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Mind&Body@WorkYour History Shapes How You show Up.To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenzThis is the fifth and final episode in our series on SELPH as an acronym for what it means to be human. The H in SELPH reminds us that we are all Historical beings. This means that the stories we form about how the world works as we are growing up continue to shape how we show up as adults. But we are not slaves to this history. Embodiment training will help you move beyond limi...
2025-12-1813 minMind&Body@WorkGen Z and the Design of Your DevicesTo learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.Our guest today, Nick Cawthon is a veteran UX Designer, Researcher and Strategist based in the Silicon Valley area. We asked Nick in to talk to us about how the User Experience industry is integrating Gen Z and how Gen Z, being the first native users of handhelds, is impacting User Interfaces.Nick is Principle of Guage Consultancy and Adjunct Professor in the Data Laboratory in the Design Strategy MB...
2025-12-0141 minMind&Body@WorkThe Power of PracticesTo learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.In this Episode, Timm and Amanda continue to share Bob Dunham’s SELPH acronym that describes the elements we all embody as human beings. In this episode we hone in on the element of “Practice”.We describe 3 ways we use “practice” in our embodied training curriculum. First there are practices that developed during our formative years that was may not be very aware of but are part of the way we show up...
2025-11-1312 minMind&Body@WorkWhat Leaders Can Learn from Marines About Integrating Gen ZTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. Today’s guest, Olaolu Ogunyemi, is a U.S. Marine Officer,award-winning author, leadership mentor, and the founder of Parent-Child-Connect.Olaolu equips parents, teachers, and aspiring leaders to raise confident kids,lead with integrity, and leave a legacy that outlives them. And lately he issharing his wisdom with lots of young people entering the workforce. His new book,Lead Last, is a bold callto servant lead...
2025-10-3040 minMind&Body@WorkLeveraging Language to Succeed at Work and LifeTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.In this episode, Timm and Amanda continue their series onthe SELPH with a discussion about how all human beings are Linguistic beings.Linguistic philosopher John Austin explained how somelanguage does not just describe the world but actually changes the world whenit is spoken. Anyone who is married canprobably relate to how this occurs when someone with the proper authority says“You are now...
2025-10-2313 minMind&Body@WorkRadical Strategies for Gen Z to Succeed in the WorkplaceTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.Our guest is Russel Von Brocklen – The DyslexiaProfessor. Russel is best known forhelping neurodiverse students drastically improve their school performance – turningtheir neurodiversity into their superpower. He is the creator of the Special First Literacy Blueprint and Word AnalysisFirst tools, funded by the New York state legislature. In our show, Russel describes the role of AIin his methods and explains how the school...
2025-10-1650 minMind&Body@WorkIs Gen Z Too Emotional?To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. In this episode, Amanda and Timm continue their series onBob Dunham’s SELPH acronym that reminds us of the key elements of beinghuman. The E in SELPH reminds us that weare all Emotional beings. All of us get triggered by emotions. This is part of ournervous system that has evolved to help us shift...
2025-10-0908 minMind&Body@WorkGen Z in a Worker-Directed OrganizationTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. Our Season 1 guest, David Baxter, returns with one of hisGen Z staff members at Bean Chain Coffee, Angel Garretson. In Season 1, David and his wife and partner Shannon, talked about their unique worker-directed organization model, designed to assist any organization that wants to move towards the worker cooperative model. In this episode, we’...
2025-10-0254 minMind&Body@WorkGen Z Shares the Same Key Aspects of Being HumanTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. In this episode, Amanda and Timm begin a series of discussionsabout how we are all: Somatic, Emotional, Linguistic, Practicing and Historicalbeings – the SELPH acronym created by Bob Dunham. If we fail to recognize that these are allkey aspects of being human, we miss out on opportunities to lead others and tolead our own good life.
2025-09-2511 minMind&Body@WorkOak and Willow: Helping Gen Z Manage their EnergyTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ In this episode, Timm and Amanda have a conversation aboutmanaging our personal energy. The energyyou bring to any situation is a factor in whether or not you bring about theresults you desire. This conversation isabout using Oak and Willow as a metaphor for two distinct ways that people canchoose to show up in conversations about work or any...
