Relationships Rule
Hundreds of Contacts. No One to Call at 3AM | RR373
There are people in your life who would pick up the phone at 3 AM if you called. Not many … but they exist. Now ask yourself honestly: how intentional were you about building those relationships? Or did they just happen? That question sat with me after my conversation with Nida Leardprasopsuk, a Mas...
Silent Churn Is Costing You More Than You Think | RR372
Alisha Esmail has built two very different businesses, and the thread running through both of them is the same. Trust and loyalty. And paying close attention to the people already in your world. That lesson did not come easily. It arrived as an email, at the dinner table, from one of Road Coffee's b...
Why the Best Leaders Say Less and Listen More | RR371
That is the question I opened with when I sat down with Tim Dumas. Tim is, as he loves to say, an executive strategic coach by day, and a high school football coach by night. Two very different arenas. One consistent philosophy. Tim has spent over a decade helping executives, business owners, and le...
You Haven't Failed at Relationships. You Were Never Taught the Skills. | RR370
There are relationship skills — and then there are business skills. For most of my career, I assumed they were pretty much the same thing. This conversation with Joëlle Lydon stopped me in my tracks. Joëlle is a certified relationship coach, author of Unbreakable Us: Removing the Barriers to Love, a...
What Makes Someone Feel Truly Heard in a Conversation? | RR369
When I sat down with sisters Amy and Nancy Harrington, co-founders of The Passionistas Project, I realized within the first few minutes that we were kindred spirits. Maybe it was the shared love of all things Hollywood, or maybe it was just how easy the conversation felt, but either way, this episod...