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Can creativity and the corporate world live in harmony? We think so, and so does our guest, Lee Ann Lander.She is the owner of Lee Ann Lander Art and Creative Consulting. She is an artist and creative thinker and help others think, be and live more creatively. She is also now actively working on a book called Find Beauty Right Where You Are.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

How has COVID-19 affected the university setting?We talk with Dr. Candice Thomas-Maddox, Professor of Communication Studies at Ohio University-Lancaster, about how educators and students are navigating through these uncharted waters.Specifically, we talk about college and emotional intelligence. We tie this into how 2020 has impacted students' decisions and choices, and how improvement in decision-making can help navigate times of fast change.Some EQ areas we cover are Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation, Empathy, and Exercising Optimism through this education crisis.Dr. Candice Thomas-Maddox (Ed.D. - West Virginia University) is Professor of Communication Studies at Ohio University-Lancaster where she currently serves as the director of the online master’s degree program in organizational communication. Since joining the faculty at OHIO, she has taught a variety of communication courses and co-authored five textbooks: Interpersonal Communication: Building Rewarding Relationships; Communicating in Your Personal, Professional, and Public Lives; Family Communication: Relationship Foundations; Quantitative Research Methods for Communication: A Hands-On Approach; and Communicating with Diverse Students. She has been awarded with the OHIO-Lancaster Professor of the Year, the Ohio University RHE Outstanding Professor, and the ECA Ecroyd Teaching Award and Teaching Fellows designation in recognition of her contributions in the classroom. Thomas-Maddox is the former President and Executive Director for both the Eastern Communication Association and the Ohio Communication Association.For the past decade, she has served as co-chair for Ohio University Lancaster’s Celebrate Women conference, in addition to serving as faculty advisor for Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity and Phi Theta Kappa honorary. In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Kevin Saunders is the founder of KS4Inspiration, which endeavors to provide inspiration and education to the next generation so that our young people will have the knowledge, discernment, and confidence required to achieve meaningful and impactful goals.Kevin is committed to inspiring high school students, college students, and young professionals as a dynamic speaker, facilitator, and performance artist.Kevin graduated with an MBA from Pace University and obtained the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and CFP (Certified Financial Planner) designations while working for Deloitte, a reputable global accounting firm.As a Certified EQ (Emotional Intelligence) Practitioner, Kevin challenges the youth population to achieve meaningful goals, going beyond the pursuit of material possessions, in order to propel them towards their true purpose.Kevin's experiences allows him to cover a wide range of topics including: leadership, diversity, inclusion, purposeful living, and EQ.Kevin has also given the world a though-provoking poem on race and equity. Check it out.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Andy Frank will be joining with us to talk about technology, instruction and managing the home life in the era of COVID-19.We discuss some of the things that influenced his decision to move from instruction back into software engineering development.I have to know that we're impacting and changing lives. That's what really motivates me to have the opportunity to change lots of people's lives.How are we going to make the biggest impact in this limited amount of time that we have while we're on this earth?Andy sees the full gamut of emotion from all of the bootcamp students at Tech Elevator. Extreme happiness and extreme sadness, sometimes Aextreme frustration. It's not just the economic impact. You have students who have children.  And their children are able to see them go through that program and see them accomplish something that's a really tough 14-week program. All of thisEveryone always has their own unique perspective, their own motivation, their own intrinsic motivator. Sometimes is it's an extrinsic motivator. Sometimes it is financial.Throughout his technical journey, Andrew Frank has had the opportunity to solve complex business problems as a Developer, Architect, Development Manager, and Technical Lead at companies ranging from startups to established enterprises.Technologically, he has had the chance to work with many technologies and frameworks, including ASP.NET, C#, GraphQL, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, Angular, and Vue JS.Along the way, he has also had the privilege and joy to coach and mentor developers looking to establish and further their careers in meaningful ways.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

What we're talking about is when you, as a person, are on the outside looking in to a group, or something that's happening that you might want to really be involved in.And more so, the lack of connection. In this time of social distancing, we need to understand what the lack of connection can mean to each other and ourselves.We take a look at this idea about exploring emotional literacy, being able to explore your mind as well. Why do you feel that you're on the outside?In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

