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Your host, Donna Peters, shares the always-fan-favorite Greatest Hits from Season 5. Hear a compilation of each guest's Me-Suite suitener---advice for things we can do differently on Monday to lead with more purpose, planning, and power. Let's get in there!

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A must-listen, and a special offer for Me-Suite listeners! Your host, Donna Peters, checks in on 2020 guest, Shubber Ali, who is now living in the zone--at the intersection of what he loves to do, what he's good at, what the world needs, and what he can get paid to do. He's now CEO of the for-profit, Garden for Wildlife. Shubber shares how we can create the opportunities we want to have.

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Shubber's core values are:

• Thw only thing of vlaue is our time
• Don't care what others think
• Never stop asking questions
• Make your own luck

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Dr. Jennifer Butler.  Jennifer shares the moment the light switch went off--when she realized she'd been on autopilot moving through her life and career. A significant COVID moment made her stop to reassess and move forward with purpose and passion. We cover powerful, inspiring ground, incuding:

• turning maybes into yesses (realizing psychological barriers holding you back aren't real)
• the moment Jennifer knew, "I have so much to do." 
• being 100% authentic at all times with all people
• the power of journaling 

Jennifer's core values are Authenticity, Equity, Gratitude, and Knowledge. She is an avid support of BUGS: Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners, pursuing health and social equity for all.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Patrick Mosher. He reminds us that we all have special talents and bottled up wisdom that needs to be shared to make significant impact in the world. "Wisdom isn't wisdom until it's shared." We need to:

• hone our talent
• know our story, our bottled wisdom
• see every interaction as an opportunity to serve

And if we're having trouble identifying those special talents, Patrick encourages us to deviate from the norm, take a left turn, do something that the algorithm wouldn't predict for us. It's in those moments we find our authentic self.  Learn more at Wisdom 4 Humanity. 

Patrick's core philosophies are:

• live 100% empowered
• hone your talent
• put your talent in the world where it will shine the most

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Your host, Donna Peters, focuses on our timely challenge of burnout with psychologist, Dr. John Kello. Burnout is a syndrome, not a buzzword. We explore the physical, psychological, and behavioral symptoms of burnout. How to prevent it, how to recognize it, how to reverse it--for ourselves and for our teams.

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Explore the danger when our personal identities become shrunken by our work identities. Your host, Donna Peters, taps into the mesmerizing mind of innovation leader, Amelia Schaffner. Too often, innovation is talked about only in the context of companies. Here, we focus on approaches for innovating ourselves through:

• 1. associating, 2. questioning, 3. observing, 4. networking, 5. experimenting
• quiet inquiry
• reacquainting ourselves with our 'forgotten mystery'--hidden pockets of who we have been or what we could be
• focusing on the long now vs. the short now
• telling our story from different perspectives

Amelia's core values are actually core questions: the who, the why, and the how.

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Decide to listen to this episode on making good decisions. Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Professor Patrick Noonan on the topic of judgment and decision-making. We explore what it takes to trust our gut and how our biases impact the quality of the decisions we make. Dr. Noonan's own confetti of career decisions that took him from professional musician to Greenpeace to McKinsey to decorated MBA faculty is a bonus to this fun discussion. Hear why we should more often "feed our gut" and make a decision to "go off road" in our careers.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews David O'Coimin, Founder of Nook, and expert on neurodiversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Work spaces are historically, physically designed for the workforce mean. You'll quickly learn here why "one size misfits all" in the workplace. Our unique brains have unique needs. These needs must be met if we strive to balance personal wellbeing and productivity at work. David's research and expertise will make you think differently about physical work spaces, lighting, sound, vibrations, interruptions, temperature, smell, psychological safety.  There are so many a-ha moments in this discussion. You won't think the same about being at work. Enjoy!

