S2 E27 - The Power & Art Of Storytelling With Renae Morriseau

10/28/20 • 36 min

In todays episode of the Inspire Podcast, Bart interviews Renae Morriseau. Renae's journey has been in working creatively with Indigenous people. She's a writer, theatre director & musician who helps people find their voice through effective storytelling. Here are some moments from the conversation: How did you get to do what you do? -04:23.2 Agusta Buel -05:08.1 Phil Fontane's experience -05:29.2 What was it about Phil's story? -06:33.4 Storytelling to decolonize -08:28.2 Truth and reconciliation commission -11:59.4 Resilience art -12:12.4 Downtown east side of Vancouver -12:47.7 Self care -13:21.3 Reconciling with their own families -14:31.9 What's your approach to working with people on storytelling -16:18.8 Collective stories -21:33.0 Growing global awareness of systemic racism -24:15.1 How do non-indigenous people listen? -25:18.6 Hungry listening = Dylan Robinson -25:58.6 Decolonize our listening -26:16.4 How do you open up to listening -30:48.2 Difficulties in connecting with stories that challenge us -31:25.5 Not knowing what to say is the greatest gift to someone -32:03.1 Silence can be OK -32:23.3 Align mind, heart, gut -33:34.5 Resources? where to go from here? -34:37.0 Renae's Work: THEATRE -Here’s a project called, Home, Homelessness & the Culture In-Between. There is a 5 minute video on this link http://urbanink.ca/sro/ -This is a play she helped to write call Weaving Reconciliation: Our Way. This is about ‘reconciliation’ within Indigenous communities as a family mends their relationship back together because of the impact of Residential School. http://weaving-reconciliation-our-way.ca DIRECTING PROFESSIONAL THEATRE -This is a play White Noise by Taran Kootenayhoo that she will be directing for its Vancouver premiere at the firehall theatre. Here is a little write-up about it. https://www.newwestrecord.ca/entertainment/this-new-west-theatre-production-explores-internalized-racism-1.23630503 HER MUSIC with M’GIRL -Here is an article written about M’Girl Music - A group of Indigenous Women singing hand-drum songs. What’s unique about what they do is that they harmonize to their traditional Cree, Saulteaux, Anishnaabe songs. https://www.straight.com/music/1315931/mgirl-infuses-indigenous-themes-western-vocal-harmonies DIRECTING A TELEVISION SERIES -And finally her film work, she directed 6 episodes of the 12 created for the 3rd Season of Quest Our West - for APTN. This will come out this fall. This link is about Season 1 and 2. https://www.aptn.ca/questoutwest/

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S2 E26 - How Leaders Can Use Simulations To Foster High Performance With Matt Confer

In today's episode of the Inspire Podcast, Bart interviews Matthew Confer. Matt is VP, Strategy and Business Development at Abilitie. Abilitie develops award-winning corporate leadership development and mini-MBA programs for rising leaders and executives around the world. Their team-based business competitions involve aspiring leaders in an active, learn-by-doing environment. Matt and Bart discuss how simulations can build leadership skills, and what leaders can do to create simulations of their own to foster better team performance. Here are some moments from their conversation: Abilitie- 04:04.6 What is experiential learning?- 05:31.0 Simulations- 06:05.4 Competitive component- 07:29.2 The relationship between experience/practice and learning- 08:34.1 Study on student engagement- 08:47.6 How to manage and develop talent- 11:58.5 Rethinking 'coaching'- 12:26.4 Objections to simulations- 13:59.8 How to get the most out of role plays- 15:38.5 How to do experiential learning in a team context- 17:00.4 Common learning themes- 19:07.4 Look to replicate in-class training experiences like coffee breaks etc.- 20:21.4 How to do leadership in a virtual work world- 21:45.4 Bias towards thinking that our choices will succeed- 23:29.6 Role play worst-case scenarios-24:55.7 Mistakes to avoid- 28:00.2 Where to go for more- 30:52.4 Link to Matt's TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/matthew_confer_before_you_decide_3_steps_to_better_decision_making

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S2 E28 - The Power of Converting Customers, Your Team & Yourself: How To Communicate Inspirationally

In this episode of the Inspire Podcast, Gabe and Bart discuss why (and how) data science plays a key role in helping companies connect with and understand their audience to drive growth, positive impact and leadership. Here are some moments from the conversation: Guest introduces himself -3:07.432 Time as journalist -3:34.700 Digital Publishing -4:08.601 The Globe's technology team -4:26.328 Data science and AI -4:50.535 Spinoff company on data science -5:24.376 Washington Post -5:33.182 Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post -5:41.270 A new CMS for publishers -6:41.951 Globe took part in development of ARC platform -7:25.960 Developing a software tool -8:11.070 Converting people to technology solutions -8:58.054 Conversion -9:12.877 Flip revenue from ads to users -10:01.115 Globe's last print remake -10:30.996 Sophie - analytics showed that opinion pieces were in demand -11:34.068 Digital data informing a relaunch -12:24.911 Growth story -12:38.860 Part of me is a ventures junkie -13:17.250 Finding a corporate partner for Opinion section -14:00.389 Asymmetrical marketing opportunities -15:17.255 Partnership with Purpose Investments -16:09.494 The role of data in decision making and marketing 17:21.607 Over-reliance on gut and intuition -17:34.171 What was you first mandate? -18:44.363 Charitable license -18:56.397 Globe and Mail foundation? -19:09.272 Revenue diversification -19:44.059 Conference Business -20:15.184 BMO - Ambitious policy discussion conference -20:35.483 Finding right commercial partners created great results -23:17.877 What approach to take when reaching out to potential partners -24:33.239 Finding common ground - re: values -24:58.818 When you share values --- then what? -25:32.617 Bring them wins! -28:55.371 Accretive solutions -29:23.593 Advice to people -- re: conversion -30:11.782 "Know something - Believe in something" -31:26.522 Moral courage -31:39.756 Listening to the conviction in other -32:03.279 Alignment -32:12.963