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15 Things to Quit Today to Stop Making BAD Decisions

15 Things to Quit Today to Stop Making BAD Decisions

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By Motivational Keynote Speaker and Human Behavior Expert Connie Podesta Bad choices? Sure, we all make them. Hopefully as we get older (and sometimes wiser) though, we figure out that we can do better than that.  If you’re ready to start making BETTER choices, let’s take a look at the top 15 things to quit starting today. Quit avoiding reality. Too many people live in an “if only” or “I wish” fantasy world—and not in the reality of what is actually going on at this moment!Be honest with yourself.  Making choices based on what you wish would happen or should happen or might happen is Read More

Delivering the Content People Need Right Now

Delivering the Content People Need Right Now

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By Hall of Fame Speaker Connie Podesta Change is tough. Change on a global scale that has literally hit home and business in every conceivable way? Can stop people – teams – and companies in their tracks. So, how do we get people to lean into their inherent resilience? To get out of fear that is playing in their heads and back to leading, servicing, connecting, selling, and communicating in new and adaptive ways? We add a little psychology into the mix. We teach them that change is what we do – and do well – as human beings. We gift them with tools and insights and strategies that Read More

Pandemic Fatigue and Your Team

Pandemic Fatigue and Your Team

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By Hall of Fame Speaker Connie Podesta Johns Hopkins. UCLA Health. Psychology Today. World Health Organization. Just about every mental health professional in the world right now is helping people navigate Pandemic Fatigue. It’s real. It’s draining. And it is likely to be around for a while. As leaders, now is the time to be proactive about fueling your team’s mental well being with empowering tools, training, support systems – and a little levity. Gagandeep Singh, MD, a psychiatrist at Banner Behavioral Health Hospital in Scottsdale says, “A good laugh can help lighten the mood Read More

Get Your Team Out of the Funk!

Get Your Team Out of the Funk!

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By Connie Podesta, Hall of Fame Speaker, CSP, CPAE If your team seems to be missing its usual spark, you’re certainly not alone. Let's face it, this year has been an idea-stifling, rut-producing, stress-inducing ball of...well, you get the idea. And we’re still not out of the pandemic-fatigue woods yet. To be fair, the slump is understandable. Many organizations have been scrambling for months—shifting to remote work locations, implementing convoluted technology workarounds, re-imagining how to do business in a pandemic, and redefining team dynamics. Employee stress levels are Read More

Leading Through the Uncertainty:  Breakthrough or Breakdown?

Leading Through the Uncertainty:  Breakthrough or Breakdown?

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By Hall of Fame Speaker, Leadership Guru, and Award-Winning Author Connie Podesta, MS, CSP, CPAE If you thought leaders were stressed to the breaking point before, throw in a pandemic and some economic turmoil. It’s hard enough to climb the steep hill of adapting to the wild challenges of our new normal but try making that climb while carrying an entire team on your back. That can feel exhausting and, many times, impossible. So, what’s the difference between leaders who can reach new heights during uncertainty with highly engaged, super productive teams versus those who leave workers Read More

Creating an Incredible Virtual Experience

Creating an Incredible Virtual Experience

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By Connie Podesta, CSP, CPAE, Hall of Fame Speaker When a pandemic forced event planners and leaders to cancel all live events almost overnight, it was hard to even imagine what the future would look like. I totally get it. As someone who makes a living speaking to conventions packed with hundreds and thousands of people, often shoulder- to-shoulder, I feel your pain, and your frustration. Social distancing has seriously thrown a big global wrench into all our calendars. The big question for most became – “Now what?” Lockdowns, shelters-in-place, and shuttered stages aside, what hasn’t Read More

Success Lies in How We ‘Act’ or ‘React’

Success Lies in How We ‘Act’ or ‘React’

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By Connie Podesta, Hall of Fame Speaker, CPAE, CSP Success is NOT the result of good timing, karma, coincidence, fate or good luck.  Those are the labels used by people who REACT to what the world sends their way The true key to success is to ACT: Cease excuses. Be accountable. Take responsibility. Stand out. We’re all too familiar with the “react” mode – right?  Wake up in the morning, everything’s fine then boom, we stub a toe, get a tough call from a client, have to learn a new technology platform, the internet crashes…any number of little “disasters” that we allow to derail us.  Read More

Take Charge of Your Personal Life So Your Professional Life Can Soar

Take Charge of Your Personal Life So Your Professional Life Can Soar

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By Connie Podesta, CSP, CPAE, Hall of Fame Speaker First of all - the idea of personal and professional balance is really a myth. You don't have a personal life and a professional life - you have a life -- and the two most DEFINITELY are intertwined. . Chances are that despite your best attempts to keep the two separate, the quality and stability of your personal life often have a direct impact upon the quality and success of your professional life. In fact, for many people, their professional life mirrors their personal life. When your personal life is stable and happy, this mirroring Read More

Six Dare to Be Different Tips for Speakers

Six Dare to Be Different Tips for Speakers

Posted by Connie Podesta

How to Give a STANDOUT Presentation by Motivational Speaker Connie Podesta Believe it or not, after more than 30 years in this business, speaking to more than 60,000 people a year, I still get nervous. And I wouldn’t want it any other way. (How many of you feel the same?) I always want to have that little fear-factor edge that keeps me on my toes and never lets me take my job or my audiences for granted. But, I have learned to conquer the major fears and keep cool, calm and collected. Stage fright is just part of it though – right?  You may be worried about your message. Will it hit Read More

Quit Being a Victim

Quit Being a Victim

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By Connie Podesta, Hall of Fame Speaker Straight talk? If you’re 25, 65+ years old or anywhere in between and you’re still blaming your parents for a few (or many) things you believe are responsible for the condition of your life right now – then you’re totally on the wrong path. Now I’m not saying to discount any negative childhood messages or experiences.  I’m definitely 100% an advocate for children who’ve been through trauma and I know what that means moving into adulthood. What I am saying is that when you reach the age of adulthood, it’s time to use your awareness of what you’ve been Read More

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15 Things to Quit Today to Stop Making BAD Decisions

Delivering the Content People Need Right Now

Pandemic Fatigue and Your Team

Finding Confidence Beyond the Fear

Get Your Team Out of the Funk!

Leading Through the Uncertainty:  Breakthrough or Breakdown?

Incredible New Reality Strategies for Direct Sales

Creating an Incredible Virtual Experience

The REAL Cost of a Negative Attitude

Success Lies in How We ‘Act’ or ‘React’

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