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Your host, Donna Peters, chats with CEO, financial strategist and TEDx speaker, Meredith Moore. We cover so much important, provocative ground that's perfect for this time of year, including:

• being clear on our impact and legacy
• getting to "work optional"
• don't want what you don't want
• power dynamics in families where there are imbalances in income, age, or education
• money talk with our kids, our partners, our parents

Meredith's core values are: 

• be intentional about how we surround ourselves with others
• we have a moral obligation to do our best
• help others level up

Meredith C. Moore, Registered Representative, offering securities through NYLIFE Securities LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC, A Licensed Insurance Agency. 1125 Cambridge Square, Suite C, Alpharetta, GA 30009 (770) 587-0281. Financial Adviser offering investment advisory services through Eagle Strategies LLC, A Registered Investment Adviser. NYLIFE Securities LLC and Eagle Strategies LLC are New York Life Companies. Artisan Financial Strategies, LLC, is not owned or operated by NYLIFE Securities LLC or its affiliates.

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Your host, Donna Peters, typically sees three career personas in her coaching practice. The person who says, "I want more." The person who asks "How do I make this big decision?" And the person who says, "I'm stuck." In this episode, we interview a guest who may have been all three across the arc of her incredible career. Kara Kelly is a wealth advisor at Westfuller Advisors and co-founder of Lure, a CBD wellness venture. She focuses her talents on removing the shame from conversations on sex and money. Kara is a former consulting partner with the world's most premier organizations. She's a mom, wife, daughter, friend.  And she hiked with Oprah!

Kara's career journey is shaped by three core values:

• understand the whole person, their complete life, don't just take the pieces
• get to the finish line whole
• justice and equality

We explore how Kara thought about, planned for, and welcomed significant career pivots. Notable quotables include:

• Don't give up on your dream.
• You can be happy every day.
• Decide what you want to do "during the dash." (the dash is that line between your birth date and your death date on the tombstone, in other words, the dash is your life)

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If you're at a career crossroads asking, "Should I be an entrepreneur? Is now the time? Is it for me?" this listen is for you. If you have an entrepreneurial itch, scratch it with this episode. Your host, Donna Peters, interviews serial entrepreneur, West Point grad and Army veteran, and MBA, Samir Patel. We talk about inherent characteristics of entrepreneurs and must-have skills. We discuss the importance of self-awareness and surrounding yourself with the right people. We share the role family plays in an entrepreneur's success. So much packed into this short listen.

Learn more about Trophy Point Investment Group here.

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Money isn't everything, but money impacts everything. Indeed, at the core of every career decision is the component of money, salary, compensation. Our behavior and relationship with money were hardwired early in childhood around the age of seven and have control over our senses, perceptions, decisions, and our identity.

Your host, Donna Peters, interviews behavior and money insights pioneer, Hugh Massie, CEO of DNA Behavior. Hugh shares how critical it is to build positive Money Energy--deciding today how you'll think about money, what your relationshp with money means, and how you will talk about money for the longevity and quality of your life. Can you recall your earliest relationship with money? How does money make you feel? Are you able to observe the emotions and recall some of the decisions you may have made about money based on those feelings?

Do you ask, "How can I make more?" How much is enough? How are my relationships impacted? How do I measure success? How do I better channel money to improve my life and that of many others? Understanding and enhancing our relationship with money helps us create positive money energy and greater wellbeing overall.

Learn more about Money Energy here.

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I'm your host, Donna Peters, and today we talk about one our most requested topics in The Me-Suite, the topic of Trust. If you're a leader, you're not as trusted as you think you are.  That's right. Ashley Reichheld and Amelia Dunlop's recently published research shows how trust impacts the human experience in the workplace--for customers and employees. Their book, The Four Factors of Trust, synthesizes the factors that demonstrate our ability to make and keep good promises.  The four factors are: humanity, transparency, reliability, and capability.  Notable quotables from this episode include:

• Leaders overestimate their trustworthiness by 40%
• 50% of employees don't trust their employer
• Trust is built in moments of vulnerability
• You have to give trust to receive trust

The authors also offer free access to their HXTrustID tool. Check out this tool to learn more about measuring trust and positively impacting the human experience in all we do. We're awake working, or doing something related to work, more hours in a day than we're awake not working. We must get trust at work right.

