Let's Get Real
Nina Simonds, PCC
Hi, I'm Nina Simonds, a leadership and relationship coach, and Let's Get Real is about having REAL (relevant, engaging, authentic leadership) conversations with people who inspire me. My guests are business leaders, learning professionals, and social impact entrepreneurs who are working toward a more inclusive and equitable world. We explore personal experiences that have been catalysts for their growth and share some of the key concepts and tools that support effective and inclusive leadership to give you the confidence to lead and love well.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Let's Get Real episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Let's Get Real for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Let's Get Real episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
Compassionate Capitalism with David O'Leary
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11/10/21 • 49 min
David O'Leary is a wealth management expert, impact investment professional, public speaker, and writer. David spends his time as Founder & Principal of Kind Wealth, a holistic wealth management practice helping early to mid-career Canadians manage their money in a way that matches their values. Nina spoke with David O'Leary about how to put our money where are values are and make investing a form of activism. David and Nina also shared stories about how our attitudes about money influence our choices. David explained what Environment Social Governance (ESG) criteria are, the bottleneck to more social impact investing, and the power of newer forms of financing such as microlending.
Dave’s Impact Investing Podcast
Kind Wealth
Dave's Resources for Impact Investing
James Baldwin Quote
Soul of Money
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Feminine Rising with Tina Meyers
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04/12/21 • 43 min
Tina Meyers is a former environmental and social justice attorney turned coach and spiritual warrior. She coaches high-performing women advocates and leaders, designs and leads feminine leadership programs for nonprofits, and is the founder of Women Advocates Rising and Warrior School. Tina and Nina explored what feminism means to each of them. They also spoke candidly about what it would be like to live in a world where women were fully empowered to bring their full selves and where leadership was more balanced between the masculine and the feminine. Nina even learned a new term, spiritual bypassing!
Leading through Complexity Peer Group
Warrior School
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Listener Questions with Nina and Andy
Let's Get Real
08/16/21 • 12 min
Contact your U.S. Senator
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From Ally to Accomplice
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07/04/21 • 51 min
Seena Hodges is the founder of The Woke Coach, an organization that helps clients have a deeper understanding of how the legacy of racism and injustice affect us all. Ms. Hodges and her team engage with clients to facilitate conversations that live at the intersection of equity, diversity, inclusion, antiracism, and empowerment. She shared the specific distinctions between being an ally and an accomplice. Nina and Seena also got real about what it will take for friendships between white women and black women to be more common.
The Woke Coach
Leading through Complexity Peer Group
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Finding your Roots
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Staying Optimistic with Lilly Tong
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11/01/21 • 36 min
For the Season 3 Opener, Nina interviews Lilly Tong, climate creative and activist and host of Make Peas Not Beef. Lilly is passionate about building smart cities that leverage sustainable practices and technological innovation to combat climate change. In this conversation Lilly and Nina talked about the importance of optimism to being a climate activist. They also riffed on veganism, reducing use of plastic and the privilege of clean drinking water. Finally, Lilly shared the three things that all of us can do to be climate activists.
Food for Thought Podcast
Make Peas Not Beef
Game Changers Documentary
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Collective Liberation with Robin Lacambra
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08/30/21 • 50 min
Robin Lacambra is a social justice advocate and movement educator and the founder of GOODBODYFEEL, a studio that offers accessible, inclusive and decolonized movement classes that build self-awareness, strength and community.
Robin shared how inclusivity informs both her parenting and her leadership. Nina and Robin talked about how essential embodiment is to our collective liberation. Robin spoke eloquently about the difference between true joy and what she calls "toxic positivity." They also riffed about the power in deconstructing binary thinking in our personal lives and in our activism.
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Veronica King on Becoming Unapologetic
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02/08/21 • 57 min
Veronica King is a master facilitator, executive coach and social justice advocate based in Johannesburg. She is the founder and CEO of Emuthini Consulting which she established in 2002. She draws on her extensive organizational experience at the senior executive level to work primarily with issues of inclusion and diversity with both private and public sector clients. She shared what it was like to begin her career under Apartheid and how she found her authentic self by letting go of needing to make whites comfortable. Nina and Veronica got real about how rank showed up in their conversation and where Nina's white lens limits her understanding of Veronica's experience. It was obvious in this conversation that her work is driven by a deeply held commitment to social justice and transformation.
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Emuthini Consulting
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
Octavia Butler
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
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My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
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Shared Responsibility with Richard Hurt
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07/19/21 • 38 min
Richard Hurt was elected to Aliso Viejo City Council in 2020, the first black person to be elected to local office in South Orange County, California. Nina and Richard talked about their hopes for racial equity in the United States and the importance of staying in the conversation. Richard about his early experiences getting things done for Aliso Viejo and what gives him hope for the future.
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Leading with Love & Joy
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10/21/24 • 50 min
Nina sat down with Connie Tingson Gatuz, Phd., a higher education leader, facilitator, and innovator. Tingson Gatuz is the current chair of the Michigan ACE Network. She is also the Associate Vice President of Student Life at the University of Michigan. We talked about her journey into leadership, the importance of mentorship and the glass cliff in higher education leadership.
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Witnessing for One Another with Celeste Pewter
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05/24/21 • 33 min
California activist Celeste Pewter is an upcoming journalist with bylines in Teen Vogue and Thrillist. Most recently she has been speaking out about the increased profiling of people of Asian American descent. In this conversation, Celeste shared candidly about recent harassment she experienced near her home as a Taiwanese American. Nina and Celeste also explored the power of witnessing for one another and how the term microaggression may minimize the toxicity of racist comments. Finally, Celeste and Nina discussed three specific ways we can support the AAPI community.
Teen Vogue Article
Vincent Chin NY Times article
Asian American Journalists Association
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FAQ
How many episodes does Let's Get Real have?
Let's Get Real currently has 67 episodes available.
What topics does Let's Get Real cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Change, Leadership, Inclusion, Creativity, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education, Diversity and Coaching.
What is the most popular episode on Let's Get Real?
The episode title 'Compassionate Capitalism with David O'Leary' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Let's Get Real?
The average episode length on Let's Get Real is 40 minutes.
How often are episodes of Let's Get Real released?
Episodes of Let's Get Real are typically released every 14 days, 6 hours.
When was the first episode of Let's Get Real?
The first episode of Let's Get Real was released on Oct 27, 2020.
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