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The Adventure to Evolve
The Adventure to Evolve
Author: Cha'Lea Stafford
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You're leading the most incredible adventure of your lifetime, your story.
Embark on an adventure of personal expansion that doesnt sugar coat the human experience. As an ex-corporate sales leadership executive turned podcast host, Cha'Lea's dropping the corporate jargon, facades, and filler motivation and entering a sanctuary where leadership strategies meet soulful introspection.
In this space, light and shadow are invited to dance, illuminating the path through life's Pinterest versus reality moments. Whether you're finding bravery in stillness or exploring the world, this is your conscious playground where you can vent, celebrate, and refuel.
Join us on the journey to make your 80-year-old self proud!
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Send us a text Ready to take control of your career and reach new heights of professional success? Join us as we sit down with an MIT professor, successful entrepreneur, and author of the groundbreaking book, "The Career Toolkit." Discover the secrets to investing in your soft skills and developing a career plan that will set you apart in today's competitive job market. With insights from his experience leading the MIT Career Success Accelerator, this episode will empower you to...
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Send us a text In this episode of "Leadership Beyond the Title," we hear from a Financial Planner who shares his personal journey with financial literacy. Ohan is a former Wells Fargo private banker in LA with 15+ years in the financial industry. Born in Armenia and raised in a family of hard-working parents, he grew up with limited resources and believed that earning, handling, and growing money was a difficult task. After moving to the United States in 2009, he discovered the financial ...
Send us a text What shapes our leadership adventure in life? How do we experience this journey, and who is it for? The journey of leadership goes beyond the titles, pay, and promotions of the workforce and into the depths of the stories that fuel who we are in the pursuit of experiencing life in alignment with our authentic story. Leadership is happening right now because you're in the seat to create your story. Sounds easier said than done, right? Ahhh, if life was simply...
Send us a text What are you listening to? No, I'm not talking about Chris Stapleton's song; I'm talking about the noise that comes with change. As Jim Hendrix's a famous musician, said, "knowledge speaks, and wisdom listens." Globally, we share a common theme of change, and naturally, this can make us feel out of tune with our usual beat as we get extra noise from every direction. Just like in music, we have to find the tune of our beat, but first, we must understand what are we...
Send us a text Do what you can, with what you have, where you are- these are the words of Theodore Roosevelt. Today we're applying it to the evolving journey of becoming financially literate to create experiences, wisdom, and strategies for the next generation to DIY their generational wealth and become financially independent. We've all heard the advice- go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a degree and hold a job to retire at 65. Our guest expert Kofi began this...
Send us a text When this challenging time is over, what do you want to be proudest of? Our world is fighting a pandemic that has vastly changed the reality of our everyday lives. As we face uncertainty, fear rises, and our realities become distorted. Naturally, we begin to ponder our story and our ability to lead through a crisis but, more importantly, if and how we evolve through it. In difficult times like this, we turn to wise leaders who have been battle-tested throughout life to s...
Send us a text What is your personality? Are you an introvert, INTJ, or DI in your disc profile? If you're not sure - someone who maybe is your employer. Throughout your career, your personality is constantly being measured to understand who you are - but get this your personality doesn't matter. Your personality is not the most fundamental aspect of who you are. Instead, your personality is surface level, transitory, and a by-product of something much deeper. Joining us tod...
Send us a text Amazing leaders have many exceptional habits - one of them is surprisingly simple, reading. Warren Buffet estimates he spends 80% of his time reading, and Mark Cuban is known for reading up to 3 hours a day. A study performed in US News & World Reports included 1,200 of the world's wealthiest people and found one surprising commonality they were all avid readers. The most successful people learn how to produce a result. We've all heard the term leaders are read...
Send us a text This episode is being recorded during an unprecedented time for our world as we find ourselves in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic. People all over the world are coming together to do their part by staying home to flatten the curve. In times, like these, we can find ourselves pondering the bigger questions in life, such as: What's my purpose? Should I start a family- fight for a cause? How can we improve humanity?What's the truth about marriage?Why do peop...
Send us a text Communicating effectively is a skill that we learn over time through trial and error. In the beginning stages of our lives, we're guided through the examples of our parents, peers, and educators. As we transition into the workforce, our communication skills get challenged by the array of personalities, techniques, and strategies being used to convey a message. We know the cost of poor communication in organizations is very high. But it doesn't stop there. What about...
Send us a text You've heard me say it before one of the most significant investments of time that we will make is in our life is our career. The average person spends 47 years of their life from the age of 18-65 working to secure their living. And we want to help you make that time count. Most people reach retirement at 65 (if we're lucky), but what if we flipped the script on the traditional approach to retirement because retirement isn't about age- it's a financial number. More and ...
Send us a text How you ever wondered how to excel at what you do? What does it take to lead the complexities of your success through the evolving seasons of your life and your career? I recently read an article by someone named Dr. Richard Blackaby, who put this in the perspective of farming. For those of us who live in North America, we' are generally familiar with the four primary seasons. Spring, summer, fall, and winter If you ask a farmer, they would love to be in a harvest season...
Send us a text As we evolve, so must our leadership strategies and tools. When it comes to our leadership, we're bringing you the organic experience of what it means to lead the complexities of your success throughout work and life. We dig into the message behind the message of what it means to lead your challenges authentically while connecting your world to your work throughout the evolving seasons of your life. Today, we're exploring Melissa's Journey of leaving the Corp...
Send us a text Can you imagine growing up in a family of psychologists and experiencing anxiety and depression as a teenager? Ayelet, saw a therapist, read books, and talked to people. She did all of the things she was supposed to do. But in between those therapy sessions, she used to feel so alone and so anxious. She had the ideal environment and support, but it wasn’t enough. She discovered she wasn’t having a breakdown during her sessions with her therapist, it was the in-between mom...
Send us a text Is it possible to perform at our best without sacrificing ourselves? Can we slow down to help us accelerate further while juggling the increasing and shifting demands of life and work? How do we break through people's opinions and make a difference by going against the norm? To answer these questions, we sought the unique expertise of a leader who has been tested in the most rugged and high-stress environments- meet Dr. Jannell MacAulay. Passionate and credible in ...
Send us a text We're curious about mindfulness and exploring it through the lens of a highly respected Corporate Pysoclogist. Join the conversation with our guest expert, Dr. Patricia Thompson, a successful author, keynote speaker, and founder of Silver Lining Psychology. Her work has been featured in The Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Inc., and many others. We’ll explore how mindfulness shaped her: CareerParenting H...


















