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We are back for another great interview in our Entelechy Series In today’s episode, we chat with Anita Gardyne, the CEO of Onēva, an in-home care platform allowing enterprises and government agencies to connect employees and their families with trusted caregivers and service providers. Onēva technology app connects FBI background check caregivers who provide in-home services like infant/child care, elder care, special needs care, pet care with individuals or companies offering their employees benefits such as these. Anita grew up in the 80s when she went to UC Berkley to study economics and economics in Black communities. One of the eye-opening lessons for her was seeing the disparity in neighborhoods and communities based on their color. A good example of this was despite growing up in Richmond California, which was next to Silicon Valley, her community never seemed to grow from it. She later got an MBA in economics and economics in the black community. While she studied, she also worked in technology for ATandT and later on moved up in her career to join companies such as Levi Straus, Bell and Seagate. All along Anita had at the back of her mind how growing up, she was her family's caregiver. She had to take care of her niece and nephews who were autistic. Fast forward to years later, Anita had to stay home to raise her children while taking care of her parents, When it was time to go back to work, she tried to find a caregiver to fill her needs of taking care of her parents and her children but, she couldn't find a caregiver she trusted to look after her family. Anita identified a gap in the homecare system and built Onēva to fill it. Onēva, brings a blend of technology (AI), emotional intelligence (EI), and Spiritual Intelligence (SI). Onēva means Trust. One of the benefits of using Onēva is that it's an employee benefits app. Through strong mentorship and partnership with Microsoft and Acrisure, Anita and her team have been able to build into the app a section where employers can add Onēva into their HR systems so that employees can benefit from having access to trusted care and in turn helps employers attract and retain employees. In addition to this, Onēva is bridging the gap between unskilled/skilled workers getting access to well-paying jobs in that the caregivers on the platform are able to set their own rates and hours, therefore creating new small business owners, and leveling the playing field. In conclusion, Anita wants entrepreneurs to know that every founder has their own journey and every journey has lessons in the form of challenges. You can find more information about Onēva on Onēva Website: https://www.oneva.com/ (Onēva.com) LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/agardyne/ (Anita Gardyne) Anita Gardyne Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Kirstin Gooldy

Today, we talk with Troy Akin, the founder of Eco Sports. Troy's story: "I was an NCAA tennis player that always had a passion for health and marketing. I turned vegan for health reasons in 2019. I was playing golf with another vegan friend one day and he asked if my golf glove was vegan. I didn't even think about the fact that sports products could be vegan. After going down the rabbit hole, just about every sport uses animal products mainly including leather for Balls. But even Tennis uses sheep skin in their tennis balls. Not to mention most of these products you can't recycle or aren't biodegradable. I sought to change that. So In November 2021, Eco Sports is releasing Eco Friendly sporting goods. We will continue to add more products each quarter so we can be the go-to sporting goods store to a) help save the planet; b) have a non-animal product option; and c) exceed the quality and durability of sporting goods currently out there. Troy Akin https://ecosports.com (Troy's Website) Eco Sports is a sustainable sporting goods company. With Global Warming, Animal Welfare, and a Less Toxic work environment in mind, Eco Sports was created. Eco Sports uses a Biodegradable, Recyclable, Vegan material for all its Sporting Goods with can’t be found in mainstream Sporting Good Stores. This material is as durable and high quality as any pig or cow skin. Our initial products are focusing on enhancing leather intensive products like Basketballs, Footballs, Soccer Balls, Volleyballs, and Baseball Gloves. Eco Sports is also committed to making the packaging sustainable and to never use plastic or aluminum. Eco Sports promises to give back by donating 10% of the profits immediately to plant trees across the nation on the consumers behalf. We have a goal of improving and evolving all sporting goods with a non animal product, improving our earth we all love and share, and giving back and partnering with many organizations doing the RIGHT THING. https://instagram.com/troyakin (@troyakin on Instagram) https://www.facebook.com/EcoSportsSaveEarth (Troy's Facebook page) Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Kirstin Gooldy