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Season 5 of the award-winning Me-Suite podcast is underway! I'm your host, Donna Peters. In this season, we shine a mic on our most requested topics from The Me-Suite community--topics from listeners just like you who are career-driven and life-minded. For career professionals, we're awake working, or doing something related to work, more hours in a day than we're awake not working. That's why it's imperative that we shape the role we want work to play in our lives. Check out the almost 200 interviews conducted over the first four seasons of The Me-Suite where our guests are leading their lives with a Me-Suite mindset--with purpose, planning, and power--like C-Suites lead the companies we most admire. If you find our content valuable, share a review. Reviews keep us alive out here. They really do make a difference. Thank you for joining me in The Me-Suite. Let's get in there!

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Our season finale montages are fan favorites, and this is no different! Hear the Season 4 finale bonus episode of The Me-Suite podcast. Your host, Donna Peters, shares a compilation of our guests' "suiteners," advice each guest had for things we can start doing differently on Monday to lead our lives with a Me-Suite mindset.  Enjoy!

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In this bonus episode, your host, Donna Peters, quickly highlights the 3 career personas in her book, Options Are Power: Career Strategies for High Performers Who Want a Life. Which persona best represents where you are at this moment in your career? Are you:

• Exploration Erika
• Crossroads K.T.
• Hamster Wheel Hank

And what is your corresponding next best move?

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Your host, Donna Peters, speaks with the award-winning author of Spacemaker, Daniel Sih. We talk about digital wellness and digital overuse--the why and how of unplugging, unwinding, and making space to think clearly in the digital age.  Daniel shares tips for finding our "productive middle," the optimal balance between productivity and digital technology usage. You'll hear tips for being the:

• email ninja
• list assassin
• prioritization samurai

And it all starts with your awareness.

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• Free book resources: https://spacemakers.com.au/book/free-chapters/
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Daniel's core values are Community, Physical Activity, Playfulness, Hard Work, Learning.

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After two years of isolation, this episode could not be more timely.

Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Eduardo Garcia, Partner and first-generation to the US. Eduardo is an avid Me-Suite listener and nudged us to focus on two topics that needed more attention: stakeholder management and flexibility. Eduardo shares how we cannot rely on our work alone to speak for itself. We must do the work to understand how we are perceived by others. What is our personal brand? And how does knowing our personal brand help us meet stakeholder needs and build relationships through empathy and flexibility? Some notable quotables include:

• everyone has a story we can learn from--invest the time to learn others' stories
• assume positive intention whenever you face friction
• when things are done differently by someone else, there's a reason why, so listen and learn

Eduardo's core values are be provocative, be curious, be tenacious, and stewardship.

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Chris McManus. Chris has helped marshal the careers of thousands of people.  In this episode, we talk about this time of the Great Reflection from two angles:
1) the role leaders play in helping others succeed (inside and outside of the company)
2) the active role we can each play in shaping the future we want to have (inside and outside of the company)

So many powerful stories are packed into this discussion, including:

• leaders create a safe harbor for employees to have conversations about their next career move
• leaders take a personal approach to talent, not a transactional approach
• leaders help people see the whole field of options for their future (and sometimes help others see opportunities they don't see in themselves)
• leaders provide honesty to help others be successful

Chris's Core Values are: respect (with appreciation); loyalty (with support); creativity (with action); courage (with thoughtfulness)

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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Tiffany Kent, CEO of Wealth Engagement. Tiffany shares her powerful, vulnerable story of how growing up without money drove her to the high-pressure environment of Harvard MBA and the world of investment banking. She learned to role-model aggressive behavior, to do what it took to win while managing a marriage and three children. The stress and volatility led her to a crisis moment at 40. She needed a new way of life. Through the serendipity of a parent seminar at her daughter's school, Tiffany came to know her why and launched her financial advisory business focused on wealth creation for women. And men, listen up, as you have an important role to play in this wealth equation.

It's truly amazing how many a-ha moments are packed into this 30 minutes including:

• how childhood experiences shape our relationship with money
• the cleansing power of admitting you've failed
• finding your why around 40
• the role of partners, friends, and mentors in figuring out your next big move

Tiffany's core values are purpose, empathy, and integrity.

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