How Conscious Accountability Is the Key to Leadership Success, With David Tate
Raj Girn: My guest today is David Tate, a licensed clinical psychologist who is also an executive coach and an organizational consultant. Here’s a bit about him before we say hello. He is the co-founder and CEO of Conscious Growth Partners, a consultancy firm that promotes organizational thriving through optimal leadership, teamwork and corporate culture. […]
How To Lead Self, Others and Organizations Through Holistic Leadership So Everyone Wins, With Reiner Lomb
Raj Girn: This week’s leadership- and advocacy-themed episode is entitled How to Lead Self, Others and Organizations Through Holistic Leadership So Everyone Wins. A tall order but one my guest today has mastered and we get the privilege of learning from him. His name is Reiner Lomb. He is an executive coach and the founder […]
Are You Climbing a Ladder That’s Taking You To the Wrong Destination, With Vanessa Loder
Raj Girn: My guest today is leadership expert, author and keynote speaker Vanessa Loder, who climbed to the top of her respective field in business only to realize that she had been climbing the wrong ladder all this time. Having checked off all the boxes — undergrad degree from Columbia, MBA from Stanford — her […]
Leaning into Gender Equality in Business and Building Community and Allyship, With Annie Raygoza
Raj Girn: My guest today is Annie Raygoza, the director of client services at WebEnertia, a B2B digital agency headquartered in Silicon Valley. Here is our conversation: Raj Girn: Welcome to the show, lovely lady. We have been trying to do this for some time now and I’m so happy to finally have you on. […]
How Intention Setting Is the Key to Accomplishing Goals with Big Impact, With Mary Griffin
Raj Girn: My guest today is Mary Griffin, a Kolbe Certified Consultant and the co-author of ‘Individual Influence: Find the I in Team,’ a collaboration with her father, Dr. Brian Smith. Here is our conversation: Raj Girn: Mary, welcome to the show and thank you for agreeing to be on. Mary Griffin: Yes, thank you […]
How Men Can Ignite the Power of Women To Optimize Their Life, With Simon T. Bailey
Raj Girn: This week’s leadership and advocacy-themed episode is entitled How Men Can Ignite the Power of Women to Optimize Their Life. To help us break this down, please welcome to the show Simon T. Bailey coming at this from a male perspective. So stick around because you know that we’re going to have a […]
How to Succeed as a Business Leader in Any Climate, With Mark Watson
Raj Girn: My guest today is the founder of Aquila Capital Partners. Mark Watson, who through his many endeavors, has invested in numerous startups, helping several of them scale and 10x their revenue throughout his three decades long experience. Mark has also run two public companies with over $3.5 billion in revenue, hired thousands of […]
Open Chest Newsletter: I don’t want you to miss this . . .
“Let me tell you how my confidence today is born from yesterday’s insecurities . . .” ~ Raj Girn, Confidence Coach & Founder, The Open Chest® Confidence Academy Hi Friend, People (esp. women of diversity) often ask me where I got my confidence from. My answer? I built my confidence from breaking down a long list of […]
The Power of Branding to Market a Niche Business: A Real Life Success Story, With Avani Modi Sarkar
Raj Girn: My guest today is the co-founder of Modi Toys, Avani Modi Sarkar, who has an interesting story about how she and her partner took an idea to meet a personal need and built a successful business around it. Modi Toys, founded in 2018, is a family owned South Asian cultural toy and book […]
How to use Media to Engage People the Right Way Virtually, With Pooja Handa
Raj Girn: This week, our focus is going to be on media and communications where I’ll be chatting with multi award-winning journalist and media personality Pooja Handa in an episode entitled How to use Media to Engage People the Right Way Virtually. Pooja’s extensive 20-year career in media has seen her anchor Canada’s number one […]
