Finding Brave

Kathy Caprino
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Apr 22, 2021 • 1h 3min

172: Healthy Masculinity and The Battle Against Man Box Culture, with Mark Greene

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “The work is our compassionate ability to connect and live rich, real lives. Men just have to make the choice to live a good life and to stop living this hierarchical caricature of being a human being.” - Mark Greene In our world today, there is a dominance-based man box culture of masculinity that is resulting in isolation, violence and early mortality for men and deep, lasting challenges for all those whose lives they impact. However, there are men and women who are breaking out of the man box culture, and helping others do the same, and today’s Finding Brave guest is one such person. Our inspiring guest offers an invitation for each one of us to look at all of the ways we have been programmed to live, and to explore how we can escape these dangerous limitations society has reinforced in us. Keynote speaker and author Mark Greene writes and consults on relational practices, diversity/inclusion and masculinity for organizations worldwide. As a co-founder of ThinkPlay Partners and as a Senior Editor for the Good Men Project, Mark has spent over a decade deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and masculinity. He is uniquely positioned to help men, individually and in organizations, create a healthier more connecting vision of masculine culture and identity. Mark’s newest book, The Little #MeToo Book for Men has been called “a blueprint for men’s liberation.” He is the founder of the Remaking Manhood community, which is dedicated to expanding the conversation about healthy masculinity. I’ve rarely spoken to someone who has such a deep conceptualization of the work that absolutely needs to be done for our world to shift in a more positive, healthy way of perceiving and understanding human beings. Not only that, but Mark has lived what he speaks about, and the insight he provides about our society today was both fascinating and enlightening to learn from. I’m grateful to Mark for the work he’s doing in the world. To learn more about today's guest, visit: http://remakingmanhood.com/ 
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Apr 15, 2021 • 38min

171: Thriving in Hollywood While Pursuing Your Passions, with Jeremy Levy

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “I think the problem is that a lot of people don’t see the grunt work and the long process to get to what it is they see as success. They just see someone’s success and haven’t been following along the whole time.” - Jeremy Levy As a singer and lifelong lover of music, I am so excited to bring you today’s Finding Brave episode. I have a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s really like to make a living in the creative arts, while bringing the world our special talents and being of service to others. Our special guest today is thriving in the world of music composing/orchestration, and he reveals the tenacity and drive that it took to get to where he is today. Grammy-nominated composer and orchestrator Jeremy Levy has worked in nearly every medium in Los Angeles for over 10 years. He recently received his first Grammy nomination for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella for his track, Uranus: The Magician off his album The Planets: Reimagined, a modern big band jazz reinterpretation of the famous classical suite by Gustav Holst. He’s also a well-known orchestrator for some of Hollywood’s biggest films and TV series, including The Queen’s Gambit, Frozen 2 and Ant-Man. Jeremy’s inspiration for The Planets: Reimagined came from Afro-Cuban rhythms, classic swing, the Buddy Rich Big Band, progressive rock fusion, acoustic guitar-driven jazz - all mixed with his love of symphony orchestra and his experience touring with Rockabilly legend, Brian Setzer. If you have a passion of any kind, you are sure to glean some valuable strategies and tips for bringing that passion forward in a lucrative way, from the personal story that Jeremy shares today. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.jlevymusic.com/ 
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Apr 8, 2021 • 41min

170: How To Become a Peak Performer and Achieve The Impossible, with Steven Kotler

