S2E1 Finding Your Strength Zone with Alan Stein Jr.

📚 Alan is Mark's old friend and a successful author. 00:35
✍️ Alan enjoyed writing a book called Sustain Your Game: writing books serves as a therapeutic way to serve himself as well as others. 01:29
🗝️ You have the key: “People have the power to change more than they most likely believe they do.” 03:10
🏀 From basketball player to coach to motivational speaker: Coming from a family of educators, Alan always had a natural affinity to be of service to and teach others.  05:04
💪 The best advice a coach gave to Alan about finding the Strength Zone. 06:21
🎯 The epicenter of being a coach is in transformational leadership: empowering others to improve behavior and improve results by believing in themselves. 08:33
😇 Be the leader you want to follow: having an authentic and appropriate vulnerability. 11:21
🤩 Making your team stronger with the diversity of thought, age, and background: we need to nurture respect, appreciation, and curiosity. 15:31
🏆 Diversity culture and data blended with respect for others: a story about a basketball coach with 4 key stats that heavily influenced winning and losing the game. 19:15
🤓 Leading indicators of success and performance, but what about stress? 22:16
🦸 The road to a settled mind is being at peace with the fact that we don’t control things in the world and channeling our response to those circumstances. 24:43
✅ Trying to live a truly mindful and physically fit lifestyle vs. checking the boxes of doing the ‘right’ things. 29:13
🧘 Is bringing mindfulness to business meetings possible?  31:38
🤯 Measure the things the right way and get the data to combine with the human aspect: do more of what works and do less of what doesn't. 36:54
❗ Keep things simple to make your business effective: find your goal and measurable behaviors and data that will get you to your goal. 40:20
👉 The acute problem in a generational change in the federal workforce. 43:03
📣 A message Alan would give to all in the federal government: being inclusive instead of divisive and highlighting the things that do unite us. 45:16
🌟 What did Alan learn from Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant? 46:23

Connect with Alan: www.alansteinjr.com
🔗Connect with Mark, Andrew, and Courtney.
 
✅ Mark Fedeli
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfedeli
Twitter: @markfedeli
 
🅰️ Andrew Churchill
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Twitter: @FAChurchill
 
☑️ Courtney Hastings:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneyhastings
Twitter: @chatrhstrategic