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Own Your Mess: How Your Vulnerability Inspires Others With Scott Miller

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Are you ashamed of your mistakes and vulnerability? In this episode, you’ll learn how owning your own mess inspires others to keep going. Tony Martignetti’s guest today is Scott Miller, the Chief Marketing Officer at FranklinCovey. Scott confesses to Tony how his first book Management Mess to Leadership Success sold 100,000 copies in its first year. Was Scott famous at that point? Nope. He was a no-name author! It sold that many copies because it was raw, real, and vulnerable. Tune in, be brave,…

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Question Yourself: Discovering Who You Truly Are With Hal Gregersen

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When you question yourself, you discover who you truly are. Tony Martignetti’s guest today is Hal Gregersen, a bestselling author and Senior Lecturer of Innovation at MIT. In this episode, Hal shares with Tony his childhood experience growing up with an abusive father. From that point on until adulthood, a shadow question always haunted him, “how can I make X happy?” It wasn’t until he turned the shadow question he hated for so long into a keystone question for himself that he found his true pur…

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Moving Forward: Turning Unemployment To An Opportunity With David Shriner-Cahn

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Losing your job can be a shock. One minute you're employed in a stable profession, and the next, you're jobless. Tony Martignetti sits down for a talk with David Shriner-Cahn, entrepreneur, podcaster, and consultant, about pivot points and moving forward. David talks about the challenges he experienced on his road to his current career, sharing the lessons he learned from the adversities in his way. He also talks about his experiences being unemployed, how he felt when he lost his first job, and…

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Discovering Wanderlust: Getting To Know The World And Yourself With Eric Weiner

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Travelling can be scary. You could get lost with no sense of direction of where you are and no one to talk to. It would be a nightmare. But there are some people who simply enjoy the wanderlust of being in the unknown. They are the overly curious people that just want to know more about the world around them. Journey with your host, Tony Martignetti and his guest, the public speaker and renowned author, Eric Weiner. Eric is a New York Times bestselling author of books such as Geography of Bliss …

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Radical Mindfulness: De-stressing Business-Centric Lifestyle With Daniel Gutierrez

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Mindfulness practice helps people from all walks of life to de-stress, but if you’re living the high-octane lifestyle of the successful, you probably need it even moreDaniel Gutierrez, a successful business life coach and CEO of Daniel Gutierrez Companies encapsulates this in his book Radical Mindfulness, where he discusses the need to “explore the deepest depths” in order to “get to the highest tops.” Joining Tony Martignetti on the show, Daniel talks about several important flashpoints in hi…

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Transforming Your Life With Emotional Intelligence and Intuition: Insights From Tatiana Poliakova

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Adversity can make or break a person and having high emotional intelligence and intuition often means the difference between success or failure. Join Tony Martignetti as he sits down for a talk with transformational life coach Tatiana Poliakova as they discuss how developing your intuition can transform your life. Tatiana talks about her life experiences growing up behind the Iron Curtain, and her early realizations on how behavior can impact how people see you. Tony and Tatiana talk about her j…

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Elevating Others By Looking Inward First With Kevin Kermes

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Before you could guide others to the path towards success, you must be first clear with who you are and how you want to show up. That means looking inward to determine your goals, purpose, and motivations. Joining the virtual campfire with Tony Martignetti is trusted advisor, thought partner, and coach Kevin KermesKevin explains how he found his way to his current profession by embracing entrepreneurship at a young age, facing his traumas head-on, and appreciating his skills and strength at ev…

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Sarah Scala On Developing Leadership Skills and The Spirit Of Volunteerism

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The journey to one's goals is full of challenges and pivot points. You need to have grit and resilience. Tony Martignetti discusses perseverance and passion and marrying these traits to develop leadership skills with CEO and leadership coach Sarah Scala. In this episode, Sarah talks about her long journey to where she is now, her work ethic, coming out as LGBTQ+, and volunteerism. Let this talk reveal the ways we can start developing leadership skills and tap not only into our own potential but …

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Why Taking The Time Out Can Move You Faster In Life With ClaireYvonne Naisbitt

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People always want to move fast and move forward. However, as an award-winning mentor and leadership coach, ClaireYvonne Naisbitt shares with Tony Martignetti, sometimes taking the time out is the turning point we need in our lives to discover how we can actually move forward better. From having to leave her corporate job of 20 years to saying goodbye to a personal relationship, Claire inspires us on how she was able to take her life around, beginning from learning to ask herself and listening t…

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Starting A Career In Science With Dr. Jennifer Petter

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Getting into science can be quite intimidating, from the different branches of science to the number of scientific jargon used. It could all be a little too much. With that being said, science can also be full of discovery and accomplishment. You can learn about new habitats, make people fly to the moon, and discover the next vaccine. Being a scientist makes you feel like a superhero, just like Tony Martignetti's next guest, Dr. Jennifer Petter, who is literally saving people with science. Dr. P…

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