I’m writing with a story idea about realizing your company’s potential and building better communities in the wake COVID-19… and beyond.       

The big idea: Competitive advantage and financial gain have become widely accepted strategic priorities for companies. Yes, many companies invest in professional development for employees and support volunteer and charitable programs. Yet, such efforts are rarely incorporated into the organization’s core focus, outcomes, and actions, let alone its true purpose for being in business.  

The so-what: Putting competition and profits first not only devalues individual workers; it hurts the entire organization. With the outbreak of COVID-19, many people responded with anxiety and lost their motivation for working as their companies scrambled to adapt to the challenges, including managing a remote workforce. Focusing on problems and clinging to the goal of market dominance at all costs takes a toll on employees, customers, and their communities, as well as a company’s reputation and bottom line.   

The key message: “Think of the impact if your organization’s strategy was developed and integrated into the company’s operating DNA, creating the foundation for an energizing, engaging, and inspiring culture,” suggests strategy and leadership consultant Dan Bruder. “What type of impact could your company have on its customers, employees, and community if everyone was collectively focused on pursuing a common cause?... Essentially, an organization’s potential is exponentially greater than the level at which most are operating today.” 

In The Blendification® System: Activating Potential by Connecting Culture, Strategy, and Execution (Productivity Press; June 2020), Bruder calls for placing a strategic priority on embracing and pursuing potential—both organizational and individual. What’s more, he shares his proven and practical, step-by-step process to help leaders stay laser-focused on realizing their company’s potential—and their own—through creating a culture that supports the growth, accomplishments, and genuine happiness of their employees, aligned around an organizational cause with the power to improve the lives of the people they serve.

“Workplace organizations are places where people come together and work together to create something,” Bruder observes. “Companies, therefore, have the greatest potential to positively impact their employees, customers, and communities. Business leaders need to embrace the responsibility to leverage their organization to enhance society and create a better world.” 

The Blendification® System lays out a process for companies to reach their potential by systematically building and blending culture, strategy, and execution, while inspiring leaders to maximize their human potential and lead others to do the same. 

Learn:

Dan Bruder is the CEO of Fusion Dynamics Group, an international strategy and leadership consulting firm based in Colorado. He has an accomplished background in executive leadership, strategic planning, entrepreneurship, sales and marketing operations, brand development, customer service, and corporate finance. Drawing on his 30-plus years of personal leadership, he created The Blendification® System, a series of workshops and keynotes blending culture, strategy, and execution to help companies, individuals, and communities realize their potential. He is a faculty member of Colorado State University’s Executive MBA program and the University of Colorado, Boulder’s Graduate Leeds School of Business. Learn more about his new book, The Blendification® System website!

Former foster youth . Worked for dept. Of corrections 30 yrs. Overcame abuse neglect , 4 brothers deseased by age 25 , mentor of successful individuals. One Author and Business owner . Spread awareness and inspiration for change.

A generation of firsts – Fresno State Magazine http://fresnostate.edu/magazine/a-generation-of-firsts/

Guest for Your Show

Katherine's Quest: One Woman's Journey to Elation

By Pat Alva-Kraker

Katherine's Journey Reminds Us of What We Need to Recapture to Live Fully & Vibrantly

An Antidote to a Life Too Full

A charming parable book with an urgent message for our time!

In the tradition of the great parable books The Go Giver, The Alchemist, Who Moved My Cheese and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, arrives Katherine's Quest: One Woman's Journey to Elation from Pat Alva-Kraker. A potent antidote to a life too full for most of us!

This sweet, simple and luminous tale follows middle-aged Katherine as she sinks into despair after the collapse of her known life--marriage, business, home gone in a wink--but a life that never gave her that much happiness as it was. Too overburdened, focused on that task at hand, and just going through the motions.

While clearing out her attic to prepare her house for the new owners, she discovers a mysterious diary from her favorite late uncle Iman. And Katherine becomes entranced with the story of a journey embarked upon to seven islands, each with its own special message and resonance to her life. 

And as she reads, she begins shedding layers that allow her to restore her sense of aliveness, purpose, and self-care...all heading toward the island of Elation.

