Perfectly Obstinate People

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Should You Give in to Get Along? Feb 27, 2019

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Listen in as Kathy talks with Nicole and Sterling Loucks, the two senior managers at Dynamynd, Inc, the company through which Kathy and her team create new products and programs. They discuss persistence and obstinance in the workplace and life. What does it look like, and when is it appropriate?

Show Notes:

00:00 Intro

00:45 No one liked the name

01:45 Is obstinance negative?

03:30 Example of strength

05:00 Respect

06:00 Example of how to stay in your game

08:45 Where it doesn't work

09:45 Quietly obstinate?

10:45 Synergy

12:30 Star Mentality

14:00 What happens when family members are obstinate?

21:30 Persistence

24:30 Freddie Mercury and Queen

29:50 End

Thriving with Autism Feb 20, 2019

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At 3 years old doctors believed Jake Scott would never speak again, by age 5 he was diagnosed with severe autism. Few believed Jake would finish high school on time, if ever.

Thanks to support from his family and knowledge of his conative capabilities, Jake persevered. He not only spoke and graduated high school in four years, he delivered the commencement speech for his graduating class.

Jake and his mother, Heidi, visit with Kathy to discuss how he succeeded, his goals for the future and the frustrations along the way.

Show Notes

00:00 Intro

04:52 expectations

08:50 What did the family do?

15:28 Doing the work

20:30 Persistence, persistence, persistence

25:00 Sid the dog

28:31 Career planning

32:00 Bullying and dangerous situations

39:00 Perfectly capable

42:00 Jake's message for other students

Joe Polish - Part 2 Feb 13, 2019

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The conclusion of Kathy's interview with Joe Polish. Includes more of Joe's marketing wisdom and Joe's dating ad!

00:00 Intro

00:40 First business mentor

03:09 Eating or starving

05:16 Immersion method for Quick Starts

06:30 Results focus

07:40 Joe's Dating Ad

21:21 More than I could handle

26:00 Don't forget your pain

31:13 End

Joe Polish - Part 1 Feb 06, 2019

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In this episode Kathy Kolbe interviews Joe Polish, a carpet cleaning entrepreneur who went from rags to riches. Literally.

00:00 Intro

01:06 "The King of Networking"

04:01 The ad that started it all

06:55 The theory of reciprocity

11:00 What makes you different?

15:30 Get out of your comfort zone

17:45 You are either in communication or trying to escape

20:30 Joe's drug addiction

22:46 How did you learn to trust?

27:01 He who has his health has 1000 dreams

29:18 How would you define selling?

33:49 Going broke with intelligence

38:35 End

Diet & Exercise Your Way Jan 30, 2019

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Kathy discusses the relationship between dieting, exercise, wellness, and your conative strengths. Some things just don't work for some people. We'll teach you how to be succeed with any M.O. in health and wellness!

00:00 Intro

00:20 The one thing to be obstinate about

02:55 Advice for insistent follow thru

03:35 Advice for the rest of us

07:26 Fact Finders

09:00 Implementors

10:46 Eating is fun!

12:53 Quick Starts: Binge Eating

14:47 Eating for Implementors

15:25 Dieting for Follow Thrus

16:34 Fact Finder: Research your food

17:58 Taking your pills - only easy for Follow Thrus

18:30 The struggle of non-Follow Thrus

19:03 Creating Habits

21:34 Why it's so hard to thrive in a hospital

23:22 Be Obstinate

24:34 End

Can You Trump Instincts? Jan 23, 2019

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What's wrong with just trusting your gut?

Kathy offers a no-holds-barred analysis of President Trump's leadership style in a non-political assessment of leadership, collaboration and compassion.

00:00 Intro

00:40 Perfectly obstinance or not?

02:00 It's not about politics

03:10 Empathy and compassion

04:20 Teaching humble obstinance to children

05:40 The art of the compromise

06:30 Lesson for an early entrepreneur

10:00 Leadership

11:20 Will praise his talents

12:25 Trust your guts is not enough

14:10 Collaboration with a balanced team

15:35 Trust

16:34 End

Podcasting, Entrepreneurs and Instincts with Paul Colligan Jan 16, 2019

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Kathy has a wide-ranging conversation with podcasting guru Paul Colligan on a number of topics including "should you podcast," obstinance in presentations, instincts and what talents entrepreneurs need on their team. Includes a giveaway and resources at perfectlyobstinate.com/paul.

00:00 Intro

00:45 Entrepreurial zeal

06:55 Knowing when to quit

10:55 On humor and its place

16:02 Charisma

16:55 All of me

20:54 End of the Creative Process

26:38 How Technology frees me

30:00 Constraints

32:48 Surround yourself with the right talent

36:17 Things you are meant to do

44:55 This is not a book

49:00 Terrible name for a podcast

54:36 End

Top Educator's Path with Conative Truths Jan 09, 2019

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Kathy Kolbe interviews international thought leader in K-12 education, Diane DeBacker. Together they explore leadership, obstinancy and conative truths.

00:00 Intro

00:50 Sneaky obstinance

02:35 Freedom to be yourself

03:53 My M.O.

06:00 Making a major change

09:30 Dealing with obstinance

11:00 Toughest problem I faced – Students with disabilities

13:15 Thank goodness you've arrived

14:48 Leadership through building teams

15:22 Bertrayed...

16:00 Don't give up on it

17:15 That one moment....

18:54 Hiring by the eyes

20:50 Being a better boss

23:50 Having a child with different conative strengths

26:33 End

Parenting – Not a Chip Off the Old Block Jan 02, 2019

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Kathy interviews Bret and Sterling Loucks, a father and son with very different action oriented instincts.

00:00 Intro

00:33 The knack for hands on action

02:18 Not what I had imagined

03:20 Different approaches

05:04 Quality turn off

06:15 Working together – Sort of

08:05 Why bother?

10:30 Communicating through haptic talent

12:50 How resistance to haptic can help

14:00 Obstinate about quality

15:00 Three different talents in haptic

17:29 End

Obstinate About New Year's Resolutions Dec 26, 2018

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Kathy offers wisdom on the topic of New Year's Resolutions.

00:00 Intro

00:30 Resolutions are conative

01:28 Resolution vs. desire

02:00 Must stay true to who you are

03:16 What you need from a gym

04:25 Habits

06:25 Resolution trap

08:20 The problem with expert advice

10:00 No excuse, find a work around

11:50 Financial resolutions

15:25 Time and energy and Venn diagrams

17:21 Use the creative process

19:00 Is it even possible to keep our resolutions?

20:44 End

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