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “The exact same things that will get you from seriously subpar to normal, will get you from normal to Superman. Peak performance is nothing more or less than getting our biology to work for us rather than against us.” - Steven Kotler As individuals we are all capable of so much more than we know, and everyone is hardwired for peak performance. Unfortunately our potential is often invisible, especially to ourselves, but today’s Finding Brave expert guest reveals the way peak performance can be used to literally do the impossible. Steven Kotler is a New York Times-bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. Author of ten bestsellers (out of thirteen books total), including The Art of Impossible, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. Steven’s work has been nominated for two Pulitzer prizes, translated into over 40 languages, and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, TIME and the Harvard Business Review. He is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio, a top ten iTunes science podcast. His new book is The Art of the Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer, which came out this January. Luminaries and some of our world’s most noted figures have praised Steven’s work including Elon Musk, Arianna Huffington, Bill Clinton, Sir Richard Branson and many more. Almost everyone I meet, in some way or another, wants to fulfil his or her highest potential but has very little idea how to do it. Listening to this conversation with Steven is a wonderful place to start, as his life itself is a lesson in achieving the impossible using peak performance. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.stevenkotler.com/ 
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Apr 1, 2021 • 34min

169: How To Win the Job You Want When You've Lost the Job You Need, with Fawn Germer

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “If you’ve got the highest salary in the room because you’ve been there the longest, and you’re delivering less value than a fresh graduate or a Millennial who will work for half of what you’re getting, you’ve got a problem.” - Fawn Germer Millions of accomplished professionals are killing their careers by accidentally slipping into irrelevance. They can’t figure out why they’ve sputtered out, been pushed aside or pushed out. Today’s Finding Brave guest interviewed more than 300 CEOs, senior executives, workplace experts, academics, lawyers and professionals and found out that we must immediately stage a career comeback – even if we continue to do our best work and are the best person for our job today. Best-selling author and Pulitzer nominee Fawn Germer shows how to stop blaming everything from millennials to the pace of change to age discrimination and take doable steps to get back in the game and win. This acclaimed leadership speaker asks: "What if your greatest success hasn't even happened yet?" In today’s episode, Fawn shares actionable strategies for being flexible and resilient in the face of a quickly changing work environment. She even reveals ways in which she has needed to be brave and “figure things out” in her own career, and these lessons show the importance of just starting to learn essential new skills, and having fun in the process. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://fawngermer.com/ 
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Mar 25, 2021 • 44min

168: How To Secure Positive Press Coverage That Elevates Your Work, with Maureen Carrig

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “It’s almost like reading a resume, a quick 60-second scan. I think the same thing goes for some of these pitches. You need to be relevant, you need to be specific, you need to be personal in your approach and you need to show how this person is going to bring value to a conversation.’ - Maureen Carrig If you’re looking to promote a new program or book, or if you’re a public relations professional who is looking to get the right media for your clients, taking the right approach to get that exposure is key. Today’s Finding Brave guest is a public relations expert who specializes in securing top-level press coverage that moves our business and work forward, which is why I’m so excited to be introducing her today and to having her share her wisdom and strategies with listeners. Maureen Carrig is a media relations expert and principal of Carrig Communications. She started her own firm after more than 20 years working for some of the largest companies in travel, technology, recruiting and financial services. She specializes in executive communications and national media relations, helping her clients build awareness, grow their businesses and demonstrate their subject matter expertise. In this episode, Maureen reveals how to not only make a good impression with reporters and media outlets, but the ways that we can build on that good impression to form lasting relationships, which is where true growth can come. What Maureen shares here is a reminder that it’s really not all about you, but rather the benefits that you can offer the reporter, listeners and viewers, to help them experience more success and reward in their lives and work. To learn more about today's guest, visit: http://carrigcommunications.com/ 
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Mar 18, 2021 • 35min

167: Living The Confidence Code - How Girls Can Expand Their Confidence, Power And Self-Worth Today, with Katty Kay and Claire Shipman

