Welcome to 2022! I am very excited to announce the re-brand of my podcast! We’ll be talking more about leadership in the digital age, digital culture, and innovation.

In this episode, I share with you a little about where my cybersecurity content is moving (I’ll be able to share that more later) and how we’re going to start talking more about how to be a high-impact leader in the digital age.

Since innovation is no longer limited to the technology sector, this podcast is for anyone who is developing their leadership skills in today’s environment. You might be working in tech and want to be a strong leader for your team, you might be an up and coming star in the business world, or you might be the CEO of your company and you know that technology has impacted the way in which we work, live, and play.

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Transcript:

Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel podcast or wherever it is that you are listening to this right now. So I am Heather. And what I want to do today is share with you a little bit of news that I have, and then the future direction of this podcast and YouTube channel. So if you’ve been around a while, you know that the podcast has been around since 2018. And we have gone through a couple name changes, rebranding, that kind of thing, just as you know, the things I’m interested in change. And then I also look at the analytics to the podcast to see what kinds of things you guys who are listening, what kinds of things you guys are interested in. So that helps drives some of the direction of the podcast as well. And on the podcast, we’ve talked a lot, a lot, a lot of things about like, digital safety, online safety. You know, some of the research that’s out there about how to teach cybersecurity how to teach coding to kids, all the kind of stuff is a really sort of a just like a hodgepodge of technology related stuff. And then the YouTube channel has been, you know, some of the podcast episodes made its way to the YouTube channel. But the YouTube channel has really been more of the tactical side of some of the things that I’ve been doing. It’s sort of the How to videos, I’ve got a couple videos on there explaining how to use aeronautical charts for drone pilots, understanding airspace, that kind of thing. But then I’ve also got some coding tutorials with Scratch programming, which is something that MIT put out, it’s, you know, they’re they’re really intended to be tutorials to help parents who are helping their kids do homework, or giving teachers ideas for things that they can do with kids in the classroom with regards to coding, we actually ended up happening is a lot of sometimes a lot of kids watching those videos. And then they messaged me looking for help with their homework. So But anyways, so personally, in my own, like personal professional life, I guess, I’ve had a couple things change over the last couple of months. And so some of the, the majority of the cybersecurity content that I do create will be put on to a different platform, which I will be able to announce that here shortly. We won’t announce it in this episode. But I will be able to announce that here shortly where we’re going to be moving some of the cybersecurity content over to a different platform, and I’ll be sharing and growing a lot of different areas in cybersecurity doing some thought leadership, that kind of thing. So I wanted to share that with you guys that that that kind of stuff, you won’t see too much of that here anymore there. But there will still be a lot of stuff very much related to that industry. Okay. So what I’m going to do now with the podcast and the YouTube channel, rather than having the to be to sort of separate entities, they’re going to become sort of the same thing. It’s just dependent on whether or not you want to listen to me up the app on the podcast, or you want to watch me up the app on the YouTube channel. Alright, so it’s really just dependent on what your preferred medium is. And so I will be posting a lot of the same content in both places, but it really just depends on you. Do you want to watch videos? Or do you want to listen to the podcast, but the topic is going to change just a little bit, it’s going to be much, much more higher level type of content. So I’m calling the podcast leadership 5.0. And with the idea that we’re going to be talking about what does it means to be a high impact leader in the digital age. So as we are, you know, progressing through industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial age, where we are having, we’re, we’re talking about things like IOT, the Internet of Things, and we’ve got all these different devices, and we’ve got cell phones, and we’ve got watches that are connected to the internet and toasters and all this kind of stuff. We’ve got all these devices, we’ve got automation, and we’ve got a lot of different advances in technology happening very, very, very quickly. And it’s not just in the technology sector, it’s not just for tech anymore, okay? So companies that don’t weren’t necessarily a tech company 15 or 20 years ago, they’re rapidly becoming tech companies, because they have people that are working all over the world. They’ve got people using all these different technologies, to manage their teams and to get work done. And but they’re all physically geographically located apart from each other. And so as a leader in this age, in the digital age, you need to have a good solid understanding of technology, and how to lead your team, using, you know, some of the the technology tools that are out there. But then also understanding the digital culture and the ways that things have changed over the last couple of generations with regards to how people want to work, what kinds of things motivate them, and what are the sort of what are the things that are just really important to the to the to the upcoming generations. And so that when, you know,

I, you know, I’m a, I’m a Gen X, you know, right on the cusp of Gen X and in the millennials, so I get a little A little bit of both sides of things. But I remember, you know, when when Gen X was hitting the workforce, there was a lot of like to, you know, for some of the older generations of here’s how you work with Gen X, right? And now we’re doing some of that with how do you work with millennials? How do you work with Gen Z and Gen Y, and you know, all these other generations, right? But that you have to understand that these generations that are they’re coming into the workforce now have been shaped by technology. They don’t know a world without technology, many people don’t know a world without cell phones. And we’re starting to get to a generation of people that don’t know a world, a world, a world before smartphones, which is crazy to me, right. But there’s all this sub context, I guess, around digital culture, managing a team, leading a team, I should say, and being a effective high impact leader in the digital age. So have you can look at it sort of from the perspective of you know, like a Venn diagram, I should draw out a Venn diagram, but you’ve got technology, you’ve got the human side of you know, your team, right. And then you’ve got the leadership principles that you bring together so that you can effectively lead your team to success in the digital age. All right. So I’m not going to go into the first episode. Today, what I really wanted to do is just make this video released this episode, explaining what has been going on behind the scenes here. And if you go to my website, Heather monthie.com, I spent a lot of time on that getting that rebranded. And I think you’ll enjoy that if you’re not signed up. For the podcast notes, make sure you go do that. I’ve got the link in the show notes or the link in the description box. If you’re on YouTube. And you can get as soon as the very first official episode is released, you will get that right in your email inbox. So I’m very excited about this. This is some of the stuff that I have studied over the years, I’ve studied leadership and technology, technology management, virtual teams, how to manage virtual teams, pre 2020, the things that have happened the last 20 years or two years, feels like 20 years, right? Things that have happened in the last two years. But it’s just, you know, how are we evolving as a workforce, how is technology become one of the main drivers of an evolving workforce. So rather than talking about some of this, the very tactical level things of how to do this, and how to do that, how to protect yourself online, how to use Scratch programming, how to do this with your drone, we’re going to get away from the how tos. And we’re going to talk more on strategic higher level initiatives, helping people to be become better leaders in the digital age. This is not just for technology professionals anymore. This is for people that are leading teams in any company, that or any organization that they have technology, everybody’s got it right. And so understanding just some of the nuances that go with leading a team in that place. If you’re a CEO of a company, you’re a VP of a company, and you’re trying to lead your team, you you know that there’s this whole technology thing not going away, and you know that you need to learn more about it and how to effectively use it, this podcast is for you as well. So I think that there’s going to be a little bit of something here for everybody that is just really interested in developing your leadership skills as we move forward into 2022 here and going forward. And I’m very exc