The Courage Effect

The Power of Wonder with Michelle Grover

#6 | 5.10.2023: Michelle Grover is Chief Technology Officer of Slalom, a global management consulting firm headquartered in Seattle. She’s been named by Business Insider as one of the 100 People Transforming Business in Emerging Tech, is a member of the Greycroft and Sierra Ventures Technology Councils, and dedicates her time to mentoring high school young women and people of color in the technology field.
Michelle shares how she broke away from expectations to launch a career in technology as a black woman, her work mentoring young people to open up fresh perspectives, and why she values not being able to give advice to her younger self.
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Passion and Perspective with J.R. Siegel

#5 | 5.3.2023: J.R. and Suzanne anchor their conversation on the topic of passions – they discuss seeing the macro view to ensure we’re pursuing what matters most to us and J.R. shares his recurring self-review process where he tests what he “loves, likes, can’t, and won’t” do. He also touches on how empowering it is to hide self-view on video calls (a smaller but still courageous act!) and what opens up when you stop hiding behind the work of others.
J.R. Siegel is a sustainability strategist, writer, and business leader based in Seattle. He’s the Senior Director of Product Innovation of Worldly (a Series B Sustainability SAAS Company), a member of the scientific and technical advisory committee for the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation prize; and the author of Bright Spots, a newsletter that unpacks good news about the climate that you may have missed.
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Courageous Communication with Julie Pham

#4 | 4.26.2023: Organizational development leader Julie Pham, PhD and Suzanne discuss the role courage plays in communicating with others: the ways it’s challenged by our speed of work, the trend of self-censoring becoming more common, and how trusting our intuition surfaces the ability to stay true to ourselves. Dr. Julie Pham is the founder and the CEO of CuriosityBased, an organizational development firm based in Seattle. She’s been recognized with numerous awards for her community leadership, and has applied her community building approach to creating strong, collaborative and curious teams. Her books include 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work (2022) and Their War: The Perspectives of the South Vietnamese Military in the Words of Veteran-Émigrés (2019).
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Styling Courage with Mellicia Marx

#3 | 4.19.2023: Mellicia – a self-proclaimed iconoclast – talks about tapping into courage to make new memories (bikini included!), the power of claiming your authentic style, and how having a child allowed her to make more intentional choices for the life she creates for herself and her family.
Based in Seattle, Mellicia Marx is the founder of Poplin Style Direction, a boutique personal styling consultancy in Seattle. Since 2013, Mellicia has helped hundreds of cis and trans women across the country look and feel their best through personalized, one-on-one style mentoring.
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Flying Bravely with Lia De Feo

#2 | 4.12.2023: Lia talks about how she grew into being an empathetic leader and advocate through her own personal and professional struggles. She and Suzanne touch on compassionate workplaces, doing what's right when it's not easy, and the importance of cultivating supportive networks.
Lia De Feo is a brand builder, revenue-generator and innovation leader who has brought thousands of products and many successful partnerships to life. She’s proud to be an empathetic manager, collaborator and mentor who leads product and business development for Uncommon Goods and is the founder of Fly Bravely, an NYC-based consultancy dedicated to normalizing infertility.
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Starting Anew with Troy Livingston

#1 | 4.5.2023: Troy shares a story with Suzanne about the loss of a relationship that turned his world upside down, and how getting “pushed off a ledge” brought him to a place of freedom and choosing new ways.
After a career as an executive in museums, mental health care, and public health, Troy Livingston focuses on helping people and organizations narrow the gap between their current reality and their ideal world. Today he’s a management consultant focused on organizations that need to solve complex problems they’ve been unable to solve on their own.
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Introducing The Courage Effect

Meet us in conversations about everyday courage. Where Suzanne Weller and her guests talk about what they've learned through wrangling fear, risk, and uncertainty – no matter how big (or small) the challenge.
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