Best Mirela Podcasts (2026)

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From Military Precision to Private Practice Success: The Leadership Journey of Dr. Mirela Memic 42:50

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In this episode of The Paradigm Concept, host Dr. David Rallis sits down with Dr. Mirela Memic, oral and maxillofacial surgeon and founder of Buckhead Oral Surgery in Atlanta. Dr. Memic shares her extraordinary journey—from leaving a war-torn country as a child, to serving in the U.S. military, to becoming a mother and opening a brand-new practice …

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Authenticity in Practice: Social Media, Leadership, and Growth with Dr. Hamza Al Atassi 38:24

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In this episode of The Paradigm Concept, host Dr. David Rallis sits down with Dr. Hamza Al Atassi, oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Metrowest Oral Surgical Associates, to explore how authenticity, storytelling, and technology intersect in modern practice. Dr. Al Atassi shares his journey from dental training in Syria to establishing a thriving pri…

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Building a Surgical Legacy: Mentorship, Growth, and Giving Back with Dr. Derek Nelson 37:38

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In this episode of Paradigm, host Dr. David Rallis welcomes Dr. Derek Nelson, chief resident at the University of North Carolina, to explore the early career journey of a surgeon committed to mentorship, growth, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Dr. Nelson shares his background—from immigrating from Jamaica to pursuing both pastoral work and de…

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From the Battlefield to the Dental Chair with Dr. Ryan Cho 52:01

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In this episode of Paradigm, host Dr. David Rallis sits down with Dr. Ryan Cho, oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Asheville, North Carolina, to explore the remarkable journey from military service to launching a thriving practice. Dr. Cho recounts his experience in the U.S. Air Force, including his role during the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami,…

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Data, Dentistry, and Disruption with Dr. Jai Mediratta 43:45

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In this episode of Paradigm, host Dr. David Rallis is joined by Dr. Jai Mediratta, a Mayo Clinic oral and maxillofacial surgery resident and long-time contributor to Paradigm Oral Health. The two reflect on Jai's unconventional journey from aspiring medical student to oral surgery assistant, tech entrepreneur, and research leader. They explore the …

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The Paradigm Journey, a conversation between Dr. David Rallis and Dr. Mike Walker 59:50

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In today’s episode, David Rallis becomes the interviewee as Mike Walker takes on the guest-host role. We dive into David's personal and professional journey, revealing the experiences that have honed his approach to healthcare and leadership at Paradigm. This episode unpacks how Paradigm turns seemingly unattractive deals into golden opportunities …

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Advancing Clinical Research and Oral Healthcare: Dr. Edward Zuckerberg's Pioneering Technological Innovations in Dentistry 52:28

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In this podcast episode, we explore the professional journey and contributions of Dr. Edward Zuckerberg, D.D.S., F.A.G.D., a vanguard in the dental field renowned for his innovative integration of technology and clinical research into dental healthcare. His foray into dentistry began at NYU Dental School, where, despite his initial lack of industry…

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Building Value in a Healthcare Business: A Conversation with Karan Garg 43:50

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In this podcast, Karan Garg (KG) discusses his extensive experience as a leader in healthcare investment banking and how he fell into the world of dentistry. Karan began his career in investment banking right after completing his undergraduate studies, embarking on a long and successful journey in this field. He has spent 17 years in the healthcare…

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Insights into the World of Dentistry with Indraneel Kanaglekar, SVP, Global Dental President of ZimVie 38:56

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Indraneel Kanaglekar, the Global Dental President of ZimVie, offers a deep dive into the world of dentistry and its significance in the landscape of global healthcare. Under his leadership, dentistry not only serves as the linchpin for ZimVie but is also envisioned as its future growth trajectory. Background: Educational & Career Journey: Starting …

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Revolutionizing Healthcare Data: Unveiling the Genius of Data Scientist Extraordinaire James Card 28:43