We hope you got the chance to listen to part 1 of our Under Pressure podcasts. If not, head here.Let's talk a little bit about circumstances. 2020 has been a year of circumstances, most out of our control. But how do we approach handling this with EQ?We need to look at the circumstances that you're experiencing right now. Maybe you can't do anything about those circumstances. We have to watch that this, and don't let it change us.We take a look at how Intrinsic Motivation. This is what is inside of you, what's driving you, what's causing you to make the decisions or take the actions that you do.Is there anything that we have control over during "out of control" circumstances? Yes, how we react to those circumstances. Start to become aware of the emotions you are feeling. Recognize Patterns and pay attention.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Who isn't under pressure right now, during the midst of a world pandemic? On top of our normal life pressures.In this episode, we consider what does it mean to be under pressure.Is there good to come from it? Can we leverage it?We mention to check out our earlier episodes on the competencies. Enhancing Emotional LiteracyRecognizing PatternsApplying Consequential ThinkingExercising OptimismEngaging Intrinsic MotivationIncreasing EmpathyPursuing Noble GoalsIn each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Now that we are into the second half of the year, how is it going for YOU? How is it going as you work on you?New Year's Resolutions are now more than six months old. Many of yours may been broken in just a few short weeks. Others, a couple of months. The desire, the fire, is just gone.But the ones that really mean something are probably still being worked on today. If you're in that place, your emotional intelligence can maybe either reignite you or may potentially just keep you going.Hurdles you may be running up against are when we self-judge ourselves, or even judge others. Judgment decision are not only easy, but they are quick. And that's dangerous because when that happens, you're operating on very, very limited information.And this is where we should let our curiosity take over. Ask questions, be informed, and understand why you shouldn't come to judge yourself, or others, too quickly. That opens up more choices, more options. It gives you the ability to leverage one of the competencies of empathy. As Eric likes to put it,"It's intellectually lazy to be judgmental."Curiosity says you care enough and you want to do the work of understanding what's going on. And that work might take you someplace uncomfortable. You might have to do some self-examination.The power of curiosity goes hand-in-hand with self-empathy. It gives you that ability to say "I'm not a failure."Self-examination, self exploration, can help you to start thinking of consequences and thinking through consequential thinking. So that you continue down the same path, the consequences are going to be the same. So what do you have to do to make those consequences come out the way you want?In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Holly Custard is deputy director of institute partnerships and outreach at the Strada Institute for the Future of Work, where she engages with stakeholders to raise awareness and inspire action through the Institute’s research and insights. Her work focuses on fostering the development of infrastructure that supports robust, connected and purposeful learning and career outcomes.In this episode, we talk with Holly about the future of what work might look like for us post pandemic. She covers a variety of areas that, as we exit the pandemic, should be incorporated into our workplace.A system should be designed that helps us transition into new jobs or careers. She outlines 5 areas that should be focused on.The big question is, will corporate embrace this change? Education vs skills is at the core of this conversation. Unpack what are the jobs, and what are the skills needed. Communicate what is needed from both the educational experience and skills needed, and how this can be a better result for both the employer and employee.How does EQ work into this, the hiring process, especially skills?Are we now entering a unique opportunity, to shape the future? What have what we need to implement these concepts, but it will take all of us to recognize them, and work together.Remember the term "working learner." How do we put that person at the center of all we do. We have to start to understand what is going on with employees in a structural, systematic way (EMPATHY!).And as the employee, without self-awareness of your personal history, it is difficult to move forward with a new career or job path.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Here is a preview of our next episode...Holly Custard is deputy director of institute partnerships and outreach at the Strada Institute for the Future of Work, where she engages with stakeholders to raise awareness and inspire action through the Institute’s research and insights. Her work focuses on fostering the development of infrastructure that supports robust, connected and purposeful learning and career outcomes.In this next episode, we talk with Holly about the future of what work might look like for us post pandemic. She covers a variety of areas that, as we exit the pandemic, should be incorporated into our workplace.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

How can bias be a problem, and an opportunity, rolled into one?What causes our bias(es)? How do we recognize, and use biases, to our advantage?Jeff brings some great insight on how we can recognize our bias(es), and how they can become opportunities for us to become better.Three Ways Mindfulness Can Make You Less BiasedAll It Takes Is 10 Mindful MinutesIn each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

In our next episode, Jeff brings some insight on how bias is a double-edged sword. Here's a preview.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

We had the opportunity to speak with Dan DeLucia, Pitching Coach for The Ohio State University Buckeyes Baseball team.How do 18 or 19-year old young men, just out of high school, handle the pressures of playing sports and college life? How does EQ come into play when coaches help them adjust? Coach DeLucia gives us his insight on how difficult this time can be, and how he and fellow coaches go beyond the game, and make it about the person first, then the ball player.Dan is currently in his seventh year as an assistant for the Buckeyes, and has been a part of the Buckeye coaching staff that guided the team to three NCAA Regional appearances in the last four years as well as two Big Ten Tournament titles. He helped guide the youngest pitching staff in the nation to a postseason title run as the OSU arms shattered the school record for strikeouts in a season (583). He has helped develop nine Ohio State pitchers into Major League Baseball.Dan concluded his Buckeye playing career in 2008 after earning four letters, was a first team All-Big Ten selection in 2006 and was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the Major League Baseball draft. Outside of baseball, Dan loves spending time with his wife, Carly, and four kids, James, Gracie, Luke & Hannah.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

