The Burleson Box: A Podcast from Dustin Burleson, DDS, MBA

We all want to be great leaders who are confident, productive, and highly energized. But if you don’t learn foundational leadership skills, research shows you will face problems with communication, performance, engagement, and employee retention. The stakes are high. How can you quickly learn essential leadership skills?

The Three Chairs provides a proven leadership framework to transform anyone’s ability to lead others. It’s the simplicity of this model that has led to this book reaching #2 on The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and #1 Amazon’s bestselling lists.   Dr. Karyn Gordon's unique approach will show you how to:

• Identify great leadership
• Master communication
• Enhance proper goal-setting
• Improve decision-making
• Reduce stress & anxiety
• Increase employee engagement

Learn simple tools you can easily apply at work and home that get results for everyone from CEO’s to students. Understand yourself more clearly, engage more deeply with others, and equip yourself to be a confident, great leader!

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by In Hand Dental:

Are you trying to increase your treatment plan close rates while also increasing revenue? How can you do both for your dental practice without burning out an already burdened staff?

The answer? Remote dental monitoring. You need a trusted HIPAA-compliant app that helps you and your staff work smarter, not harder. This needs to be an easy to use, easy onboard app that your patients will find fun to use, and will increase their engagement and success with aligners.

You need the In-Hand Dental App. The In-Hand Dental App allows you to engage with your patients in real time, send individual and batched messages, and solve problems to increase compliance without using up chair time.

The result? Happy patients, happy staff, and happy practices. With more revenue, and the ability to do more starts. With prices starting as low as $149 per month, it's perfect for a growing aligner business. Check us out and learn more at InHandDental.com

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Karyn Gordon:

• The Three Chairs
• DK Leadership
• Leadership EQ Scorecard
• 10 Steps to Grow Your Business
• TED Talk Discussion Questions

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Surrender The Outcome is a leadership fable that follows the progress of a longtime basketball coach, Mick, through his traditional, transactional approach to coaching to a new refreshing, impactful, and transformational approach to life. Along the way he receives great wisdom from those closest to him.

Mick is your typical coach to start: focused on winning the next game while appearing to maintain complete control of his team. In his chase for wins, he wins some and loses some like all coaches. Regardless of the record, Mick always finishes the season frustrated and disappointed that his team couldn't squeeze out a few more wins.

Through many failures and much self-reflection, Mick moves beyond the race for wins and discovers a better way to gauge success-on the court and in life. As he begins to focus on his values outside the coaching box, Mick realizes this new approach isn't only better for his team but also for his family and personal life.

Mick's journey towards his own definition of success leads him to the realization of a powerful process that can transform the impact of all leaders regardless of their area of influence. By focusing on gaining self-awareness

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by In Hand Dental:

Are you trying to increase your treatment plan close rates while also increasing revenue? How can you do both for your dental practice without burning out an already burdened staff?

The answer? Remote dental monitoring. You need a trusted HIPAA-compliant app that helps you and your staff work smarter, not harder. This needs to be an easy to use, easy onboard app that your patients will find fun to use, and will increase their engagement and success with aligners.

You need the In-Hand Dental App. The In-Hand Dental App allows you to engage with your patients in real time, send individual and batched messages, and solve problems to increase compliance without using up chair time.

The result? Happy patients, happy staff, and happy practices. With more revenue, and the ability to do more starts. With prices starting as low as $149 per month, it's perfect for a growing aligner business. Check us out and learn more at InHandDental.com

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Coach Cupps:

• Surrender the Outcome
• Blue Collar Grit
• The Score That Matters

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Public speaking is difficult because you’ve never been taught the proper techniques.

Fascinated by the possibility that speech training could foster the kind of psychological well-being more commonly sought through psychiatric treatment, and intrigued by the notion that words can serve as medicine, Bowe set out to discover the origins of speech training—and to learn for himself how to speak better in public.

What would it mean for Americans to learn once again the simple art of talking to one another?

Bowe shows that learning to speak in public means more than giving a decent speech without nervousness. Learning to connect with others bestows upon us an enhanced sense of freedom, power, and belonging.

The result: an easy, humorous read that explains the subject considered by the Greeks and Romans to be the cornerstone of education: the art of connecting with others.

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by Socius Marketing:

The Socius team is your strategic partner to set both specific KPIs and patient growth objectives as well as identify the most effective mix of digital marketing services for your practice.

Our experienced team will work with your internal team to build an effective strategy for reaching those goals, as well as provide ongoing feedback about the success of those strategies over time.