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In this podcast episode featuring data scientist expert James Card, he is highlighted as the "most Interesting man in the world" due to his transformative work in business intelligence within the healthcare sector. When he initially joined Paradigm, it was a blank canvas, but he managed to revolutionize the use of data in healthcare by taking it to…

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Driving Dental Innovation with Guillaume Daniellot, CEO of Straumman Group 34:25

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In Episode 10 of the podcast, the guest is Guillaume Daniellot, the CEO of Straumann Group. Straumman Group is a pioneer in the field of dental implants and as the CEO Guillaume has been instrumental in driving research and innovation to provide better care for patients. And on this episode the conversation revolves around his journey as a leader, …

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Dr. Mike Walker on Oral Surgery and His Journey 37:20

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Dr. Mike Walker is a successful oral surgeon who has made significant strides in his career. His journey to success began during dental school when he exhibited leadership by placing his first dental implant. This achievement not only showcased his skills but also demonstrated his dedication to advancing in the field. During this time, he began bui…

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Exploring Oral Surgery Excellence: A Conversation with Dr. Michael Shapiro 25:30

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In this episode of the podcast, we had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Michael Shapiro, an oral surgeon from Ohio Dental Implants and Oral Surgery. The discussion primarily focused on Dr. Shapiro's background, his plans for the future, his practice philosophy, practice development, and his partnership with Paradigm. Dr. Shapiro began by sharing …

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Building a High-Performance Team with Navy Seal 35:11

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In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Rallis speaks with "G", a former Navy Seal, who shares valuable insights on the characteristics of building high-performance teams and the significance of mental toughness in Navy Seal training. G didn't initially plan on becoming a Navy Seal. However, everything changed when the tragic events of September 11th o…

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Empowering the Future of Dentistry: A Conversation with Amir Aghdaei, CEO of Envista 43:24

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In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Rallis interviews Amir Aghdaei, the CEO of Envista, a company that partners with dental professionals to provide top-notch patient care. Amir discusses his background, the key factors behind individual greatness and business success, and his journey to becoming the CEO of Envista. Amir's impressive career began w…

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Building High Growth Organizations with Paul Gustavson, Strategic Advisor 46:29

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In episode 5 of the podcast, the guest is Paul Gustavson, a business coach and mentor affiliated with the Paradigm organization. The episode focuses on discussing the crucial design elements necessary for building a top-performing organization. Paul Gustavson shares insights on leadership, organizational culture, and the commonalities found in the …

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Technology Infrastructure in Oral Surgery with CTO Ted Timmerman 25:11

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In this episode of the podcast, we dive into the world of oral surgery and explore the critical role that technology infrastructure plays in delivering efficient and high-quality patient care. Our special guest is Ted Timmerman, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Paradigm Oral Health. Ted stresses the need to build robust technology systems and …

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Trigger Translator: Discover triggers with body sensations, and then transform confrontation to communication in home and work 21:21

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In this thought-provoking episode of Mindful Agility, learn how to transform confrontational encounters into productive dialogues. Ankur Shah Delight and Dan Greening share a transformational technique to handle triggering comments, guiding listeners to notice their physical reactions, pause, seek the core of the statement, rephrase it, and share w…

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How Dr. Steve Wiemer built his practice on putting the needs of the patient first 33:34

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In this captivating episode, Dr. Steve Wiemer takes us on a journey into his remarkable success in oral surgery, attributing it all to a fundamental principle: putting the needs of the patient first. Dr. Wiemer's unwavering dedication to his patients forms the cornerstone of his practice, and he goes above and beyond to ensure that they receive the…

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Growing your practice from the ground up in under 2 years with Dr. Daniel Yacoob 46:00

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In this captivating episode of the podcast, Dr. Yacoob shares his incredible journey of transforming his oral surgery practice from its humble beginnings to a flourishing and highly productive enterprise in less than two years. Whether you are a dental professional aiming to expand your own practice or simply seeking expert guidance and inspiration…

