112: Dr. Steven Stein — How to Gain Emotional Intelligence and Build Hardiness as a Leader

October 09, 2024 by Cal Walters

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Dr. Steven Stein is a world-renowned clinical psychologist, international best-selling author and sought-after speaker, and founder and Executive Chair of Multi-Health Systems (MHS), a publisher of scientifically validated assessments for over 40 years, which has been named a three-time winner of Profit 100 (fastest growing companies in Canada), one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies since 2013, and Canada's 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures (2016, Waterstone).

A leading expert on psychological assessment and emotional intelligence, he has consulted with military and government agencies, including the Canadian Forces, U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, special units of the Pentagon, FBI Academy, as well as corporate organizations, including American Express, Air Canada, Canyon Ranch, Coca-Cola (Mexico), and professional sports teams.

Dr. Stein consults with numerous reality TV shows, including Big Brother Canada, The Amazing Race Canada, MasterChef Canada, Bachelor Canada, Real Housewives of Toronto, Bachelor in Paradise, Blown Away, and many others, providing psychological expertise and candidate selection assessments.

Dr. Stein co-authored Hardiness: Making Stress Work for You to Achieve Your Life Goals and is the author of The EQ Leader and Emotional Intelligence for Dummies. He also co-authored the international best-seller The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success and wrote Make Your Workplace Great: The 7 Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent Organization.

He has appeared on more than 100 TV and radio shows, including CNBC’s Squawk Box, Canada AM, Breakfast Television, The Fifth Estate, and Fox Business Report. He has also been quoted in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Fast Company, Inc., Fortune, Huffington Post, The National Post, Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star.

Dr. Stein has presented on emotional intelligence and hardiness to audiences throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia

Dr. Stein currently teaches at the Directors College, an Executive Program from the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University, Canada. He is a past Chairperson of the Psychology Foundation of Canada. He is a former assistant professor in the psychiatry department at the University of Toronto and a former adjunct professor of psychology at York University in Toronto. He is a past President of the Ontario Psychological Association and a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association.

The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success

By Stein, Steven J., Book, Howard E.

The EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations through Emotional Intelligence

By Stein, Steven J.

Hardiness: Making Stress Work for You to Achieve Your Life Goals

By Stein, Steven J., Bartone, Paul T.

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110-11: Charlie Watkins — Throw No Rocks: A Man's Guide to Success through Partnership with God

July 11, 2024 by Cal Walters

I could not be more excited to welcome Charlie Watkins — my mentor and one of the wisest people I know — on the show for a two-part conversation about his new book, Throw No Rocks: A Man's Guide to Success through Partnership with God.

Charlie is so wise and this conversation was so rich that I decided to break it up into two parts and not edit out some of the content. I want you all to get to fully hear the powerful insights he shares in this book.

Part 1: How Forgiveness Breeds Success | Throw No Rocks: A Man's Guide to Success through Partnership with God

During Part 1 of our conversation, Charlie shares how he was able to forgive his father, seek his father’s forgiveness, and how that process unlocked unexpected success at home, at work, and in his walk with God.

Below you can find links to watch Part 1 of this conversation on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Part 2: Worth the Wait: Selling Business for 11X More | Throw No Rocks: A Man's Guide to Success through Partnership with God

During Part 2 of our conversation, Charlie shares the difference between waiting and waiting on God. He shares powerful lessons from seasons of waiting for his business to sell and waiting to win a battle with cancer. He also shares practical advice for what leaders can do during those seasons of waiting and his top advice for leaders.

Below you can find links to watch Part 2 of this conversation on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Charlie Watkins is a Christian husband, father, grandfather and leader. He came to Jesus in 1980 while serving as a nuclear trained officer aboard a US Navy Cruiser, where he was led to the Lord by the ship's doctor.

After leaving the Navy in 1982 he has held senior leadership positions in several businesses. God has rescued, healed and mentored him through many trials, including cancer, open heart surgery, business failures and successes, transitions and many household moves.