And because we believe that trust and transparency are essential for any successful partnership, you’ll always have real-time insights into the progress of your campaigns across all digital marketing channels. In fact, you retain ownership of all digital assets so you can access results any time you like.

Detailed data and a crystal-clear understanding of which marketing efforts are really driving success in your business not only saves you time and money but also lets us do more of what works and less of what’s not paying off.

And with services such as optimized website design, SEO content, paid media, digital strategies, social media campaign, and review management, Socius has your digital marketing needs covered.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with John Bowe:

• I Have Something to Say
• Toastmasters International

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What makes a story perfect?

How do you tell the perfect story for any occasion?

Stories are a memorable and engaging way to differentiate yourself and build connections. They are integral to forming trust, creating new thinking, and even influencing decision-making. But it isn’t enough to tell a story. The way you tell a story makes a difference in the outcome for your audience. Most people aren’t natural storytellers. They see others tell stories with ease and feel they weren’t given that talent or don't have the perfect story to share.

In The Perfect Story, Karen Eber—leadership consultant, professional storyteller, and TED speaker—evolves the conversation on storytelling. She explains how to leverage the science of storytelling to create an engaging story. Without relying on complicated models or one-size-fits-all prescriptions, The Perfect Story makes storytelling accessible with practical and impactful steps for anyone to tell the perfect story for any occasion.

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by Socius Marketing:

The Socius team is your strategic partner to set both specific KPIs and patient growth objectives as well as identify the most effective mix of digital marketing services for your practice.

Our experienced team will work with your internal team to build an effective strategy for reaching those goals, as well as provide ongoing feedback about the success of those strategies over time.

And because we believe that trust and transparency are essential for any successful partnership, you’ll always have real-time insights into the progress of your campaigns across all digital marketing channels. In fact, you retain ownership of all digital assets so you can access results any time you like.

Detailed data and a crystal-clear understanding of which marketing efforts are really driving success in your business not only saves you time and money but also lets us do more of what works and less of what’s not paying off.

And with services such as optimized website design, SEO content, paid media, digital strategies, social media campaign, and review management, Socius has your digital marketing needs covered.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Karen Eber:

• The Perfect Story
• Karen Eber

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Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you can make. Your parents’ advice to focus on one career path? It doesn’t work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to student loan debt, the gig economy, climate disasters, and a global pandemic (to name a few).

We need a dramatically different relationship with work, one that allows us to define ourselves beyond our paid labor. The answer? A Portfolio Life. An anti-hustle, pro-rest approach to work-life balance, a Portfolio Life is built on three tenets.

1. You are more than any one role or opportunity.

2. Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty.

3. When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance.

In The Portfolio Life, Harvard professor, serial entrepreneur, and self-described "human Venn diagram" Christina Wallace adapts tried-and-true practices from entrepreneurs, creatives, and successful freelancers to help you eschew the cult of ambition and experience the freedom of building the flexible, fulfilling, and sustainable life you want.

Whether you’re sick of being told your worth is inextricably tied to your work, or that setting boundaries and protecting your personal life means you aren’t “all in,” this book will walk you step-by-step through the process of designing a strategy for the long haul. Because you deserve rest, relationships, and a rewarding career — not someday, but today. After all, you only live once.

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by Socius Marketing:

The Socius team is your strategic partner to set both specific KPIs and patient growth objectives as well as identify the most effective mix of digital marketing services for your practice.

Our experienced team will work with your internal team to build an effective strategy for reaching those goals, as well as provide ongoing feedback about the success of those strategies over time.

And because we believe that trust and transparency are essential for any successful partnership, you’ll always have real-time insights into the progress of your campaigns across all digital marketing channels. In fact, you retain ownership of all digital assets so you can access results any time you like.

Detailed data and a crystal-clear understanding of which marketing efforts are really driving success in your business not only saves you time and money but also lets us do more of what works and less of what’s not paying off.

And with services such as optimized website design, SEO content, paid media, digital strategies, social media campaign, and review management, Socius has your digital marketing needs covered.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Christina Wallace:

• Christina Wallace
• The Portfolio Life
• Clayton Christensen on emergent versus deliberate strategy
• Clayton Christensen on disruptive strategy
• The Perfect Story by Karen Eber

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From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics and new technologies, to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions and becoming a parent, we undergo change in transformation, both good and bad, regularly. Change is not the exception, it's the rule. On today's program, we welcome Brad Stulberg, bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness and his new book, Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything is Changing - Including You. While we endlessly fight change, often viewing it as a threat to our stability and sense of self, we can flip the script on its head. Brad's book offers a path for embracing and even growing from life's constant instability.

