community

Reinvention of Self: Building Community in New Zealand

Today my guest is Emily Morrow, J.D. Emily is a dear friend who brings us her story of reinventing herself professionally and culturally. A highly successful estate attorney, Emily retired in 2004 at the age of 52. As she began a consulting practice, she and her physician husband decided to build a second home overseas. After a stint in Sydney, Australia, they moved to Auckland, New Zealand. We are going to talk about her experiences making this brave move, her talent for building community and her personal transformation. As a consultant to lawyers and law firms, Emily focuses on the core capabilities lawyers need to be successful; business development, strategic planning, self-presentation/ communication skills, practice management and succession planning. She designs and facilitates retreats, coaches (one-on-one and teams), provides tailored training and conducts bespoke research projects. Emily is a frequent contributor to LawTalk and LawNews and has been the keynote speaker at numerous professional conferences for NZLS, CLANZ, ADLS, ALPMA, AWLA, CWLA, Law Plus, Lawlink, Legalwise, AALA and others. She is a regular presenter at the NZLS Stepping Up programme on the topic of “The People Dimension”. Website: www.EmilyMorrow.com

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Respect: An Interview with Dr. Julie Pham

Today we will be talking with Dr. Julie Pham about how relationships with her family and community have shaped her life and her work. She is the author of a recently released book, “7 Forms of Respect: A guide to transforming your communication and relationships at work” which we will be discussing later in the show. Dr. Pham is the founder and the CEO of CuriosityBased, an organizational development firm based in Seattle. She is the author of the #1 Amazon New Release and Bestseller 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work. Dr. Pham has been recognized with numerous awards for her community leadership. She has applied her community building approach to building strong, collaborative and curious teams. She was born in Saigon, Vietnam and raised in Seattle. Dr. Pham earned her PhD in history at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and she graduated magna cum laude from University of California, Berkeley as a Haas Scholar. She earned her real life MBA by running her family’s Vietnamese language newspaper during the 2008-2010 recession. She has worked as a journalist, historian, university lecturer, marketer, nonprofit executive, and management consultant. Website(s): www.curiositybased.com | www.formsofrespect.com

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Love Heals All Wounds

Linda Kent is the founder of Clearly Rising, LLC, with her certification as a Holistic Life Coach through Alan Cohen’s Foundation for Holistic Life Coaching. Her spiritual journey began in the early 1980’s when she began searching for spiritual meaning to my life. In the beginning she read many spiritual books and worked with my spiritual teacher, Carla Gordan. She was taught massage by a blind chiropractor and began practicing massage therapy before Texas required a license. She became more involved in energy work that complimented what I was doing in massage by way of intuitively receiving visions and auditory messages for my clients that was pertinent to what they most needed to receive. The spiritual guidance she received created a clear message to write a book. She was given the title at that time, “Love Heals All Wounds”. She is currently pursuing a new career as an author with this book that will soon be published.
Website: https://clearlyrising.com/

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Parenting Styles: When Parents Don’t Agree

Today, I answer a Listener’s call about a conflict with her husband over mealtimes with their 4 year old.

I step back and start with the big picture. I discuss the fundamental differences between couples, based in sexual reproduction, the evolution of our species based in family and childbearing practices.

Then looking at fundamental emotional dynamics in the family, I give specific feedback and suggestions on how my listener can negotiate with her husband.

If you have a question that you would like me to speak about on my show, you can email me at mercy@leadershipwithmercy.com

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