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July 2, 2024

Cultivating Flow at Work: Finding Peak Productivity and Enjoyment

What if you could tap into a state of optimal productivity, creativity, and joy whenever you wanted? I'm talking about flow - that magical feeling when you're so immersed in an activity that the rest of the world seems to mel...

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June 25, 2024

How to Trust your Essential Nature throughout your Life

This week on the SPARKED podcast, we invited a listener to share what’s going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors - the SPARKED Braintrust. ...

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June 18, 2024

Jessica Chen | How to Bring Your Quieter Self to a “Loud Culture” wor…

Have you ever felt like you just don't quite fit into the culture of your workplace? That the way you naturally communicate, in a quieter mode, doesn't align with what's expected and rewarded in a loud culture? If this resona...

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June 11, 2024

Samhita Mukhopadhyay | A different take on having it all

Have you ever felt like you're being pulled in a million directions, stretched incredibly thin as you try to juggle all the expectations of career, family, and personal fulfillment? Have you struggled with the narrative that ...

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June 4, 2024

James Rhee | How to Lead with Kindness over Ego, Dominance and Control

Have you ever felt that the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs mentality celebrated in business today leaves you feeling empty instead of fulfilled? In chasing status and wealth above all else, are we sacrificing our humanity along ...

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May 28, 2024

How to Know When to Jump into Your Side Hustle

This week on the SPARKED podcast, we invite a listener to share what’s going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors - the SPARKED Braintrust. I...

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May 21, 2024

How to Find Fulfillment Beyond Your Day Job

* Discover Your Sparketype here * What if you've been searching for purpose, passion, joy and energy in all the wrong places? Or, if you’re limiting yourself to “having” to find only in the thing you get paid to do. In today'...

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May 14, 2024

Carolyn Chen | When Work Becomes Religion (and how it preys on us)

You may not think of your work as your religion, but for many, it’s trying to become exactly that! Without us even realizing it. Question is – is that a good thing? A bad thing? Or just a thing? Today’s guest, sociologist, As...

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May 7, 2024

Bonnie Hammer | How to Tell if Your Mentor is Holding You Back

What if much of what you’ve been told about how to come alive and get ahead in work was, well, wrong? That’s what today’s guest, Bonnie Hammer argues. And she’d know. As the Vice Chair of NBCUniversal, with decades at the hig...

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April 30, 2024

How to Discover the Work That Energizes You

* Discover Your Sparketype here * We all want to feel more alive in work, and also in life. But, how? Where do we even begin. I'm sure you've noticed there are certain activities that light you up at work. When you're doing t...

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April 23, 2024

Jeff Wetzler | How to Help People Speak Their Minds, And Benefit From…

Are you unintentionally shutting down those around, so you you never get the benefit of their wisdom? Or, are you the one being shut down? In work, in relationships, in life? Have you ever wondered what your coworkers, friend...

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April 16, 2024

How to Choose Freedom over Familial Responsibility

This week on the SPARKED podcast, we invite a listener to share what’s going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors - the SPARKED Braintrust. I...

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April 9, 2024

How to Harness Regret's Hidden Power - Daniel Pink LinkedIn live

Follow the SPARKED Newsletter on LinkedIn here. What if our biggest regrets secretly held the keys to unlocking our greatest potential in work and life? What if it was the path to self-improvement, clarified priorities, and m...

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April 2, 2024

How Business Can Change the World, One Life at a Time

Imagine, being in your 20s, fresh out of washing dishes at a local restaurant, borrowing just enough money to open a tiny, local deli with a friend who shared your passion for food, community, and business? Now, imagine that,...

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March 26, 2024

How to Blend Well-Paid Work & Engaging Side Passions

How do you blend a well-paying job and a side passion that lights you up? This week SPARKED podcast, we invited a listener to share what’s going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a ...

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March 12, 2024

How to Take Control of Your Career

When was the last time you asked yourself if your career is truly headed where you want to go? Do you feel like you’re just coasting along or following someone else’s script? It’s tempting but playing it safe is no way to bui...

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March 5, 2024

How To Unlock Creativity In All Parts of Work and Life

Have you ever felt like creativity is a gift only meant for others? Like you just weren’t born part of that illustrious and somewhat mysterious “creative class?” Total bunk. Creativity lives inside all of us—and uncovering it...

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Feb. 27, 2024

How to Stop Playing Small (or too safe)

Have you ever felt that nagging sense that you're capable of achieving so much more, yet held yourself back because taking a leap felt too risky? I know I have. We all have big dreams inside us - of launching that business, a...

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Feb. 20, 2024

When Vision Meets Reality: Adjusting Your Plans to What Matters Now

Have you ever started the new year feeling unstoppable, only to hit February and realize your plans need a major refresh? I've been there too. The ambitious goals we set in January can seem so achievable in the moment. But li...

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Feb. 13, 2024

The Truth About Building Wealth

Money. Some view it as a dirty word. Others live their entire lives in pursuit of it. There is so much mythology and misinformation about what it really takes to build life-changing levels of wealth. Even if we find a way to ...

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Feb. 6, 2024

How to Say No Without Feeling Bad About It

*Coaches & Leaders: Tap a Game-Changing Credential - The Certified Sparketype® Advisor Training . Next Training starts March 2024. Why do we feel so bad when we say no to people? Even to complete strangers who request our tim...

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Jan. 30, 2024

How to Say Yes to Reinvention (and Start a Movement)

Many of us have felt the call to create our own professional path and start our own business. The call is especially strong when your why is deeply personal and mission driven. And, sometimes, that even means walking away fro...

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Jan. 22, 2024

How to avoid the allure of the weeds and get back to the big picture

Ever feel like you spend way too much time in the tactical details and lose sight of the bigger picture? Especially when you don’t have to be doing much of the detailed work, but you somehow can’t stop yourself from it? You'r...

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