Drawing on cutting edge science, ancient wisdom, and daily practice, Stulberg offers concrete principles for developing a mindset called rugged flexibility, as well as habits and practices to implement it. Along the way, listeners will learn how to be in conversation with change instead of it happening to you. The importance of expectations, why cultivating a rugged yet flexible sense of self is key to a strong identity, and how to take productive action during uncertainty. I'm so excited to welcome Brad to the show today inside another episode of the Burleson Box.

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by In Hand Dental:

Are you trying to increase your treatment plan close rates while also increasing revenue? How can you do both for your dental practice without burning out an already burdened staff?

The answer? Remote dental monitoring. You need a trusted HIPAA-compliant app that helps you and your staff work smarter, not harder. This needs to be an easy to use, easy onboard app that your patients will find fun to use, and will increase their engagement and success with aligners.

You need the In-Hand Dental App. The In-Hand Dental App allows you to engage with your patients in real time, send individual and batched messages, and solve problems to increase compliance without using up chair time.

The result? Happy patients, happy staff, and happy practices. With more revenue, and the ability to do more starts. With prices starting as low as $149 per month, it's perfect for a growing aligner business. Check us out and learn more at InHandDental.com

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Brad Stulberg:

• Master of Change
• The Practice of Groundedness
• Brad Stulberg
• Peter Sterling and Allostasis
• David Eagleman's lab at Baylor University
• Jaak Panksepp
• Tragic Optimism
• Bruce Feiler

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To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.

Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned.

Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.

On this episode of The Burleson Box, we hear from Professor Henry L. "Roddy" Roediger III, author of Make it Stick about the importance for students and teachers to know whose advice to take on how best to go about learning, what should we really be asking if we want to solve complex problems, the concept of massed practice and why our faith in it is misplaced, how learning and experience come together, how to avoid illusions of knowing, and how we can be more mindful about how mastery really works.

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by In Hand Dental:

Are you trying to increase your treatment plan close rates while also increasing revenue? How can you do both for your dental practice without burning out an already burdened staff?

The answer? Remote dental monitoring. You need a trusted HIPAA-compliant app that helps you and your staff work smarter, not harder. This needs to be an easy to use, easy onboard app that your patients will find fun to use, and will increase their engagement and success with aligners.

You need the In-Hand Dental App. The In-Hand Dental App allows you to engage with your patients in real time, send individual and batched messages, and solve problems to increase compliance without using up chair time.

The result? Happy patients, happy staff, and happy practices. With more revenue, and the ability to do more starts. With prices starting as low as $149 per month, it's perfect for a growing aligner business. Check us out and learn more at InHandDental.com

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Henry Roediger:

• Make It Stick by Professor Roediger
• The Memory Lab

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Everyone loves breakfast, but if you stop to consider the cereal aisle hasn't changed in 60 years. Today on the program, we welcome Emily Miller, CEO and Founder of OffLimits. Emily's the author of Phaidon's Breakfast: The Cookbook.

She's an internationally-renowned authority on breakfast. Through her Breakfast Club series, she's hosted dozens of exclusive events around the world with Michelin starred chefs. And now she's the CEO and Founder of OffLimits, a defiant cereal brand here to break the rules and prove that cereal can be both fun and healthy with offensively delicious flavors, moody mascots, exclusive toys, and thoughtful ingredients that moms would approve of.

As Emily likes to say, "In a world full of rules, let's do what's off limits."

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by Mastry:

The Mastry App leverages HypnoBreathwork®, a cutting edge method using breathwork to clear energetic patterns, hypnosis to reprogram subconscious beliefs, and visioning to fire new neural pathways for sustainable behavior change. This unique formula accelerates trance-induced states to heal unprocessed emotions from the root and take intuitive action to get into alignment.

Mastry is an experience to create connection and live your purpose. Download the app, try a free 7 day tray and join the mailing list at Mastryapp.com

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Emily Miller:

• Emily Miller, CEO OffLimits
• Breakfast: The Cookbook
• Enrique Olvera in Mexico City
• Mike Solomonov at Zahav
• Fabian and Jeremiah, chefs at Contra in New York City

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In March of 2020, Sally Susman, the chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer, found herself at the helm of one of the most urgent high stakes public dialogues of our times. She and her team successfully found ways to break through and persuade millions to change their assumptions about big pharma and build confidence in the life-saving technology they developed.

