One Spark Stories brings conversations with innovators, creators, and unsuspecting risk takers. They share about navigating highs and lows, laughter and tears, and how sometimes all it takes is one *spark* of inspiration to find your way to happiness
One Spark Stories Podcast
Six Failures in 2022 and What to Do Next
Failing is what leads to your next biggest success. As we wrap up the new year I share some of my biggest failures and what we can all take away from them.
Mastering the Mental Part of the Game
Lauren Ammon specializes in working with student-athletes to master the mental part of the game. Her company, Performance Reimagined, exists to show athletes there is an outlet to be heard, seen, and supported mentally and emotionally at the same level they are physically.
Finding Purpose through Fertility Challenges, Profound Loss, and Clean Beauty
After years of navigating ongoing challenges with fertility Katie Klei finally reached the day her daughter arrived. Yet in all that joy she was surrounded by incredible loss. It was then that she decided to take a leap into an opportunity that she had been turning away from three and a half years.
Show Up Positive and Ignite Your Extraordinary
Rita and I have an abundance of mutual passions including things like psychology, Language and using the word ignite. This was a great conversation where we worked through her story and how she is bringing impact to organizations today.
Nudging Technical People to Embrace their Human Skills
Emily Nichols nudges technical people to embrace their human skills, so they can become better problem solvers, team players, and leaders. A professional engineer - seriously, she has a BS in Systems Engineering and a MAS in chemical engineering - with more than 15 years of experience in manufacturing and innovation, improving products and processes from breakfast cereal to automotive paint and electrical steel. Emily easily connects at all levels of organizations, inspiring deeper understanding, and collaborative teamwork.
Financial Abundance for Visionary Entrepreneurs
"We have to get out of a place of trading time and money."
Hannah Chapman is the founder of X2 Wealth Planning and is my Financial Advisor. She has over 16 years of experience in finance…but she is not your typical financial advisor. She grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, learning that we each have the ability and responsibility to create our own wealth story, while she was also learning from her parent’s businesses that money is hard to make and hard to hold on to.
Management, Motherhood, and the Magic of Disney - Valerie Cockerell
Today we welcome a woman that knows how to manage like a mother… and in the most magical way. Valerie Cockerell was a leader in retail and merchandising throughout the Disney Company and as well as working within Disney institute. She is now a partner at Cockerell Consulting with her husband, and previous guest, Dan Cockerell.