Each chapter is highlighted with Pat's personal musings on these awakenings and the meaning that they bring to the reader to help someone along on their own journey to elation. Filled with charming illustrations and powerful messages and practices, this jewel of a book will make you smile, relax with a cup of coffee, and slow down!

Pat Alva-Kraker is a business feminine catalyst speaker and coach. She travels the world live and virtually helping women business owners and entrepreneurs to overcome obstacles, stay heart-centered, scale their business with ease and grace, and affirm their right to financial freedom while creating a life they love.

"I wrote this book to provide women proven tools, approaches and habits they need in order to achieve elation and peace," she says. "I've shared these tools with my clients and have seen them transform. I felt it was time to share my wisdom with more women."

Katherine's Quest: One Woman's Journey to Elation has powerful messages, perceptions, and tools that are especially resonant today when so many women are strained by the demands of their personal and professional lives-now overlain by the challenges created by a worldwide pandemic. If you're on the road to burnout-this journey is a much better one!

If you'd like to interview Pat Alva-Kraker on the empowering, aliveness-awakening magic of Katherine's Quest: One Woman's Journey to Elation, and the tools she has deftly embedded in this fable, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the call-in details.

Pat Alva‐Kraker was born and raised in El Paso, TX and now resides in

Fort Worth, TX with her loving husband Mitch of 3 Years and their Dog

Dakota. She has her bachelor’s in business administration from the

University of TX and Certifications in Project Management and Coaching.

After a 35‐year career in the IT industry, Pat Alva‐Kraker was faced with

a series of challenges that altered her professional life forever. She was

let‐go from a major technology company, her husband of 22 years

suddenly passed‐away, their shared business had to close its doors and

Pat is now a breast cancer thriver.

At this juncture, Pat stepped onto her own journey to elation. Along the way she realized she

can inspire other women to own their feminine power and create a successful lifestyle.

Pat Alva‐Kraker is the author of the #1 Best‐seller “Katherine’s Quest: One Woman’s Journey

to Elation.” She has numerous accolades from Women of Color, Leadership Texas, the

Hispanic Women’s Network of Texas and recognition as an award‐winning business strategist.

She is the founder of Majestic Coaching Group where she teaches, coaches and consults

women entrepreneurs. You can listen to Pat on the TownSquare Talk show by tuning into

https://www.facebook.com/TownSquareTalk the fourth Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Central. She

also hosts a virtual Meetup Group, Conscious Business Owners that meets the first Thursday of

every month at 6:30 p.m. Central.

Today, Pat Alva Kraker, travels the globe Live and Virtually, assisting women business owners

and entrepreneurs alike to overcome any obstacles, stay heart‐centered, scale their business

with ease and grace, and affirm their right to financial freedom while creating a life they love.

Kralingen poduces 'Symphonic Surf': a uniquely gripping, moody, sensual, at times epic and above all original indie sound. Their songs are warm, mysterious, sensory experiences that draw you towards the edges of love and lovemaking, never shying away from our inner darkness and natural desires, yet always connecting deeper with the listener.

They are an Amsterdam based formation centered around singer and guitarist Rogier van Kralingen and supported by pianist and composer Victor Butzelaar, producer and drummer Arjan van Asselt an many other famous artists.   

Kralingen Music Biography

About Kralingen

Kralingen produces 'Symphonic Surf': a uniquely gripping, moody, sensual, at times epic and above all original indie sound. Their songs are warm, mysterious, sensory experiences that draw you towards the edges of love and lovemaking, never shying away from our inner darkness and natural desires, yet always connecting deeper with the listener.

They are an Amsterdam based formation centered around singer and guitarist Rogier van Kralingen and supported by pianist and composer Victor Butzelaar, producer and drummer Arjan van Asselt and many other famous artists, including current and future collaborations with Marianna Kocsány, DMA’s, Janice Wong, Sticky Fingers, Bootleg Rascal and Djilani.  

Kralingen is No1 National Alternative Artist on Reverbnation in 2019

“Like early Bruce Springsteen” – Amsterdam Songwriters Guild

“Shades of Nick Drake” – Reverbnation

“Breathtaking” – Labyrinth

For more information contact us at Earopener Music through info@earopener.com or call +31 6 25090825 – please call with Central European time zone in mind.

