Elevate with Robert Glazer

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Emmy Nominee Baratunde Thurston On Life As A Renaissance Man, Appreciating Nature, Citizenship And More Mar 05, 2024

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Baratunde Thurston is an Emmy-nominated host, producer, writer, and public speaker. He is the host and executive producer of the PBS television series America Outdoors, creator and host of the acclaimed podcast How To Citizen, and a founding partner of the new media startup Puck where he does a lot of his writing. He is also the author of a New York Times bestselling comedic memoir, How To Be Black and an incredible speaker who has delivered multiple popular TED Talks with millions of views.

Baratunde joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss his wide-ranging career, the power of satire, and much more.

Weekend Conversations: The Pitfalls of Helicopter Parenting (and Leadership) Mar 02, 2024

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In this edition of Weekend Conversations (reposted from 2023) host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan have a wide-ranging conversation on how parenting approaches have continued to evolve in the past decade, as parents stay heavily involved in their kids lives well into their college lives--and beyond. Robert shares a parallel between this parenting approach and the widely critiqued leadership approach of micromanagement, and how to help the people you lead grow by letting them fail from time to time.

Elevate Classics: Greg McKeown on Making Life Effortless Feb 29, 2024

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Greg McKeown is the New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism, and founder and CEO of McKeown Inc, an organization that helps leading companies reach the next level of growth. He has worked with clients like Apple, Google, Facebook, Pixar and more, and has been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, Politico and Harvard Business Review. Greg is also a world-renowned keynote speaker and host of The Greg McKeown Podcast. His latest book is called Effortless: Make It Easier To Do What Matters Most.

Elevate Classics: Derek Sivers on Saying Hell Yeah or No Feb 27, 2024

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Derek Sivers is a true renaissance man. He’s a former entrepreneur, founder of CD Baby, and a prolific writer, thinker, TED speaker and musician. He has optimized himself for creating and learning, and has cut most extraneous things from his life.

In this classic episode, Derek Sivers joined Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about the importance of saying no, pursuing goals and experiences that scare us, why he doesn’t consider himself an entrepreneur anymore and fostering creativity in work and life.

Weekend Conversations: Virtue Signaling Does Not Equal Good Character Feb 24, 2024

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On a new edition of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss the recent death of Alexei Navalny, his extraordinary sacrifice for his anti-corruption cause, and the contrast with the common social media-driven practice of virtue signaling. Robert and Mick chat about the issues with taking a social stance to score social points, the perils of following the crowd, and why standing up for your values should require time, effort and, in some cases, even risk.

Elevate Classics: Dan Pink on the Power of Regret Feb 22, 2024

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Dan Pink has a bold idea for how to use your regrets as a positive force in your life.

Dan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including A Whole New Mind, Drive, When and his most recent, The Power of Regret. He is also a top rated keynote speaker who has spoken to organizations such as St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Google, Goldman Sachs and more.

On this classic episode of the Elevate Podcast, Dan joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss how we can harness regret in our lives, the things in life people tend to regret most, and much more.

Apple Chief Evangelist Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs Stories, Innovative Thinking and More Feb 20, 2024

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Guy Kawasaki is the Chief Evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People Podcast. Guy was the Chief Evangelist of Apple and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He’s the bestselling author of over a dozen books, including Wise Guy, The Art of the Start 2.0, and a new one, Think Remarkable, which is now available for preorder wherever books are sold.

Guy joined host Robert Glazer to share his favorite Steve Jobs stories, discuss the key to innovative thinking and design and share insights from his career studying and working with the world's best thinkers and leaders.

Weekend Conversations: Setting The Right Expectations For Yourself Feb 17, 2024

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On a new episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss the consistent question of how to balance expectations. It's natural, even admirable, to strive for an exceptional outcome, but expecting to be an outlier is often a fast route to disappointment. Robert and Mick discuss how to balance expectations, priming and much more.

Based on the Friday Forward Post Outsized Expectations (#419).

Elevate Classics: Morra Aarons-Mele on The Anxious Achiever Feb 15, 2024

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Morra Aarons-Mele is the host of The Anxious Achiever, a top-10 management podcast that helps people rethink the relationship between their mental health and their leadership. Morra founded Women Online and The Mission List, an award-winning digital-consulting firm and influencer marketing company dedicated to social change in 2010 and sold her businesses in 2021. She is also the author of a bestselling book, The Anxious Achiever, which published in 2023.

In this classic episode, Morra joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about her book, how to turn anxiety into an advantage, and much more.

Jack Stack on Winning The Great Game of Business Feb 13, 2024

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Jack Stack is a business pioneer and one of the world’s best business strategists. He is Founder, President and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation and is the author of two bestselling books: The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome. Jack has served as a world judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Institute and as an advisor for this group since 1998. He has also written for Inc. Magazine and The New York Times and has addressed thousands of audiences on the topic of open-book management.

Jack joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about open-book management, his entrepreneurial career, what's possible when employees have a stake in their companies, and much more.

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