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The Joy of Cruising PodcastJennifer Halboth, CEO for the Americas, Riverside Luxury CruisesSend us a textHello, passionate cruisers! This is Paul. This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, I am delighted to welcome Jennifer Halboth, CEO for the Americas, Riverside Luxury Cruises. We have had several small ship and river cruise specialists on the podcast as well as leaders from some of the lines, and of course passionate cruisers providing us their cruise reports from their time on various small ship and river cruise. This is the first time we have exclusive focused on Riverside Luxury Cruises, and I am excited to meet Jen and...2025-06-3042 min
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel goodThe Light Within: Embodying Compassionate Leadership PanelThis special episode features a radiant panel of heart-centered leaders sharing what it means to lead with compassion, presence, and integrity. These are women creating ripple effects through their work, families, art, and communities and their insights just might ignite something powerful in you too.Before recording, several panelists joined me for a Transformational Breathwork session infused with Reiki: clearing, aligning, and expanding our energy before this sacred dialogue. You’ll feel that resonance woven throughout.Featured Panelists:Paden Hughes – Life Coach & Energy Healer @padenhughesKaraleigh Garrison – Motivational Musici...2025-05-131h 24
Behind The NumbersWinning with Talent: The Strategy Behind Business Success – Jennifer ThorntonProudly brought to you by The NEW ROI: Return on Individuals - www.NewROI.com
In this episode of Behind the Numbers, host Dave Bookbinder sits down with Jennifer Thornton, CEO of 304 Coaching and host of the Let’s Fix Leadership podcast, for a deep dive into the critical role of talent strategy in business success.
Jennifer shares her journey from retail leadership to becoming a sought-after expert in HR consulting and talent development. Together, they explore how aligning talent strategy with business objectives can drive sustainable growth and resilience.
The conversation covers:2025-03-1900 min
Behind The Numbers With Dave BookbinderWinning with Talent: The Strategy Behind Business Success - Jennifer ThorntonIn this episode of Behind the Numbers, host Dave Bookbinder sits down with Jennifer Thornton, CEO of 304 Coaching and host of the Let’s Fix Leadership podcast, for a deep dive into the critical role of talent strategy in business success.
Jennifer shares her journey from retail leadership to becoming a sought-after expert in HR consulting and talent development. Together, they explore how aligning talent strategy with business objectives can drive sustainable growth and resilience.
The conversation covers:
✔ The evolving landscape of leadership and how it impacts company culture
✔ Why flexible work environments matter...2025-03-1930 min
Therapists IRLWounded Healers Series: Kristi Thornton, on Being an Orphan, Hummingbirds & Coping with Medical AnxietySend us a textHi Listeners! Meet one of Steph's all-time favorite people, Kristi. Welcome to Episode 40 of Therapists IRL. Kristi shares openly about what it is like to be orphaned, having lost her mom as a toddler and her father a few years ago. She also shares about the impact of Long COVID on her overall health, and the anxiety that comes from living with unexpected and frightening impacts, and her quest for wellness. (As you listen, you may notice we reference the upcoming holidays a lot... that's because this episode has been sitting in th...2025-02-271h 02
Business, Bourbon & CigarsRecruitment Gone Right: Strategies for Nailing Hiring with Jen ThorntonWhat role does a company's culture play in talent acquisition and retention? Also, what strategies can leaders use to build trust in a fast-growing company?Today’s guest is Jen Thornton, a talent strategy wizard with over 20 years of experience in leadership development and organizational growth. She’s not your typical HR professional; Jennifer has a knack for aligning business goals with the right talent, helping companies thrive in competitive environments.Join Scott and Jen as they explore: * The importance of aligning talent strategy with business objectives....2024-10-1752 min
Inspire GreatnessJen Thornton on the Inspire Greatness PodcastIn this episode of Inspire Greatness, I interviewed Jen Thornton, founder and CEO of 304 Coaching. 304 Coaching is a business consulting company that helps organizations by expanding the positive impact of progressive leadership.During our discussion, Jen explained her three proven methods for inspiring greatness in team members—understanding how social change drives the evolution of leadership, developing the ability to self author, and becoming a creative leader, rather than a reactive leader. If you want to read the show notes for this episode, you can find them on my website:https://matt...2024-08-2224 min
