Thought Talk
Best-selling author, and branding and marketing strategist Karen Tiber Leland, has engaging conversations with today's thought leaders from the worlds of business, art, technology, science and entertainment.
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Bant Breen is the Founder and Executive Chairman for Qnary, an award-winning executive reputation management and talent branding company. As more people appear online, it's become clear that their name searches need to be cleaned up and more professional. Qnary's company grew dramatically during the pandemic because your online presence matters more than ever, and executives understand this.
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Mushrooms, alternative alcohol, digital health and merch have been four of the fastest-growing sectors for startups and small businesses in the past year. Here 99designs by Vista CEO Patrick Llewellyn talks to Karen Tiber Leland about some of the global trends that have emerged on the design platform and among its customers and community.
Trends among fastest growing sectors for startups and small businesses
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Today's guest is Peter Winick, the Founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Leverage and the podcast host of Leveraging Thought Leadership. In this episode of Thought Talk, Peter talks about, you guessed it, thought leadership! Since it's easy to hav...
As I head into my 79th episode of the Thought Talk podcast, I've decided to take a break, step back, and do a bit of reworking. The Thought Talk podcast will be back by the end of March and better than ever.
So for this episode I wanted to share with you four tips I learned decades ago that can help you ensure that your brand stays crazy ahead of your comp...
Today's guest, Lynette Sheppard is also known as the iPhone Diva. Lynette joins the show from the highly photographic island of Molokai in Hawaii to give us some insight on how we can best use our phones to practice creativity through photography.
Lynette Sheppard has taught iPhoneography throughout Europe, Canada, and the United-States. She is known for her ...
Today's guest is Theresa Souers, managing broker at Corcoran Global Living. Theresa has been in the real estate business for the past 25 years. On this episode of Thought Talk we discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the broader real estate market and the implications for buyers, sellers, and investors alike.
You will want to take notes as Theresa shares her impre...
Overcoming Multitasking Madness for a More Efficient Workflow
Karen's latest book, No Nonsense: Time Management: 50 Tips to Hack Your Time and Get Everything Done is now available for order on Amazon. Today, Karen tackles one of the topics addressed in the book, a problem all of us face: multitasking madness.
On my most recent Peloton bike ride, the gentleman leading the session said something that I found applies to so many aspects of our professional lives: "Less excuses, more adjustments." In today's short episode, I will share five ways for you to fine-tune your business goals by doing just that.
Oftentimes when we work on our time management, personal brands, marketing plan, or business development we throw up our hands and give up...
Even as we sit on the verge of bringing an end to COVID-19 with the new vaccines, the trend towards a decentralized workforce seems likely to be an integral part of the new normal. With that in mind, in this episode I talk about going beyond team building to team branding.
Team branding is essentially about defining a given team's brand and then translating t...
Today I am talking about a great principle you should be applying to your business for the coming year. I've been using the 80/20 rule for years and regularly suggest it to my clients, and although most of you may already know of the 80/20 rule, very few know where it comes from and how broadly it applies.
In 1897, an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto identif...
I recently renewed my long time passion for horseback riding and met today's guest — Barbra Schulte — at the C Lazy U dude ranch in Granby, Colorado where she was teaching peak performance on and off a horse.
Barbra is a Professional Cutting Horse Trainer, personal peak performance coach, and Equine Consultant. She is a Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductee and, this J...
A lot of us are still spending quite a bit of time on Zoom and other video conferencing platforms— a trend that does not look like it will go away any time soon. As a virtual facilitator and webinar leader I've found several things that help foster audience engagement so that participants are attentive and interactive while on video conferences.
In today's podcast, I'll share some tips and tools you can use to immediately start en...
Video content has exploded in recent years and shows no signs of slowing down as a major marketing medium. But making watchable, engaging videos that are on-brand requires training and practice.
I'm pleased to be joined today by Michael Dutcher, CEO and co-founder of bspoketv — a streaming TV channel that creates 30-minute episodes from proven YouTube influen...
On today's Thought Talk, I speak with my good friend Dewitt Jones about the power of virtual presentations. Jones is an international Keynote speaker, former National Geographic photographer, and the founder of Celebrate What's Right With the World.
Dewitt went from speaking at doz...
Dr. Ellen Reed is the co-author of Relentless Solution Focus; she's worked side-by-side with Dr. Jason Selk for 15 years and has extensive experience in mental training for consistency, accountability, and execution in business, athletics, academics, and the performing arts.
She join...
On this episode of Thought Talk I am joined by Helen Lee Bouygues the Founder of the Reboot Foundation an organization that funds and publishes research on improving critical thinking.
Helen is joining us from Paris where she lives for a conversation on the importance of critical thinking in a world where search algorithms and social media are designed to feed...
"I have a big social media following but it does not seem to be translating into new customers/clients." I hear this comment all the time from potential clients who call me up wondering how to make their social media a more effective business development tool.
The first step in gaining a greater conversion from your social media is understanding that social ...
Today I want to talk about something that universally impacts our productivity: self-interruption.
If you work in an office, it's obvious that other people are sources of interruption. While those may be less of a productivity problem when working from home – kids, friends, partners, and even pets can easily provide sources of distraction – interruptions by others are only a part of the story. A great deal of the interruptions we ...
I lead a webinar called How to Look Better, Feel More Comfortable and Be More Productive When Video Conferencing and something that's brought up by a lot of executives, salespeople, and entrepreneurs I'm talking to is Zoom fatigue.
Today I want to talk about why and how Zoom fatigue ...
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