Paradigm Shift With Christina Martini

In this episode, Christina Martini and Kass Thomas discuss: Kass’s newest book, Dancing with Riches.  Finding joy and happiness in our lives.  Generosity of spirit for yourself and others.  Being present in all things and all places.    Key Takeaways: You do not have to do anything specific to achieve joy and happiness. It is about being yourself.  Recognize and acknowledge what it is in your life that is so vital that without it you wouldn’t be happy. Acknowledge what it is that brings you joy.  COVID is inviting flexibility, alterations, creative capacities, and risk taking, not to get sick, necessarily, but taking risks to see not how you might fail, but how you not only survive, but you can thrive. Don’t sweat the small stuff…and it’s all small stuff. This too shall pass.    "If you're willing to acknowledge what your gifts are, then your relationship with yourself, with your body, with other people, with money, with business allows you to not seek a purpose

In this episode, Christina Martini and Kass Thomas discuss: How Kass’s background has affected her personal and professional lives.  Access Consciousness to know that you know.  Kass’s Seven Steps to Flawless Communication (her book has been translated into 20 languages).  Authenticity, genuineness, and vulnerability.    Key Takeaways: Be aware of what people are willing to hear and understand how to speak in a way that is not offensive to those people.  Allow space and time for repositioning and finding who you really are.  Each and every person in this world is vital to this planet. Don’t let your business run you.  You have to fill your own well before you can gift yourself to others and help to fill other people.    "If you are really willing to honor yourself and to take care of you, fill your cup up with water, let your cup of water overflow, then you will always have more to give to other people." — Kass Thomas   About Kass Thomas: Kass Thom

In this episode, Christina Martini and Venus Castleberg discuss: Giving and receiving to your business.  The relationship between your business and your life.  Finding the right relationships in your life and business.  Regular rewards as momentum for creating the life you want to live.    Key Takeaways: If you are considering a career change, first write down and understand what you want your life to be like.  Whatever brings you joy doesn’t have to be big. It starts with the little things that bring you happiness and joy.  Choose relationships (business or personal) who make you feel better when you leave their presence.  Give yourself 1 hour per day, and 1 day per week to do something that recharges you.    —  Venus Castleberg   Connect with Venus Castleberg: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adventureswithvenus/ (https://www.instagram.com/adventureswithvenus/)   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/venuscastleberg (https://www.facebook.com

In this episode, Christina Martini and Venus Castleberg discuss: Living with gratitude for everything, even the trials and the struggles.  Asking for what you want.  Trying without fear of failure to develop your why.  Getting out of our own way.    Key Takeaways: Nobody wants to think they are broken, nobody wants to think they need help.  Judging kills, it stops what is possible, and it stops creation and growth.  Everything you are looking for is already within you, if you just look.  You choose what you want to create based on the thought patterns and beliefs in your brain.    "What and why comes from living your life. It's not that you necessarily know everything that you want upfront, you start to discover that as you're living your life." —  Venus Castleberg   Connect with Venus Castleberg: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adventureswithvenus/ (https://www.instagram.com/adventureswithvenus/)   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/venusc

In this episode, Christina Martini and Brendon Watt discuss: Choosing what is true to you.  Finding awareness of your thoughts and their correlation to your life.  Brendon’s journey in discovering and teaching.  Keep creating and keep wondering.    Key Takeaways: Everything you are today is a result of the choices that you made in your past.  Things don’t happen to you, you always have a choice.  Add kindness to your life, not just toward others, but also toward yourself.  Don’t try to figure out your whole future. Be present in your life and enjoy it.    "We have choice. We can either be unhappy and negative and judge ourselves, or we can choose to actually have more joy in our lives and create a different world, create a different space where we can actually thrive, and move forward to something we'll all be a lot more proud of." —  Brendon Watt   Connect with Brendon Watt: Website: https://www.brendonwatt.com/ (https://www.brendonwatt.com/) &

