Blazing Paddles - A Pickleball Podcast

Hello HR,
How long have we heard about an increased minimum wage? Long enough for the increase to be meaningless, that's for sure.

Would it even help? Could it actually hurt?  Well hell yes it could hu…

It's a rote response we've almost become programmed to utter. A general greeting &/or welfare check like "How's it going?" is met with the standard "Busy as always!" or some similar descriptor to let…

The pandemic has taxed our resilience reservoirs. Forced to respond to new work conditions, new social limitations and uncertain implications on our personal wellbeing - it's been quite a psychologic…

There are a few things in life we take for granted despite how critical it might be to our very existence. Breathing, for one, is something we do 20,000 times per day without even giving it a thought…

Who interviews their wife as a podcast guest? Apparently I do, and the experience was even better than I had hoped. Has it been a crazy year? Yeah, it has, but that statement has become cliché. For m…

Like a Happy Days episode from days gone by, I teased this topic into a "To Be Continued" two-parter. 

In this episode David gives some in-the-workplace application to encourage robust, difficult, and…

For HR professionals, difficult conversations are the ticket of admission to strategic partnership. In this second episode of Season 2, I chat with David Creelman, a global HR consultant based in Can…

Season 2 kicks off with a bang as I chew the fat with the inimitable Jeff Wald, best selling author, founder of two tech firms, angel investor, startup advisor and all-around man with a plan.
His lat…

We make it way more difficult than it needs to be, don't we? It's a universally accepted tenet that our ability and willingness to develop our people may be the most important investment in time and …

Episode 12 brings us Kyle Roed, senior HR practitioner with CPM Holdings, author of the "New School HR" blog, and the creator and host of the Rebel HR Podcast, found wherever you fancy your podcast p…

When you get a couple old HR salts going, the conversation goes fast & furious. Join me and Kris Dunn ("KD") for a hash & dash that includes the changes in strategic planning, HAG's, MBO's (and other…

This is a fun one, folks ~ Sarah Hodges is an executive coach, speaker, and founder of the Hodges Leadership Institute, an On'Demand, web-based program designed to improve corporate culture through l…

Meet Charlie Morrison, Chairman and CEO of Wingstop Restaurants, Inc. In a first, I have Charlie visit me in the studio for a live conversation. We discuss foundational values, the business dynamic o…

Andy Storch is a busy guy...host of two podcasts, founder of the Talent Development Think Tank conference and Talent Development Virtual Summit, husband, father, friend and just for kicks...author!
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In retrospect, wasn't September 2020 fun? If October taught us anything, it's that we ain't seen nothin' yet. Listen to Whit's "10 Reasons October 2020 Will Never Be Forgotten", including all your fa…

"You find happiness and then you find success, not the other way around." That message is woven consistently throughout my conversation with Dr. Pele. This is not your everyday "doctor;" Dr. Pelè is …

In this episode I speak with Anastasia Valentine, President of Resource 1 Consulting about the "2nd Responders" - businesses that reacted and adapted successfully to the COVID pandemic, the challenge…

Because 2020 just can't give us an inch, September proved to be another chaotic month. If you're in the business of human behavior, you saw several events which will continue to manifest in the workp…

Have any self-doubts or unproductive inner-dialogue? John has a conversation with Carolynn Morris, a dynamo of positivity, enthusiasm and optimism - who couldn't use some of that??
Carolyn is a Speake…

In this episode Whit has a conversation about courage with Karin Hurt, Award Winning Author and Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker about how she and partner David Dye inspire transformational change thr…