Private links for radio stations:

Heavens Devils: https://soundcloud.com/kralingen/kralingen-heavens-devils-4824/s-Azrjn

Intoxicated: https://soundcloud.com/kralingen/intoxicated/s-Yax9o

Slowest of Falls: https://soundcloud.com/kralingen/kralingen-slowest-of-falls/s-BGa0n

Social media links

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/rogiervankralingen/

Youtube – https://bit.ly/2DIcqH3

Reverbnation – https://www.reverbnation.com/kralingen

Website – www.kralingenband.com

Spotify Artist – https://spoti.fi/3knO9JL

YouTube first versions

Heavens Devils – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTFdhQ4g9Ug

Slowest of Falls – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVkrZamflxI

Intoxicated – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiQDQ4R4mKw

Research shows 80% of adults in the U.S. want to write a book, but less than 1% do. Most who write a book find themselves competing with a million other books without a clear market position or sales strategy, therefore selling less than a few hundred copies. 

Arlene Gale has been interviewed about business topics such as: Myths about book writing and publishing, Who should write a book, Why write a book, Benefits of writing a book, Using a book to create related programs and multiple streams of income, Using a book to position you as an expert to increase credibility, How long does it take to write a book, Business branding and development, Marketing versus sales, and more. 

Arlene is an international speaker on a variety of MINDSET and self-help topics in life and on her podcast Mindset Meets Mastery with Arlene Gale. Arlene tells her personal story in her book Face Forward Move Forward, which became a multiple international award winner and best seller. She speaks on topics such as: Your past does not define your future, Difference between a thriver or a survivor, Difference between dreams and goals/resolutions, Creating an achievable life plan, and more. Mindset Meets Mastery with Arlene Gale features conversations with experts on mindsets that hinder our progress and how to overcome them in order to move toward success mastery on our terms without excuses or apologies.

Arlene Gale, The Book Writing Business Expert, uses her more than 30 years of unique business marketing and writing expertise to guide the process of writing personal and professional stories.  She has helped hundreds of clients in a variety of industries earn millions of dollars in new business and win coveted business awards as a result of writing and publishing well-planned, executed, and marketed books. Arlene works with experts to duplicate these results from start to finish by writing powerful and profitable books and using those books to build additional streams of income.

Arlene works with clients who have little to no content of their own because they are leaving the corporate world with their expertise to build their own business. She can help them outline a powerful and profitable business-building book and back out all their business branding and marketing materials to jump start the business. Arlene also works with clients who have a lot of content but want to expand their market reach, adjust their message, and respond to changing market forces.

Arlene, as an multiple international award winning author, built an international speaking business from the themes from her first-authored book Face Forward Move Forward, which is her redemption story of growing up at the hands of a multi-generational abusive alcoholic, with culture and religion used as a weapon. She has since authored or co-authored almost a dozen books including her business brand book: Book Business Blueprint: Build Credibility, Stand Out from the Competition, and Skyrocket Sales By Writing Your Book.

Peak Performance Coach, Derek Loudermilk would love to be a guest! 

Dear BBS,

I’m contacting you on behalf of Derek Loudermilk, former scientist, turned full-time adventurer and host of one of the top rated Peak Performance Coaching Podcasts, The Derek Loudermilk Show. 

I believe your audience would benefit from Derek guesting on your show because the host and he are like-minded individuals, on a mission to better the world through spirituality, science, applied consciousness and metephysics.

I love the value you are putting out there for your listeners!

Some topics Derek can speak about: Applied Consciousness and Metaphysics: How to use the laws of the universe to grow your business, find your purpose, and feel more alive than ever before.

The secrets to charisma and body language that will make you more powerful.

How to use Dreamtime to have better relationships, creative problem solvie, make decisions, heal yourself, or faster manifestations.

If you think this is a good fit, we’d love to move forward with setting up a time to chat - I look forward to hearing from you! 

