Top thought leaders. Meaningful conversation. Actionable advice. Bulldoze through complacency. Ignite inspiration. Create impact. Produced by @Southwestern.

Nashville, TN
Joined July 2009
In our latest, @PaulineNSpeaks , acclaimed entrepreneur, author, speaker, and founder of the world-renowned Red Lantern restaurant, shares powerful insights on emotional mastery, conscious leadership, and sustainable high performance. Drawing from her extraordinary personal journey as a Vietnamese refugee and successful business owner, Nguyen explains why many high-achieving leaders excel externally while struggling internally with stress, burnout, and emotional overwhelm. She introduces her framework for emotional literacy, emotional intelligence, and emotional maturity, along with her SSS Method (Semantic, Somatic, and Soulmatic transformation), which helps leaders regulate their nervous systems, build resilience, increase self-awareness, and lead with greater authenticity and influence, and explores leadership development, mindset, emotional regulation, breathwork, workplace culture, employee retention, and personal growth, offering actionable strategies for entrepreneurs, executives, and business professionals seeking stronger leadership, improved performance, and a more fulfilling life and career. #business #success #TACPod #author #breathwork #burnout #peace #calm #CEO #emotionalintelligence #eq #entrepreneur #leadership #mindset #overwhelm #stress #culture #spiritual Produced by @southwestern
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Full interview with @PaulineNSpeaks, acclaimed entrepreneur, author, speaker, and founder of the world-renowned Red Lantern restaurant, available at the link below, or anywhere you get podcasts! LISTEN: theactioncatalyst.com/2026/1… CONNECT: linktr.ee/ActionCatalyst Produced by @Southwestern #business #success #TACPod #leadership #mindset #author #breathwork #burnout #peace #calm #CEO #emotionalintelligence #eq #entrepreneur #overwhelm #stress #culture #spiritual #weekend #weekendfun #weekendvibes #saturday
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#TBT to our special bonus episode of The Action Catalyst, with @SW_Talent's Martin De Waal sitting down with Jim Siti, CFO of @OperationSmile, as he shares how the global healthcare nonprofit is transforming lives by providing cleft lip and palate care to children in underserved countries while building sustainable local healthcare systems through medical training and education. Siti discusses the challenges of scaling a rapidly growing nonprofit in a post-pandemic world, the importance of strategic financial management, and how leveraging offshore accounting talent, process optimization, and AI-powered tools has improved operational efficiency and mission impact. He also offers valuable insights on nonprofit leadership, financial technology, workforce development, and using automation to reduce manual work so organizations can focus more resources on serving communities. This episode is a must-listen for nonprofit leaders, CFOs, finance professionals, and social impact organizations seeking innovative strategies for growth, operational excellence, AI adoption, and mission-driven success. LISTEN: theactioncatalyst.com/2026/1… CONNECT: linktr.ee/ActionCatalyst Produced by @Southwestern #business #success #TACPod #accounting #AI #finance #hiring #leadership #nonprofit #staffing #talent #technology #tech #money #smile #growth #TBThursday #ThrowbackThursday #QOTD #ICYMI
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Full interview with @PaulineNSpeaks, acclaimed entrepreneur, author, speaker, and founder of the world-renowned Red Lantern restaurant, available at the link below, or anywhere you get podcasts! LISTEN: theactioncatalyst.com/2026/1… CONNECT: linktr.ee/ActionCatalyst Produced by @Southwestern #business #success #TACPod #leadership #mindset #author #breathwork #burnout #peace #calm #CEO #emotionalintelligence #eq #entrepreneur #overwhelm #stress #culture #spiritual #midweekmotivation #humpday #wednesdaywisdom
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Full interview with @PaulineNSpeaks, acclaimed entrepreneur, author, speaker, and founder of the world-renowned Red Lantern restaurant, available at the link below, or anywhere you get podcasts! LISTEN: theactioncatalyst.com/2026/1… CONNECT: linktr.ee/ActionCatalyst Produced by @Southwestern #business #success #TACPod #leadership #mindset #author #breathwork #burnout #peace #calm #CEO #emotionalintelligence #eq #entrepreneur #overwhelm #stress #culture #spiritual
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In our latest, @PaulineNSpeaks, acclaimed entrepreneur, author, speaker, and founder of the world-renowned Red Lantern restaurant, shares powerful insights on emotional mastery, conscious leadership, and sustainable high performance. Drawing from her extraordinary personal journey as a Vietnamese refugee and successful business owner, Nguyen explains why many high-achieving leaders excel externally while struggling internally with stress, burnout, and emotional overwhelm. She introduces her framework for emotional literacy, emotional intelligence, and emotional maturity, along with her SSS Method (Semantic, Somatic, and Soulmatic transformation), which helps leaders regulate their nervous systems, build resilience, increase self-awareness, and lead with greater authenticity and influence, and explores leadership development, mindset, emotional regulation, breathwork, workplace culture, employee retention, and personal growth, offering actionable strategies for entrepreneurs, executives, and business professionals seeking stronger leadership, improved performance, and a more fulfilling life and career. LISTEN: theactioncatalyst.com/2026/1… CONNECT: linktr.ee/ActionCatalyst Produced by @Southwestern #business #success #TACPod #author #breathwork #burnout #peace #calm #CEO #emotionalintelligence #eq #entrepreneur #leadership #mindset #overwhelm #stress #culture #spiritual
