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Work Positive

Work Positive

Written by: Dr. Joey Faucette
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 Work Positive podcast guests share strategies and tactics, real-life stories, and case studies that focus on how you can attract top talent and reduce team turnover. The host of the Work Positive podcast, Dr. Joey Faucette, is an executive coach, culture architect, and best-selling author. His latest book, Work Positive in a Negative World: Team Edition, is the manifesto for developing your positive work culture. Listen to the Work Positive podcast if you: want to attract top talent desire to reduce team turnover invest in leadership training are performance driven, and; care about your team members.Copyright 2022 Work Positive podcast, Dr. Joey Faucette, All Rights Reserved. Economics Entrepreneurship Management & Leadership Small Business & Entrepreneurship
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  • Make Well-being Visible in Your Culture | Dr. Jamie Hardy

    Make Well-being Visible in Your Culture | Dr. Jamie Hardy
    May 10 2026
    Episode 186 | Make Well-being Visible in Your Culture | Dr. Jamie Hardy How well do you understand the direct connection between performance and health in your work culture? What creates teams who are energized, engaged, and endure rather than quietly dimming or walking out the door? How do you embed executive well-being into the very culture of work rather than treating it as an afterthought? Transform your approach to retention and performance on this episode of the Work Positive Podcast with Dr. Joey Faucette and Dr. Jamie Hardy. Dr. Jamie is a clinical pharmacist, executive well-being consultant, speaker, and founder of Innovative Wellness. With over 20 years in healthcare, she partners with corporations to optimize talent engagement, retention, and productivity by delivering science-backed consulting and energizing keynotes. Known as "the lifestyle pharmacist," she brings both clinical authority and cultural insight to today's most urgent well-being conversations. Listen as Dr. Jamie explores: ☀️ Her origin story of being escorted from her office to the emergency room as she felt symptoms of a heart attack ☀️ The three transformations she made: prioritize fueling brain and body, reset nervous system in real time, embrace strategic rest as performance multiplier ☀️ Why well-being culture compounds retention results rather than just annual surveys that miss the building dumpster fire ☀️ How the Leadership Retention Index reveals patterns contributing to depletion in your organization sooner than annual surveys ☀️ The 70% gap between what people leaders think they're doing and how people receive it Dr. Jamie transforms how leaders think about well-being by proving that as you make well-being visible in one place, you create cultures where top talent thrives rather than dims. 🔑 Key Insight: "I was so focused on the job, the output, the productivity, how I was being perceived, how I was showing up. I wasn't taking care of the person who was helping to lead the strategy: myself. I was not leading myself well at that point in my career. It shook me to my core and forced me to level up how I was leading myself. I had to prioritize how I was fueling my brain and my body even on my busiest days, even as the calendar was stacked. I had to invent a system to reset my nervous system in real time. I had to lean into this concept that strategic rest is important. It's a performance multiplier rather than a weakness. That ordeal showed me something else: I wasn't the only one. The curtain had been lifted. I was not the only one who had experienced physiological transformations and mental transformations because the work was all consuming." 💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Find one place inside your organization where well-being is invisible and make it visible. You can start with the morning huddle, the monthly team meeting, or the quarterly business meeting with senior executives. Pick one space where well-being is practically nonexistent and start that conversation. Share something you discovered listening to this episode that you can do in your life as a leader. Model it. People love to hear you say "try this because I tried it" rather than "do as I say." You can initiate these conversations, processes, and forward momentum in your organization. It all starts with one conversation and a person courageous enough to initiate it. Connect with Dr. Jamie Hardy: Visit LeadershipRetentionIndex.com for your FREE Leadership Retention Index (complete in 5 minutes, reveals patterns contributing to depletion)Visit DrJamieHardy.com for actionable tools, strategies, and blog designed with executive performance and leadership in mindConnect with Dr. Jamie on LinkedIn at Dr. Jamie HardyFollow on Instagram at @DrJamieHardyDiscover how to integrate well-being strategies and solutions into your leadership cultureLearn how to close the 70% gap between what leaders think they're doing and how people receive it #Executivewell-being #StrategicRest #PerformanceMultiplier #well-beingCulture #LeadershipRetentionIndex #TheLifestylePharmacist #CultureEatsStrategyForBreakfast #WorkPositive 🎙️ Love the Work Positive Podcast? Please leave a review on iTunes to help others discover how to grow people and profits with a positive work culture! 🔗 Stay connected with Dr. Joey Faucette: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@workpositive7529LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjoeyfaucette/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPositiveToday/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpositive.today/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.joeyfaucette 📧 Know someone who'd make a great guest on the show? Email analiza@getpositive.today with your recommendation!
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  • Augmented Leadership in a BANI World | Bob Johansen