In our next episode, we had the opportunity to speak with Dan DeLucia, Pitching Coach for The Ohio State University Buckeyes Baseball team. How do 18 or 19-year old young men, just out of high school, handle the pressures of playing sports and college life. How does EQ come into play when coaches help them adjust?Here's a preview of what Coach DeLucia had to say..."A lot of it, when they come, in is mental. And it's that finding what their drivers are. We'll have weekly pitchers' meetings where we're not talking baseball, we're talking more than that.A friend of mine brought this to my attention a year or two ago, this concept of MVP.Mission. Vision. Purpose.I use that with our guys and I've done it personally. I would encourage people to do it personally. To figure out, outside of baseball, why do you wake up every day? What are you doing internally that influences those choices that we're talking about?We'll sit down and go through pitchers' meetings and just talk about them as people. So when they're up on the mound, like you said, like Mariano Rivera is up on the mound in front of 50,000 people in the stands, and millions on TV in game seven of the World Series. How is he able to throw that cutter ball and not worry about what's going to happen?Clearly the best in the game have some physical attributes that a lot of people can't replicate, but internally, they're so secure with who they are, and that no matter what happens, good or bad, they're still going to be the same person when they get out of bed the next day.So it's the those measures that we really try to instill into our guys. Who are you? Know yourself in and out really, really well."In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Jeremy Jensen is the Assistant Chief of Police of the Dubuque Police Department.He has been in law enforcement for 28 years and has spent the last 25 years in Dubuque, where he hasworked in patrol, traffic, criminal investigations, tactical operations, community policing, training, and internal affairs.He currently leads department operations and is involved in mental health and intercultural initiatives. Jeremy holds a BA in Criminal Justice and an MA in Communications. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy for top 1% of law enforcement executives.What the Dubuque Police Department has done by implementing Emotional Intelligence into their training has changed the culture inside the department, as well as how the department works with the citizen of their city. In this episode, Jeremy talks in detail on why this came about, the support from community and local government, and how the department has grown for doing so.Highlights of our interview include:Jeremy Jensen bioJeremy talks about how EQ gives the officers another tool to use in difficult situationsJeremy talks about how EQ helps the officers to de-escalateJeremy talks about how EQ helps the multigenerational police officers connect to each otherJeremy talks about how EQ is helping officers generally becoming better persons overallJeremy talks about the general citizen support of the implementation of EQ into the police departmentJeremy talks about how EQ helps with approaching diversity within the city, beyond but including ethnic background, religious background and economic status.Why should police departments consider implementing EQ into their training?If you would like to connect with Jeremy and find out more about how EQ is now standard practice in the Dubuque Police Department, send us an email at info@spiritofeq.com and we'll make that introduction.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Jeremy Jensen is the Assistant Chief of Police of the Dubuque Police Department.He has been in law enforcement for 28 years and has spent the last 25 years in Dubuque, where he hasworked in patrol, traffic, criminal investigations, tactical operations, community policing, training, and internal affairs.What the Dubuque Police Department has done by implementing Emotional Intelligence into their training has changed the culture inside the department, as well as how the department works with the citizen of their city. In our next episode, Jeremy talks in detail on why this came about, the support from community and local government, and how the department has grown for doing so.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Focusing on your emotional intelligence can be a huge task. In this episode, Jeff uses the analogy of photography and a camera in helping to focus on emotional intelligence. Even if you know very little about a camera and photography, this episode will certainly help.We have a special offer for you as well. What you need to do is email us at info@spiritofEQ.com to receive a free copy of the white paper called Success Factors and Emotional Intelligence.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

In our next episode, Jeff does a great analogy of how we can use the basics of photography to help us focus on our emotional intelligence. Plus, stick through the end of that episode for a very special, free offer, from us.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

This episode is the audio version of a webinar we did recently. With the passing of drummer great Neil Peart, we thought it would a nice tribute to who he was, and how he, in some respects, really lived emotional intelligence with through his work with the band Rush, and his life.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can subscribe to The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, subscribe on Android, or your favorite podcast player.Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.