Melanie Parish, MCC

  Escape Rooms are one of the most exciting and immersive puzzle games ever conceptualized, pitting participants in challenges that tickle their minds, reflexes, and intuition. For Christina Eanes, these fun games can be utilized to improve your strategies and skills when it comes to the most stressful situations and competitive areas. The author of Life is an Escape Room joins Melanie Parish to share her discoveries on experimenting in escape rooms, offering helpful insights for team-building strategies and even couple empowerment. She also shares some tips on finding virtual escape rooms in this time of pandemic, her self-care routine, and...... Read More

    According to studies, promoting play in the work environment can make employees less stressed, more engaged, creative, and productive. Joining Melanie Parish on today’s show is Jeff Harry, an international speaker who has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day. He explains the importance and benefits of playing or having fun at work, particularly in this period of isolation and virtual communication. Start unleashing your inner child as Jeff explains how play fits into work, leadership, and life. — Listen to the podcast here...... Read More

No leadership is ever the same. They vary according to the organization, the people, the goals, and more. In this episode, Melanie Parish takes us into the world of a different kind of leadership. She sits down with Daniel Edds, a Practicing Management Consultant, to talk about his books, Transformation Management and Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, where he looks at how elite organizations approach the practice of leadership. He lays down how they differ from what the average organization is doing and how you, too, can apply some of their strategies and practices to help you improve your leadership skills. Follow along with Daniel in this conversation as he shows how he is trying to radically transform leadership and more.... Read More

Sometimes, growth is hindered by a lack of self-support and confidence. Such is the root of imposter syndrome, acting as if a wall that hinders us from achieving our full potential. Talking about defeating these limiting thoughts with Melanie Parish is Jehaan Illyas, the Lead Psychiatrist at the Hamilton Family Health Team. Together, they discuss how to get rid of self-doubt, how each gender handles imposter syndrome, and why rising beyond your incompetence can lead to a better self. They also talk about the adjustments of the medical industry in virtual consultations and some self-care tips.... Read More

Leadership should be driven with purpose and meaning. It is not just about leading for the sake of it. It should be the foundation that puts the business and the people within it to success. In this episode, Jayson Krause, the founder of Level 52, shares with us how he is working to help organizations disrupt and accelerate a new breed of meaningful leadership. He shares the unique points of the company and how they are experimenting with work these days. Jayson then lets us in on his upcoming book, The Science Behind Success: What Every Leader Needs to Know About Mindset, Influence, Culture, & Performance, where he dives into the four elements of science to create actionable tools for leaders to make a bigger difference and deliver better value.... Read More

How does one teach language to kids from an online setting and still be fun and engaging? It would seem impossible until you see what Les Petites Pommes is doing. Founded by Mary Clements in 2009, the award-winning Canadian company specializes in creating programs that help children learn French. The CEO herself joins Melanie Parish in today’s episode to share what the pivot looked like for their company when COVID-19 forced them to shift everything online. An artist by heart, Mary led her company to thrive in the midst of the pandemic through willful experimentation and trailblazing. Listen to the episode to learn more about this beautiful pivot story.... Read More

The pandemic has pushed many of us to experiment with the ways we lead our businesses and organizations. What we’re used to in the past does not anymore apply today. One area that is undeniably transformed is that of face to face interactions with people. This episode’s guest, Kelly Ann McKnight, the founder of Stone Ridge Consulting, has been doing quite the experiment. She has shifted her focus from just face-to-face consulting and facilitation to the learning journeys by building online learning. Here, she sits down with Melanie Parish to share how she is navigating through this uncertainty and, with her book called The Resilience Way, helping others do the same and come out of the other side better than ever.... Read More

Believing in yourself is a common mantra we hear for motivation, but it is easier said than done. Going past all of the self-doubts, worries, and fears due to imposter syndrome is hard, but we can definitely gain a well-deserved self-trust by seeing our uniqueness despite our flaws. Melanie Parish is joined by public speaker and philanthropist Angel Ribo to discuss how to embrace your true self and let it out for everyone to see. After all, we must not be dictated by our surroundings but by what lies inside ourselves. Angel also shares what kind of fears keep him awake at night, some tips regarding self-care, and experimenting in the middle of the pandemic.... Read More

Most of us have grown up with the idea that business should always be about the bottomline – profits, revenue, growth – but there is a rising trend of redefining that bottomline to include compassion, empathy, support, care and camaraderie. International business consultant, international speaker, lecturer, and best-selling author, Dr. Bruno Cignacco elevates this line of thinking into a full-blown business philosophy with his latest book, The Art of Compassionate Business. Joining Melanie Parish in this episode, he explains what compassion means in business and why we need to shift our attention to striking a balance between the quantitative and qualitative aspects of business. As Albert Einstein once said, “Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted.” This is the long version of that.... Read More

What does it take to go from being broke and living out in a hostel for five months to becoming a serial tech entrepreneur and building two multimillion-dollar companies? Bernardo de la Vega, the host of The Next Big Pivot podcast and the man behind the app, Fiesta, sits down with Melanie Parish to share with us his journey. He gives us a view of how he is creating the TikTok for podcasts and how, as a leader, he is going after the blue ocean and facing challenges during the uncertain COVID-19 world. Having been working with podcasts, Bernardo then shares his opinions on what makes a good podcaster.... Read More