2025-09-1814 minMind&Body@WorkGen Z: From University to WorkforceTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, vist www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.Our guest, Rachel Hanson, is a collaborative educator andmultimedia content creator with a strong foundation in higher education and apassion for student-centered teaching. She is currently in middlemanagement at a public university, and part of her responsibility is hiring andmanaging young workers (often times students) at the college.Rachel points out how economic and cultural factors (e.g.changing gender roles and e...
2025-09-1146 minMind&Body@WorkUsing Tai Chi to Help Gen Z Thrive at WorkTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaerlab.com/integrateGenZIn this episode, Amanda and Timm share how the ancient internal martial art of Tai Chi is used in embodiment training which can be very beneficial for leading at work and in your life.We'll discuss where Tai Chi comes from and what makes it ideal for embodiement training. We'll give examples of how Tai Chi can be a vehicle for being more aware of how you are showing up in life and work and lea...
2025-09-0414 minMind&Body@WorkThoughtfully Opting Out of the Traditional WorkforceTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZOur guests in this episode have chosen to use theirinfluencer identities - Ruby and Zatare (or just Z). Ruby and Z are in a relationship and they actually met through their respective influencer channels. Both Ruby and Z entered the workforce as young adults and both of them have chosen to focus on charting their own course rather than seeking a career through employers.Be patient in learning about Ruby...
2025-08-2848 minMind&Body@WorkGen Z Teaching Your ChildrenTo learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfullyintegrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.Our guest, John Scudder is a native Arizonan whoworks as a human resources manager in the public school system. Hepreviously served as an elementary and middle school principal, and he taughtfor 10 years prior to that. One of John’scurrent responsibilities is hiring new public school teachers into his district.In this show we explore how the current demands andchallenges for teachers and how new...
2025-08-2146 minMind&Body@WorkLeadership that Aligns with Gen Z's Sense of PurposeTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.This is one of this season’s short episodes where Timm andAmanda discuss ways that we help Gen Z integrate and thrive in the workplace inour embodiment curriculum.In this episode, we discuss the Anatomy of Action, afundamental framework for understanding where results come from. The Leader Lab adopted this framework, withpermission, from Bob Dunham of the Institute for Generative Learning.
2025-08-1409 minMind&Body@WorkAliento: Welcoming Gen Z the Right WayTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab/integrateGenZ.Our guest, Jorge Sanchez is Senior Programs Manager at Aliento, where he oversees daily operations, staff professional development, and ensures compliance with grants and programmatic requirements. He is also the direct supervisor of Guadalupe Reynoso Jiminez who was our guest in Episode 2.Jorge explains how, like Guadalupe, most of his team of Project Coordinators are Gen Z and they come in through Aliento's client base of "Dreamer" kids and their families. It is sort o...
2025-08-0745 minMind&Body@WorkProspects of a Gen Z DreamerTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.Our guest, Guadalupe Reynoso Jiminez, is Leadership Development Coordinatorat Aliento, where she supervises their Arizona’s Future Fellowshipprogram. Aliento is a non-profit thatprovides advocacy for, and support to, students as well as undocumented,dacamented and mixed status families. Lupe is also a product of Aliento and the first university graduate inher family.Lupe is an example of som...
2025-07-3147 minMind&Body@WorkTalking With Gen Z Instead of Talking about Gen ZTo learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ. Timm and Amanda introduce Mind & Body@Work’s SecondSeason – “Helping Gen Z Thrive in the Workplace”. This season we will be talking to youngpeople entering the workforce as well as some of the people who hire and manageGen Z employees. In shorter episodes, betweenguest episodes, Timm and Amanda will discuss some of the ways they use embodimentpractices to...
2025-07-2406 minMind&Body@WorkWorker Rights and Financial Well-beingTo learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being).Our guests are David and Shannon Baxter, Founders of Beanchain, which is both a coffee shop and a long term plan to improve the lives of workers.David and Shannon have an operating coffee shop and community hub in Mesa Arizona. But their vision is much bigger. David suffered from poverty as a teenager and young adult and he is committed creating opportunities so others can achieve financial well-being and without ha...
2024-07-1156 minMind&Body@WorkWell-being and “the Giver Method”To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). Our guest Jacob Talbot is Managing Partner of “SixthDivision” and a grief counselor, along with being a husband, father, author and hobbyist.SixthDivision helps small businesses succeed, by helping them master marketing tools and other elements key to business success, AND a good life. Their technical expertise creates an opportunity to do some sophisticated leadership coaching, measured at least partially by improvements in their...
