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Anita Barnick is a career coach with a deep understanding of human potential. She makes use of her successful career as a patient-focused engineering executive in Research & Development and Quality Engineering in the Medical Device industry.  Anita helps clients achieve their purpose within a meaningful career. 

Anita shared her early years in the United States after moving here from India, what she learned about courage and adv...

Nina's guest is Anu Ishola who is passionate about leadership development for women. She has over 14+ years of experience working in the global development space. Anu brings her dedication to women’s development, extensive program experience, and nonprofit leadership to her role as the Executive Director of the Women’s Impact Alliance.  

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Nina spoke with Dominic Longo, an executive coach and leadership development expert based in New York City. He is the Founder of Flourishing Gays, Dominic and an affiliate of Cultivating Leadership, a global leadership firm serving organizational clients.  We spoke about working holistically in leadership development and the growth that happens when we focus on flourishing. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that our suffering can ...

Nina spoke with Charles Su-Wah-Sing, a certified leadership and life coach who guides individual leaders, teams and couples to the fullest expression of their humanity. 

Nina and Charles explored the current challenges facing men and in particular men of color. Charles shared about his own journey into men’s work and coaching. They also talked about their hopes for the future. 

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Nina shares the ABC's (and D&E) of creating a compelling and effective vision. The second half of the episode includes a guided process with questions you can answer as you reflect and clarify what matters most to you and your vision for 2025.

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Jeff Harmon is the Founder & CEO of My Impossible, a 501c3 organization on a mission to ignite a global movement of individuals stepping beyond their comfort zones to tackle the seemingly impossible, transforming their lives and inspiring the communities around them.

In this conversation Nina spoke with Jeff about the preparation for his climb of Kilimanjaro and how it has transformed his coaching.  They also talk abou...

Edwin Vega, is a Certified Executive & Leadership Development Coach and Facilitator who specializes in leading customized retreats for leaders in the tech and pharmaceutical industries, particularly focusing on team building, trust and maximizing team performance. In this episode we explored the power of the check-in when working with teams and the transformative impact of the Co-Active Leadership program.  We also talked about...

Nina spoke with Dr. Julie Pham, the founder of CuriosityBased, a consulting practice helping organizations foster more curiosity to build trust, communication, and collaboration.  In this episode we explored the 7 Forms of Respect® framework, which is based on Dr. Pham’s 12+ years of experience helping people from diverse backgrounds build trust, as well as her research on how they interact and engage with one another to navigate a...

Nina sat down with Connie Tingson Gatuz, Phd., a higher education leader, facilitator, and innovator.  Tingson Gatuz is the current chair of the Michigan ACE Network. She is also the Associate Vice President of Student Life at the University of Michigan.   We talked about her journey into leadership, the importance of mentorship and the glass cliff in higher education leadership. 

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Barron Hanson is recognized as a teacher of Vedic knowledge by the Shankaracharya tradition in India.  Barron was living in New York in 2019 when the east coast of australia was devastated by the worst bushfires in its recorded history, impacting his hometown of nowra.  He returned to his hometown of Nowra in 2022 and established "be here nowra," a meditation center aimed at helping the community manage stress and improve...

Jen Martin is a coach and consultant working with leaders and teams to navigate change creatively. For more than a decade, she has coached and trained thousands of people across industries and sectors and recently published her first book, The Creative Way Forward: A Guide for Navigating Change in Work and Life. 

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In the Opener for Season Six, Nina speaks with Monique Breault and Cai DeLumpa, professional certified coaches with 30+ years experience working in organizations.  As husband and wife and partners in Hive Leadership, a leadership and team coaching firm based in Portland, Oregon, they help people succeed by being and working better together.  In this conversation, Mo and Cai share their approach to working with teams.  They also gav...

Our guest is Faith Fuller, co-founder of CRR Global and co-creator of Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC™).  She is a psychologist and experienced trainer and coach, with decades of experience in working with organizations, couples and communities. Faith is also the author of “Relationship Matters: A New Paradigm for an Evolutionary Leap in Relationships.“

Nina and Faith share a belief that most growth h...

In this time of so much change, I can't think of a better skill set than understanding and being able to help others come to terms with loss.  That's one reason I wanted to have this conversation with Christie Mann and Rachel Baldi of UpLevel Productions.   They specialize in developing Emotional Leadership & Resiliency and Navigating End-of-Life & Grief in the workplace, family and community eco-systems. 

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Our guest is Marita Fridjhon, a thought leader in the paradigm shifts leaders and teams need to make to create systems-inspired change.  Over two decades ago, Marita and CRR Global co-founder Faith Fuller developed the simple yet revolutionary idea of Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI™) - that leadership lives in the whole system rather than individuals, and that each system has a personality and intelligence of its own.  In t...

Eric Kohner is an internationally recognized executive coach, keynote speaker, and is considered one of the “godfathers” of Co-Active coaching.   He is the founder of ekcoSYSTEM, where they teach the skills to create effective leaders inside a “VUCA” environment—volatile, uncertain, complex, & ambiguous.  He’s trained global organizations such as the US Navy, Capgemini, Sony Music Entertainment, and ING to transform their compa...

JuJu Hook helps companies find their juju and brand it.  In this conversation Nina and Juju explored the power of women in midlfe. Juju also shared insights about how to challenge assumptions and address and activate around the realities of the unconscious (and deliberate) bias middle-aged women face.  We had fun and I walked away with new insights into how women can evolve their brand and step into their power in their 50s and bey...