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Advice and insights for new surgeons starting in an oral surgery practice with Dr. Rachel Strait 27:53

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In the inaugural episode of our podcast, we had the privilege of hosting Dr. Rachel Strait, a recently graduated oral surgeon, who shared her invaluable insights and experiences with our audience. Throughout the conversation, Dr. Strait provided a fresh perspective on the significance of academics and the continuous pursuit of knowledge through int…

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Procrastination: Find the Cues, Choices, and Rewards that damage our Mental and Physical Health and derail our Opportunities. Tim Ferriss shares the Fear Setting exercise. Dan Greening shares his Habit ... 21:47

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In this Mindful Agility podcast episode on procrastination, hosts Mirela Petalli and Dan Greening delve into the hidden costs of procrastination. Have you wondered how procrastination could impact not just your work, but also your mental and physical health? This episode uncovers shocking research findings from Sweden that link procrastination to p…

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Move Fast and Break Cheap Things: Warren Buffett and Elon Musk staged low-cost experiments for the faster win 16:45

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Want to learn the secret behind Warren Buffett's success? Curious about how SpaceX rockets are built? This episode of Mindful Agility podcast uncovers the power of low-cost experiments and how they can propel your success. Hosts Dan Greening and Dan Dickson discuss how to use low-cost experiments to reduce risk and increase reward, and suggest prac…

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Psychological Safety 20:29

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Toxic work and home environments are all around us: intimidation, humiliation, secret discussions, manipulation. Those environments are psychologically unsafe. When we and those around us feel unsafe, we become fearful, stop learning, and fail to improve. Discover the power of psychological safety in fostering high-performing teams, as we dive into…

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Incremental Reciprocity Builds Successful Relationships 19:59

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Discover the secret behind successful partnerships in this episode on incremental reciprocity. Start with a small task without expecting anything in return, and ask your partner to match your effort. As you both grow, this technique helps measure reliability and build trust. Famous duos like Lennon-McCartney and Oprah Winfrey-Gayle King used this m…

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Five Whys for Lasting Breakthroughs 13:02

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Unlock the mindful power of the Five Whys technique in this intriguing episode, with agile coach Dan Greening and corporate fixer Dan Dickson. The Five Whys method has transformed businesses and personal lives, revealing hidden causes of problems, and promoting safer, more lasting improvements. Hear intriguing stories, like how Toyota fixed a recur…

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Chapter 1.1: Find Success without the Recipe 32:10

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By developing two uncommon skills, mindfulness and agility, you can achieve true success in most fields of life and work. You must define success on your own terms, rather than rely on others' metrics or recipes. Imitating others who have been successful works fine to get your feet wet, but it won't make you successful, because the world has new co…

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Learning from Failure, Without Losing Your Mind 49:07

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Learning from failure ought to be easy. Good experiments should fail, about half the time, especially if they aren't costly. And agile experiments are designed to be low cost. But failure, it turns out, freaks us out, especially when we are new to a field. That might explain why agile transformations fail at a very high rate, even though the benefi…

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Why Bother? Purpose Drives Creative People to Minimize Distraction, Recruit Buddies, and Build Success 1:14:57

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Our clumsiness in life creates most of our suffering. We haven't practiced the skills we need to be happy. We don’t see what’s going on around us. We don’t see the causes early enough to prevent a train-wreck in work or life. And when we don’t know how to distinguish truth from delusion, well that leads to a world of hurt. But if we don't have a pu…

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The OODA loop: Learn faster and smarter while slowing down impediments. An American military strategist used OODA to beat enemies in war. OODA can help you succeed with peace of mind. 45:11

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The faster and better we take action against impediments, the more successful we'll be, according to renowned military strategist John Boyd, developer of the OODA Loop. The OODA loop is observe, orient, decide and act. It’s how we take action in new situations and succeed. In this episode of the Mindful Agility podcast, Tom Looy explores how John B…