His heart’s desire is to impart the most important truths to men so that they can find true success as God's husbands, fathers and leaders, and change the trajectories of their lives, marriages, families and the nations. Charlie has led men's groups, home groups and spoken in churches. He currently leads a men’s group at his local church, The Point, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

He's been married to Blythe, the love of his life, since June of 1977. Blythe and Charlie have two grown Christian children. They love the people their children married and count their children as their closest friends. They have five terrific grandsons, all mighty men of God in the making. For most of the past 25 years, Charlie has mentored and worked with leaders.

Since October of 2018 he has been serving as President and CEO of Landmark Media Enterprises and Dominion Enterprises, a private conglomerate of data and software businesses. Charlie is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and holds a master's in business from William & Mary. He also serves on the board of ICM, “The Global Church Developer,” a ministry that partners with indigenous people in the poorest regions of the world to build churches and disciple people.

Throw No Rocks: A Man's Guide to Success Through Partnership with God

By Charlie Watkins

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108: Jamie Winship — How to Avoid an Identity Crisis and Discover Your True Calling

July 11, 2024 by Cal Walters

Jamie Winship has decades of experience bringing peaceful solutions to areas of the world that experience the highest levels of conflict. After a distinguished career in law enforcement in the metro Washington DC area, Jamie had a unique opportunity to bring his identity-centric approach of transformation to the field of education.

He earned an MA in English and accepted a position at a university in Indonesia. Jamie developed a unique language acquisition program based on this premise: identity transformation is the key to acquiring new levels of learning in any field. His work drew the attention of Fulbright and other educational institutions which extended his work worldwide over the past several decades.

Jamie has worked with leaders in professional sports, business, education, law enforcement, government, non-profit and other sectors. Jamie and his wife, Donna, are co-founders of Identity Exchange, a training and consulting agency that helps individuals and teams discover new levels of creativity and resiliency within the framework of true identity.

Get Jamie's book Living Fearless:

Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

By Jamie Winship

Learn more about Identity Exchange: https://www.identityexchange.com/

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109: Julian Treasure — Top TED Speaker and Speaking Expert on How to Speak So People Want to Listen

July 10, 2024 by Cal Walters

Julian Treasure is a top-rated international speaker on sound and the critical communication skills of listening and speaking.

Collectively, Julian’s five TED Talks have been viewed over 150 million times. How to speak so that people want to listen is the sixth most-viewed TED talk of all time. In live or virtual keynotes, or in bite-sized appearances via ThinkersOne, Julian delivers engaging, entertaining and transformational content, and is equally potent and effective with live or virtual delivery.
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His talks enhance business effectiveness, particularly for those in sales or leadership roles, as well as enriching relationships at work and at home.

His presenting skills and innovative use of sound make his talks visceral and potent experiences that are always highly rated by delegates.In addition to keynote speeches, Julian can also arrange structured training or workshops for your company.

How to be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening (Communication Skills Book)

By Treasure, Julian

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107: Dr. Anna Lembke — Find Joy and Focus in a Dopamine-Overloaded World

May 22, 2024 by Cal Walters

Dr. Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.

In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop, which was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic. Dr. Lembke also appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, an instant New York Times Bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world. Dr. Lembke explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain. Most important, she tells readers how to find the delicate balance between the two. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives.

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

By Lembke, Dr. Anna

The Official Dopamine Nation Workbook: Practical Guide to Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

By Lembke, Dr. Anna

On this episode, Dr. Anna Lemke discusses the paradox of modern life, where despite unprecedented wealth and technological progress, people seem to be unhappier and in more pain than ever before. She explains how our brains are not well-suited for the world we live in, which is filled with constant access to pleasurable substances and behaviors. This leads to a downregulation of feel-good neurotransmitters and a chronic dopamine deficit state. Dr. Lemke also highlights the rise of digital addictions and the importance of mindfulness in observing our thoughts and behaviors without judgment.

We also discuss the impact of digital devices and dopamine-inducing behaviors on our lives, the difference between shame and guilt, the role of community in addressing shame, and the importance of embracing boredom. They also explore the benefits of dopamine fasting, the impact of these behaviors on our ability to enjoy simple pleasures, and the recommended duration of dopamine fasting. Dr. Lembke shares commonalities she has observed in successful recovery and offers advice for parents navigating the modern world.