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by Mastry:

The Mastry App leverages HypnoBreathwork®, a cutting edge method using breathwork to clear energetic patterns, hypnosis to reprogram subconscious beliefs, and visioning to fire new neural pathways for sustainable behavior change. This unique formula accelerates trance-induced states to heal unprocessed emotions from the root and take intuitive action to get into alignment.

Mastry is an experience to create connection and live your purpose. Download the app, try a free 7 day tray and join the mailing list at Mastryapp.com

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Sally Susman:

• Sally Susman
• Albert Bourla
• Leonard Lauder

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Life is full of paradoxes. How can we each express our individuality while also being a team player? How do we balance work and life? How can we improve diversity while promoting opportunities for all? How can we manage the core business while innovating for the future?

For many of us, these competing and interwoven demands are a source of conflict. Since our brains love to make either-or choices, we choose one option over the other. We deal with the uncertainty by asserting certainty.

There's a better way.

In Both/And Thinking, Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis help readers cope with multiple, knotted tensions at the same time. Drawing from more than twenty years of pioneering research, they provide tools and lessons for transforming these tensions into opportunities for innovation and personal growth.

Filled with practical advice and fascinating stories—including firsthand tales from IBM, LEGO, and Unilever, as well as from startups, nonprofits, and even an inn at one of the four corners of the world—Both/And Thinking will change the way you approach your most vexing problems.

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The Burleson Box is brought to you by Mastry:

The Mastry App leverages HypnoBreathwork®, a cutting edge method using breathwork to clear energetic patterns, hypnosis to reprogram subconscious beliefs, and visioning to fire new neural pathways for sustainable behavior change. This unique formula accelerates trance-induced states to heal unprocessed emotions from the root and take intuitive action to get into alignment.

Mastry is an experience to create connection and live your purpose. Download the app, try a free 7 day tray and join the mailing list at Mastryapp.com

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Wendy Smith:

• Both And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
• Both And Thinking Book Website
• Paradox Mindset Inventory
• Smith, W. Dynamic decision making: a model of senior leaders managing strategic paradoxes. Academy of Management Journal 2014, Vol. 57, No.6, 1592-1623.
• Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take by Paul Polman and Andrew Winston

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In this episode, Dustin talks with Amy Gallo about her book, Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People).

Amy shares the 9 principles for getting along with anyone, why we must focus on what we can control and avoid wasting time trying to convince our colleagues to change; people change if they want to. Focus instead on what you can do differently.

We discuss why work relationships are so hard and whether or not they are really worth the trouble. Amy gives excellent advice on how to monitor our stress and how our minds often work against us in moments of conflict with a colleague. Listeners will discover how to use the brain science in their favor.

We don’t have to grin and bear bad behavior at work. This book shares the best ways to change our approach, improve our interactions, and even turn enemies into allies. Dig into this episode of The Burleson Box Podcast and learn how to build interpersonal resilience so that you can bounce back quicker from negative interactions and have less stress going forward.

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The Mastry App leverages HypnoBreathwork®, a cutting edge method using breathwork to clear energetic patterns, hypnosis to reprogram subconscious beliefs, and visioning to fire new neural pathways for sustainable behavior change. This unique formula accelerates trance-induced states to heal unprocessed emotions from the root and take intuitive action to get into alignment.

Mastry is an experience to create connection and live your purpose. Download the app, try a free 7 day tray and join the mailing list at Mastryapp.com

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Amy Gallo:

• Amy Gallo's Website
• Why We Need Best Friends at Work by Annamarie Mann
• Work Friends Make Us More Productive (Except When They Stress Us Out) by David Burkus
• You Need Two Leadership Gears by Lindy Greer
• Gossip has long been misunderstood – here's how it can help your work and social life by Kathryn Waddington
• Self Compassion - Dr. Kristin Neff

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In this episode, Dustin talks with Ozan Varol about his latest book, Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity and Become Extraordinary.

Ozan shares how to discard what no longer serves you and discover your first principles—the qualities that make up your genius. You’ll be equipped to escape your intellectual prisons and generate original insights from your own depths. You’ll discover how to look where others don’t look and see what others don’t see. You’ll give birth to your genius—the universe-denter you were meant to be.

Additionally, we discuss why thinking for yourself doesn’t mean thinking by yourself, why persistence can often backfire, your most scarce resource (hint: it’s not your time or money), and how to discover your edge—the qualities that make you or your business extraordinary.