Mason is a serial entrepreneur with fresh food, organics, and sustainability always at the core. His current venture, Mostlygreen.life® is a media company working to make sustainability and environmental awareness more fun and approachable. Mason just left Cece’s® Veggie Co., a category-creating company making high-quality, fresh pasta out of vegetables. Cece’s recently earned the #3 spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the country. Mason and his businesses have also received national innovation awards from CPG industry groups, Dell and PC Magazine. Also, they have received more than 30 diverse local and national awards and have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, and many more. Mason is an avid mentor and has served on numerous non-profit boards. Mason Arnold https://www.mostlygreen.life (Mason's Website) Mason is a serial entrepreneur with fresh food, organics and sustainability always at the core. His current venture, Mostlygreen.life® is a media company working to make sustainability and environmental awareness more fun and approachable. Mason just left Cece’s® Veggie Co., a category-creating company making high-quality, fresh pasta out of vegetables. Cece’s recently earned the #3 spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in the country. Mason and his businesses have also received national innovation awards from CPG industry groups, Dell and PC Magazine. Also they have received more than 30 diverse local and national awards and have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine and many more. Mason is an avid mentor and has served on numerous non-profit boards. https://instagram.com/mostlygreen.life (@mostlygreen.life on Instagram) https://twitter.com/mostlygreen (@mostlygreen on Twitter) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0zD0_JSzvmtgAl2oZ6eK8g (Mason on YouTube) https://www.facebook.com/mostlygreenlife/ (Mason's Facebook page) Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Kirstin Gooldy

Liz Kislik — Harvard Business Review and Forbes contributor and TEDx speaker — offers surprising insights and successful techniques for leadership, mastering collaboration, conflict, talent development, and customer loyalty. Her combination of practical experience, true stories, and current research will inspire listeners to start making a difference right away. Liz Kislik https://lizkislik.com/ (Liz's Website) Liz Kislik — Harvard Business Review and Forbes contributor and TEDx speaker — offers surprising insights and successful techniques for leadership, mastering collaboration, conflict, talent development, and customer loyalty. Her combination of practical experience, true stories, and current research will inspire listeners to start making a difference right away. https://twitter.com/LizKislik (@LizKislik on Twitter) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l-AOBz69KU (Liz on YouTube) Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Kirstin Gooldy

Dan McClure and Jennifer Wilde are choreographers of change. Jenny is Managing Director at Innovation Ecosystem, an organization that offers practical tools and support to deliver a step-change in innovation effectiveness. She met her business partner, Dan, when she was invited by the UN to speak at Berkeley about the innovation lab that she set up in the middle of the earthquake response in Nepal. Today, as a founding partner of Innovation Ecosystem, Dan, sometimes referred to as “The Grandfather of Product Innovation”, is a specialist in disruption, right at the cutting edge of innovation. After working with Fortune 500 companies, governments and some of the world’s largest non-profits and philanthropists, Jenny and Dan are looking to share some of their insights into how all types of businesses need to think outside the box to solve problems. Jennifer Wilde Dan McClure and Jennifer Wilde are choreographers of change. Jenny is Managing Director at Innovation Ecosystem, an organization that offers practical tools and support to deliver a step-change in innovation effectiveness. She met her business partner, Dan, when she was invited by the UN to speak at Berkley about the innovation lab that she set up in the middle of the earthquake response in Nepal. Today, as a founding partner of Innovation Ecosystem, Dan, sometimes referred to as “The Grandfather of Product Innovation”, is a specialist in disruption, right at the cutting edge of innovation. After working with Fortune 500 companies, governments and some of the world’s largest non-profits and philanthropists, Jenny and Dan are looking to share some of their insights into how all types of businesses need to think outside the box to solve problems. https://www.innovationecosystem.com/ (Jennifer's Website) https://twitter.com/Inno_ecosystem (@Inno_ecosystem on Twitter) Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Kirstin Gooldy

