The Lesson: There’s no place in the structure of a business where someone should be exempt from help, vulnerability, and failure. Whereas some people coach and write about how to crush vulnerability, prevent failure, or avoid help, Deborah Riegel, who writes, speaks and consults with the biggest firms and biggest journals, helps people understand that utilizing lived experience, and available help, can provide a better foundation for success in the work place, team cohesion, and work-life balance.
Notable Excerpt: “I helped found the Univ. of Michigan’s first improv comedy troupe, and so I was able to take the background I had in preparing for a presentation and then mix it with ‘well what do you do if you can’t prepare?’ So that theme of helping people think about preparing and helping people have sort of a scaffolding for what to do when you can’t prepare, has been a through-line of my professional career since I was 17, and I’m now 50.”
The Guest: Deborah Grayson Riegel is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant who has taught leadership communication for Wharton Business School, Duke Corporate Education, Columbia Business School’s Women in Leadership Program, and the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University. She writes for Harvard Business Review, Inc., Psychology Today, Forbes, and Fast Company, and has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She is the author of “Go to Help: 31 Strategies to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help” and “Overcoming Overthinking: 36 Ways to Tame Anxiety for Work, School, and Life” and consults and speaks for clients including Amazon, BlackRock, Google, KraftHeinz, PepsiCo, and The United States Army.
The Podcast: Livin’ Good Currency explores the relationship of time to our lives. It gives a simple, straight-forward formula that anyone can use to be present in the moment—and features a co-host who knows better than anyone the value of time (see below). How do you want to spend your life? This hour can inspire you, along with upcoming guests, to be sure you are ‘Livin’ Good Currency’ and never get caught running out of time.
The Hosts: Good News Network fans will know Tony (Anthony) Samadani as the co-owner of GNN and its Chief of Strategic Partnerships. Co-host Tobias Tubbs was handed a double life sentence without the possibility of parole for a crime he didn’t commit. Behind bars, he used his own version of the Livin’ Good Currency formula to inspire young men in prison to turn their hours into honors. An expert in conflict resolution, spirituality, and philosophy, Tobias is a master gardener who employs ex-felons to grow their Good Currency by planting crops and feeding neighborhoods.