    Augmented Leadership in a BANI World | Bob Johansen
    May 3 2026
    How do you navigate the chaos as work transforms faster than ever before? How do you lead people through a world that feels brittle, anxious, non-linear, and incomprehensible? How do you want to be augmented as generative AI reshapes every aspect of work? Transform your approach to strategic thinking and future-focused leadership on this episode of the Work Positive Podcast with Dr. Joey Faucette and Dr. Bob Johansen. Bob is a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future, the longest-running futures research group in the world. He's a former university basketball player who scored 20 points against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a strategic thinker who has shaped how leaders navigate uncertainty, and the author of multiple groundbreaking books including "Navigating the Age of Chaos" and "Leaders Make the Future" (Third Edition). This is Bob's fourth appearance on the Work Positive Podcast. Listen as Bob explores: ☀️ Why VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) is no longer VUCA enough for what we're about to experience ☀️ How the BANI world (brittle, anxious, non-linear, incomprehensible) requires leaders who choose how to be augmented rather than replaced ☀️ Why the big story is humans and computers doing things together that have never been done before rather than computers replacing people ☀️ How Bob uses his customized ChatGPT nicknamed "Stretch" at the beginning of his writing process to stretch his thinking rather than at the end ☀️ The power of keeping a daily gratitude journal to stay grounded as you navigate chaos and create positive work cultures Bob transforms how leaders think about the future by proving that humanizing generative AI means you create cultures where people choose how to be augmented, discovering comprehensibility through optimism rather than fear. 🔑 Key Insight: "VUCA was coined at the Army War College in the late 1980s, post-Cold War period, and it was US-centric. BANI is much more global. Brittle means systems break suddenly. Anxious means we're all in emotional states where we're kind of overwhelmed. Non-linear means cause and effect are disproportionate. Incomprehensible means our brains can't process what's happening. The question becomes: how do you want to be augmented? We're all going to be augmented. We just don't know how. If you're a leader now or if you're even curious, you gotta be experimenting with this stuff. The real question boils down to what can humans do best and what do we want to keep for ourselves, what can computers do best, and what do we want to do together. That's where I get really optimistic about creating work cultures today." 💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Keep a daily gratitude journal. Get a small journal and write down one to three things you're grateful for every day. This one practice has a profound positive impact on your ability to navigate chaos and lead with hope. Also consider starting meetings with a moment of gratitude. Ask team members to share one thing they're grateful for today. It can be about work or something personal. Watch how this simple practice transforms your culture and grounds your team in optimism rather than anxiety as you navigate the BANI world together. Books by Bob Johansen: "Navigating the Age of Chaos" (co-authored with Jamais Cascio and Angela Williams)"Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World" (Third Edition: 10 New Skills to Humanize Leadership with Generative AI)"The New Leadership Literacies" Connect with Bob Johansen: Visit iftf.org for the Institute for the Future resources and researchConnect with Bob on LinkedInDiscover how to humanize generative AI and choose your augmentation pathLearn the 10 new leadership skills for uncertain times #BANIWorld #AugmentedLeadership #HumanizeAI #NavigatingChaos #FutureOfWork #GratitudeJournal #CultureEatsStrategyForBreakfast #WorkPositive ----more---- 🎙️ Love the Work Positive Podcast? Please leave a review on iTunes to help others discover how to grow people and profits with a positive work culture! 🔗 Stay connected with Dr. Joey Faucette: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@workpositive7529LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjoeyfaucette/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPositiveToday/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpositive.today/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.joeyfaucette 📧 Know someone who'd make a great guest on the show? Email analiza@getpositive.today with your recommendation!
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    47 mins
  • From Roots to Fruits: The Soul of Leadership | Dr. Joey Faucette