Having worked in oncology, neuroscience, and diagnostics, author Michael Biarnes has dedicated his career to improving patient outcomes in the healthcare sector. Along the way, he discovered his passion for mentorship and coaching, striving to help individuals define success for themselves and take tangible steps towards achieving a happier, more balanced, and fulfilling life. His book, Redefining Success, seeks to further that passion. About the Book "Redefining Success is all about achieving greater happiness, fulfillment, and alignment in life around the things that matter to you! The book is the combination of a plethora of amazing interviews, extensive scientific research, and a bit of my own personal experience. My work has shown that we each need to define what "success" means for ourselves because if we don’t live aligned with our own definition of success, happiness and fulfillment will remain elusive no matter how much we accomplish in life." Michael Biarnes Having worked in oncology, neuroscience, and diagnostics, author Michael Biarnes has dedicated his career to improving patient outcomes in the healthcare sector. Along the way, he discovered his passion for mentorship and coaching, striving to help individuals define success for themselves and take tangible steps towards achieving a happier, more balanced, and fulfilling life. His book, Redefining Success, seeks to further that passion. https://www.michaelbiarnes.com/ (Michael's Website) https://instagram.com/michael_biarnes_author (@michael_biarnes_author on Instagram) https://www.facebook.com/michael.biarnes/ (Michael's Facebook page) Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Kirstin Gooldy

Tara Milburn is the Founder and CEO of Ethical Swag, a sustainable branding company that helps brands achieve their ESG goals through sustainable team building, employee recognition, and eco-friendly corporate gifting. Tara Milburn Tara Milburn is the Founder and CEO of Ethical Swag, a sustainable branding company that helps brands achieve their ESG goals through sustainable team building, employee recognition, and eco-friendly corporate gifting. A certified B-Corporation, Ethical Swag has been audited to the highest global standard for sustainability. Tara founded Ethical Swag with a strong belief that our corporate practices and profits don't have to come at the cost of people or planet. With a fully remote team committed to a sustainable work-life balance, her goal is to pursue and promote equitable practices across the entire corporate merchandise supply chain. Tara believes that we all have a role to play in social and environmental sustainability - Ethical Swag started with the desire to make it easier for company owners and brands to make the right decision. https://ethicalswag.com/ (Tara's Website) https://www.facebook.com/ethicalswag (Tara's Facebook page) https://instagram.com/ethicalswag (@ethicalswag on Instagram) https://twitter.com/ethicalswag (@ethicalswag on Twitter) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLQe2_4Tf2k8BOsgM8bWOjA (Tara on YouTube)

Ethan Brown is a recent graduate of Boston University, where he studied Environmental Analysis and Policy and Film and Television. Ethan was never the outdoorsy type growing up, but after studying the risks associated with climate change, he felt compelled to use his years of comedy writing experience as Editor-in-Chief of both his high school and college satire publications to communicate environmental issues to others in a fun and entertaining way. Finding himself with some free time during early quarantine, Ethan launched The Sweaty Penguin Podcast. Since its launch, The Sweaty Penguin has released 80+ episodes, amassed over 13,000 downloads, showcased the work of professors from ten countries across five continents, won three grants, and became a PBS partner. Through The Sweaty Penguin, Ethan aims to make climate change less overwhelming and politicized, and more accessible and fun, which he hopes will lead to more engagement, conversation, and progress. Ethan Brown http://www.thesweatypenguin.com (Ethan's Website) https://instagram.com/sweatypenguinpod (@sweatypenguinpod on Instagram) https://twitter.com/sweatpenguinpod (@sweatpenguinpod on Twitter) https://www.facebook.com/sweatypenguinnews (Ethan's Facebook page)

