The Virtual Campfire's Podcast

People love to put others in neat little boxes, but life isn't that simple. Tony Martignetti sits down for a conversation with military aviator, leadership development consultant, lecturer, and author Shannon Huffman Polson. One of the first women to qualify for combat duty in the Apache Attack Helicopter, Shannon talks about her military career, the lessons she learned during her service, and how she has worked to transform herself. Shannon and Tony also talk about propelling yourself forward in life, digging into the wisdom from her book The Grit Factor. Join this episode as you learn some key insights on courage, resilience, and leadership that can help you in your journey to transform yourself.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire

Chester Elton talks with Tony Martignetti on his journey to becoming the number one bestselling leadership author and organizational culture, employee engagement, and leadership expert. He shares an inspiring story about the power of imagining something in the future and taking it in even without seeing it clearly. He says that one of the things that can bring success to life is your attitude towards it and the attitude of gratitude that will create the path of great things. His incredible journey and experience have helped him provide real solutions to leaders and transform workplace culture that is vital in leading a multi-generational workforce. 

Our upbringing hugely impacts how we act and see ourselves. But as we grow, we need to start utilizing energy and become bigger than our current perspectives. Tony Martignetti talks with Demartini Method Facilitator Alexis Artin to share how she went beyond her challenging childhood full of self-doubt and insecurities. Alexis explains how aligning with her inner energies opened up her emotions, found refuge in the world of performing arts, and become an agent of change for others. She discusses why your ideologies and outlook in life must not be dictated by other people and how empowerment must be about making decisions that impact a larger purpose.

Being lucky isn't simply an occurrence but can be considered a skill, and it usually manifests when you meet opportunity with preparedness. Sharing her insight about success and luck in this episode is Ramani Varanasi, the CEO of X-Biotix Therapeutics, Inc. She gives a sneak peek at what it's like to work in the biopharma industry. She also explains the key role that persistence plays in success in this industry as she talks about the importance of defining success as a company. In this episode, learn what makes a genius and understand why she believes that we all have the power to control our destinies and why we should just make it happen.

Are you aware of the consequences of your success? In this episode, transformational coach Georgie Dickins sits down with Tony Martignetti to talk about her flashpoints and how she challenged the corporate image. Georgie shares her journey from working in the corporate world to moving into coaching and consultancy and the inflection point that motivated her to take a step back and assess her life. Georgie and Tony discuss the inevitability of burnout in the corporate world and the importance of looking at yourself in the mirror. Tune in and learn from Georgie’s experiences of taking a step back from time to time as you work your way towards success.

Parenting is challenging as it is, so how much more when you're dealing with complex kids? In this episode, Diane Dempster, the COO, and Cofounder of Impact Parents, joins Tony Martignetti to share the different turns she took in the journey of her life that eventually led her to help parents deal with a child with ADHD. As a corporate dropout, she talks about her experience of learning what she wants to be by being surrounded by people she doesn't want to become. She talks about the lengths she went through in order to find her true calling and how she became a coach. Diane also shares her take on what values are and understand why she believes that it's more than just knowing what you stand for; instead, it's about knowing why it's important. 

Everything happens in our life just as it should because they help build you into the kind of person you are today. Alice Bromage believes that everything matters, even the little things. In this episode, she joins Tony Martignetti to share those moments in her life, the flashpoints, that turned her into who she is now—a business, resilience, and leadership coach. She takes us to her incredible journey from serving in the military to then helping soldiers create financial freedom and entrepreneurs develop sustainable businesses. Putting her hard-earned effort into coaching, Alice gives some of the lessons she learned across her experiences, empowering success for more and more people and helping them thrive through adversity. 

Kristen Harcourt warms up this virtual campfire by sharing her gift to the world as she talks about what increasing self-awareness has done for her clients. She talks about a personal story of her going through bullying and how these moments started a chain of events that allowed her to help today’s leaders. Understand her insights and the vision that she has created for her clients that improves not only self-awareness but emotional intelligence and mindfulness as well. Realize, from her own experience, what the human experience is all about and why Kristen believes that you should get used to discomfort as you walk the path of reaching your full potential.

Perfectionism can be detrimental to your mind and body and can be a real impediment to your bid for success. In this episode, high-level coach and personal development expert, Sanne Marcusse, joins Tony Martignetti to share about her work in helping leaders achieve next-level success without having to sacrifice their health, relationships, and family life. Get to know Sanne’s background as she shares her journey and the years of stress she endured due to perfectionism. Sanne and Tony explore the pivotal moment when Sanne decided to take action that eventually led her to next-level success. Tune in and learn how you can make the impossible possible without killing yourself slowly in the process.

Catching and combating rare diseases, particularly those connected with genes, are huge personal battles that are truly hard to win. But how much more difficult is it for the people watching from the sidelines? Tony Martignetti sits down with Effie Parks, who shares her own struggle as a mom who fought hard for her child diagnosed with the rare CTNNB1 syndrome – an experience that taught her how to persevere amid the many medical hardships. She talks about how her pursuit for support and inspiration from other people gave birth to the Once Upon a Gene show, which evolved into advocacy of her own. Besides hearing her inspiring story of not giving up, join Effie as she looks on her podcasting career that serves as the stage for connecting people and finding support from one another.