The Virtual Campfire's Podcast

Our life’s journey is full of flashpoints and tough decisions. These can change your life for better – or worse. Join Tony Martignetti in this wonderful conversation with David Russell about his life journey and how he learned to make the tough decisions in life. David is an author, inspirational speaker, and the host of the popular Manage 2 Win Podcast. He shares his insights on learning from your failures and building relationships using honest conversations. David and Tony also talk about lessons learned in their journeys and how they can be applied to today’s world.

That taking a leaders’ role can be difficult is an understatement. You need to be ready for the tough challenges that lie ahead because being a leader is not just about status and power but also compassion and accountability. Anyone can become a leader but some are just born leaders, destined to take the lead right off the bat. One such person is Tony Martignetti’s guest, Dr. Gary McGrath, the founder and CEO of Statarius. In this conversation, Gary gets into detail about his life from training in the military to getting a degree in mechanical engineering and onto becoming the leadership guru that he is now. With each of these flashpoints that cultivated the natural-born leader in him, you will get a ton of valuable life and career lessons that you can apply in your own leadership journey. Don’t miss them!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire

Most of us look at conflict as a negative concept. But what if conflict could be managed and turned into a positive force by tempering it with compassion and accountability? Tony Martignetti is joined by psychologist and business coach Nate Regier as they talk about Nate’s journey in understanding conflict. Nate shares his memories as the child of Christian missionaries and how these experiences taught him compassion. He talks about his work in the clinical and business field and how he learned to temper conflict with compassion and accountability.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire

Quitting might often seem like giving up, like surrendering, but sometimes, it is the best thing you can do. Whether it’s leaving your job to chase a dream, leaving an abusive relationship or quitting to go after something better, quitting is not always a bad thing. Tony Martignetti sits down for a conversation with author, keynote speaker and design strategist and researcher Coonoor Behal as she navigates her time as a student and her stint in international nonprofit organizations. She shares her thoughts on quitting and why you shouldn’t always see it as a negative. Finally, she discusses human-centered innovation and improving yourself.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire

Confidence is key and it starts in the brain. When you don’t enjoy your job but you have to stay because you have a steady paycheck, you have mouths to feed, or you made long lasting friends and business relationships, all of these things are too important to give up in order to do what you really enjoy. You need to have the confidence to take that leap into the unknown. For that to happen, you need to listen to your brain. Go deeper into the discussion of building confidence with brain science with your host, Tony Martignetti and his guest Alyssa Dver. Alyssa is the CEO of the American Confidence Institute. She is also the Chair and Founder of the ERG Leadership Alliance and is also the bestselling author of Confidence is a Choice: Real Science. Superhero Impact. Come and explore the power of brain science and how it can affect your confidence.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire

Never stick to just one thing. Life can be crazy sometimes, jobs will come and go along the way just like the many career paths of Dorie Clark. Dorie was named to the by Thinkers50. She is a writer for Harvard Business Review, FastCompany, and Business Insider. She is also the author of the book, Stand Out which Inc. Magazine declared the #1 Leadership Book of 2015. Join your host, Tony Martignetti as he talks to Dorie Clark on how she started her career as a journalist, then how she tackled freelancing, political campaigns, and becoming an entrepreneur. Listen to Dorie’s story of how she discovered her path to success and how you can too.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire

Sometimes, it takes one traumatic moment to really change your life for the better. These are the things that can really open your eyes to your future. That's exactly what happened to Michael O'Brien. Michael is the Executive Business Coach of Peloton Executive Coaching and serves on the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association global board. He is also a speaker, a cyclist, and the author of the book Shift: Creating Better Tomorrows; Winning at Work and in Life. In this episode, Tony Martignetti talks with Michael about how you can prevent those bad moments from turning into bad days. Pause, breathe, and reflect through several of Michael's life-changing flashpoints and understand how he became the person he is today.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire

We live in an ever-changing world. In just a blink of an eye, your whole life can take a turn for better or for worse. Take the last few years for example. Not one of us expected the pandemic to come in and ruin so many businesses. During this time, companies were forced to pivot in order to continue making a profit, or even just to survive. This is why adaptability is so important because no one can predict what will happen next. Join Tony Martignetti and his guest, Mike Raven, co-founder of Leaps Innovation and AQai, as they further unpack this highly relevant topic. Learn why adaptability is so important and why we need it right now more than ever.

It takes good connections and a strong relationship in order to grow a business. It’s a business leader’s main job to create, form, and sustain healthy relationships because at the end of the day an organization is just a group of people in a relationship. They’re in a relationship with each other, they’re in a relationship with the customer, and they’re in a relationship with themselves. Join Tony Martignetti and his guest, Blaine Bartlett as they give meat to the bones of this timely and relevant topic, as well as the other basic tenets of compassionate capitalism, which he discusses at length in his eponymous book. Blaine is an author, entrepreneur, leadership coach, and the President and CEO of Avatar Resources Inc. Connect with Blaine as he tells you the importance of having a strong imagination, creating strong relationships in the workplace, and using business as a vehicle for service and making a positive impact on the world.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire

Letting go of everything in order to start a business can be a scary leap most people aren’t going to take. But letting go of that business that you’ve just created to do something else can be twice as scary. These are two of the biggest decisions Bill Harris has had to make in his journey. Joining Tony Martignetti on the show, this architect walks us through the several flashpoints in his career: from discovering his love for architecture, to starting his own architectural firm, to being introduced to the power of biotechnology, and to being recruited into one of the world’s leading architectural design firms, Perkins & Will. Each big shift in Bill’s journey allowed him to unlock more innovation and possibilities. Get inspired by Bill’s story and learn how to find your niche – one that you would gladly give everything up to pursue!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire