Catch Fire Show

Simon Yost

Discover your career path. Find your fire. Live for it.Catch Fire Show helps people who are looking for success outside the traditional paths! We provide career tips, profiles of expert guests, and success inspiration.LEARN MORE👇https://catchfire.show/ig read less
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Giving Back with Sheila Burkett
Oct 21 2020
Giving Back with Sheila Burkett
When we consider leaders, it is easy to folks on their power, responsibility, and capability. In this episode, our guest, Sheila Burkett, frames leadership in terms of giving back. Sheila suggests that leadership is giving of your time, talent, and treasure.Sheila Burkett is the Founder and CEO at a successful St. Louis interactive agency, an advocate for women in technology, and a dynamic networker. Combining her business and technology experience, Sheila Burkett helped start Spry Digital in April 2010 along with her three partners. As CEO of Spry Digital, Sheila believes that every organization, regardless of size, be able to afford and maintain a robust presence and technology platform that contributes towards their business objectives. Spry Digital bases its work on providing the highest quality, customized, and scalable solution for every client.Prior to Spry Digital, Sheila was a partner at Edward Jones with over twenty years of experience in their Information Systems division. At Edward Jones, she was the Sr. Director and Partner responsible for leading the strategic technology planning process, Project Management Office, IS Internal Controls, and executed a worldwide communication effort on the vision for technology at Edward Jones. What are we reading?This season we are sharing books that help us lead ourselves and others. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Dan and Chip Heath, has made an impact on my life and leadership. The book presents filters to make ideas “stickie” and we will talk specifically about the Commander Intent filter on the show.Like our Music?TP7 provides music for Catch Fire Show. You can find his work on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming platforms.Don’t Miss OutSubscribe to our email list, so you never miss an episode or update.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/catchfireshow)
All About Love with Courtney Orlando
Oct 7 2020
All About Love with Courtney Orlando
How do you follow up from a Grammy? That’s the question we pose to our first guest of Catch Fire Show: Season Two, Courtney Orlando. The answer may not be what you expect.In this episode, Courtney Orlando tells his story of winning a Grammy award and the struggles that followed. His story weaves through heartbreak—illness, depression, death of loved ones—and coming back to a place he never thought he would be in creating new music to share with the world.You can find his new single, “Me,” as well as the song played on today’s show, “Anti-Hero” on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get your music.What are We Reading?A new feature for Season Two is a book of the week. This week’s book is a new release from Todd Henry, a five-time author and founder of The Accidental Creative, The Motivation Code. The book aims to help each of us discover the hidden forces that drive our best work. The research in The Motivation Code began in the late 1960’s and includes the largest repository of achievement stories in human history. To learn more, head to motivationcode.com and tune in next week as Todd will be our guest for episode 2.Like our Music?TP7 provides music for Catch Fire Show. You can find his work on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming platforms.Don’t Miss OutSubscribe to our email list, so you never miss an episode or update.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/catchfireshow)