Ozan has an exceptional track record at helping people create work that matters, especially in the face of enormous uncertainty and potential failure.

Whether you are a business leader looking to unlock the full creative potential of your employees or an individual who is ready to stop following the crowd and clear your own path, Awaken Your Genius will give you the tools. Genius isn’t for a special few. It can be cultivated.

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The Mastry App leverages HypnoBreathwork®, a cutting edge method using breathwork to clear energetic patterns, hypnosis to reprogram subconscious beliefs, and visioning to fire new neural pathways for sustainable behavior change. This unique formula accelerates trance-induced states to heal unprocessed emotions from the root and take intuitive action to get into alignment.

Mastry is an experience to create connection and live your purpose. Download the app, try a free 7 day tray and join the mailing list at Mastryapp.com

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Ozan Varol:

• Ozan Varol
• Genius Book Bonuses
• Gordon Mackenzie
• James Baldwin
• Rumi
• Antoni Gaudí

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Inside the world of peak performance, the transition to eating healthy food has become more than a movement; it’s a revolution.

On this episode of The Burleson Box podcast, Dustin Burleson talks with Chef Allen Campbell about his book, The Game of Eating Smart: Nourishing Recipes for Peak Performance Inspired by MLB™ Superstars.

Chef Allen explains why eating smart isn’t about calorie-counting and fad diets. It simply means consuming more nourishing food—including leafy greens, lean protein, and fresh fruit—that eventually decreases the desire to make unhealthy choices. The Game of Eating Smart includes insights from today’s top players on their approach to healthy living and performance nutrition, plus more than 80 easy-to-prepare and nutrient-dense recipes inspired by their food philosophies and favorite meals.

On the program, we talk about Chef Allen's background, how he became a chef who focuses on nutrient-dense foods, his approach to writing the book, common misconceptions people have about their diet and cooking habits, the importance of sourcing high-quality ingredients and the benefits of cooking at home. With Chef Allen, you can learn how to incorporate more nutrient-dense foods into your diet, especially if you don't know where to start.

This episode offers advice for anyone looking to improve their performance through diet. Dustin and Chef Allen explore how the conversation around food and health will continue to change in the coming years.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Chef Allen Campbell:

• Allen Campbell
• The Game of Eating Smart
• Patagonia Provisions
• Benefits of Atlantic mackerel
• Kernza and regenerative farming
• Essential Dental Services

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Despite our deep desire to feel a sense of belonging, many of us feel isolated. The rise of technology and modern workplace practices have led people to be even more disconnected, even as we remain constantly contactable.

In this episode, Dustin talks with Christine Porath about her latest book, Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving.

Christine's research shows, “as our human interactions have decreased, so too have our happiness levels. This is sparking a crisis in mental health that will have repercussions for years, leaving people lonelier and organizations less productive and profitable, too.” Leaders, organizations, and managers of all stripes may recognize how to implement the cure: community and civility.

Christine and I talk about the six characteristics of companies and leaders that best build community, how to unleash your people and embrace radical candor. We share a few great book recommendations, some wonderful case studies, examples and stories from Cisco, Marriott, The Motley Fool and even the world of improv comedy at Second City.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Christine Porath:

• Christine Porath
• Mastering Community
• Mastering Civility
• The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey
• Trust and Inspire by Stephen Covey

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In this episode, Dustin talks with Gabriele Oettingen about her book, Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation.

You'll discover why many people say "think positive, be optimistic, and focus on what you want to achieve" but how the research shows something interesting about all of this. Dr. Oettingen explains the upside of dreaming and how this ties into our need to have meaning or purpose in life. We discuss the power of mental contrasting and the wise pursuit of our dreams.

From the non-conscious link between wishes and obstacles and the practical application of mental contrasting, Dr. Oettingen's book is a wonderful toolkit for those who wish to understand the new science of motivation and the pursuit of our goals.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Gabriele Oettingen:

• Gabrielle Oettingen
• Rethinking Positive Thinking
• WOOP
• Research Publications

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In this episode, Dustin talks with Chris Bailey about his latest book, How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times.