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “We realized, as we were sitting around thinking in the aftermath of that first book, that we really think there is something here. When we started to dig into it, we started to see some of the data and we realized there is a gap worth writing about.” - Claire Shipman “Claire and I have become confident women through the choices and the risks that we’ve taken and the hurdles we’ve overcome. We’ve kept going with things and mastered them, and that’s how you do it. The vast majority of your confidence is in your hands, and it’s what you choose to do right now.” - Katty Kay We are at a pivotal cultural moment for women’s leadership and representation—a time, for instance, when all eyes will be on the first-ever female and woman of color Vice President of the United States—and it’s clear that role models matter. Today’s Finding Brave guests are not only fantastic role models themselves for women of all ages, but they have written a new book called Living the Confidence Code: Real Girls. Real Stories. Real Confidence that highlights extraordinary girls who took risks and made a big impact. Their subjects sometimes doubted themselves, and even failed, but through it all discovered what matters most to them and found the confidence to accomplish their goals. Katty Kay and Claire Shipman (along with JillEllyn Riley), are the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code for Girls and The Confidence Code for Girls Journal. Katty and Claire, longtime friends, have been writing books together for over a decade. They’ve also co-written the New York Times bestsellers Womenomics and The Confidence Code. Katty Kay is the anchor of BBC World News America, based in Washington, D.C. She is also a frequent contributor to Meet the Press and Morning Joe, and a regular guest host for The Diane Rehm Show on NPR. In addition to her work on women’s issues, Katty has covered the Clinton administration sex scandal; four presidential elections; and the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. She was at the Pentagon just 20 minutes after a hijacked plane flew into the building on 9/11 and of her most vivid journalistic memories is of interviewing soldiers still visibly shaking from the attack. Claire Shipman is a journalist, author, and public speaker. Before turning to writing, Claire spent almost three decades as an award-winning television journalist. For the last 14 years Claire was a regular contributor to Good Morning America and other national broadcasts for ABC News. Before that she served as White House correspondent for NBC News where she regularly reported on presidential policy and politics for NBC Nightly News and TODAY. I’ve been heavily influenced by Katty and Claire in my own work, and what they’ve done is given research and factual data to what so many of us have suspected about how confidence is curtailed and diminished, but also how it expands in the lives of girls and young women around the world, and why that matters. Their mission, along with the stories of those girls they feature, is deeply inspiring and motivating and is helping motivate a whole new generation of female leaders. To learn more about today's guests, visit: https://www.confidencecodegirls.com/ 
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Mar 11, 2021 • 41min

166: Remote Work, Rising Stress and The Critical Need for Connection, with Mike Stallard

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “As we learn to think the best of others, when we learn to become comfortable affirming them and when we become comfortable working for ways to serve them, then they respond and that connects us.” - Mike Stallard Today’s Finding Brave guest is someone who has played a pivotal role in the support of my coaching career, and he is one of the most kind and generous people I know - a true mentor and giver at heart, and a perfect person to explore the themes of today’s show. In this episode, we look at ways to help people cope with the current environment where stress, loneliness, social isolation, and its harmful consequences are all on the rise, and he reveals how boosting human connection can not only be an antidote at home, but in the workplace as well. Michael Stallard is an author, keynote speaker, and workshop leader on how leaders create and maintain cultures of connection that help individuals, teams and organizations thrive for a sustained period of time. He is cofounder and president of Connection Culture Group, a leadership training and consulting firm. Michael’s recent clients have included Costco, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Turner Construction, Qualcomm, U.S. Air Force, and Yale-New Haven Health. Texas Christian University founded the TCU Center for Connection Culture based on Michael’s work. Michael is the primary author of Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work, now in its 2nd edition, and Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity, and Productivity. Connection Culture was recently named one of the “best of the best” books by getAbstract. Michael also recently launched a popular online course with LinkedIn Learning titled Creating a Connection Culture. In our conversation, shares his best tips and strategies for building and fostering connection, as a leader, manager, team member and individual contributor. If you are struggling with stress and loneliness, please know you’re not alone. Feel free to reach out to both Mike and myself, and we’ll provide you with some resources to help support you through these challenging, ever-changing times. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.connectionculture.com/ 
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Mar 4, 2021 • 44min