2024-06-2756 minMind&Body@WorkCaring for the CaregiversTo learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being).Our guest Jude Tarris is the President of Valley of the Sun Homecare. Jude tells the story of how he unexpectedly entered this industry, the early days of his personal caregiving and how that evolved into a successful and still very rewarding enterprise. Jude helps us discover what caregiving for the elderly can teach us about well-being and dignity anywhere, including the workplace. He also discusses the impact that caregiving can have on workplace productivity.More information and the...
2024-06-1352 minMind&Body@WorkHow to Generate your own Well-beingTo learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). Our guest, Bob Dunham, is Founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership and developer of the discipline of Generative Leadership IGL is an international organization with hubs on 4 Continents. Bob has led the organization since 1993, teaching intensive multi-year courses on Leadership and Coaching in organizations, as well as consulting with companies around the world.Bob co-authored The Innovator’s Way: Essential Practices for Succe...
2024-06-1359 minMind&Body@WorkWell-being and the Quiet EgoTo learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). Our guest, Heidi Wayment is a Regents’ Professor at Northern Arizona University. She earned her PhD in social psychology at UCLA and joined the faculty at Northern Arizona University in 1996. A successful teacher and scholar, she is named Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Association of Psychological Science and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.Hei...
2024-05-0954 minMind&Body@WorkElephants and the Well-being of the HerdTo learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). In this Episode, George Wittemyer, elephant researcher shares what he’s learned about elephant leadership styles and how the matriarch guides her herd through risky situations.George considers elephants as very similar to humans in their intelligence and the importance of their social structures. As many herd leaders have been impacted by human poaching, George describes how the survivors repair the fabric of their intricate and important social networks (maybe some thin...
2024-04-2549 minMind&Body@WorkPlace based Well-Being (and the Helpful Ancestor)To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). Our guest, Chris Cassilas gave up the lifestyle and big bucks of Silicon Valley start-ups to return to his small home mining town in Arizona and see if he could help make it a better place. He started a non-profit called Regenerating Sonora (a reference to the Sonoran desert where his town resides) and is working with others in his local community to focus on the well-being of the town, the pe...
2024-04-1255 minMind&Body@WorkSynopsis: Well-Being Takeaways from Episodes 1-7To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). In this episode, Mind & Body@Work hosts Amanda and Timm review the previous episodes for themes and takeaways. It is a good place to get an overview of the many different perspectives being revealed on Well-being in the Mind & Body@Work podcast series. We encourage you to also listen to the individual podcasts if you can because the rich stories of our guests are just as valuable for learning about Well-being.Ama...
2024-03-141h 00Mind&Body@WorkTai Chi, Energy and Well-beingTo learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit www.evleaderlab.com. Our guest for this episode is Master Peter Hill. Peter is Integrated Martial Artist who became a middle school teacher. He is a Master because of his mastery of the philosophy and the arts as well as how he lives his life consistent with this philosophy. We learn about how and why Peter transitioned in mid-career from running martial arts schools to teaching at an inner city school. Peter took what he had lear...
2024-02-2957 minMind&Body@WorkCultivating Well-being in Traditional Work SettingsTo learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit www.evleaderlab.com.Our guest is Kay McDonald. Full disclosure, this is the first episode we recorded, and we were all finding our way, AND, it is well worth watching because it helps identify why well-being is a hot topic right now in organizations. Our thanks to Kay for helping get this train rolling!!Kay is Principal of KM Human Resources Consulting where she does HR consulting and Executive Coaching for large and Small companies. Kay ha...
2024-02-2934 minMind&Body@WorkNaturopathic Medicine, Neurofeedback and Well-beingTo learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit www.evleaderlab.com. In this episode, guest Shari Reichman shares many years experience helping children and adults with naturopathic therapies, with an emphasis on her practice of neurotherapies. Shari explains how neurotherapies work and what benefits to expect from them. Shari explains from her perspective, why well-being is lacking for so many people today, from young children as well as adults in the workplace. She also shares her perspectives on naturopathic medicine as compared to conventional medicine. Resources referenced in this episode include the book...
