Season 1

Got a career or business question for the Brainstrust? Submit here. You’ve spent years becoming really good at what you do. Expert level. And, you’ve reached the end of your ability to serve clients on an individual basis. It...

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'?'

'How can I impact the future of leadership and tackle training our leaders to have more compassion and empathy?'

'How do I move on from my iconic entrepreneurial history and show up authentically to build my own legacy?'

"How do you harness your skillset to show up in work & life and make a meaningful difference?"

"How do you know if your chosen project is the right project to focus on?"

"How do you embrace your innate impulses and find joy in work and life whilst navigating neurodiversity?"

"What do you do when your goals and your personality type don't necessarily line up?"

"How do you finish more of the projects that you start or do you need to complete everything?"

"How do you find work that aligns more closely with your primary impulse and is less likely to end in burnout?"

When your roles change throughout your life, how do you know what is your essential nature?

How do you scale to serve more people while staying true to yourself and your talents?

"When you have a passion project, like writing books, calling to you, how do you bring them to life?"

How do you blend a well-paying job and a side passion that lights you up?

"How do you reignite the passion for work and collaboration, when everyone is so exhausted?"

When the path is laid out for you, how do you make aligned choices that bring freedom and purpose?

"When your career and side projects are going well, how you know if you're doing too many things?"

"How do I develop a sense of self belief, when so much of my life is in a state of transition?"

How do. you start from the bottom of something new when you've been at the top of something else?

"How do I stop feeling like a square peg in a round hole and find work that is aligned to me?"

Should I stay in a role that's burning me out but offers long term security or pursue what lights me up?

"Once you’ve found what makes your life meaningful, how do you make it sustainable?"

"How do I create the next great thing for me, when I have no clear path or even direction?"

"How can I learn to focus when I'm in the space of paradox of choice? What do I prioritize?

"I know what I want to do next, but how do I know when it's time to jump?”