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On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…

SEGMENT 1 with Naz Beheshti, starting at 0:00: Managing our wellbeing has been a difficult challenge for every small business owner during the pandemic. Naz Beheshti is here with a simple 3-step solution: Pause, Breathe and Choose. She also shows us how to feed our inner coach, rather than our inner critic.

SEGMENT 2 with Tova Sherman, starting at 19:45: Many of us talk about inclusiveness and accessibility for our employees, but a lot of us have no idea where to start to hire and manage people with disabilities.  Tova Sherman is here to help.

SEGMENT 3 with Arthur F. Coombs III, starting at 35:00: Change is hard. Your biology fights against it. How do you actually make the changes to get the life and business you want?

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More on each segment below.

 

Segment 1: Naz Beheshti is the author of Pause. Breathe. Choose: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being. She is an executive wellness coach, speaker, Forbes contributor, and CEO and founder of Prananaz, a corporate wellness company improving leadership effectiveness, employee engagement and well-being, company culture, and business outcomes. Clients include Nike, JPMorgan Chase, and Stanford University.

1:30 – You say that Steve Jobs inspired you to write Pause. Breathe. Choose. How so?

4:00 – What do you say to small business owners who say they don’t have time to focus on their wellbeing because they have to work?

8:30 – Does everyone have an inner coach and inner critic? What impact does each have on us? How do you feed one over the other?

11:15 – Advice for those who are having a hard time connecting with a sense of passion and purpose in their lives.

13:15 – What do you think the impact of the pandemic will be on business leaders going forward and what’s the most important theme of 2021?

15:00 – The power of Pause. Breathe. Choose. in our lives.

Tova Sherman on The Small Business Radio Show

Segment 2: Tova Sherman is a TEDx Speaker and thought leader with more than 25 years of experience in diversity and inclusion and the award-winning CEO of reachAbility, an organization which provides supportive and accessible programs dedicated to workplace inclusion for anyone facing barriers. She is the winner of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Canada Law Leadership Award.

19:45 – Why are many small business owners clueless about how to hire and manage persons with disabilities?

22:30 – Win, Win, Win: The benefits of inclusion throughout an organization—for the employer, the consumer, and the diverse workforce of the future.

24:30 – Why attitudinal barriers are the biggest obstacles to an inclusive workplace culture. How can you best educate your team?

29:15 – Actionable steps for educating your existing team to build the foundation for a truly inclusive workplace.

Art Coombs on The Small Business Radio Show

Segment 3: Arthur F. Coombs III is a best-selling author, dynamic speaker, and leadership guru III who brings decades of global expertise to readers, audiences, and corporations through his visionary and innovative practices. His new book is called “Hard Easy: A Get-Real Guide for Getting the Life You Want”.

35:00 – What holds people back from going out and getting the life they want?

37:00 – The “hard-easy” approach that you have to take to be successful in life.

40:00 – Why do we tend to focus on our weaknesses instead of our strengths? What should we do instead?

44:45 – What is the first step to making changes and living an empowered life?

47:00 – When creating an empowered life, begin with the end in mind.

48:30 – What do you say to people who say creating the life they want is too hard?

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