2024-02-1552 minMind&Body@WorkWell-being, Immigration and DACA kidsTo learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit www.evleaderlab.com.Our guest for Episode 5 is Reyna Montoya, Executive Director of Aliento - a non-profit organization that serves undocumented, DACA, and mixed immigration status families to transform trauma into hope and action.Reyna is a 2016 Soros Justice Fellow, a 2017 Echoing Green Fellow , a Forbes: 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, and an ATHENA 2019 recipient by the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce...
2024-02-1544 minMind&Body@Work“Punk Rock Teacher” discusses well-being in schoolsIn this episode we interview the “Punk Rock Teacher”. Aaron Leatherbarrow became very concerned about teaching to tests, and more importantly the need to address student well-being in our children’s classrooms. Aaron has taken on the social media persona of Punk Rock Teacher and brings lots of constructive energy to shake up the system for the sake of the kids. And he is making some waves, with over 600 K followers across social media platforms.Aaron preaches and practices radical empathy as a practice for really getting at well-being in the classroom and with any other hu...
2024-01-0447 minMind&Body@WorkEP2: Inclusivity, Well-being and Noah’s ArkThis episode features first hand experience and ancient “history” as the fodder for stories about well-being in the workplace. Guest Jeffrey J. Cohen is is the dean of Humanities in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University overseeing 360 full time faculty and serving thousands of students on campus and online. He has just completed his fifth year as Dean and had been chair of an English Dept in Washington DC before that.In this episode Jeffrey talks about his role as Dean of Humanities, the very inclusive culture at Arizona State Univers...
2023-12-1446 minMind&Body@WorkEmbodiment Training and Well-BeingIn our first podcast episode, Timm & Amanda “flip the script” and get interviewed by their guests from Altus Growth Partners (Dan and Elayna have their own podcast Missing Conversations)Timm & Amanda share their stories about how they came to teaching Embodied Leadership at East Valley Leader LabThey describe the impacts that embodied leader training has on individual leaders and teams.They explain the origin and intent of their well-being offering for teams and organizationsThey explain how and why Tai Chi is a useful vehicle for teaching embodiment and mindfulness prac...
2023-11-3054 min
Magazines and MonstersThe Brave and the Bob! Episode 31, Teen Titans 34, 1971 w/ Chris Franklin!Hey there, zany ones! It's time for more madness from Mr. Bob Haney! I've brought along a friend to talk about a wild issue of the Teen Titans, pleas welcome Chris Franklin to the show! Chris is a podcaster, artist, and has written articles for 13th Dimension and Twomorrows publications. He and his wife, Cindy have the incredibly fun show JLUcast, where they cover the awesome DC animation from Bruce Timm and company covering Justice League/Justice League Unlimited. They also have an equally fun show in September and October "The House of Franklinstein" that covers horror movies and comics...
2023-08-301h 54
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First episode of House of the Dragon on YouTube for free
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2022-09-181h 27
Unlabeled Leadership096: Timm Esque and The Embodiment of LeadershipI invite guests to share personal stories about acts of leadership that help shape their lives. In Episode 96, Timm Esque talks about how an instructor caused him to realize he was thinking too much (too much “in his head”). He then shares a story about how a project manager supported his team and went against harmful cultural norms. Timm advises us to pursue embodiment training and explains how this training helped him overcome fear and trust himself more.
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Timm is an author, instructor, speaker, consultant, and the Managing Partner of East Valley Leader Lab. At t...
2021-09-3026 min
Phoenix Business RadioEast Valley Leader Lab with Timm Esque and Amanda StradlingEast Valley Leader Lab with Timm Esque and Amanda Stradling East Valley Leader Lab is a unique local resource focused on helping leaders see the power of personal commitment and the role embodied practices play in cultivating commitment to support a future that will surely need more true leaders in other words people who [...]
2020-09-281h 01
Insomnia RadioWhelmed: Song for Ian StarkThree-piece band Whelmed hails from Bloomington Indiana, having recently released several great tracks of Jawbreaker/Fifteen-esque political pop punk. Their newest four song self-titled EP was recorded in the spring of 2016 by Patrick Jennings in Bloomington, IN and released this past November on Salinas Records. All design here is by Emily Timm. You can pick […]
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