Are you a fan of Top Gun? Do you dream of being a Top Gun pilot? But have you ever considered the leadership lessons in the movie? As much as you may have enjoyed the action-packed scenes, did you unknowingly pick up some terrible leadership guidance from it?

Don’t let your love for the movie cloud your judgment. Join us as we delve into the leadership lessons that Top Gun has to offer. Learn what to do and what not to do when leading your team to success.

So, are you ready to take your leadership skills to new heights?

Let’s take a closer look at Top Gun, and see what it can teach us about being a great leader.

That’s where we’re going in the next two episodes.

Our guest for the next two episodes is Michelle “Mace” Curran is a retired F16 fighter pilot.

“Mace” spent 13 years as a combat-proven F-16 fighter pilot. Her career culminated with a three-year tour flying for the Air Force Thunderbirds, where she became only the second woman in the team’s history in seventy years of flying as a lead solo.

Upon leaving the military, Mace founded her company called upside down dreams, where she empowers women and men of all ages to overcome obstacles and face their fear of failure. She now inspires others outside the company cockpit as a keynote speaker and children’s author. She’s been featured on several well-known media platforms, including the Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS Evening News, and Glamour. Mace was a combat-proven fighter completing missions across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She is passionate about pushing her limits, inspiring others, and changing lives.

Website

https://macecurran.com

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/macetbird6

https://www.linkedin.com/in/macecurran/

https://www.instagram.com/mace_curran/?hl=en

Part 1) What the Top Gun Movie Got Dead Wrong

Driven by a Different Force, the Concrete Ceiling
The Justice Department, FBI, NO… Fighter Pilot!
When No One Knows the Uniform is a Halloween Costume
6 Seconds from Anxiety to Excitement
What Top Gun Got Dead Wrong
Willingness to Analyze Up and Down Regardless of Rank
Certainty Or Arrogance, Why Leaders must know and Live the Difference

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Uncertainty abounds. We live in times of political uncertainty; trust in Governments, government agencies, medical and pharmaceutical agencies, and even the worlds of sports and entertainment are facing levels of questioning accountability and integrity beyond the imaginings of yesteryear. The faster changes in the history of humankind are bringing on all this.

How can we cope, even flourish, in these times of VUCA (volitivity, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity)? Is there hope or are we headed for a dystopian future?

Let’s find out. Our guest for the next two episodes is Chris Nolan. Chris is a multiple Emmy award-winning director, creative director, marketing strategist, branding story expert, and author. He brings 25 years of branding, writing, directing, and production experience in entertainment and marketing to his content production company, 90,000 Feet. He has worked for clients such as Disney, Google, and Toyota.

Chris recently directed and co-wrote the documentary, It’s VUCA: The Secret to Living in the 21st Century, with Mike Schindler. Chris and Mike have followed up the film with a book and an extensive leadership and executive coaching program called VUCA MAX.

Website

https://90000feet.com

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/90000Feet

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisseannolan

Part 1) Living in a VUCA World

Confronting Personal VUCA
Bringing on The Pain
R.I.P Moore’s Law!
Why do 50% of Kids Think We Are Doomed
Is there such a thing as positive VUCA?
Evolving The Brain’s Negativity Bias
Moving from Linear Bias to the Exponential

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You may already be pushing back, saying, “we still do”. Are you sure about that?

Is the US still the #1 investor or the #1 trading partner worldwide? If you said yes, strap yourself in because you’re in for a shock. If it’s not the US, who is it, and what does it mean for the rest of the world? That’s where we’re going for the next two episodes with our guest and returning champion, John Perkins, AKA The Economic Hitman.

In John Perkins’s latest book, he states that we are at the beginning of the third wave of Economic Hitmen strategies rolling out across the world. If you think this is some conspiracy theory, consider that this is the work of a man with an intimate insider pass and the highest possible credentials.

John Perkins is an economist, author, and activist. As Chief Economist at a major consulting firm, John was an advisor to the World Bank, UN, IMF, Fortune 500 corporations, and leaders of countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and US government agencies.