Homes That Heal | Transform Your Home Into a Health and Wellness Sanctuary3 Ways to Create Happiness and Expand Your Capacity to Feel Good with Siri Baruc ThorntonIs it hard to work on yourself when you’re always trying to meet other people’s demands?It’s a tough spot to be in. You’re always told to achieve, do better, and meet expectations. And in the chaos, your needs and growth often take a back seat. This constant battle inside can leave you feeling drained and disconnected from your true self.This episode is part 2 of my conversation with Siri, my soul sister where she digs deeper into the importance of creating a space in your home that allows you to elevate...2024-08-2037 min
Homes That Heal | Transform Your Home Into a Health and Wellness SanctuaryThe Healing Power of Breathwork, Nature, and Sacred Spaces with Siri Baruc ThorntonFeeling like stress is taking over your life? Our busy schedules can lead to mental and physical burnout. But did you know that spending time in nature and practicing breathwork can help alleviate stress?Think about the peace and energy you could achieve by simply breathing and connecting with nature. Ah, Breathwork! That is how my soul sister and dear friend, Siri Baruc Thornton, releases negativity and experiences joy and vitality.In this episode, I am sharing a conversation with my soul sister on the importance of living in a home that promotes p...2024-08-1346 min
The Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast with Vicki NoethlingJen Thornton on Part 3 – Keeping Global Teams MotivatedSubscribe to Our PodcastHow can leaders effectively manage and motivate global teams in an ever-changing corporate landscape? In the final episode of a three-part series on the Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast, host Vicki Noethling sits down with Jen Thornton, a renowned executive leadership coach specializing in mental resilience and creativity. Jen shares insights from her extensive experience leading international teams and challenging the status quo to foster innovation and adaptability. The discussion covers the unique challenges and opportunities presented by global teams, especially in the wake of the pandemic, and emphasizes the importance of effective management training...2024-06-1631 minThe Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast with Vicki NoethlingJen Thornton on Part 2 – Building a Bench for Your OrganizationSubscribe to Our PodcastIn this episode of the Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast, host Vicki Noethling continues her enlightening conversation with Jen Thornton in the second of three episodes. Jen Thornton, an executive leadership coach, shares her expertise on creating an environment of innovation and adaptability by developing leaders with exceptional mental resilience and creativity. This episode, titled “Building a Bench for Your Organization,” delves into the importance of succession planning and developing a strong leadership pipeline. Jen discusses why companies and managers need to focus on building a bench, common pitfalls in the process, and the real bene...2024-06-1624 minThe Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast with Vicki NoethlingJen Thornton on Perfectionism is a Tool of FearSubscribe to Our Podcast“How does fear create perfectionism and kill innovation?” In this first of three episodes with Jen Thornton who is interviewed by host, Vicki Noethling of the Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast. Vicki has a wonderful conversation with Jen who is an executive leadership coach renowned for developing leaders with exceptional mental resilience and creativity. Jen shares her journey from leading international teams for world-class retailers to challenging corporate norms and driving change. Discover how Jen uses neuroscience to transform leadership and how she believes in creating environments where every employee has the potential to lead and...2024-06-1630 min
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel goodHow to Create a Home that Heals with Jen HellerJen Heller is deeply rooted and a trusted resource in the holistic health and wellness space plus a wealth of knowledge when it comes to optimizing your home into a wellness sanctuary. She’s an expert in detoxification and her main wheelhouse is infrared saunas. She of course has a sauna in her home, but also owned/operated a wellness center and sauna studio for many years in Southern Wisconsin. Years ago, her personal health struggle with weight, a stroke that left her paralyzed plus a massive burden of heavy metal toxicity inspired her to take control of her ow...2024-06-1554 min
