Rebekah Payne joins Howard to discuss how she uses her gifts for the benefit of others in all of her growing roles. Rebekah is a wife, mother, and Sr. VP of Marketing Services for VML. VML is a leading global branding and customer experience agency. Listen as Rebekah shares how she uses the core truths about work to help others find more meaning, satisfaction and joy in their work.
Resources
Article on Job Purpose: A Good Job for Life
Article on Working Genius: Use Gift for Others - Be Satisfied
VML: vml.com/memphis
Our Website: thecentermemphis.org
Rebekah Payne joins Howard to discuss how she uses her gifts for the benefit of others in all of her growing roles. Rebekah is a wife, mother, and Sr. VP of Marketing Services for VML. VML is a leading global branding and customer experience agency. Listen as Rebekah shares how she is using Working Genius and her personal gifting to help others grow and achieve their goals.
Resources
Article on Working Genius: Use Gift for Others - Be Satisfied
Article on Job Purpose: A Good Job for Life
Key Scriptures:
VML: vml.com/memphis
Our Website: thecentermemphis.org
Will Walker joins Howard to discuss entrepreneurship, working with your spouse, and how to keep relationship accounts full. WIll is the president and founder of Walker Financial Management. This episode is full of practical ways for entrepreneurs and business leaders to keep full accounts with their spouses, family, coworkers, and clients.
Resources
Article: Where Do You Want To Go?
Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Graphic: Aligning with Life Purpose
Graphic: Continuum of Redemptive Work
Key Scriptures:
Walker Financial Management: walkerfm.com
Our Website: thecentermemphis.org
Lisa Moak joins Howard on The Way To Work Podcast for a Mother’s Day special! Lisa is the mother of 3 children, and, today, she joins us to talk about how the Working Genius intersects with the wonderful work of motherhood. Her Working Genius is Enablement / Wonder. You’ll hear practical examples of how she enables her husband to be more effective in his work as she idealistically supports her children to be the best they can be.
More Useful Resources From The Center
Graphic: Aligning With Life Purpose
Verse: John 14:6
Our website: thecentermemphis.org
Brian Moak from Irby Utilities — just back from the Masters and Talladega — joins Howard to discuss how competition creates Win/Win situations not just for our customers but also for our competitors. You’ll hear how reframing how we view competition — in every day sports and work based scenarios — translates into us acting for the benefit of others as we do our very best.
More Useful Resources From The Center
Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Article: Relationship Victory — Thinking Win/Win — Requires Consideration And Courage
Graphic: Aligning With Life Purpose
Graphic: The Win/Win Matrix
Graphic: Continuum of Redemptive Work
Our Website: thecentermemphis.org
Sharda Collier from YoungLives joins Howard to discuss how synergy between people with different gifts and viewpoints can create impactful solutions. You’ll hear how synergy has brought Sharda to where she is in her career and how she is changing the lives of pregnant teen mothers in Memphis.
More Useful Resources From The Center
Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Graphic: Aligning With Life Purpose
Graphic: Levels of Communication
Graphic: Synergize
Our Website: thecentermemphis.org
YoungLives: younglives.younglife.org
Taylor Strickland joins Howard to discuss the transformative power of empathetic listening. You’ll hear how seeking to understand the needs, wants, and desires of your coworkers and clients before projecting your needs, wants, or desires onto them creates deep relationships built on character and trust.
More Useful Resources From The Center
Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Graphic: Aligning With Life Purpose
Our Website: thecentermemphis.org
This week Tom Fowlkes joins Howard to discuss how winning in business doesn’t mean that someone else is losing. We live in a world of abundance, not scarcity. You’ll hear how approaching daily decisions at work with this abundance mentality facilitates relationships of mutual benefit with clients and coworkers.
More Useful Resources From The Center
Listen on Spotify
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Graphic: The Win / Lose Matrix
Graphic: Aligning With Life Purpose
Our Website: thecentermemphis.org
Matthew Gant joins Howard to discuss how to create long term victories in the insurance business and in all of life and work. On this special Good Friday release, you will hear how this principle has the potential to reshape your relationships with your clients as well as your coworkers — enabling opportunities of abundance for everyone. The Way of Jesus is loss for our gain and Jesus appoints us to do the same (John 15:16).
