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Explore " akimbo workshops" with insightful episodes like "Learning to Grow, Technical Skills to People Skills, and Much More", "Interrogating "What Is School For" with Seth Godin and Anette Carlisle", "Fail Your Way Into Possibility - Scott Perry", "Developing Leaders: from College Students to Professionals with Travis Wilson" and "Impact Learning for the Future of Work (Maria on Mic)" from podcasts like ""The Career Guy", "IMPACT LEARNING", "Failure Guy", "IMPACT LEARNING" and "IMPACT LEARNING"" and more!
Episodes (12)
Interrogating "What Is School For" with Seth Godin and Anette Carlisle
Today, Maria is a guest co-host on Anette on Education. Together they take the opportunity to unpack education with one of their teachers, Seth Godin. This episode is for teachers, principals, parents, and everyone who seeks to create change in education including those responsible for education policy.
Seth has been outspoken about Education in his manifesto Stop Stealing Dreams, his TED Talk. He also published a course on Udemy called Seth Godin on Learning and Education. He asks the BIG question - What Is School For - and explains the difference between education and learning.
Anette and Maria prompt Seth to share his insights on the progress we've made thus far, the change we're creating today and most importantly, where we’re headed. The three of them interrogate the role of teachers and parents and everyone involved in setting up the education systems.
Seth is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, speaker, AND teacher. In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in the world, he has written 20 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Tribes, What To Do When It's Your Turn (And It's Always Your Turn), and This Is Marketing. His newest book is The Practice, Shipping Creative Work. Seth also founded two companies, Squidoo and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo!).
Tune in to learn from a teacher who never ceases to amaze us with his remarkable insights!
The original conversation was published on Anette on Education.
Listen to this episode and explore:
Introducing Seth Godin and the purpose of today's conversation(0:00)
What is the purpose of education? (2:08)
Looking back at the evolution of learning (3:05)
How Seth envisions the future of education (4:52)
Unpacking learning & education and students & adult learners (6:24)
The TED talk Seth never gave; What if the last kid on earth would enter kindergarten? (9:52)
How can we disrupt the education system? Unpacking the critical role of teachers (10:50)
How can indoctrinated students become lifelong learners? (13:50)
How can we address custodial care issues in K12 education? (15:54)
The role of parents and how community and education systems can support them (18:53)
Seth’s Manifesto on Stop Stealing Dreams: What Is School For? (20:24)
Do we need to blow the education system up? Seth’s suggestion to learn from prison reform (21:18)
How technology is disrupting education but continues to support testing and compliance (23:23)
The role of creativity in the future of education: figuring out what to do next! (25:49)
Seth’s call-to-action for listeners: the BIG question again! (27:10)
Anette’s closing remarks (28:02)
Where to find more about Seth Godin:
Mentioned in this episode:
The Podcasting Workshop (former Fellowship)
Production team:
Host & Producer: Maria Xenidou
Co-host: Anette Carlisle
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Fail Your Way Into Possibility - Scott Perry
Developing Leaders: from College Students to Professionals with Travis Wilson
Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
Contact us:
impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com
Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
Where to find Travis Wilson:
On LinkedIn
Mentioned in this episode:
Co-Active Training Institute (formerly Coaches Training Institute or CTI)
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer
An Introduction to Vertical Development
Nick Petrie on LinkedIn
Carl Sanders-Edwards on LinkedIn
Vertical Leadership Development: Developing Leaders for a Complex World – Part I by Nick Petrie (2013)
Nick Petrie’s Website: Vertical Leadership Development
A blog post about Action Logics
Torbert’s Action Logics - A leadership perspective
Bill Torbert’s Website
Listen to this episode and explore:
Travis' childhood: the importance of treating others with respect and kindness (2:19)
His journey through college: majoring in film production and getting in touch with his creativity (4:31)
Moving to Chicago: a short-lived career in the film industry (8:57)
Figuring out a new career after reaching out to people and learning about different paths (12:11)
Becoming a Residence Life Coordinator at Northwestern: what he learnt during this time (13:40)
Moving to Saint Louis to become a training and development specialist: what surprised him in this role (17:44)
Joining career services in a small career school in Minnesota (21:57)
Leaving higher education and joining Mayo Clinic (24:30)
How a coach development program led him to join the leadership and organization development at Mayo Clinic (26:05)
The importance of being a champion for people (29:58)
Using tension to create the next generation of leaders (34:24)
Starting his private career coaching practice (38:00)
The Marketing Seminar: Joining the Akimbo community and becoming a coach (39:09)
The difference between training and development in corporations and online learning programs: a sense of agency and freedom (42:06)
The importance of owning our learning journey independently of our environment (47:33)
Travis’ advice to a college student who hasn’t decided what they want to do after college (51:47)
What he would like to leave his mark on during his lifetime: leading us into a world where corporations are here to serve society, not the other way around (52:54)
The power of our attention (56:35)
The concept of vertical development (57:45)
Where to find more about Travis and his work (1:00:57)
Maria's takeaways related to Travis’ career journey and profound ability to connect with humans (1:02:02)
Impact Learning for the Future of Work (Maria on Mic)
Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
Contact us:
impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com
Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Book Bag performed by E’s Jammy Jam
Bluesy Vibes performed by Doug Maxwell
Mentioned in this episode:
The questions to ask yourself to start on your Impact Learning journey:
What am I interested in?