In this episode, Christina Martini and Brendon Watt discuss: How Brendon was able to change his own life.  Why New Year’s Resolutions don’t tend to work for most people.  Understanding what is yours and what is not yours.  Honestly looking at yourself and the choices you make.    Key Takeaways: Get present with yourself. Understand what you are choosing at every moment.  Question, question, question with everything. Don’t just go to judgment, ask what is possible.  You cannot change anything that is not yours.  Your point of view is what is creating your reality.    "As soon as you acknowledge something, you can change it...You are the driver of your life." —  Brendon Watt   Connect with Brendon Watt: Website: https://www.brendonwatt.com/ (https://www.brendonwatt.com/) & https://www.accessconsciousness.com/ (https://www.accessconsciousness.com/)  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUIwd0enUwbkFgE0yUkQEg (https://www.youtube.com/c

In this episode, Christina Martini, Octavian Pantis, and Captain Emil Dobrovolschi discuss: Managing risk and dealing with uncertainty.  What we can learn from aviation when things don’t go as planned.  Learning from industry specific websites, not just social media. Wrestling with ethical issues.   Key Takeaways: Don’t postpone things, they only gather and the weight gets too heavy and overwhelming.  When something goes wrong, it is never the fault of just one thing. There are always multiple factors.  Do the right thing, at the right moment. Don’t do everything at the last moment, even if you can usually accomplish it. The right thing is always the right thing to do, even when it is difficult.    "If you can do it today, do it today. Don’t leave it until the last minute." — Octavian Pantis Connect with Octavian Pantis: Website: https://octavianpantis.com/ (https://octavianpantis.com/)  Book: https://darkcockpitbook.com/ (https://darkcockpitbook.com/)  Li

In this episode, Christina Martini, Octavian Pantis, and Captain Emil Dobrovolschi discuss: How Emil and Octavian’s backgrounds prepared them for and translate into a career focused on writing about and consulting on leadership. The bedrock of communication.  Utilizing technology properly for the best outcome.  Moving from copilot to captain.    Key Takeaways: In times of change, people are looking for ideas and inspiration.  As a professional, try to be prepared all the time, for every flight, not just for the exam.  Just because we have the technology to do so, we should not try to be in 2, 3, or even 4 places at once.  If you want your flight to be good, you need your crew to be with you - the same thing in business. If you want your product or service to be good, you need your team to be with you.    "If you want to be a communicator, you need to be present in that conversation, whether it's on the phone or live and in person, whether you're on the sending

In this episode, Christina Martini and Amii Barnard-Bahn discuss: Managing vs mentoring vs leadership. What it means to be a true leader.  When to consider working with a coach.  Tips to consider approaching your manager for a promotion.   Key Takeaways: “Before you're a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” - Jack Welch If you are valued at your organization, go to HR or your boss and ask if they will sponsor you for executive coaching. Everyone can benefit from a coach. Have promotion and compensation discussions as two different discussions. Show your best self when you are interviewing, whether with your own leadership or with a new company.    "Don’t grade yourself on the feedback you get, grade yourself on your response." —  Amii Barnard-Bahn   About Amii Barnard-Bahn: Amii is an executive coach, strategic advisor and keynote speaker who specializes in accelerating the success of compliance and le

In this episode, Christina Martini and Amii Barnard-Bahn discuss: How Amii’s Promotability Index can help you in your workplace as well as individually.  The five key elements of promotability (and what you can do at any stage of your career). Creating a culture of consistent promotability within your company.  The importance of mentors and allyship.    Key Takeaways: There is a way to give feedback that is effective, and where people can hear you.  Good presentation skills can be learned by anyone, you just have to practice.  It is important to invest in relationships and understand how you are perceived and your impact on those in your team and in the leadership. If you don’t have a good boss that is giving you the feedback you need, you can try and get it from the other people.    "Companies, especially if they want to be diverse and inclusive, need to be able to articulate to employees who are promoted or not promoted, how to get there, and what they're missing."

