each other's best friend.
• Being grateful to end up moving to Australia and becoming the people they are.
• Seeing Social injustice in South Africa and being impacted for a lifetime. 
• The challenges Tanya faced on her moving trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
• God giving people opportunities to grow. 
• Finding the real you. 

Connect with Tam and Tanya Pluckrose on LinkedIn tam@multilayered.world

tanyapluckrose.com

 

Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-ZUU9YEmyMM

Episode 79 with Medical Practice Manager and Broadway Mom Steffanie Peterson

Medical Practice Manager and Broadway Mom Steffanie Peterson joins this episode to talk about:

• Brian's relationship with her brother. 
• Being a transplanted West Virginian living in New York City and the city being "apocalyptic."
• Friends who couldn't survive living in NYC, having to move and waiting for hours for groceries.
• Her and her daughter, Hannah Jane, getting sick with COVID-19 for 15 days.
• Not having the energy to put on her weighted blanket. 
• Broadway performers losing everything and it's affect on their community. 
• Keeping the Broadway performers and the audience safe.
• Being a Single mom and discovering her daughter's singing talent when her daughter was young. 
• Finding a Talent agent for her daughter and pressing forward with her career.
• Moving to New York City with her daughter in 2014 in a whirlwind time frame. 
• Missing the audition for the High school her daughter wanted and ending up being able to audition late and getting into the school.
• Her daughter gobbling up every opportunity to sing.
• Not being afraid to fail. 

Connect with Steffanie on Facebook or hannahjane.nyc or get her book, Hot Mess Express and Hannah Jane's music on Amazon.  

Watch this podcast on our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/bEJfNOV8lxQ

Episode 78 with Cybersecurity Expert, Speaker and Trainer Dana Mantilla

Cybersecurity Expert, Speaker and Trainer Dana Mantilla joins this episode to talk about:

• Being home more often in 2020, keeping her family busy and realizing they don't need as much as they thought. 
• Cybersecurity being much worse now that many are working from home. 
• Setting limitations on the amount of time online.
• Scammers playing on emotions or urgency. 
• Using a Credit card instead of a Debit card when making Online purchases.
• Opening an Insurance agency in 2014, looking for a Cybersecurity product to sell and developing it.
• Explaining Identity theft using her daughter's American Girl dolls.
• Working and running her family's Ford dealership and being a Serial entrepreneur. 
• Creating a Consignment shop during the 2008 Recession to help others afford "new" things.
• The dynamics of a family business and the advice she'd give her daughters.
• Running a business through a Recession and the personal toll it took on her.
• Always getting back up.

Connect with Dana on LinkedIn, Facebook, her YouTube channel or her website www.identityprotectionplanning.com

Episode 77 with HR Tech Educator, Speaker, Podcast Host and Content creator Frank Mengert

HR Tech Educator, Speaker, Podcast Host and Content creator Frank "Frankie Baby" Mengert joins the last episode of 2020 to talk about:

• Growing his platform by creating "Frankie Baby" content 2 years ago.
• Jumping on a Zoom call with another influencer who he influenced with his content.
• The versions of himself changing over time. 
• Being around other people doesn't mean he doesn't need to be with them in person. 
• Meeting with Gary Vaynerchuck, who encouraged him to create content on LinkedIn.
• Making mistakes in creating content and getting better at it.
• Growing up in South Florida, being a part of a hard-working family and community and not having much.
• Moving to Connecticut after his parents' divorce. 
• Feeling like he was an outcast and putting him on a path to find himself.
• Buying a Mountain bike and getting a job washing cars at a dealership.
• Saving up money to buy a car, got a better job and going to college.
• Working at a papermill and getting let go from the Plant Manager as a favor to him.
• Turning a Side hustle into a company.
• The effects of 9/11 on him. 
• Opening a company in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
• Being relatable and being resilient to connect with others having gone through similar Life circumstances.

Connect with Frank on Facebook and LinkedIn or www.getebm.com

Episode 76 with Marketer, Business Coach and Host of the Take Back Mondays Podcast Krista Mollion

Marketer, Business Coach and Host of the Take Back Mondays Podcast Krista Mollion joins a unique episode (with a Special guest) to talk about:

• Visiting her father in France and ending up having to stay through COVID-19 due to lockdowns.
• The American COVID perspective from overseas and not knowing where to get accurate information.
• Reducing how much news to consume.
• No fear in France, being well informed and the biggest difference between the United States and France. 
• The one thing she will take back to the U.S.
• Her business growing in the midst of obstacles. 
• Being the child of a French father and American mother and moved to multiple countries as a child.
• Attending college in Germany and marrying a Russian. 
• Spending 20 years in Silicon Valley, including several huge companies and burning out in 2017. 
• Letting other people be a master over our lives and taking back control.
• Not working for people that make you miserable and how to vet out those people. 
• A challenging childhood and learning how to read people. 
• Learning to value love and understanding how to survive under adversity.
• Finding value in yourself. 

Connect with Krista on LinkedIn or www.kristamollion.com

Episode 75 with Integrator, Innovator and Change Leader Aaron Kuchirka

Integrator, Innovator, Change Leader and RV Enthusiast Aaron Kuchirka stops by this episode and talks about:

• Buying a church in Fruitvale BC Canada and using it to serve their community. 
• Traveling across Canada for 6 weeks and working from his RV. 
• Getting fired from his position for a difference in values between him and his company.
• Moving from their home in Saskatchewan to British Columbia and really finding opportunity. 
• The impact of not having the Canadian Football League on Canadians and families that can't participate with their kids in hockey. 
• The hardest point of his life dealing with anxiety over accepting a job.
• Trying a myriad of things before deciding he wanted to be in Business and Leadership.
• Meeting his wife online and being attracted to her authenticity. 
• Getting a job in a sawmill at 12 and his friends running Combine tractors.
• Living without a lot of money growing up but understanding that they were rich beyond measure.
• His Dad working away from home for months at a time to help support his family. 

Connect with Aaron on Facebook at Bought A Church or LinkedIn or email: akuchirka@yahoo.com

Episode 74 with Minister and Former Area Director of Fellowship of Christian Athletes Andy Conner

A special episode with a childhood friend, Minister and Former Area Director of Fellowship of Christian Athletes Andy Conner, who talks about:

• Playing against each other in Little League in South Point, OH.
• Having a father that invested time in him as a young man growing up playing baseball. 
• Reconnecting with each other many years later at an FCA event.
• Being extremely cautious through COVID with his underlying health issues.
• Having a radical Heart surgery at 19 months old. 
• Facing another Heart surgery at 12 to correct an arising issue. 
• Having an event at 21 during a Softball game that led to a pacemaker being implanted in him. 
• Amazing his Cardiologist by being extremely active and healthy despite early issues and going through a divorce.
• Overextending himself through officiating too many basketball games in 2015-16 and causing more issues. 
• Going to Duke University and being unable to have a Heart transplant due to the high probability of rejection.
• Being told by a Cardiologist at Duke to get his house in order and prepare for the end.
• Wearing an external appliance that pumps his heart. 

Connect with Andy on Facebook or email at aconner.72@outlook.com