What do I want to learn?
What skills do I want to continue to cultivate?
What new skills do I want to develop?
What kind of experience will allow me to continue to grow?
What kind of environment do I want to learn and work in?
What things do I care about?
What problems can I solve with my experience and skills?
How can I contribute to the work of others?
How do I lead myself through the time that I will be figuring all these things out?
How do I stay mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy for the Long Game?
The three tools of designing your Learning Journey:
- Learning through exploration
- Self-directed learning
- Learning by doing/ Project-based learning
Listen to this episode and explore:
Why is it urgent to implement the Impact Learning principles in your life right now? (1:19)
How do you create your Impact Learning journey towards a meaningful work? The key questions to ask yourself (5:47)
The importance of setting boundaries in your life and work (7:43)
Learning by doing the work; the importance of designing your own Learning Journey (9:00)
Talents and superpowers do not matter; learn to build skills through real-life experience (10:50)
The Power of Community (14:28)
“It is simple but not easy” (18:27)
What’s next? Actionable ideas to start building your Impact Learning and prepare for the Future of Work (20:13)
Creating a Portfolio Career (Maria on Mic)
Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
Contact us:
impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com
Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Book Bag performed by E’s Jammy Jam
Bluesy Vibes performed by Doug Maxwell
Mentioned in this episode:
David Nebinski - Portfolio Career Podcast
Impact Learning Episode 7 with David Nebinski
Listen to this episode and explore:
Introduction (0:33)
What is a Portfolio Career? (3:47)
Overview of the Impact Learning vision (5:38)
The Importance of connecting the dots (7:31)
The Impact Learning podcast: finding her voice and discovering her interest in storytelling (9:40)
Creating Impact through podcasting (13:20)
Maria’s relationship with her producer Julie-Roxane Krikorian (16:35)
Being a coach in the Podcasting Fellowship: leading others on their podcasting journey (18:08)
Learning by doing the work and coaching others to develop their podcasting skills (20:28)
Connecting and serving the community: daily blogging and accountability groups (25:35)
A collaborative project: writing a book together (27:33)
A generous community: the value of human connection through all this work (29:34)
Final thoughts on developing skills while building a Portfolio Career (31:56)
Going Back to School (Maria on Mic)
Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
Contact us:
impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com
Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Book Bag performed by E’s Jammy Jam
Bluesy Vibes performed by Doug Maxwell
Mentioned in this episode
The essential questions to help us figure out how to create impact with our work:
What am I interested in?
How can I contribute to others?
What problems can I solve with my experience, skills, and story?
What do I need to learn? What do I need to unlearn that don’t serve me anymore?
What skills do I need to cultivate further? What new skills do I want to develop?
What kind of experience will allow me to continue to grow? What does this environment look like?
How do I lead myself through the time that I will be figuring all these things out?
How do I stay mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy for the Long Game?
