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Conversations From The Heart
Hosted by Amplify Voices · EN
Conversations from the Heart, is an award-winning podcast sharing the humanity of extraordinary people standing up for what they believe in. Each episode is a heartfelt conversation between Pete Carroll, Audrey Cavenecia, and one of their guests, who include nationally-renowned thought leaders and changemakers. But these are not journalistic or celebrity interviews; they’re meaningful, vulnerable exchanges that bring out the raw and real parts of each guest, their struggles as well as their strengths, and the strategies they use to navigate the world.
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Ranjay Gulati
Nov 3, 202100:39:57Tap to summarizeRanjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Until recently, he chaired the Advanced Management Program, the flagship senior leader executive program, at the school. Professor Gulati studies how “resilient” organizations—those that prosper both in good times and bad—drive growth and profitability. His work bridges strategy (establishing clear strategic pillars for growth), organizational design (reimagining purposeful and collaborative organizational systems), and leadership (fostering inspired, courageous and caring execution). Professor Gulati was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite. The Economist, Financial Times, and the Economist Intelligence Unit have listed him as among the top handful of business school scholars whose work is most relevant to management practice. His research has been published in leading academic journals of business, the Harvard Business Review, and a range of other outlets. He is the author of a number of books. He has been a frequent guest on CNBC and other media outlets. Professor Gulati advises and speaks to corporations large and small around the globe. He also frequently leads small-group workshops focused on helping leadership teams of high-growth companies enhance the growth trajectory of their businesses. Some of his representative speaking and consulting clients include: Abbott Laboratories, Adidas, Aetna, Allergan, Bank of America, Bank of China, Baxter, Berkshire Partners, Blackrock, Boston Scientific, Bristol Myers Squibb, Brown Brothers Harriman, Caterpillar, Credit Suisse, Expedia, Ford, GE, General Mills, Google, Henkel, Hitachi, Honda, Hospira, IBM, Iron Mountain, Kellogg Company, Keybank, KPMG, LaFarge, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Metlife, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Novartis, Ochsner, P & G, Qualcomm, Sanofi, SAP, Target, Temasek, Unilever, and Vertex. He has served on the advisory boards of several entrepreneurial ventures and has appeared as an expert witness in business litigations. Professor Gulati holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a Master’s Degree in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management, and two Bachelor’s Degrees, in Computer Science and Economics, from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Transcribe →Kitara Johnson
Oct 26, 202100:17:49Tap to summarizeKitara Johnson is a highly sought speaker and trainer for state agencies, schools, businesses, hospitals, and municipal organizations. In addition to working at her own firm, she also serves as the Chief Human Resource Officer at the second largest Behavioral Health Organization in the Inland Northwest. Kitara's experience as a former Chief Diversity Officer within a large complex organization, where she managed and supported strategic organizational development, Health Equity Outcomes, Community Health partnerships, and training. Kitara was awarded Top 100 Chief Diversity Officers in the United States in April of 2021 by the National Diversity Council and was a presenter at the National Diversity and Leadership Conference. Kitara earned her Master’s in Organizational Leadership and Management at Webster University, a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Workforce Education and Development, and her Associate of Applied Science degree in Early Childhood Education and Development, and a graduate of Cornell University’s Diversity & Inclusion for Human Resources Certificate Program. Kitara is a graduate of Leadership Spokane and is an alumnus of JustLead Washington, a year-long diversity, equity, social justice leadership, and professional development training program. Kitara has written and developed training for over 15 years.
Transcribe →Sean Goode
Oct 20, 202100:26:43Tap to summarizeSean Goode is the executive director of Choose 180, and the definition of an intentional leader. Both of his parents struggled with mental health issues, and his brother was sent to prison when Sean was only six. Along with dealing with those issues, he struggled with a lack of stability as he moved to twelve different places during twelve years of school. Despite all of those struggles, Sean was able to break the stereotype and dedicate himself to being everything others thought he couldn’t. Today, Sean transforms the lives of kids by steering them clear of the traditional school-to-prison pipeline. He provides them with a sense of community rather than shame and imprisonment. Outside of his work, Sean’s a family man at heart. He has a wife who he considers his best friend and children of his own that he’s raising.
Transcribe →Tony Schwartz
Oct 13, 202100:26:14Tap to summarizeTony Schwartz is the founder and CEO of The Energy Project, a consulting firm that helps individuals and organizations more skillfully manage their energy so they can thrive in a world of relentlessly rising demand and complexity. Tony began his career as a journalist and he has been a reporter for the New York Times, a writer for Newsweek, and a contributing writer to New York Magazine and Esquire. At the Energy Project, Tony has coached many CEOs and senior leaders. He has also delivered keynotes and training to companies around the world, including Google, Unilever, Apple, PWC Facebook, Whole Foods, EY, Microsoft, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Medical Center, the National Security Agency, and Save the Children. He has also written extensively about leadership, transformation and the modern workplace for The New York Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review. Tony is the author of six books, including “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time” which spent 28 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working,” also a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Tony graduated with honors from the University of Michigan. He is married to Deborah Pines, a psychoanalyst, and they have two grown daughters and four grandchildren.