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Failure in Dublin: Matt Learns Lessons the Hard and Fast Way, through Experiments 39:31

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When we fail, we can easily fall into anxiety, guilt, or depression. But failure can lead us toward success. A simple Google search reveals many famous people discuss their failures and subsequent successes. We can succeed through failure, too! In this episode of the Mindful Agility podcast, Mirela Petalli, Matthew Zimmerman, Dan Dickson and Dan Gr…

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Wine Store: The pandemic compels old school Manhattan store to modernize to retain market. Can mindfulness and agile get Dan Dickson unstuck? 35:46

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People around us need help. Our inclination is to rush in, fix the problem, and rush out. After all we have stuff we need to do, ourselves. But we can get stuck. And stay stuck. For months. Dan Dickson wanted his friend’s pet project, a wine store in Manhattan, to succeed. Dan had the skills to add online transactions to their web site. But, he did…

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Mindful Parenting: Christina Smith Shares How Agile Methods And Frequent Feedback Give Her Children The Tools They Need To Succeed 41:35

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In this episode Christina Smith, a certified scrum master, shares how she started using scrum and mindfulness not only in her work, but also her parenting. Like most parents, Christina wants her children to lead happy and fulfilling lives, both now and when they are adults. She also needs them to take out the trash now and then too. Stressed with t…

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Enjoy.com Crashes Into Reality, Bye Bye $500 Million: Ron Johnson confidence, venture capital fueled unsafe speed. Mindful Agility was too slow, cautious for their taste 45:19

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In this third and final episode on fabled merchandiser, Ron Johnson, we discuss the startup Enjoy.com, which turned $500M of invested capital and goodwill into nothing. This was Johnson's second attempt as a CEO. What did he learn from that failure? How did it shape his new company? Your co-hosts, Dan Dickson and Dan Greening, bring perspectives of…

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Business on Fire Part II: Could Business Mindfulness Have Stopped the Failure of Steve Jobs' Protege Ron Johnson at JC Penney? 1:18:29

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This is the second episode of a three-part series on fabled merchandiser, Ron Johnson, and how he failed to restore JC Penney to its former leadership in retailing. In this episode we're going to be talking very explicitly about business mindfulness and how it applies. If you want to understand "business mindfulness," this is the episode for you. I…

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Business on Fire Part I: Steve Jobs protege Ron Johnson burns JC Penney cash fast as CEO 43:52

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As an executive working for other CEOs, Ron Johnson succeeded wildly in redesigning Target stores and building Apple Stores from scratch. But then, as a CEO, Ron Johnson crashed and burned two later companies. Join Dan Dickson, a seasoned retail executive and Harvard Business School grad, and Dan Greening, co-host of Mindful Agility, as we talk abo…

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Want lasting change? Label emotions 44:14

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If we want lasting change, emotions may be our strongest opponent. When forced to change, people feel fear, rage, anxiety, and other emotions. Emotions are designed to satisfy basic needs: defend, fight, flight, reproduce. But when they overwhelm us, they shut down logic. They’re great when we’re suddenly confronted by a lion in the African savanna…

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Hand to mouth awareness: stop harmful habits and get a great smile 35:58

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Nurse Heather's four year old son, Jack, likes to put his fingers in his mouth. But this can lead to dental problems in the future. She heard the episode about Matt learning to keep track of his keys, by noticing that he was setting them down and saying "I'm putting my keys on the counter." Heather wondered whether it could help her son. We also di…

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You Lost Your Keys. Again?! 53:38

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We all have hapless friends who would lose their head if it wasn't attached. Maybe we are that friend! Matt recently moved in with his girlfriend, Mirela Petalli (our co-host), and Matt realized losing his keys kept making them late. Can mindful agility help? Matt and Mirela worked together. Matt is familiar with Scrum, an agile technique; Mirela i…

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Noah Rasheta: Fewer Expectations, More Success 26:14

