Episodes

Got a career or business question for the Braintrust? Submit here. So many of us look at the world we live in, and wonder how we might make a bigger impact. After a decade in academic setting, with a focus …

How do we find the time to make our own art? How do you blend your own creative or expressive practice with running a business? Today’s listener Claudia presents this question. She has been running a successful Paint Your Pot...

Can social conditioning, past experiences, and external pressure affect the way we explore figuring out our Sparketype? Or, for that matter, any metric we might look to, as a way to help figure out what drives us? And how do …

Got a career or business question for the Brainstrust? Submit here. How do you satisfy an impulse to build a living around multiple passions and be in constant learning and growth mode, in a work world that keeps pushing you …

Got a career or business question for the Brainstrust? Submit here. Today’s listener Paulina asks, as an Essentialist who thrives and is energized by chaos, problem solving and ‘putting out fires’, when you run your own consu...

And can we ever really know?

'How do you Move Forward with Self Compassion & Curiosity after experiencing Great Loss?'

And would he do it again?

'How do you take a Life-Changing Sabbatical?'

How do you Build the Team Habit of Belonging?

How can you Handle the Parts of a Job You Love that Don’t Come Easily?

'How do Use Your Shadow Sparketype to Amplify Different Impulses?'

'How do you convert Creative Inspiration into Action Taking?'

'How do you navigate Career Gaps with Courage and is it ok to keep starting over?'

‘How do you Reframe the so-called ‘Portfolio Career’ dilemma?’

Hosted by keynote speaker & best selling author Cyndie Spiegal

‘How do you unpack the assumption that your ‘Anti’ Sparketype is the only way to succeed in business?’

Jonathan & Jenny talk about: How you don't have to have your pivot planned out Using experiments to collect data Following the full body yes What is a project based purpose? How do we look at uncertainty differently? Are you …

Jonathan & Azuraye chat about: The call to come home to the family business Recovering from a natural disaster that almost took everything Using the Sparketypes as a hiring tool Leading with folks’ Sparketypes as a way to rem...

"How do you handle a drive to innovate inside a system that adapts to change slowly?"

As we sat down to dive into Charlie’s Sparked Story, I wanted to understand what were his deep impulses for the things that he's done and what have been the through lines.

A Sparked Hot Take with Karen Wright on leading and humanity at a time when both are hard to access.

"When looking for niche job roles that match your criteria, how do you have patience in the process?"

'Do we have to choose one specialty or can we release the need to find 'our one true passion'?'