You'll discover How the analog and digital worlds affect calm and anxiety in vastly different ways. How our desire for the neurochemical dopamine eventually leads us to feel anxious and savor everyday experiences less. How the pursuit of productivity and accomplishment is more addictive than we think. How there are countless sources of hidden stress buried within our days. How conducting a “stimulation fast” can rebalance our mind to feel less anxious and calmer.  And how “busyness” is as much a state of mind as it is an actual state of life

From battling work-life balance issues to developing a more expansive reservoir of energy, How to Calm Your Mind is full of tangible takeaways to overcome anxiety and live a fuller, more balanced life. Being calmer ultimately leads us to become more engaged, focused, and deliberate—while making us more productive and satisfied with our days and lives. Counterintuitive though it might sound, in an anxious world, investing in calm is not only a helpful strategy for self-care, it’s also one of the best productivity strategies around.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Chris Bailey:

• Chris Bailey
• How to Calm Your Mind
• Elinor Ostrom
• Christina Maslach
• The Molecule of More
• Shalom Schwartz 

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In this episode, Dustin talks with Dr. Linda Ginzel about her latest book, Choosing Leadership: Revised and Expanded: How to Create a Better Future by Building Your Courage, Capacity, and Wisdom.

You'll discover why leadership is a choice and how to put the responsibility for personal growth and professional development in your own hands. Professor Ginzel explains the difference between choosing to manage and when to lead.

Choosing Leadership is filled with opportunities to answer tough questions of yourself, process your own lessons, reflect on your unique experiences, and create your best future self.  It’s more than a book. It’s a lifelong companion on the road to being wiser, younger.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Linda Ginzel, PhD:

• Choosing Leadership Book
• Download the Picture Book in over 30 languages
• Professor Ginzel's Collection of Sticky Note Wisdom
• Choosing Leadership Facilitator Guide
• Choosing Leadership Participant Guidelines
• Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford
• Pablo Neruda
• The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Sam Yo
• The Seminary Co-op Bookstore
• Practical Wisdom by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
• Developing Future Rural Surgeon Leaders by Dr. Joon Shim

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In this episode, Dustin talks with Doris Clark about her book, The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World.

You'll discover how long-term thinking is what will help—in those darkest moments of doubt—to keep prioritizing what matters most, doing small things over time to achieve our goals, and being willing to keep at them, even when they seem pointless, boring, or hard. Dorie shares lessons from her own life and relates anecdotes from others, to help listeners understand from personal experience what works and what doesn’t.

The Long Game provides new insight to help you free up your time, focus on what’s important and achieve your long-term goals.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Dorie Clark:

• Dorie Clark
• The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
• The Long Game Strategic Thinking Self-Assessment
• Dorie Clark's TED Talk: The real reason you feel so busy (and what to do about it)
• The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
• Silvia Bellezza, Gantcher Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
• S. Bellezza research on busyness as a status symbol
• Martin Lindstrom

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In this episode, Dustin talks with Gabriella Braun about her book, All That We Are: The Hidden Truths Behind Our Behavior at Work.

We examine how work does far more than occupy our time and provide our livelihood. It provides an outlet for our intelligence and skills. It’s part of our identity, a source of belonging and exclusion, of pleasure and pain.

Listeners will discover why the dynamics of different relationships in the workplace, giving rise to issues of power, status, equality, camaraderie and competition, touch every one of us and every part of us. Much as we may want to, we cannot leave aspects of ourselves outside the building or virtual space when we go to work.

Gabriella explains what it means to work while being human and how we can learn more about the hidden motivations that drive our behavior at work. The book will move you and awaken a new respect for your colleagues and employees. It may force a rethink of many of the attitudes you hold about others, especially those who annoy or intimidate you at work. It can help you build a workplace that is more creative, inclusive and humane, where people and their work flourish.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Gabriella Braun:

• All That We Are book
• Gabriella Braun website
• Gordon Lawrence –  The Development of Group Relations
• Gordon Lawrence – Building People, Building Programs
• John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
• Garry Brewer – Perfect Places: NASA as an Idealized Institution

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In this episode, Dustin talks with Benjamin Spall about his book, My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired.

You'll discover the early morning habits that boost productivity and relax you. Benjamin and I discuss interviews with leaders like Arianna Huffington, General Stanley McChrystal, Marie Kondo and more. See why the first few choices you make each morning determine whether you’ll be productive and mindful all day, or whether the world will clobber you over the head.

Benjamin Spall shares why having a routine is great, but only if it serves your goals. If your morning routine is not helping you achieve your goals, it’s called a rut. Not only will you learn how to find better routines that have worked for other successful people, but you’ll be able to find out through this insight what will work best for you and how to implement it into your life.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Benjamin Spall:

• My Morning Routine book
• My Morning Routine website
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• Ryan Holiday

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