    From Roots to Fruits: The Soul of Leadership | Dr. Joey Faucette
    Apr 26 2026
    How do you create a continuous learning positive work culture when only 23% of employees worldwide are engaged in their work? What if three out of four people on your team are among the ranks of The Working Dead, costing the global economy $8.9 trillion in lost productivity annually? How do you grow a culture that starts with souls, not systems? Discover the proven framework to grow your leader soul and cultivate a root-to-fruit culture on this special LinkedIn Live episode of the Work Positive Podcast. Dr. Joey Faucette unveils his groundbreaking Root-to-Fruit framework from his latest book "Leader Soul: Grow a Root-to-Fruit Culture," drawing from insights of six remarkable Work Positive Podcast guests who have done this internal work themselves and helped countless others do the same. Listen as Dr. Joey explores: ☀️ Why organizations that grow today don't start with systems but with souls, doing the internal work that creates external transformation ☀️ How leader soul is like a fruit tree with roots (inside job), trunk (seeing and being seen), branches (core essentials), flowers (permissions), and fruits (care and creation) ☀️ The three permissions framework: Permission to Feel, Permission to Fail, and Permission to Fly that protect the flowering of workers ☀️ Why values only become real when translated into specific, observable behaviors, not vague words like "integrity" and "excellence" ☀️ How trust deposits are small but withdrawals are large, with ratios of 5-to-1 or even 10-to-1 requiring consistent sustained attention Dr. Joey transforms how leaders think about culture by proving that when you grow from your roots through your trunk, branches, and flowers to fruits, you create a Work Positive culture where growing people grows profits. 🔑 Key Insight: "Picture a tree that produces beautiful oranges. We see the fruit and admire it. We might even try to study the oranges themselves. But the fruit comes from the roots. The organizations experiencing behavior problems throughout aren't dealing with a bottom issue but a top issue. The executive team is the root. The organization-wide behavior problem is the fruit. Words like 'integrity' and 'excellence' have been eroded by marketing. Everyone claims them. If a value can mean anything, it means nothing. Replace 'core values' with 'core essentials' and ask what does this look like in practice. Culture doesn't live on posters or in values statements. It lives in the hearts and minds of your people. The only way to know what's really in their hearts and minds is to be with them." 💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Choose one stage of the Root-to-Fruit framework based on where you have the best opportunity to grow. Then return to that chapter's Do One Thing challenge and do the one that resonates most strongly with where you are right now. Do it well. Build the habit. Then add another. Small, consistent actions create lasting change. A grand, unsustainable gesture is worth less than a small practice you maintain for years. Be patient with yourself. Be persistent with your practice. Trust the process. That's how you avoid going rogue in your leader soul and grow a root-to-fruit culture. The Root-to-Fruit Framework: ROOT: Leader Soul is an Inside Job (Ask "Am I being the leader I want to be right now?" three times daily)TRUNK: The Power of Seeing and Being Seen (Write three handwritten notes to team members this week)BRANCHES: Core Essentials that Reach for the Sky (Define five specific behaviors for one core essential, three violations)FLOWERS: Permission to Feel, Fail and Fly (Focus on strengthening one permission, ask for feed-forward)FRUITS: Cultivate a Culture of Care and Creation (Identify one team member, schedule weekly leader soul cultivation meetings) Featured Work Positive Podcast Guests: Alison Jones (Practical Inspiration Publishing, The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast)Christian Muntean (Fortune 500 transformation, automotive dealership example)Chester Elton (Anxiety at Work co-author, "Am I being the leader I want to be right now?")Roger Gerard (former Chief Learning Officer for Cardinal Health, "Lead with Purpose," go and see leadership)Robyn White (Three Permissions: Feel, Fail, Fly)Jeff Gibbard (Lovable leadership, trust deposits and withdrawals, care foundation) Connect with Dr. Joey Faucette: Get your FREE copy of "Leader Soul: Grow a Root-to-Fruit Culture" on Kindle or by messaging Dr. Joey on LinkedInGet "L.E.A.R.N. @ Work: The Race to Develop Talent" on Amazon for talent development frameworkTake the FREE Work Positive Culture Assessment at workpositive.todayMessage Dr. Joey on LinkedIn for personalized culture transformation strategies #LeaderSoul #RootToFruitCulture #ThreePermissions #CoreEssentials #CareAndCreation #LovableLeadership #CultureEatsStrategyForBreakfast #WorkPositive ----more---- 🎙️ Love the Work Positive Podcast? Please leave a review on iTunes to help others discover how to grow ...
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