More Useful Resources From The Center
Our Website: https://www.thecentermemphis.org/
Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Graphic: The Win / Lose Matrix
Graphic: Aligning With Life Purpose
In this episode, Rob Thompson joins Howard to explain how to go from knowing what is important to accomplishing the most important things in our lives and work. You’ll hear how to put in place a practical routine that helps ensure the important things get done — all while staying flexible enough to make time for the most important people in your life.
More Useful Resources From The Center
Our Website: https://www.thecentermemphis.org/
Article: Choose Opportunity — Choose Relationships First
Graphic: Continuum of Redemptive Work
Graphic: Aligning With Life Purpose
Graphics: Habit 3 Diagrams
Video: Big Rocks
Video: Rob Thompson At The Center
Listen as Willie Baldwin joins Howard to unpack how beginning with the end in mind changes how you live and work. Willie touches on how this principles transforms your daily relationships with your coworkers, clients, and even your family.
More Useful Resources From The Center
Article: Where Do You Want To Go?
Graphic: Understand Your Center
Book: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Our website: thecentermemphis.org
In this episode, Hamp Holcomb and Howard discuss how the ability to effectively set and achieve goals can impact the trajectory of your career. Hamp shares personable stories and practical lessons he’s learned throughout his career about how beginning with the end in mind altered the goals he set and how he went about achieving them.
More Useful Resources From The Center
Article: Where Do You Want To Go?
Graphic: Understand Your Center
Book: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Our website: thecentermemphis.org
Listen as Howard, Dan Butler and Drew Pera explain what it means to be proactive by making choices and taking action in some very difficult circumstances.
You will hear how Dan and Drew were able to move from what seemed like a lack of control in their work to taking full agency by implementing very practical steps to make a difference for those in their circle of influence.
The goal of our 7 Habits series is to help people adopt practices that allow them to grow professionally and spiritually at the same time.
More Useful Resources From The Center
Article: Proactivity is Response Ability
Our website: https://www.thecentermemphis.org
Diagram: What a Habit is
Healthy and successful organizations know how to leverage the means at their disposal toward their most important goals as an organization. In this short podcast, Howard outlines how organizations can know how to utilize the means at their disposal toward their goals in a way that produces value and maximizes returns.
Resources
Working For Glory | Whiteboard Session
Business is Provision For People
Dyson Podcast: How I Built This
Our Website: https://www.thecentermemphis.org/
This is the 1st podcast in a 3 part series where we are unpacking how business is meant to provide human flourishing, which is full of glory and joy. These podcasts are based on questions we’ve received from our recent whiteboard session. In this episode, Howard clarifies what company missions are, why they are important, and how to achieve them.
Resources
Working For Glory | Whiteboard Session
Do you know someone in or approaching retirement? Listen as Andrew Beach, director of life planning and retirement coaching at The Center - Memphis, explains how to retire with great purpose and eternal meaning.
Over the past 9 months at The Center, we’ve been learning how to lead like Jesus. There isn’t any leadership attribute or area of we are trying to grow in as a leader that Jesus is not the preeminent example of. And, as we’ve learned what it means to lead like Jesus, we’ve learned what a privilege it is to serve others and that it is a reward. So, listen as the team — Andrew, Carter, and Howard — examines the rewards of leading like Jesus.
Resources
How Do I Get Unstuck And Move Forward With Purpose?
Hebrews 10:35
1 Corinthians 3:14
2 Corinthians 3:18
Matthew 5:12
John 15:5-7
Most people know it’s a good thing to be wise — especially in business. However, for most of us, there tends to be a gap between what we know to be wise and what is actually being implemented day to day in our business, daily work, and leadership. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how to best implement wisdom in your business, daily work, and leadership.
Our lives, and especially our work, get full of competing priorities, and we frequently tell ourselves we will get more involved in God’s mission later. Listen as our guest Brian Evans, from Strategic Financial Partners, joins Howard to discuss how the time for living and working on mission is now.
Resources
Mathew 20:1-16
Our daily lives are full of distractions. We have a constant stream of alerts, meetings, games, fitness, our desires and fears, and even our work can throw us off track. In this podcast, Howard and Carter discuss which of these distractions can be eliminated and which ones should be redeemed.
Today’s podcast has special insights from our friends at the Grizz Den Podcast
Resources
2 Timothy 2:1-7
John 20:21-22