Dominate Your DayStrategies for Building High-Performance Teams with Coach Jen ThorntonOn this episode, i am joined by Jen Thornton, a Dallas-based Gallup CliftonStrengths coach who leveraged her 20 years of HR and team development experience to start her own business, 304 Coaching, in 2017. Jen talks about her journey from corporate HR to entrepreneurship, the challenges and rewards of starting her own business, and the passion that drove her to make the leap. She discusses the importance of building strong relationships, strategic planning in business and talent development, and her commitment to creating better work environments for a better world. Jen also talks about the interesting backstory of...2024-06-1329 minDominate Your DayStrategies for Building High-Performance Teams with Coach Jen ThorntonOn this episode, i am joined by Jen Thornton, a Dallas-based Gallup CliftonStrengths coach who leveraged her 20 years of HR and team development experience to start her own business, 304 Coaching, in 2017. Jen talks about her journey from corporate HR to entrepreneurship, the challenges and rewards of starting her own business, and the passion that drove her to make the leap. She discusses the importance of building strong relationships, strategic planning in business and talent development, and her commitment to creating better work environments for a better world. Jen also talks about the interesting backstory of...2024-06-1329 min
Let's Fix LeadershipA Lesson in Customer Loyalty: How to Shift From Quid-Pro-Quo to Serving People w/Jenn McMillenWhether we’re talking about our customers or teams, loyalty is the currency of successful relationships. In the business world of yore, loyalty was one-sided, it was buy something or do something to get something. Today that quid-pro-quo style falls flat. Just like Taylor Swift…brands who do well understand that having customers and employees is a privilege, and they aim for relational loyalty, not transactional relationships. How do we put authentic loyalty at the heart of our businesses? What has changed about leadership as the world of work continues to evolve...2024-05-0240 minLet's Fix LeadershipHow to See the Gifts in Workplace AdversityYou know that job that makes you miserable, that boss who makes your life hell and that co-worker who’s difficult to work with? They are specially wrapped gifts that can work in your favor. Hear me out… Do these situations suck? Do they test our patience? Yes and yes. But, what you might not see in that moment are the skills, competencies, and empowering opportunities these difficulties give you. I mean, I can personally attribute starting my own business to my own workplace adversity! Difficult bosses and pee...2024-04-2507 minLet's Fix LeadershipNot Making a Decision IS Making a Decision...Here's WhyDecisions, decisions…the hallmark of good leadership is swift and impactful decision-making. But let’s be real, amidst the whirlwind of emails, meetings, projects, and strategic pivots, the decisions we have to make can be so overwhelming, that we can decide not to decide at all. Here’s the problem though, not making a decision can be just as detrimental as making the wrong one. It causes projects to stall, innovation to wane and it erodes trust and competence. So whenever we’re holding off on making a choice - we have to be c...2024-04-1808 minLet's Fix LeadershipHow to Master the Art of InfluenceInfluence is a powerful currency for motivation and success…it’s no wonder why influencer marketing has become a literal billion-dollar industry! Being influential doesn’t just work on social media. In a workplace, it’s the lifeblood of leaders who can propel the collective without demanding, manipulating, or dictating. A combination of trust, inspiration, and communication - influence is the silent force that packs a mega punch, and the more influential a leader you are, the more success you’ll have. What are some of the effects of influential leaders? How do we be...2024-04-1107 minLet's Fix LeadershipHow to Fix Your Addiction To Being Right“My people don’t do what I ask them to, they don’t listen and they don’t come up with innovative ideas.” Leaders say it all the time, and if I had a penny for everytime I heard this, I could buy my own private island! But before you point a finger at your team, what if this is all because you’re addicted to being right. Yes, like sugar and shopping, being right can be the drug of choice for leaders, and