Release Yourself, with Mickie Kennedy

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On October 21, 2025
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author, branding, Business, damage control, marketing, news, PR, press, promotions, public relations, success

Mickie Kennedy, PR expert and the founder of eReleases, a leading press release distribution service, dives into why press releases aren’t just for the big boys, how to create the best one for maximum attention, and what to do in a damage-control setting, plus shares his “3% rule”, and explains how even local press can […]

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On October 7, 2025
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author, Business, community, entrepreneur, farm, goat, kindness, Shark Tank, skincare, Stephanie Maas, success, Work Life Balance

Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, a.k.a. the “Fabulous Beekman Boys”, co-founders of Beekman 1802 skincare, recount settling in with Farmer John and his goats and packing 52,000 bars of soap, and chat about making neighbors, not customers, making hay while the sun shines, NOT Shark Tank-ing every business, making kindness part of the business model, […]

Posted by Action Catalyst
On September 23, 2025
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author, Business, entrepreneur, founder, internet, inventor, leadership, success, tech, technology

Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, the tech entrepreneur known as the “father of the cable modem“, explains the two experiences he brought together to create the revolutionary device, what things like broadband and cable modems REALLY are, why he gave it all away free of royalties, and the role of homemade Persian food in making it all possible. […]

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On September 16, 2025
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Adam Outland, Business, career, entrepreneur, hiring, jobs, leadership, offshore, South Africa, Southwestern Advantage, Southwestern Talent, staffing, success, talent, workforce

Hattingh Basson and Werner Barnard, Senior Partners at Southwestern Talent, explain the unique career history that spawned the business, the professional services gap that they are filling and why it exists, why offshoring isn’t really offshoring anymore, how the South African people create a world-class talent pool, overcoming start-up pain points, and why sometimes the […]

Posted by Action Catalyst
On September 2, 2025
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alumni, faith, leadership, politics, sales, Southwestern Advantage, speaker, success

Mike Johnson, the 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, as well as an alum of The Action Catalyst’s parent company, Southwestern, breaks down his unique path to the speakership and the big role Southwestern played in getting him there, recounts danger in Tucson and getting a little help from Brett Favre, delivers […]

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On August 19, 2025
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author, Business, CEO, culture, engagement, founder, leadership, management, speaker, success, workplace

Dr. Angela Jackson, the founder/CEO of Future Forward Strategies and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, reveals the lessons learned from studying Fortune 500 companies, the REAL cost of turnover, why top-down decision making is dead, and the two main takeaways for small business owners. About Dr. Jackson: Dr. Angela Jackson is […]

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On August 5, 2025
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Adam Outland, author, Business, CEO, entrepreneur, knowledge, leadership, music, onboarding, performance, success, teams, training

Greg DeVore, CEO and co-founder of ScreenSteps, lays out his “Find & Follow” philosophy to reduce supervisor burnout and improve employee performance, breaking down concepts like actual vs. foundational knowledge and knowledge spenders vs. knowledge investors, the knowledge operations maturity model, the dead simple exercise that’ll change how your team gets work done, how just […]

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On July 22, 2025
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author, branding, Business, CEO, crisis, crisis management, PR, public relations, reputation, Russia, speaker, Stephanie Maas, storytelling, success

Founder & CEO of ZavoMedia PR Group, Liana Zavo, recounts how a college dropout and single mom made the jump from Russia to the US and from the style world to PR, gives a bit of advice for Blake Lively, reveals THE biggest PR mistake people make, how to come down from the ledge of […]

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On July 8, 2025
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attitude, author, Business, development, growth, healing, mindset, reaction, response, speaker, tolerance, transformation

Best-selling author, professor, and leadership expert Ryan Gottfredson explains how mindsets aren’t just attitudes, distinguishes the doing side vs. the being side of ourselves, and talks about gauging your “window of tolerance”, the 3 levels of adult development, reaction vs. response, and healing to grow. About Ryan: Ryan helps leaders, executive teams, aspiring leaders, and […]

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On July 1, 2025
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Adam Outland, author, Business, CEO, data, entrepreneur, feedback, high performance, leadership, purpose, questions, success

Klaus Kleinfeld, the former CEO of Siemens and Alcoa and the only leader to have successfully served as CEO of two Fortune 500 companies on different continents, recalls going to work at age 12, and covers the perils of sign language in the business world, getting close to the source of an issue, why we should be talking about […]

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Release Yourself, with Mickie Kennedy

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