165: How to Truly Heal From Extreme Stress and Trauma, with Mark Goulston

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “What I realized is that everybody we’re with is always trying to communicate something that they’re not communicating with their words. Sometimes they don’t have the words.” - Mark Goulston At this particular point of time, many of us are experiencing some degree of trauma, but what really happens to a person’s mind as they continue to function through trauma? Today’s Finding Brave guest reveals how we can not just cope, but how we can heal and thrive in the face of the challenging situations that we are experiencing. Dr. Mark Goulston is a psychiatrist, former UCLA professor, former FBI and police hostage negotiation trainer and the bestselling author or co-author of eight books and with his just released book, Why Cope When You Can Heal? How Healthcare Heroes of Covid-19 Can Recover From PTSD, he introduces an approach called Surgical Empathy that he used for 25 years with suicidal patients and none of them died by suicide. He is also the host of My Wakeup Call, a wonderful podcast I had the honor of being a guest on, and of the weekly LinkedIn Live show, No Strings Attached. In this episode, Mark shares his insights into what is really going on in the minds of healthcare workers and first responders as they daily confront the horrific and terrifying situations to keep the rest of us safe. He reveals how they are “Finding Brave” within them, and what they are doing to stay strong through the pandemic and not become casualties of this war. But you don’t have to be a healthcare worker or first responder to glean wisdom and support from Mark’s empowering messages, as each and everyone one of us has experienced stress and trauma at some point in our lives. Learn more at: http://whycopewhenyoucanheal.com 
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Feb 25, 2021 • 42min

164: Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life, with Joann Lublin

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “For a long time women have been afraid to stand up for themselves, because they didn’t think that anyone had their back. That’s what is different about this younger generation, they are not afraid to assert their rights.” - Joann Lublin Despite tremendous progress, working mothers still face numerous challenges at work and home, and these struggles have only been aggravated in this global pandemic. Today’s Finding Brave guest reveals how executive moms today differ from the trailblazing Baby Boom generation in a number of ways, and yet they still face common challenges, which provide helpful lessons for the next generation of women with children. Joann S. Lublin is a longtime Wall Street Journal career columnist, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and author of two books about female business leaders, Her latest, Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life, hit the shelves February 16, 2021. Her first popular leadership book, Earning It: Hard-Won lessons from Trailblazing Women at the top of the Business World, offers insights from 52 high-level executive women about obstacles they overcame. ​ Joann is the former Management News Editor of The Wall Street Journal. She created its first career advice column, which she wrote until May 2020. Joann shared the Journal's 2003 Pulitzer Prize for stories about corporate scandals. In 2018, she won the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest accolade in business journalism. I deeply admire what Joann is doing in the world, and her work and latest book is full of important revelations and insights into what more must be done to make being a working mother (and parent) easier in 2021 and beyond. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.joannlublin.com/ 
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Feb 18, 2021 • 39min

163: Everything You Wished Successful Entrepreneurs Would Talk About Honestly, with Alli Webb

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “We’re all pretty scared. We’re all worried we’re going to mess things up. We’re all pretty nervous that we don’t have all the answers, and I think that was the thing that I was very afraid to tell anybody, that I didn’t know what I didn’t know.” - Alli Webb When successful entrepreneurs share their stories, it’s often the highlights that are focused on. However, today’s Finding Brave guest reveals the personal challenges that she’s faced along her journey to “raise the bar” in every aspect of her life, and she tackles the conversations that people in leadership rarely have in public. Alli Webb is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of DryBar and Squeeze. Alli has been named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company, featured on Fortune magazine’s “40 Under 40” list, Marie Claire’s “Most Fascinating Women,” and covered in Inc. Magazine’s “How I Did This” issue. Recently Inc. Magazine recognized her as one of “The 100 Women Building America’s Most Innovative and Ambitious Businesses.” She has also been featured as a guest Shark on ABC’s SharkTank and Alli just launched season two of her podcast Raising the Bar with executive coach and boyfriend Adrian Koehler, where they pull back the curtain on the things entrepreneurs really want to know. Alli is a relentlessly positive person who realizes that life isn’t supposed to be just a “walk in the park.” There are unavoidable struggles that will come along with the good times for everyone, and it’s refreshing to hear someone as successful as Ali share her story so openly and honestly with others. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.instagram.com/alliwebb/ 

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