Hi! I’m Derek Loudermilk

Professional Adventurer, Bestselling Author, Speaker, Digital Nomad, Business Coach, Father, founder of AdventureQuest Travel, and Host of The Art of Adventure Podcast

I’m committed to helping people make their lives the most amazing adventure possible!

After getting fired from numerous jobs, dropping out of my PhD program, recovering from failed marriage, I realized I had been living someone else’s dream. I set out to construct a career and lifestyle that would let me be the explorer and teacher that I was always meant to be.

I asked “What does it look like to be the hero of your own life?”

In 2014, I started The Art of Adventure Podcast, and it has become on of the top podcasts in the world for Location Independent Business, Adventure Travel, and cutting edge topics.

In 2015, I founded AdventureQuest Travel to bring entrepreneurs and thought leaders into the wilderness to reconnect with their vision, and we are still going strong!

My goal is to show everyone, to bring an awareness that we can be healthy, strong, and vibrant at any age and without drugs. When we incorporate what I call the 4 HEALTH PILLARS + WATER, and are consistent in practicing them, we can attain and maintain excellent Health & Wellbeing. These are simple but effective practices that can lead to great results: Good plant-based nutrition, moderate exercise(walking is ma's best medicine said Hypocrites), prayer & meditation, good quality & quantity of sleep, decreased stress level, and lots of clean water.  I cover all of this in my book:  EAT SLEEP MEDITATE A NURSE'S GUIDE TO HEALTH.

I have been a Registered nurse for over 22 years and have seen that drugs are bandaids for the many health issues that have become a worldwide crisis at this time.

My name is Marva Riley.  I have been a Registered Nurse for over 22 years, of which most of my experience has been in Critical Care, Hospice, and Pediatrics. Marva is also the recipient of The Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses, honoring Nurses internationally. Marva is an educator and believes that we are all educators in our own rights, that it is our responsibility to teach others what we know to be true.

Guest for Your Show

The Agreement

By Rebecca Dawson

Humanity's Shift to a Multi-Dimensional Experience is Upon Us - Are We Ready?

What Does It Mean for Us Individually and Collectively? How Can We Be Present and Powerful in this transition? How can we create our new reality?

Finding Our True Freedom in Living from the Cosmic Mind 

Greetings! 

So many of us have come to understand and acknowledge that we are the expression of one universal force, all part of the "oneness." But what would change if we really began to live and experience life from that place of totality, not from the duality--that separation--that has marked our current reality?   

In reading Rebecca Dawson's remarkable book The Agreement, you will begin to grasp the infinite power available to us when we do, in fact, come into awareness and agreement of our true existence and how the world we experience will then come into agreement with us and who we truly are. 

This is not merely speculation. It is the information provided directly to Dawson by The Masters, aspects of Source that are committed to helping mankind prepare for the shift to a multi-dimensional reality that is already unfolding. 

By withdrawing our attention from our current "holographic reality" and belief structure, and focusing on the awareness of the Cosmic Mind that is our true nature and vantage point to the multi-dimensional reality, we allow for "knowing" and creation to arise. When we operate consciously from this point of totality, this "felt sense", then manifestation can be instantaneous and beyond any expectation. 

But that manifestation isn't about financial riches and materialism - for materialism is already known. It's about creating what humanity has not yet known - what facilitates humanity to understand its true nature of limitlessness. It's about true freedom. When you come into alignment, the outer world falls into agreement with you. It is an awesome power, and it can only be known by going inward to experience Source as yourself. 

These are some of the key messages that are urgently being brought forward by Dawson, who has been channeling the wisdom of The Masters for more than 25 years. An internationally renowned teacher and author, Dawson first experienced emersion in the Cosmic Consciousness while sitting on a balcony in Bali, where she had gone to seek entry to this unfathomable expansion. For days she meditated and sat in silence seeking the doorway in. And it didn't come. Angry and frustrated she gave up-and in that moment, the illumination came. 

But after many years, bringing the wisdom and knowledge of The Masters forward, it is now that they are urging her she must step up to help us prepare for this imminent shift, unlike anything that has happened for humanity since 340,000 years ago. It is preparing us for a deconstruction of the exterior world and belief system as we know it-signs of which can be seen all around us in the chaos, uncertainty and disruption we are all experiencing right now. While it is a time of endings, it also a time for the exhilarating embrace of a new era of humanity as we return to ourselves, our acknowledgement of our infinite existence, and our multi-dimensional awareness and perspective. We are awakening to our 5th dimensional reality. The Agreement is the roadmap of how to consciously exist within this evolution.

