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5 Steps to Building a Culture of Kindness

I know we want to believe kindness is easy. Yet, that’s not my experience. We are surrounded by busyness and judgment. It’s how the world operates.

While kindness may be an authentic place inside of us, I believe it gets hindered by our conditioning and everything happening around us. Do you agree?

This week, I’m excited to welcome special guest Randy McNeely. Join us for a conversation on creating a culture of kindness that extends kindness to yourself and everyone around you. Randy will share his 5-step formula with us.

We’re back for Season 8! Roz Jones, Mireille Toulekima, and I are ready to start the new season on our new day and time.

What’s in your cup?

About Randy: I'm a husband to an angel and a father of five wonderful children. Ask my wife or children about me and they may tell you I'm a little goofy. I love to have fun. I've been know to speak in spoonerisms, or roonerspisms, depending on how you see things. I enjoy whistling and singing and often enjoy making up my own words to popular songs. I also get the cooking bug from time to time and get excited as I create what my kids affectionately call, "Randy's Risky Recipes." To date no one has gotten food poisoning and they've even enjoyed most of my culinary creations. Thank goodness taste buds get regenerated so quickly!

I authored, The Kindness Givers Formula 2.0: A Five-Step Guide to Reaching Hearts, Inspiring Change, and Healing the World Through Love. It includes an easy-to-learn formula for ingraining the intentional daily habit of kindness giving in your personal and professional life. It also has several true stories that illustrate how kindness, love's delivery agent, can change lives and bring hope and happiness to hearts and heal the world.

#podcast #kindness #selfcare #selfcompassion #emotionalintelligence #leadership

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Activating Your Greatness - Owning Your Yes and Your No - Epi 89

So often, we visualize our greatness as the BIG things we accomplish. But, I assert greatness is a cumulative state. It builds day by day, decision by decision.

As you lead yourself and others, what micro-steps can you take to activate your greatness so that you and everyone around you benefit from the full, authentic expression of YOU?

Roz Jones, Mireille Toulekima, and I are pumped to close the season with TEDx & Keynote Speaker, Certified Life, Leadership & Executive Coach Lolita E. Walker. I'll be LIVE in Hawaii!

Let's get ready to Lead ABOVE the Grind.

 

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Adjusting Your Emotional Thermostat - Epi 88

What's your emotional temperature?

 

I realize the answer may vary on different days. Yet, most of us have a set point as our baseline. Next, consider how skillfully you can return to baseline when a triggering even pushes your buttons.

You won't want to miss this show! Four-time author and global conference speaker Dr. Patricia Baxter joins The Coffee Table!

 

Dr. Baxter says, "All emotions should be allowed in the workplace because we are people and we carry them with us. And we are capable of expressing them. What is important to remember is they don't all have to go to the nth degree. Make sure you have a strategy and a plan for when those emotions emerge."

 

Do you have a plan? Mireille Toulekima, Roz Jones, and I are ready to turn up the heat and uncover the importance of adjusting our emotional thermostat.

 

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How to Live a Fulfilling Life - Epi 87

I work a lot. You probably do too.

It is just what we do as leaders in the corporate and entrepreneurial space. However, as we continue to work the days away, a critical question lurks below the surface. Are we searching for something? Is our busyness a mask for a void that remains unfilled?

Joining The Coffee Table this week is special guest Ramon Ray. Ramon will help us dive deeper into this as we unpack the keys to living a life fulfilled. Mireille, Roz, and I are here for it!

Don't miss this one!

 

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Is The Great Resignation Just the Beginning? - Epi 84

Organizations are scrambling under a barrage of anti-work trends. Whether it is the great resignation, quiet quitting, quiet firing, or simply a variety of unfilled positions, many employers are stunned and asking what's next.  In fact, in just June of 2022, the US Labor Department reports 4.2 million workers quit during the month.

 

This week on The Coffee with Rhonda Show, we'll explore the current state of anti-work trends. We'll discuss actions companies can take to create anti-work, trend-resistant cultures where employees thrive.

 

Special guest Brandy Ferrer joins the coffee table. I'm ready. Roz Jones is ready, and Mireille Toulekima is ready. 

 

Are you ready? Don't forget to share what's in your cup!

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Who Are You? Lesson’s Learned from Serena Williams - Epi 86

Serena Williams retired in 2022 with a list of unmatched achievements. As one of the greatest women's tennis players of all time, she is also known as the G.O.A.T. among modern-day female athletes.

 

This week on The Coffee with Rhonda Show, we ask the question, “Who Are You?” We’ll answer the question in the context of lessons learned from Serena Williams.

 

Joining us this week is very special guest, Ophelia Byers! Roz Jones, Mireille Toulekima, and I are ready to explore the off-court impact of a modern-day great like Serena Williams!

 

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Is Imposter Syndrome Holding You Back? - Epi 85

Have you ever felt like a fraud? Like at any minute, everyone is going to find out the truth about you?

 

If you answered yes, you are not alone. Research indicates that up to 70% of adults struggle with imposter syndrome at one time or another. Even those who have achieved great success struggle with it.

 

Did you know Maya Angelou shared her feelings about imposter syndrome? She often felt like a fraud, once saying, "I have written 11 books, but each time I think, 'uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.'"

 

What can we do to overcome imposter syndrome, especially if it keeps us from showing up fully and authentically in our true power? Joining us this week at the coffee table is special guest Alli Rizacos! Roz Jones, Mireille Toulekima, and I are soooooo ready for this one!

 

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Why Women Are Hurting Themselves By Not Sharing Their Achievements - Epi 83

Did you know that women share their success achievements much less than men?

 

An article on Medium by Kelly Reeves states, "Despite this, a LinkedIn study showed women are far less braggy about their successes than men. Their profiles are shorter, and “even when they had similar jobs and skill levels, women would still include 11% less of their skills than men on their profiles.”

Yet, in another article on Forbes, they state, "self-promotion is also an effective counterbalance to gender bias."

By not sharing their achievements, women may be handing their seats at the table to someone else.

Women are conditioned to be modest and humble, which feels like a contradiction to being loud and proud about what we have accomplished. This can be tough to overcome.

 

So, are you comfortable sharing your achievements? Why or why not?

 

Join us for the conversation as special guest Paulette Dale returns to the Coffee Table for Part 2 of our 2-part series.

During the show, we shared a video clip. Here is the link to the Sex and the City clip we played: https://youtu.be/ZBkoJLclZkk

Roz Jones, Mireille Toulekima, and I are ready to Lead ABOVE the Grind. Are you?

 

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How and Why You Should Say No - Epi 82

No is a complete sentence!

Or is it? So many of us struggle with saying no because we fear it will create conflict. Yet, no can be one of the best tools in your toolbox for personal and professional development and well-being.

This is part 1 of our 2-part series with the amazing Paulette Dale.  We rarely do return guests, but this Saturday, Mireille Toulekima, Roz Jones, and I are excited to welcome Paulette back to The Coffee Table.

View the Ted Lasso clip we showed during the show: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyTD-JA4qys 

 

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Personal Development - Epi 81

Information is everywhere.

When was the last time you watched a video, attended a conference, or read a book? Most of us have probably done at least one of these recently. 

But do these activities mean you are engaged in personal development? Some would say yes. 

Join us this week for The Coffee with Rhonda Show where we will discuss the gift and the challenge of personal development. We'll talk about what it is and what it is not. Joining Roz Jones, Mireille Toulekima, and myself at the coffee table this week is special guest Phetso Ntsowe.

Let's Lead ABOVE the Grind!

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