Welcome to another great episode of Entelechy Leadership Series. This is the first time in our podcast that we have brought back a previous Guest. Today we are joined by John David Mann, who was here on episode 87 talking about the Go-Giver series and Who Moved My Cheese. He is joined by his co-author and wife Ana Gabriel Mann and together they have written the book Go-Giver Marriage: A little story about the Five Secrets to Lasting Love. Ana is a clinical psychiatrist and a licensed family therapist and now an author, while John is the author of the Go-Giver series. John and Ana have been together for 25 years, 10 of those were when they working together and 15 of them have been in Marriage. Their new book the Go-Giver marriage has been in the works since 2005 and has followed the same structure as the Go-Giver series. The book combines parables and practical steps to achieve your goal. At the same time the book has now evolved into a training program for not just married couples but individuals too, with coaches accessible to individuals or teams where the 5 secrets are discussed in depth In this book, Ana and John give their readers 5 secrets of how to have lasting love in their marriage and relationships with other people. This book is both a business book as well as a personal growth book because many entrepreneurs want to know how to balance their work and have a healthy, happy marriage and family life. It focuses on the daily steps that you can apply to change the negative habits, and shift your mindset and behaviors so as to change the dynamic of your marriage. With a focus on letting go of past baggage, communicating apologies, and having a spirit of generosity towards your spouse. A Philosophy that comes out in the book is the way to change your marriage, isn't by working on the marriage per se, but it's by working on yourself. In conclusion, marriage isn't a zero-sum game where we think that if I give you this, then I won't have it. By using the spirit of generosity, it means if for example by giving your partner time in your busy schedule it means you care for them, therefore making your relationship richer. It can be viewed as a rising tide that floats both boats. Ana Gabriel Mann, M.A., holds a Master’s degree in clinical psychology and dance-movement therapy from Antioch New England, where she specialized in working with adults and family therapy. She went on to train and work with renowned Israeli-born therapist Dr. Ruth Holt, a marriage and family specialist who taught couples to identify their patterns of dysfunction and cultivate “love maps” based on Dr. John Gottman’s landmark research. Together they led a highly successful series of therapy groups that gave couples a window into the dynamics of the other marriages in the room. Following her work with Holt, Ana served as clinical director for a New England–based program providing county-wide therapy, education, and services for family members caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease; and as adjunct faculty and student trainer for Antioch New England, utilizing movement therapy to draw on long-term memory in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease to facilitate emotional connection and wholeness. In 1984 she cofounded the New England Institute for Integrative Acupressure, New England’s first college of Chinese medicine, where she co-led programs through 1997. For the past two decades, Ana has worked primarily as a corporate consultant, speaker, trainer, and business coach in both profit and nonprofit sectors. In addition to coaching and teaching the 5 Secrets to Lasting Love, she is the creator and lead facilitator of the Go-Giver Marriage Coaches training program. She is married to John David Mann, her coauthor for “The Go-Giver Marriage.” John David Mann is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the Nautilus Award, the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal), Taiwan's Golden Book Award for...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-ryan/ (Barbara Ryan) is a powerhouse. Because of our interest in the topic of women in leadership, Barbara Ryan brought plenty of insights and experience to our conversation. Barbara founded Barbara Ryan Advisors, a capital markets and communications firm, following a more than 30-year career on Wall Street as a managing director in healthcare for Deutsche Bank. She is a longtime advocate for diversity and inclusion and is now a board director for two companies. Barbara understands that you have to do things differently when you are a woman. Barbara talked about: What it took for her to land her first board position Practical advice and steps women can take to help in their journey to their first board seat The importance of building a network both professionally and personally Barbara is also the founder of Fabulous Pharma Females, a nonprofit organization made up of a strong community of empowered female women leaders with a shared commitment to elevating women across the biopharmaceutical industry. She also writes a monthly column on https://www.pharmexec.com/view/after-blowout-2020-biotech-worst-performing-sector-ytd (PharmaExec). Visit Barbara’s https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-ryan/ (LinkedIn) to learn more about her.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisa-zalabak-4368482b/ (Marisa Zalabak) Marisa is a transformative leader who partners with socially conscious leaders and teams dedicated to positively contributing to the well-being of people and the planet as we navigate the possibilities and challenges of the emerging future. She is an Adaptive Leadership Coach, Organizational Culture Consultant, TEDx and Keynote Speaker, Educational Psychologist, Social-Emotional-Creative Intelligence Specialist, Equity Advisor, and AI Ethicist. She is the founder of Open Channel Culture and Co-Chair of the AI Ethics Education Committee. Highlights from our conversation with Marisa: Adaptive leadership and the importance of it Technology advancements and their ethical issues AI for social good Importance of ethics and philosophy to power and expand the consciousness and safety of technology Awareness and attention, conscious of the design you are making Adapt and flourish, with the right human skills. Improving psychological safety, collaboration, joy, innovation, productivity, and well-being while meeting the needs of the emerging future. Visit Marisa’s https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisa-zalabak-4368482b/ (LinkedIn) to learn more about her. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisa-zalabak-4368482b/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisa-zalabak-4368482b/) marisa zalabak https://openchannelculture.com (marisa's Website) https://instagram.com/MarisaZalabak (@MarisaZalabak on Instagram) https://www.ted.com/talks/marisa_zalabak_educational_fire_drills_for_flourishinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvlPn3aMCQk (marisa on YouTube) Marisa Zalabak: * Founder, Open Channel Culture *Educational Psychologist *Adaptive Leadership Coach *TEDx & Keynote Speaker Marisa is a : *Certified member of MIT’s u.lab in Leading for the Emerging Future *Co-Chair of the IEEE.org AI Ethics Education Committee *Contributing author, recommended standards for the ethical design of Artificial Intelligent Systems *Co-author of effective approaches for transdisciplinary collaboration *Advisory committee, Million Peacemakers, a UN approved non-profit training global peacemakers *Leadership team, Women4Solutions: a global network advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Her work, Open Channel Culture, provides training in skills that support Adaptive Leadership, increasing human flourishing by transforming organizational cultures that foster potential, engagement, motivation, creativity and joy. Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Kirstin Gooldy

