Episodes

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Juanita Brown, Ph.D., co-author of the award-winning book, The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter. Juanita is the co-originator of an innovative approach to large group dialogue coined The World Café. She creates powerful dialogue forums with business, government, and nonprofit leaders internationally. “The collective holds the wisdom,” she says, and “gold lies in discovering the big questions.” Join us to discover how “conversational leade...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Rick Hanson, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom and Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time. An interpretation of the word “buddha” is one who knows how to be truly happy and effective. With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you can shape your own brain for greater happiness, love, a...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Carl Studna, world-renowned photographer, teacher, and author of CLICK! Choosing Love…One Frame at a Time. Carl’s intimate portraits of influential people ranging from Paul McCartney to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, are published and known worldwide. Why do photos matter? Carl says they are a “split moment in time” that is forever stilled. His work is to love the moment into being…with patience, compassion, and a way of seeing that allows the moment to reveal itself. Peop...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Anat Baniel, best-selling author of Move Into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality, & Kids Beyond Limits. Anat’s powerful method takes advantage of the brain’s ability to change itself at any age to heal both body & mind. “Movement is the language of the brain…any part of the body that does not have movement, the brain does not recognize.” Anat studied dance & movement growing up, & became a student of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, creator of an ingenious method for ...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes NICOLAS ORTNER, Creator and Executive Producer of the breakthrough documentary, "The Tapping Solution,” and author of “The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress- Free Living.”

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Barnet Bain, an award-winning movie producer and director, broadcaster and creativity coach. His films include Oscar winner What Dreams May Come (producer), triple Emmy nominee Homeless to Harvard (executive producer), The Celestine Prophecy (writer, producer), The Jesus Film (writer). Upcoming productions include Richard Bach's Illusions, and Milton's Secret by Eckhart Tolle & Robert Friedman. Barnet is fiercely passionate about transformation of the self to remember ou...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes William Arntz, Film Producer, Director, Screenwriter, and President of Captured Light Industries. Will Arntz is an enigma. He worked as a research physicist. He wrote the computer System Management software “AutoSys.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dr. Sue Morter, internationally recognized authority on bridging science, spirit, & human possibility. She founded Morter HealthCenter a multi-physician wellness center that focuses on teaching people how to tap into the vital healing force of body, mind, & spirit – naturally. Sue brings science to the conversation of the heart. She says we are multidimensional human beings & there is much more to us than meets the eye, even more to us than meets the mind. “What we hold ...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of Joie de Vivre, an award winning boutique hotel company. Chip is the best-selling author of Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness & Success and PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. A preeminent thought leader in psychology & business, Chip sees CEO’s and company leaders as “Chief Emotions Officers.” His experience tells him that emotional intelligence is no longer enough: emotional fluency is vita...

Debbie Ford said,“When you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination.” A few days ago, Debbie Ford passed away “into the waiting arms of her ancestors and guardian angels”.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Angeles Arrien, to Leading Conversations for a second time! Angeles is an anthropologist, educator, award-winning author, consultant, and Founder and President of the Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research.Her work bridges cultural anthropology, psychology, and mediation skills. Her award winning books include The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary; Signs of Life: The Five Universal Shapes and How t...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Marci Shimoff, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher, & an expert on happiness, success, & unconditional love. In her new book, Love for No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love Marci tells us there is a new paradigm for love. It is not conditional. It does not depend on another’s view of your value. And it is the key to personal fulfillment & professional success. Learn to: Open your heart; turn off your bod...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Michael Toms CEO and co-founder of New Dimensions Radio and the New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network. For more than a quarter century, Michael has been engaging in dialogue with the world's leading-edge thinkers, social architects, creative artists, scientists and spiritual teachers. Called the Socrates of radio, he is acknowledged by guests and listeners alike as one of the premier interviewers in media today. His legendary dialogues have helped to bring innovative...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Peter Senge, PhD., a Senior Lecturer at MIT, and founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL).

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Alan Briskin, an award-winning author, a pioneer in the field of organizational learning, and cofounder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative. His books include The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, Daily Miracles and Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice. His new book is The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective Folly is based on nine years of research by him and three coauthors working in concert over time. His work with groups and collective...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Peter Block award winning author, thought leader, and consultant to corporate, government, and community organizations in the realm of empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, & the reconciliation of community. Peter’s many books include The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters, the 2002 Independent Book Publisher Business Breakthrough Book of the Year; and his most recent, Community: The Structure of Belonging. Peter suggests that our major challenge in ...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s leading organic yogurt producer and author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Stephen M. R. Covey and Greg Link, co-authors of Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World. The first job of a leader is to inspire trust, and the second is to extend it. So say Covey and Link.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Ed Wallace, founder and Chief Relationship Officer of The Relational Capital Group, and author of Business Relationships That Last: Five Steps To Transform Contacts into High Performing Relationships.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes John Montgomery, a Silicon Valley corporate attorney, entrepreneur, executive coach & author. John works with high potential entrepreneurs to turn their concepts into companies. His book, Great from the Start: How Conscious Corporations Attract Success combines the best of Silicon Valley business practices & corporate law with principles from other disciplines, including neuroscience & psychology. This prepares entrepreneurs for success in the emerging paradigm where cor...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Darcy Winslow, Founder of Designs for a Sustainable World Collective. She is a pioneer and practitioner of sustainability frameworks and principles, advising people and projects around the globe. Darcy Winslow says we need leaders now who can help companies and communities envision a different future. How can current leaders understand more deeply their responsibility to the sustainability of our species? Understand that choices we make not only have impact today, the im...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Jane Horan, founder of the Horan Group and an expert in organization development & building inclusive and engaged work environments. Jane’s recent book, I Wish I’d Known That Earlier In My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics is a must read for anyone working in or with organizations. Do you believe that you can avoid the politics of your workplace? Jane says “no way.” Politics are a given, and they can be positive as well as negative. She says that the key i...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Kristin Engvig, founder and convener of the internationally acclaimed Women's International Networking (W.I.N ) Conference and Global Leadership Forum.

Cheryl welcomes Jerilyn Brusseau, a cook, baker, restaurateur, businesswoman, humanitarian and cultural diplomat. She is founder of PeaceTable and co-founder of PeaceTrees Vietnam. Her story begins in her grandmother’s kitchen and takes her globetrotting in the spirit of peace and diplomacy. Jerilyn passionately advocates warm-hearted, soul-connected food as the most common language spoken around the world. She founded PeaceTable to create shared culinary experiences between people of the United...