because they are so accustomed to getting it, they alienate their teams. How do yo...2024-04-0442 minLet's Fix LeadershipTriangulation: Stop the game, build trustWhen conflict arises at work, there are two ways people deal with it. Go directly to the person in question or tell other people about it first. Many times, we take the latter route, and it never goes well. If you ever played telephone as a kid, you’ll know that the original message always gets twisted somewhere along the way. At work, the stakes are much higher though. The result: gossip, miscommunication, damaged team dynamics, a toxic work environment, and the question you can’t shake: is everyone talking about everyo...2024-03-2806 minLet's Fix LeadershipHow to Lead Through All the NoiseEver tried to have an insightful conversation in a room with loud music? It’s noisy…and that’s what leading feels like today. From the oceans of emails flooding our mailboxes, back-to-back meetings filling our calendars, to the urgent but not important tasks that demand our attention. There’s a lot to wade through in today’s world. When we’re distracted and living in the noise, we get stuck there, and sometimes, we don’t even notice it…maybe that’s why they invented noise-canceling headphones. If we want to stay focused on w...2024-03-2107 minLet's Fix LeadershipThe Neuroscience of Leadership: How to Eliminate Fear and Create Safety w/Danny LanglossNow that we know a lot more about how the brain works, a lot of what we’ve been taught about leadership is just plain wrong. We have to throw it out the window and never look back. From a neuroscience perspective, there are 2 categories of chemicals constantly firing off in our brains - happy hormones and fear hormones. The old school model of leadership did nothing but trigger a good old cortisol hijack - induce fear and kill innovation. In order to have cultures that bring out the best in people and produce great re...2024-03-1452 minLet's Fix LeadershipContagious Emotions: How to Harness This Perfectly Natural Human PhenomenonLike an illness on a playground, emotions are contagious, and in a business setting, they can spread fast! It’s how the annoyance of one colleague can catch on and bring the whole office down, and how a good vibe can have a huge ripple effect. Being a great leader is understanding that humans are going to human, that our people have emotions, and that they will affect the climate of our organizations. How do we navigate emotional contagion and use it to better our organizations? How do we use our own...2024-02-2907 minLet's Fix LeadershipYour Culture Isn’t Your To-Do List, It’s The Long Game w/Rosa Ponce de LeonUnlike the next meeting, deliverable, or deadline, working on our culture isn’t as simple as penciling it into our calendars. It’s a living, breathing process that never ends, it’s the long game that has to be front-of-mind for leaders. We know the world is busy and how easy it is to get bogged down in the to-do list, but the more we can step out of the routine of our roles, the better our organizations get. Weaving culture into every single facet of our teams takes a conscious reassign...2024-02-2226 minLet's Fix LeadershipConscious Leadership: How to Create the MindsetNot sure who said that, but the statement has inspired a lot of thought, reflection, and furious rabbit-hole research. So I thought to myself, why not share all my findings and musings with you? Leading in today’s world requires approaches that transcend traditional management practices. It’s about fully understanding the intersection between ourselves, our teams, and our organizations. Self-awareness, emotional intelligence, curiosity, and system thinking…these are all things that lend to conscious leadership. How do we bake this concept into our mindsets and actions? In this episode, I talk abo...2024-02-1508 minLet's Fix LeadershipHow to Create a Performance-Based, Value-Based Culture w/LBJ BiggersMany leaders have the epiphany that it’s not culture if you have to micromanage to achieve it. It becomes culture when people perform when no one’s looking. That begs the question: how do you turn culture from something you have on paper into something weaved into everything your organization does? In order for an organization to drive forward, we need a strong culture and values, but performance also needs to be part of that deal. That’s where the concept of performance and value-based company comes in. Ho...2024-02-0835 minLet's Fix LeadershipDigital Curiosity: The Skill Every Leader Needs (Like Yesterday)Here’s a mind-blowing fact for you…a lot of the technology we use and rely on today, didn’t exist a few years ago. Which means, tomorrow’s technology might