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Our stories provide a shorthand self, which gives us focus while the stories make sense, but they put our happiness at risk. If we imagine them to be complete and permanent we are doomed to suffer. When we release our attachment to our stories, we create freedom. Only through our actions will we transform ourselves and our world. The stories are on…

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Noah Rasheta: The Entrepreneur Driving the School Bus 26:31

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When we choose ambitious goals, we're going to create stories about them. But nothing lasts forever: our jobs, our achievements, our friends, our relationships... or our stories. If we attach our identities to ephemeral stories (and aren't all our stories ephemeral?), we will suffer. Noah Rasheta, the host of the Secular Buddhism podcast and author…

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Iterations for Ukraine 27:49

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The Russian war on Ukraine is in full force. The Mindful Agility co-hosts have ties to Eastern Europe. We are contending with our own reactivity, as we interact with others less familiar with the region. Our friend, Rob Coles, discusses how he employed an agile strategy to direct funds to individuals on the ground in Ukraine. He ran several iterati…

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95% Vegan, 100% Happy: Goals and Compassion 28:02

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Today we're discussing goals, interdependence and compassion. Nurse Heather faced a challenge that the rest of us encounter. She had a goal that seemed incompatible with her family and environment. Our goals and our social environment often conflict. In our personal lives, if we want to stop smoking, focus more on studying, or lose weight, our fami…

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Resolutions Just Humiliate Me: Goals and Reactivity 24:28

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Improvement is hard enough, whether we're trying to fix a Fortune 100 company or quit smoking. Our reactivity can create unrealistic expectations and then encourage others to dictate our futures. Reactivity tells us to give up when our first attempts fall short. It tells us to feel guilty, which can sideline us further. Mindfulness meditation teach…

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Zooming In and Out on Life: Self-Similarity 26:19

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Many systems exhibit self-similarity. If you zoom in or out, you keep seeing similar patterns. Recognizing self-similarity can help us become more agile at different scales of our lives and work. We can discover new insights, even when our limited language and perspective gets in the way. Meditation is a big part of mindfulness. This episode experi…

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Trailer 1:53

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Welcome to the Mindful Agility podcast. Mindfulness and agile can help you lead a more fulfilled life, at work and at home. Mindfulness practices help us gain insight and clarity, while agile practices help us forge new paths. We explore both. Support us Rate the podcast and its episodes. Share the podcast with friends. Follow and comment in our Fa…

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Cristina Pujol Jensen at the Virtual EXPO Miami 2020 25:27

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Cristina Pujol Jensen shares their knowledge on Clarity and Confidence. These talks come from the archive of The Best You EXPO. The Best You EXPO talks are live talks recorded at events from London to Los Angeles. The talks are approximately 45 minutes long and cover all aspects of personal and professional growth. Talks on public speaking, finding…

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Sirisha Ravuri at the Virtual EXPO Miami 2020 29:07

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Sirisha Ravuri shares their knowledge on the hidden mystery behind achieving your goals. These talks come from the archive of The Best You EXPO. The Best You EXPO talks are live talks recorded at events from London to Los Angeles. The talks are approximately 45 minutes long and cover all aspects of personal and professional growth. Talks on public …

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Nicola Smith Jackson at the Virtual EXPO Miami 2020 23:13

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Nicola Smith Jackson shares their knowledge on 5 Power Moves You Can Make to Earn More Money Now. These talks come from the archive of The Best You EXPO. The Best You EXPO talks are live talks recorded at events from London to Los Angeles. The talks are approximately 45 minutes long and cover all aspects of personal and professional growth. Talks o…

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Chantelle Simone at the Virtual EXPO Miami 2020 45:19

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Chantelle Simone shares their knowledge on making a difference. These talks come from the archive of The Best You EXPO. The Best You EXPO talks are live talks recorded at events from London to Los Angeles. The talks are approximately 45 minutes long and cover all aspects of personal and professional growth. Talks on public speaking, finding love, i…