The book takes readers on a journey to explore the power of Agreement within the five pillars of human experience: the body, emotions, thought, relationships and belief.

Dawson, who lives and works in Australia, is offering us a new way to experience life as Source. The Agreement is a profound mandate for us to return to this level of consciousness, and play our contributory role in the transition of all of humanity.

Rebecca Dawson is a powerful interview who can simplify these deep concepts in a way that will be accessible to your listeners, and open the extraordinary possibilities awaiting them.

If you would like to interview Rebecca Dawson on the extraordinary revelations of The Agreement, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the call-in details.

Rebecca Dawson is an international channeller, speaker and author based in Perth AUS, who has been in practice for more than 25 years. After facilitating over 2000 private consultations, Rebecca’s focus in the last seven years has been on the research and understanding of the shifts that are occurring for Earth and Humanity.

Her journey began at 18, after a startlingly and spontaneously becoming a channel for information and wisdom, for a collective she calls “The Masters.” It wasn’t part of her life plan. Rebecca was enthusiastically studying to become an architect. As she notes, “I was in for a huge learning curve – with no instruction manual. And no one is going to encourage an 18 year old to quit studies and become a channel….except divine consciousness!”

As a result of her gifts, she has developed an ability to acutely observe the human energy field, which has led to an interest in the mapping and documenting of the changes occurring in the human energy field, and understanding how these changes impact upon human capacity, functionality and experience of Life.  Many hours of clinical observation and hundreds of accompanying channelled documents are revealing the synchronicity and pattern of change that is sweeping across humanity, and the planet itself.

Rebecca is now devoted to bringing this information into accessibility, so that humanity can start to have a conscious understanding of what is happening, why it is happening, and what can be created from this emerging capacity.  With the assistance of her team of Masters, Rebecca facilitates workshops and events around the world that allow more understanding to occur, and more information to emerge. Her first book “The New Human Experience” addressed these initial observations.

But after 25 years of relaying this information to humanity—both individually and through workshops, corporate presentations and speaking opportunity—there is  renewed urgency, according to The Masters. Humanity is in the midst of making a massive consciousness shift that is becoming more evident daily—a shift that will have us living and experiencing life from that place of totality—oneness--not from the duality-- that separation that has marked our current reality.  

Her new book, The Agreement, has been written to help us ease into that place of highly elevated conscious awareness, and prepare us to undertake this shift. It’s a roadmap for embracing life from this new level of Cosmic Mind.

For more information, visit: www.RebeccaDawson.net

Into the Nothing: A Spiritual Autobiography

By Gabriel Cousens M.D.

A Mystic for Any Age, Gabriel Cousens Pursued "Spiritual Liberation" Through Holistic Medicine and 3 Great Spiritual Traditions: Torah Jewish Mysticism, Eastern Yogic Way of Life, Native American Sundance Traditions

Courage, Fearlessness and Faith in His Destiny Enabled Him to Break Through Each Level to a Permanent State of Liberation and Eternal Presence

And Today this Renowned "Physician of the Soul" Leads Others on 

The Holistic Liberation Way 

"Destined to be a Spiritual Classic"

Greetings! 

If you've ever longed for knowing the experience of liberating your consciousness from identifying with your mind and body and letting it float in the primordial state of "non-causal" peace, bliss, love, wonder and oneness, then follow the trail that Dr. Gabriel Cousens has blazed for you.

This intrepid "spiritual warrior" has forged a path to the Holistic Liberation Way, through years of courageous, fearless and intensive spiritual intention and meditation. His astonishing new book Into the Nothing: A Spiritual Autobiography, reveals the mystical wild ride he personally took to becoming liberated, surrendering to "the Divine Urge" to fully merge into the state of God-consciousness and awaken to living from the soul that is beyond the body and the mind.