still just be a big idea in someone’s brain. ….I’ll let that sink in. Technology is moving faster than it ever has, and it’s going to continue to speed up. What we know how to use today is going to be outdated in a blink. As leaders, we have to keep up, both in our competencies...2024-02-0107 minLet's Fix LeadershipStop Calling Them Opportunities, Say This InsteadIf there’s one word I want to gently pluck out of the vocabulary of leaders, it would be…. “opportunities”. Why, you ask? I mean it seems like a totally innocent and well-meaning word, right? Well… sometimes, when we tell people on our team what their opportunities are, we actually end up messing with their superpowers. Instead, we can manage their strengths so they show up with their best foot forward. In this episode, I share a better way to think about opportunities as a leader. 2024-01-2505 minLet's Fix LeadershipY’all…It’s Messy at the TopBefore you became a leader, you thought every executive had it all together. They are confident, always know what decision to make, and turning ideas into execution happens at the snap of a finger. You just walk around telling everyone how to execute the plan, how hard could that be? Insert the laugh track here… Leading is messy…we have to communicate effectively, approach problems from multiple perspectives, turn creative chaos into a cohesive plan and a whole lot more. That is a feature of the job, not a bug, and it is….A LOT...2024-01-1808 min
Hypnosis for Permanent Weight LossEp 228 Cancer Champions Interview with Jen MiramontesIn the world of cancer care, the journey is a complex weave of emotional, mental, and physical challenges that demand utmost support. This episode explores a compelling conversation shedding light on the transformative impact of Cancer Champions, a non-profit orgnaization working on a holistic approach to cancer support. Through an intimate dialogue, this action step reveals the profound value of coaching in navigating the intricacies of the cancer journey. Anchored by personal experiences, this episode emphasizes the importance of having a dedicated support system accessible at every step of the journey, providing insights into the positive ripple e...2024-01-1533 minLet's Fix Leadership2024…The Year to Start Breaking ThingsYou can’t make a delicious omelette without breaking a couple of eggs. You can’t break through without shattering something. As we set intentions for this year, what if we could commit to breaking things? So many of us are on autopilot in different areas of our lives. Deciding to break things shakes us out of complacency, allows for massive growth and yes, it fixes leadership! Old systems, mindset, behaviors and habits - we can dismantle them all and build back up better. How do we get comfortable with breaking things? How does this make...2024-01-1106 minLet's Fix Leadership“What's One More Thing?” The Simple Statement That Sparks Openness, Clarity and AlignmentHere’s a real head-scratcher for you. You leave a meeting thinking, “the team has got this''. Then you go to execute, and you find out that you weren’t, in fact, on the same page. You asked “any questions,” and no one responded, so surely there was clarity and alignment…so what gives? Well, I hate to break it to you, but that very question could be the thing blocking them from getting clarity. You could be triggering fear without even knowing it. How do we create room for curiosity and questions an...2023-12-1406 minLet's Fix LeadershipYes, Decision Fatigue Is a Thing: Here’s How to Mitigate Its ImpactDo you ever feel like you can’t make one more decision even if your life depended on it? Does decision-making get more difficult as the day or week goes on? What to wear, what to eat, whether to overtake or not. Who to hire, what tasks to work on, the strategic direction of the organization. The average adult makes an exhausting and astounding 35,000 decisions a day. It’s no wonder we get so tired of it. From minor day-to-day choices to high-stakes pivots, we’re making decisions literally every day. Just like...2023-12-0711 minLet's Fix LeadershipFallen Prey to False Priorities? Here’s How to Get Them in CheckFollowing a rigid hiring rule over filling a position with a great candidate. Or proving your co-worker is hard to work with over your own performance. How about, focusing on that pet project to the detriment of the company’s financial stability? False priorities show up all over the place at work, and we’ve all been guilty of them, because guess what? They often make things easier - but only in the moment. False priorities take us off course; costing time, money, innovation and growth. Simply put: when we fall prey to...2023-11-1609 min