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The Action Catalyst is delighted to now be available on Parasocial, the blazing-fast, feature-dense, always-in-sync podcast player that gets new episodes the second they exist. Listen, curate, share. Find us on #Parasocial today, or anywhere you get podcasts! #podcast #podcaster #listen #play #download #like #follow #subscribe #stream
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Acquiring businesses is easy. Integrating them successfully is where value is created or destroyed. Across the Southwestern Family of Podcasts in the latest episode from SBR Consulting's Growth Workshop Podcast, guest Jon Macintosh returns to explain Saltus' approach to acquisitions, the importance of cultural fit, why honesty wins deals, and how leadership teams can scale without creating operational fragility. The discussion concludes with practical lessons on culture, growth constraints and building a business designed to last.  #leadership #growth #work #business #TGWPod #saltus #culture #honesty #trust #scale LISTEN: sbrconsulting.com/podcast FIND/SUBSCRIBE: thegrowthworkshop.captivate.… Produced by @Southwestern
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#TBT to our powerful episode with Ron Johnson, the visionary behind the Apple Store and the iconic Genius Bar, sharing powerful lessons on leadership, customer experience, innovation, and company culture drawn from his leadership roles at @Apple, @Target, and @JCPenney. Johnson explains how principles of unconditional support, authentic leadership, and empowering frontline employees helped transform retail by creating meaningful customer relationships rather than transactional experiences. He reveals the thinking behind the creation of the Apple Store and Genius Bar, discusses the importance of pushing decision-making to the lowest levels of an organization, and outlines a simple framework for building customer loyalty through launching, deepening, and restoring relationships. LISTEN: theactioncatalyst.com/2026/1… CONNECT: linktr.ee/ActionCatalyst #business #success #TACPod #author #authenticity #CEO #culture #customer #empowerment #entrepreneur #hiring #innovation #leadership #management #retail #apple #target #genius #shop #shopdifferent #TBThursday #ThrowbackThursday #ICYMI #QOTD Produced by @Southwestern
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Full interview with Southwestern Talent's Martin De Waal and Jim Siti, CFO of @OperationSmile, available at the link below, or anywhere you get podcasts! LISTEN: theactioncatalyst.com/2026/1… CONNECT: linktr.ee/ActionCatalyst Produced by @Southwestern #business #success #TACPod #leadership #smile #accounting #AI #finance #hiring #nonprofit #staffing #talent #technology #tech #money #growth @sw_talent
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In this special bonus episode of The Action Catalyst, Southwestern Talent's Martin De Waal guest hosts, sitting down with Jim Siti, CFO of @OperationSmile, as he shares how the global healthcare nonprofit is transforming lives by providing cleft lip and palate care to children in underserved countries while building sustainable local healthcare systems through medical training and education. Siti discusses the challenges of scaling a rapidly growing nonprofit in a post-pandemic world, the importance of strategic financial management, and how leveraging offshore accounting talent, process optimization, and AI-powered tools has improved operational efficiency and mission impact. He also offers valuable insights on nonprofit leadership, financial technology, workforce development, and using automation to reduce manual work so organizations can focus more resources on serving communities. This episode is a must-listen for nonprofit leaders, CFOs, finance professionals, and social impact organizations seeking innovative strategies for growth, operational excellence, AI adoption, and mission-driven success. LISTEN: theactioncatalyst.com/2026/1… CONNECT: linktr.ee/ActionCatalyst Produced by @Southwestern #business #success #TACPod #accounting #AI #finance #hiring #leadership #nonprofit #staffing #talent #technology #tech #money #smile #growth @sw_talent
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In this special bonus episode of The Action Catalyst, @SW_Talent 's Martin De Waal guest hosts, sitting down with Jim Siti, CFO of @operationsmile , as he shares how the global healthcare nonprofit is transforming lives by providing cleft lip and palate care to children in underserved countries while building sustainable local healthcare systems through medical training and education. Siti discusses the challenges of scaling a rapidly growing nonprofit in a post-pandemic world, the importance of strategic financial management, and how leveraging offshore accounting talent, process optimization, and AI-powered tools has improved operational efficiency and mission impact. He also offers valuable insights on nonprofit leadership, financial technology, workforce development, and using automation to reduce manual work so organizations can focus more resources on serving communities. This episode is a must-listen for nonprofit leaders, CFOs, finance professionals, and social impact organizations seeking innovative strategies for growth, operational excellence, AI adoption, and mission-driven success. #business #success #TACPod #accounting #AI #finance #hiring #leadership #nonprofit #staffing #talent #technology #tech #money #smile #growth Produced by @southwestern
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