S2E1 Finding Your Strength Zone with Alan Stein Jr.

<p>📚 Alan is Mark's old friend and a successful author. 00:35<br>✍️ Alan enjoyed writing a book called Sustain Your Game: writing books serves as a therapeutic way to serve himself as well as others. 01:29<br>🗝️ You have the key: “People have the power to change more than they most likely believe they do.” 03:10<br>🏀 From basketball player to coach to motivational speaker: Coming from a family of educators, Alan always had a natural affinity to be of service to and teach others.  05:04<br>💪 The best advice a coach gave to Alan about finding the Strength Zone. 06:21<br>🎯 The epicenter of being a coach is in transformational leadership: empowering others to improve behavior and improve results by believing in themselves. 08:33<br>😇 Be the leader you want to follow: having an authentic and appropriate vulnerability. 11:21<br>🤩 Making your team stronger with the diversity of thought, age, and background: we need to nurture respect, appreciation, and curiosity. 15:31<br>🏆 Diversity culture and data blended with respect for others: a story about a basketball coach with 4 key stats that heavily influenced winning and losing the game. 19:15<br>🤓 Leading indicators of success and performance, but what about stress? 22:16<br>🦸 The road to a settled mind is being at peace with the fact that we don’t control things in the world and channeling our response to those circumstances. 24:43<br>✅ Trying to live a truly mindful and physically fit lifestyle vs. checking the boxes of doing the ‘right’ things. 29:13<br>🧘 Is bringing mindfulness to business meetings possible?  31:38<br>🤯 Measure the things the right way and get the data to combine with the human aspect: do more of what works and do less of what doesn't. 36:54<br>❗ Keep things simple to make your business effective: find your goal and measurable behaviors and data that will get you to your goal. 40:20<br>👉 The acute problem in a generational change in the federal workforce. 43:03<br>📣 A message Alan would give to all in the federal government: being inclusive in