His eleven books have been published in more than 35 languages and sold over 2 million copies, including Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Touching the Jaguar, and Shapeshifting was on The New York Times bestseller list for over 70 weeks.

John’s latest book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition, describes China’s economic hitman strategy and the need to transform a failing, degenerative death economy into a regenerative life economy. John Perkins has lectured at more than 50 universities and has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, Time, The New York Times, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many others. He became a founder of the non-profits Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance.

In his latest book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition, he describes the unforgivable acts he committed as chief economist at a major US consulting firm and the crimes executed by the CIA assets, known as jackals, who stood behind him. John exposes the Economic Hit Men strategy” that took on new and ominous proportions after China entered the fray in the early 2000s. He then offers a plan for converting the resulting failed, degenerative death economy into a regenerative life economy and how we can help make that happen.

Website

https://johnperkins.org

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/johnperkinsauthor

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnperkinsauthor

https://www.instagram.com/jperkinsauthor

Part 1) The Four Pillars of Global Control

The 3 Different Strategies of Economic Hitmen
How The IMF and others in Partnership with The US Robs the Poor to Increase GDP
700 million Reasons why Most None Americans Trust China
China and The Investment in Low Carbon Emissions
America Vs. China Death Race
The Long-Term Costs of Comfort

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Homeboy Industries. This $30 million not-for-profit organization is the world’s largest and most successful gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program.

We all live in a highly competitive, capitalist environment, and as such, we drive toward higher and higher levels of success. Meanwhile, we miss what’s going on under our noses; we may not notice our children, marriages, families, and friends drift away.

Sadly, we don’t even notice as our humanity drifts away. We are climbing to be on top while failing our society’s poor and forgotten people. We create systems that make it impossible to be part of the American dream, particularly if someone has had a dark past. But what can we do?

Our guest for the next two episodes is Thomas Vozzo. Thomas Vozzo left a very lucrative career in corporate America, convinced there had to be a better way to define success. In 2012, Thomas became the first-ever CEO of Homeboy Industries. This $30 million not-for-profit organization is the world’s largest and most successful gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program. Thomas is also the author of, The Homeboy Way: A Radical Approach to Business and Life.

Website

Social Media

Twitter: https://twitter.com/homeboyind

https://www.instagram.com/homeboyindustries

https://www.linkedin.com/company/homeboy-industries

Part 1) A Radical Approach to Business and Life

Life in Two Chapters
Being Willing to See Those on The Fringe
The 2008 Awakening to The Lack of Corporate Loyalty
What Happens to “Disposable People”
Lunch with Facial Tattooed Gang Members
“I’m Not the Saviour”
Discovering How We’re All in This Together.
A Zagat Recognized Restaurant Run by Felons

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Have you ever watched the news or seen something online and thought, “Someone should fix that,” and then you went on with your day until the next time that subject showed up? 

What happens when that issue that bothers you in the world shows up enough that you realize that you are noticing it because you are the one who could do something about it?

Talking of ongoing workplace issues, how can we end workplace exclusion, boost your business profits, strengthen our communities, and make significant inroads toward social justice with the abundant resources we’re ignoring?

Our guest for the next two episodes is Dr. Gil Winch (Ph.D. in Psychology).

Gil is a TED.com speaker, a keynote speaker, and the founder of Call Yachol (CY), a one-of-a-kind for-profit social business staffed and managed primarily by people with disabilities. He’s also the author of Winning with Underdogs: How Hiring the Least Likely Candidates Can Spark Creativity, Improve Service, and Boost Profits for Your Business. 

Website: https://gilwinch.com

Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gil-winch-40a96711a

Book: https://tinyurl.com/WinningWithUnderDogs

Part 1) Why Hiring the Least Likely Candidates is Good Business

• Terminal Cancer the end, or The Begining of a More Important Cause
• How We’ve Made Society’s Weakest Population The Poorest and Loneliest
• Confronting Diversity’s Blind Spots 
• Hiring the Least Likely Candidates Can Spark Creativity, Improve Service, and Boost Profits for Your Business
• Why the Solution to the Great Resignation is Right Under Our Nose
• Why We Don’t recognize Our Own Biases

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