Today, this 77-year-old world renowned holistic physician, rabbi, yogi, spiritual mystic, psychiatrist, family therapist, vital-@-any-age advocate, humanitarian and peace ambassador, walks the planet in the state of Eternal Presence seeing the emanating light from all things, and yet living in the very real world where his good works and spiritual guidance change lives daily. He lives, as he says, in the world between Nothing (the world beyond time) and Something (the temporal world)-and experiences a fully integrated life in multiple dimensions-happy, joyful, grateful, loving and peaceful without any exterior reason (non-causal) because that is the nature of the primordial consciousness. There is found the true freedom.

How Cousens got there is what makes this fascinating book such an adventure!

Beginning with his dawning awareness of spiritual empowerment on the football field as a College Football Hall of Famer and captain on the undefeated 1964 Amherst College Team, he progressed to experiencing the holistic nature of mind and body through his highly successful psychiatry, family therapy and holistic medicine practices. 

Drawn like a magnet by an inner urging to explore consciousness -- to "know God" --he began a deep dive into the Yogic Way of Life, including seven years immersed in an India ashram under the tutelage of Swami Muktananda Paramahansa and then Swami Prakashandda Saraswati. It was there, amidst six hours a day of meditating; mystical visions; traditional Vedic teachings; and, most importantly, a world-altering "Shaktipat" energy transference from his guru -- that he broke through to freeing his consciousness to dissolve into the Nothing, leading to acknowledgement by his two spiritual masters that he was "liberated." And to begin the dance of returning whenever he wanted, ultimately to live from that state permanently, and simply follow in every moment, the direction that the divine pointed him toward. 

On the last day of a 40-day fast, Dr. Cousens was guided to "return to his roots," and that led him to understand the Torah was another path to liberation. And most specifically, the Kabbalistic and Essene teachings that are the most mystical aspects of Judaism. Becoming a rabbi after 12 years of study, he experienced liberation though this path of teaching as well. 

And then his path took him toward the Native American tradition, where he braved the extreme spiritual trials of initiation to becoming a 4-year Native American Sun Dancer and Eagle Dancer and an 11-year Spirit Dancer. Ultimately adopted by the Lakota Sioux Horn Chip Clan, and appointed head of the Yellow Horse Clan, he found the bliss of this path to ultimate consciousness as well.

But Into the Nothing: A Spiritual Autobiography is way more than an absorbing personal journey of awakening, highlighted by an extraordinary rich revelation of miracles and mystical adventures.

Gabriel Cousens is an extraordinary man, who has taken many paths to the same cosmic truth. He has given devoted service to the Divine, as well as his fellow man and woman, along the way earning the title "Physician of the Soul." He has packed 10 lives and world class achievements into just one, and says, "This has all been part of an ongoing spiritual evolution that undoubtedly will continue at least as long as I am my body." And maybe beyond!

If you would like to interview Gabriel Cousens, M.D. on how one blazes a trail Into the Nothing, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the call-in details.

Gabriel Cousens is an extraordinary man for whom healing is more than a one dimensional concept.  Yes, he is a Holistic MD, a Rabbi, a Yogi and life- long mystic which easily explains the reason he is called the Physician of the Soul, but that is only the barest essence of who he is.

He has been educating, healing and ministering to individuals, social sectors, and the planet in a myriad of ways that have been life- and world-transforming over a career that has spanned 50 years—and at 77, he is on the launch pad for much more!

Here are just a few of his achievements:

But these specific facts only tell a small a part of his unique transit on the planet, imbued with mystery, spiritual awakening and focused purpose. In his newest book, Into the Nothing: A Spiritual Autobiography (Infinite Life Publishing Media), he brings the reader on his wild, adventurous journey to spiritual liberation. He reveals his teachings of spiritual nutrition and his pathway to the Holistic Liberation Way. 

Today, Dr. Cousens combines all of his education, vast accumulated wisdom, nutritional guidance, spiritual teachings and practices, and his engaging charm to help others heal, grow and find peace through his weekly webcasts, online programs, in-person workshops and speaking engagements. With his unending energy, he continues to transform lives and inspire others to attain a life of meaning and freedom …and has set his sights on doing it for another 30 years!