In this episode, Christina Martini and Pat Milhizer discuss: Hardball questions and crisis communication.  Navigating tricky waters with customers and the media.  Developing relationships with reporters and other news outlets.  Repurposing social media for other opportunities.    Key Takeaways: You should take a holistic approach to everything, especially a crisis, to not just cope with the crisis, but also to find clarity and answers. Having a personal approach, where you’re not being too combative, can often work best when working with reporters.  You make your own luck - pick the right spot and be ready for any opportunity to get in front of the public.  Never say (or write) something to a reporter that you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the newspaper.    "If you want good press, you’ve got to make time for your PR reps." —  Pat Milhizer   Connect with Pat Milhizer: Twitter: https://twitter.com/patmilhizer?lang=en (https://twitter.com/patmil

In this episode, Christina Martini and Pat Milhizer discuss: The art of media relations.  Controlling the elements of the pitch to get the story that you want.  The relationship between risk and control.  The crucial role of preparation in media relations.    Key Takeaways: Your experience is your strength. Those things that you have seen and experienced as you grow in your professional career are what give you strength now.  The only people who control the media are those who work in the media.  You have news the audience wants. The audience wants to hear good things. Skipping prep can spark regret.  It is worth the 30 minute practice to keep the positive event positive.    "We have to do the small things right, or the big things won’t matter." —  Pat Milhizer   Connect with Pat Milhizer: Twitter: https://twitter.com/patmilhizer?lang=en (https://twitter.com/patmilhizer?lang=en)  Website: https://www.milhizerpublicrelations.com/ (https://www

In this episode, Christina Martini and Steve Vincze discuss: Understanding what is important to you down in your core.  The fear of the unknown and its relationship to compliance.  The goal of risk assessments and managing the good, the bad, and the indifferent thoughtfully.  Leading with principles and values.    Key Takeaways: Knowledge is power. If you know where the risks are and have navigated the path, you can be aggressive in your forward momentum.  It’s all about inspiring and motivating people to be something to be a part of something greater than just their own self interest We can all be better. By recognizing what is broken, we can only move forward and grow.  Be selfless. Care about those around you. Compliance isn't about you being compliant, it's about what your actions do to affect others.   "It's about inspiring and motivating others for a cause that’s greater than yourself." —  Steve Vincze   Connect with Steve Vincze: Website: https://tr

In this episode, Christina Martini and Steve Vincze discuss: Building bridges between law, business, science, medicine, and government.  Steve’s journey through COVID and how it has changed his perspective on business and humanity.  Refreshing how we look at compliance today.  What to do now with your business’s compliance.    Key Takeaways: Compliance isn’t a negative thing. It enables you to navigate risks with confidence and allow your business to succeed.  As businesses, we must adjust and take the new technology usage into account, take a plan of action, and execute on that plan.  The new generation of leaders are wanting to be proactive and take steps to comply as compared to 20 years ago.  The sooner you act, the sooner you nip the problem in the bud.    "Take the assessment, know where you are as a baseline so you can measure against it. Once you have that assessment, develop an implementation plan that scales up against those risks that are commensura

In this episode, Christina Martini and Leo Bottary discuss: The ladder of inference.  Being open to other people’s ideas and opinions in any group or team. The power of me, the power of we, and the relationship between the two.  Seeing teammates as fellow human beings and creating a sense of belonging.    Key Takeaways: You can’t be a team unless you bridge the gap from me to we.  We are capable of doing so much more when we work together. In any team, you matter because nobody but you can bring what you bring to the table.  We are not just fellow employees, or teammates. But rather, we are fellow human beings.    "When we look at assessments, not only for ourselves, but when we start sharing our results with other people and start looking at theirs, we can start appreciating people's differences as real gifts. They are gifts to the team, that they see the world differently, that they have different talents, that they have different ways of contributing to the team. B