We are back for another great interview in our Entelechy Series, with Phil Johnson https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipjpjohnson/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipjpjohnson/) In today’s episode, we talk about emotional intelligence. World Economic Forum defines it as one of the top 10 must-have skills that will enable us as individuals and businesses to embrace change and raise our consciousness. Our guest today is Phil Johnson, He is the founder and CEO of Master of Business Leadership (MBL) Program, an executive coach, a teacher and mentor, a lecturer and keynote Speaker, a Podcast Co-Host, and a revenue growth career advancement coach. Phil was born with dyslexia, therefore he had difficulty trying to spell, read, and occasionally hear. It caused him to re-arrange words and numbers in his mind. As a result, he had to rely more on his intuition, which helped him to get greater insight into himself and other people. After the death of his mother at age of 14, he decided he wanted to change his life. He became this super overachiever and ended up spending 20 years in the semiconductor industry, finishing as an executive. After 20 years in the industry, Phil realized that there was a huge need to change humanity's trajectory to change the way we did things and the way we do things. That motivated him to create the Master of Business leadership Program. What is Emotional Intelligence and what does it look like? Its benefits are that it reduces the drama and chaos both within the individual and around the individual, You become less resistive, less judgemental, less attached to outcomes, and that enables you to see an individual and see ourselves for who we really are, thereby making leaders more trusted and inspirational. What is the ROI on applying higher consciousness and market valuation to organizations and businesses? We're at the very start of the development of a multitrillion-dollar industry because of the tsunami of change we're facing in the development of our emotional intelligence. Isn't a solution to the challenges we face. It's the only solution to the challenges we face. Both our educational system and employment have failed humanity in that they focused on the development,-Not the development, but the enhancement of our intellectual ability. These structures did very little to develop our emotional intelligence and really our IQ and EQ are meant to work together. Not everybody's born with a high IQ but anybody can develop their emotional intelligence since It's an experiential process. People aren't born with emotional intelligence it's developed. You've developed this kind of five-part teaching and coaching program for executives that, that begins or applies that consciousness first to the root cause and analysis that says, where are we? Why does that kind of start with authenticity and understanding and truth-telling from the executive's point of view? If you’re wondering where to begin on your own path of Emotional Intelligence, you can start with developing an emotional connection to a vision of some desired result you want to achieve. That emotional connection becomes the fuel for the journey. You must have a desire to achieve some outcome that's greater than your fear of leaving your comfort zone. Because the development of emotional intelligence is an experiential process, rather than an intellectual process. You can only really connect the dots in hindsight after you've taken the leap of faith. It always requires an initial leap of faith based on a vision of the desired result that's motivating you to take action. In conclusion, When it comes to people willing to work on their emotional intelligence, age, geography, industry, race, or culture are not factors. Emotional intelligence depends on where an individual is on their own journey. While for leaders who want to identify Emotional Intelligence, it's a...