Transcribe →Trey Lamont
Sep 29, 202100:18:12Tap to summarizeTrey Lamont is chef and owner at Jerk Shack in Seattle, a Caribbean restaurant full of spiced meats and fresh cocktails -- what he calls “the food of the sun.” Born and raised in Seattle, with roots in Jamaica and Trinidad, Trey first developed a passion for food in his grandmother’s kitchen. He now runs a successful restaurant with business partner John Devine -- the only 100 percent Black-owned restaurant in the neighborhood. It’s also a place that’s as much about community-building as it is about food. The restaurant serves beer from the only Black-owned brewery in Seattle and its walls serve as a gallery for local artists; almost everything is for sale and Trey doesn’t take a commission. He’s also raising funds to launch a second location in a predominantly Black and brown neighborhood in South Seattle. The goal: to provide as many economic opportunities as possible to the community there.
Transcribe →TrymaineLee
Sep 25, 202100:24:59Tap to summarizeTrymaine D. Lee is an award-winning journalist who has focused on racial justice and the Black American experience for most of his career. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and then moved on to report for the New York Times and the Huffington Post, always with a strong emphasis on powerful stories impacting the Black community. In 2012, he was one of the first reporters to cover the killing of Trayvon Martin and bring it to a national audience, for which he won a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. He then joined MSNBC as a national reporter, where he covered the shooting of Michael Brown and its aftermath in Ferguson, Missouri; communities affected by poverty across the country including Flint, Michigan; and much, much more. He now also hosts the podcast “Into America,” which is a show about the Black American experience, and explores, as he says, “what it means to hold truth to power and this country to its promises.” We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Trymaine!
Transcribe →Femi Akinde
Sep 22, 202100:26:47Tap to summarizeFemi Akinde is a Principal Program Manager for Azure Global at Microsoft and a co-founder of Reskill Americans, a nonprofit that provides historically underrepresented racial minorities with tuition-free software development training and mentorship. Femi is also a successful tech entrepreneur, having received a TED Global Fellowship in 2011 for establishing Africa's first mobile commerce platform. He wants to see the tech industry become as diverse as the rest of the world, and he discovered that part of the issue is that most recruit training programs are either pricey or demand prior coding knowledge. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Femi Akinde!
Transcribe →Jamie Winship
Sep 15, 202100:28:54Tap to summarizeJamie Winship, a former Metro DC police officer, spent more than 25 years in the Muslim world, teaching people to listen to God and live in his kingdom. Jamie and his wife Donna speak around the US and across the entire world spreading their message. They act together as catalysts to help people find their identity given by God and live a life of liberty. Jamie teaches in a way that allows people to experience the reality of hearing God's voice in their daily lives through dynamic storytelling and real-life application. Thousands of people have been helped by his teachings to discover their true identity and destiny. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Jamie Winship!
Transcribe →Mitch Landrieu
Sep 8, 202101:25:08Tap to summarizeMitch Landrieu is a politician, attorney, author, nonprofit leader and staunch advocate for racial equity. He served as the 61st mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018 and as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010. As mayor, he helped tackle some of the toughest problems his city faced; he developed lasting criminal justice reforms, created jobs, and awarded nearly half of all city contracts to firms owned by women and people of color. In 2017, he rose to national prominence over his decision to pull down four Confederate monuments across New Orleans. The following spring, he published the best-selling memoir, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, both a personal story about his own journey around race and a call to action for white Americans, in particular, to confront the truth of America’s past. Later that year, Mitch launched E Pluribus Unum Fund, a nonprofit organization that aims to build an equitable and inclusive South through empowering leaders in racial equity, dismantling the narratives that perpetuate racism, and promoting transformative policy change. We can't heal the past we all carry, he says, “unless we set our minds to an honest reckoning with that past and a search for solutions grounded in genuine truth and justice.” We’re so excited for you to hear this conversation with Mitch Landrieu!
Transcribe →Sir Mix a Lot
Sep 1, 202100:28:15Tap to summarizeSir Mix-a-Lot is a rapper, songwriter, and record producer from Seattle, Washington, best known for his 1992 smash hit, “Baby Got Back.” He’s had two platinum records and a Grammy award, among other accolades, and he’s done a lot over the years to give back to his hometown community. This year, in particular, Mix has been a real lifesaver for Washington artists and venues struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s the co-chair of Keep Music Live, a fundraising effort launched in 2020 with the goal of raising $10 million for Washington’s small venues. He’s been putting so much of his own money, time, and performances into the effort -- doing what he can to keep the soul of Seattle neighborhoods afloat. At least one business owner has called him “as selfless as it gets.” We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Sir Mix-a-Lot!
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