In this episode, Christina Martini and Leo Bottary discuss: The power in learning in teams and in conversation.  Taking it beyond the book club.  Five factors as the fuel of the learning achieving cycle.  Taking opportunities that cross your path.   Key Takeaways: We learn things more deeply when we learn it together.  It’s about creating a culture of raising the standard of excellence everyday.  Leadership matters, an individual member can be toxic or can be an incredible influence on the rest of the team. We don’t grow unless we take ourselves outside of our comfort zone.   "The more willing you are to bring tough challenges or big opportunities to the table for your group to help you with, the more productive you're going to be." — Leo Bottary   Connect with Leo Bottary:   Website: https://leobottary.com/ (leobottary.com) Show: https://leobottary.com/subscribe-to-podcast/ (leobottary.com/subscribe-to-podcast) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/

In this episode, Christina Martini and Yonason Goldson discuss: The crisis of ethics facing the world today.  Treating others fairly without unreasonable expectations.  The onset of COVID and how it has added to Yonason’s message personally and professionally. Supporting and lifting one another through struggles and life.  Earning trust before demanding trust.    Key Takeaways: When it comes to ethics, the first place to start is with ourselves.  There have to be consequences and uncomfortable conversations when performance does not meet standards, however, there should be incentives for good behavior, not just punishment for bad behavior.  We are all having different challenges - we need to find ways that we can lift and support one another.  Let others speak, hear their points of view, and ideas will often emerge from unlikely sources or people who would not have been heard otherwise.    "If employers would say to their employees, ‘Listen, we understand this

In this episode, Christina Martini and Yonason Goldson discuss: Yonason’s journey to keynote speaking, including teaching, hitchhiking, and living in Israel. Understanding both sides of an argument or a position to better understand your position.  The value in giving and receiving and creating a culture of trust.  The mindset of ethical decision making.    Key Takeaways: You will hear more if you listen without the intent to reply. You will learn more about them and about yourself. The more we understand people, the more we understand our place in the world.  It is fashionable to seek the truth, but it is not fashionable to find the truth.  No culture can thrive, or even survive, without trust.  Compliance is the starting point. It's not the endpoint. Compliance is often the enemy of ethics.   "The ability to understand where someone else is coming from, to see an issue from their side, makes it much easier to actually have some kind of constructive disagreement, whi

In this episode, Christina Martini and Leslie Zane discuss: The Brand Connectome.  Cracking the code on brand growth.  Common misconceptions and misperceptions about branding.  Differences between new brands and established brands.    Key Takeaways: A Brand Connectome goes beyond what the company puts out, and goes into what we, as consumers, put into the brand individually.  Perceptions drive everything, not price or differentiation.  Your brand is not stuck where it is. Brands are dynamic and resilient when managed properly.  Established brands can grow quickly and with new waves of growth as they get rid of old, negative associations.    "If you want to grow your brand in the marketplace, you first have to grow your brand in the subconscious." — Leslie Zane   Connect with Leslie Zane: Website: https://lesliezane.com/ (lesliezane.com) & https://triggers.com/ (triggers.com) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliepicotzane/ (linkedin.com/in/

In this episode, Christina Martini and Leslie Zane discuss: Leslie’s earlier career and how she learned to implement her own vision and philosophy of how brands should be marketing themselves.  How Leslie defines a brand and how a brand is its most effective.  The beginning and growth of Leslie’s company, Triggers.  Making your brand the dominant, instinctive choice to consumers.    Key Takeaways: A brand is a collection of associations, both positive and negative, in our memories and our subconscious.  There is more to branding than what you see in research. There are powerful codes and queues that ignite our memory and draw a connection out of us. You can use these ideas that already exist to become a way to leverage your brand growth.  Everything is about brand and has the potential to be thought about as a brand.    "Brands exist in the minds of consumers, and that is really how we need to be thinking of them." — Leslie Zane   Connect with Leslie Zane