Impact Learning: Episode 1: Maria's story
Impact Learning: Episode 6 with Seth Godin
Impact Learning: Episode 3 with Alex diPalma
Listen to this episode and explore:
Two things Maria did in 2017 to prepare for going back to school in 2018 (5:36)
How to create impact with your work? The questions to ask yourself (8:59)
Maria’s answers to those questions (10:54)
Seth Godin and The Akimbo Workshops (17:12)
The altMBA (19:15)
Staying connected to the Community: The Accountability and Mastermind groups (24:05)
The Marketing Seminar (25:50)
Skills developed during The Marketing Seminar (27:32)
The Podcasting Fellowship (28:42)
Lessons learnt in 2018 (33:11)
Closing remarks (35:18)
Scott Perry - Meaning, Purpose, Passion, Impact
Self-help? (3:12)
"We must, when we can, teach others" (5:00)
Learn to blunder in order to learn (7:43)
Finding meaning and purpose (9:57)
The "right people" – pluses, minuses, and equals (12:35)
Anonymous criticism vs. meaningful feedback (15:12)
Encourage engagement (16:33)
Teaching vs. instructing (17:07)
Status quo, certainty, curiosity, and creativity (18:37)
"I still love teaching" (25:52)
Discomfort & frustration, and living & learning (27:58)
Podcast cover art for Lead. Learn. Change. is a view from Brunnkogel (mountaintop) over the mountains of the Salzkammergut in Austria, courtesy of photographer Simon Berger, published on www.unsplash.com.
Seth Godin - Taking Ownership Of Your Portfolio Career
Resources
- Seth Godin's website
- Seth Godin's daily blog
- Seth's blog posts mentioned
a) The World's Worst Boss
b) Thirty years of projects
c) Where Are The Linchpin Jobs - The Akimbo Workshops
- The Podcasting Fellowship
- altMBA
- Akimbo Podcast
This full episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website (LINK)
Seth Godin - Taking Ownership Of Your Portfolio Career
Resources
- Seth Godin's website
- Seth Godin's daily blog
- Seth's blog posts mentioned
a) The World's Worst Boss
b) Thirty years of projects
c) Where Are The Linchpin Jobs - The Akimbo Workshops
- The Podcasting Fellowship
- altMBA
- Akimbo Podcast
This full episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website (LINK)
Connecting Freelance Educators with Tania Marien
Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
Contact us:
impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com
Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
Mentioned in this episode
Tania's blog post about The Podcast Fellowship by Seth Godin
What Tania used to do: https://artplantaetoday.com/about-2/
Her Podcast Talaterra
The Society of Botanical Artist
The Guild of National Science Illustrators
Seth’s Udemy Course: The Freelancer Course
Nina Simon - The Art of Relevance
Seth Godin - The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Listen to this episode and explore:
Tania’s childhood in the backyard and playing teacher at school (2:57)
Learning at school: homework as a refuge and free-style writing (7:00)
Studying biology in college (8:36)
Creating a support course for the introductory biology course (10:40)
After the Masters Degree: working in education and quickly taping out (13:54)
Discovering botanical illustration and becoming a freelance educator (14:46)
Educating people about botanics through her website, bookstore and plant illustrations (16:59)
Getting the word out about her freelance business (19:43)
The lessons she learned in her first 16 years (22:32)
The Dip in her business (25:01)
The importance of courses and workshops in her learning and work journey (28:48)
A Sabbatical year that started with the AltBMA (31:36)
How to choose workshops and seminars in the plethora of offerings (33:24)
The Freelance Condition Project: putting the freelance environmental educators on the map (35:47)
The Talaterra Podcast: creating a community of freelance environmental educators (40:05)
The most critical decision in her learning journey: letting go of her business endeavor (45:26)
A new way to live, learn and work: peer-learning and the power of the community (46:37)
The hardest lesson she learned: letting go faster (50:52)
The mark she wants to leave during her lifetime (55:46)
Learning by Doing the Work with Seth Godin
Today, Maria interviews Seth Godin, a Stanford Business School graduate, international bestselling author and host of the Akimbo podcast. Seth has written over 7000 blog posts read by more than a million people and was inducted in the Marketing Hall of Fame in 2018. Seth shares his learning journey that led him to create the Akimbo workshops, a set of online community-based learning spaces that help thousands of people address their fear for change and create meaningful work in our fast-changing world.
Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
Contact us:
impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com
Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
Mentioned in this episode
Listen to this episode and explore:
Seth’s childhood (4:17)
Seth’s experience at Stanford University (7:18)
The Akimbo Workshops (8:52)
The importance of seeing the end of the journey before you start (12:04)
Addressing the fear of change (16:02)
About the generosity in the Akimbo workshops (20:33)
Seth’s view on the bigger problems of the world today (23:54)