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Work Positive

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 Management Management & Leadership
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  • 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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  • Free to Lead: Unleash Your Hidden Leadership Genius

    Free to Lead: Unleash Your Hidden Leadership Genius
    Apr 19 2026
    Episode 183 | Free to Lead: Unleash Your Hidden Leadership Genius | Will Steel What are your hidden beliefs that keep you from fulfilling your purpose as a people leader? What's the invisible script or background soundtrack playing in your head? What are your blind spots as a result of this head trash? How do you dismantle the constraints that limit your performance and your fulfillment so you can act freely, lead powerfully, and create results that once seemed impossible? Transform your approach to leadership on this episode of the Work Positive Podcast with Dr. Joey Faucette and Will Steel. Will helps people leaders around the world dismantle the constraints that limit their performance and fulfillment, enabling them to lead with clarity, purpose, and authenticity. His new book is "Free to Lead: Unleash Your Hidden Leadership Genius." Listen as Will explores: ☀️ How he failed RAF officer training by keeping his head down, then graduated with a leadership trophy by just being himself ☀️ Why his hidden belief "I'm not as good as people think I am" kept him from fulfilling his potential as a pilot ☀️ How vision work requires every single person to align and own it, not just numbers but being leaders in their field ☀️ Why if someone can do 80% as good as you, that's a win because you're not doing it and you get to sleep ☀️ The power of stopping blame and taking responsibility for everything as the source, not the victim Will transforms how leaders think about their constraints by proving that when you stop blaming others or circumstances and take full responsibility, you become forever powerful because you're the source of all of it, not at the effect of anything. 🔑 Key Insight: "I tried to be what I thought I was supposed to be during RAF officer training - keeping my head down, staying out of trouble. After 16 weeks, my flight commander said he couldn't graduate me because I was like a ghost. So I did it again and said screw it, I'm just gonna be myself. 18 weeks later I graduated with a leadership trophy because I was just being myself. When I work with teams on vision, every word has to fit. If one person says 'I don't think that's true because we do this,' we wait and resolve it. We change one word if needed until everyone aligns. By the end, people read it out and it's theirs, they've created it together, they own it. If someone can do 80% as good as you, that's a win. Why? Because you're not doing it." 💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Stop blaming others, the situation, or the circumstances and take responsibility yourself. Stand in it and say "Alright, this has happened. How can I be responsible for all of this?" It's not blame. You're not blaming yourself or beating yourself up. You're simply taking responsibility. When something fails, instead of saying "They're terrible and they don't know how to do their job and I shouldn't have to tell them all this," say "I'm responsible for that. I didn't really tell them exactly what I needed to have happened." Come from a place where you stop blaming anybody else and stand as responsible for all of it. You're the center of the universe in your company or business. Once you do this, you're forever powerful because you're not at the effect. You're not a victim of anything. You are the source of all of it. Connect with Will Steel: Get "Free to Lead: Unleash Your Hidden Leadership Genius" on Amazon Visit willsteel.com for background and to connect https://willsteel.com/Connect with Will on LinkedIn Follow on Instagram and Facebook at steel coachingSchedule a conversation (Will's work is bespoke and requires conversation to understand what you're dealing with) #FreeToLead #HiddenBeliefs #TakeResponsibility #StopBlaming #VisionWork #DelegateEverything #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/ 📧 Know someone who'd make a great guest on the show? Email analiza@getpositive.today with your recommendation!
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    34 mins
  • Unbeatable Mind: Calm Under Pressure | Mark Divine

    Unbeatable Mind: Calm Under Pressure | Mark Divine
    Apr 12 2026
    Episode 182 | Unbeatable Mind: Calm Under Pressure | Mark Divine How well do you stay calm, focused, and purpose driven under all of this pressure? Between life and work today, there's just so much pressure. What if your IQ drops from 120 to 75 or 80 when you're triggered into a fight or flight situation during a crisis? How do you develop mental toughness, emotional resilience, and conscious leadership when most people aren't taught that training your mind is important? Transform your approach to peak performance on this episode of the Work Positive Podcast with Dr. Joey Faucette and Mark Divine. Mark retired from a 20-year career as a Navy SEAL Commander and is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of "The Way of the SEAL." He's the founder of Unbeatable Mind and SEAL Fit training programs and has trained thousands of leaders, athletes, entrepreneurs, and teams. He hosts his own podcast exploring peak performance, global leadership issues, and personal growth. Listen as Mark explores: ☀️ Why in a crisis you don't rise to the level of your hopes and expectations but fall to the level of your training ☀️ How box breathing (5-5-5-5 count) stops your mind and creates stillness, the master skill for executives ☀️ Why if you're not training your mind, someone else is training it for you through factory systems and negativity ☀️ The three spheres (I, we, and it) that must align: individual growth, team commitment, and organizational support ☀️ How he popularized box breathing by teaching it to Navy SEALs in 2006 after learning from Zen and yoga traditions Mark transforms how leaders think about mental toughness by proving that staying calm under pressure is not a character trait or attribute but an outcome of training, and when you practice box breathing 20 minutes morning and evening, you develop the stillness that unlocks insight, creativity, and intuition. 🔑 Key Insight: "If you're not training your mind, someone else is training it for you. In a crisis you don't rise to the level of your hopes and expectations, you fall to the level of your training. Your IQ drops from 120 to 75 or 80 when triggered into fight or flight. The holds stop your mind. Thinking is movement. Movement corresponds with the breath. The breath affects your mental movement and your emotional movement. Stillness is the master skill for any executive or any leader. That's where insight and creativity and intuition come in." 💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Begin a practice of box breathing every morning and every evening. Start with 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening. Inhale to a five count, hold your breath for five count, exhale to a five count, and hold your breath for five count. If that sounds like too much, take it down to a four count (4-4-4-4), but ultimately get to five because that gives you six breaths per minute when you're not doing the holds and three breaths per minute when you are. The holds stop your mind. Practice this and get very comfortable with your mind just pausing. That's where stillness comes in. Do it for 30 days and prove Mark wrong. If you can box breathe for 20 minutes morning and evening for 30 days, that alone can transform your life. Get in bed 20 minutes before you normally do in the evening and get up 20 minutes before you normally do in the morning. The Three Spheres (all must align): I: Individual commitment to your own growth and development (requires practice)We: Team commitment to grow (requires practice)It: Organization supports individual and collective development (leadership removes barriers) Connect with Mark Divine: Visit unbeatablemind.com for training programs (SEAL Fit and Unbeatable Mind) Visit markdivine.com for books, podcast, speaking, and corporate leadership training Subscribe to Mark's podcast on Spotify or Apple PodcastsConnect with Mark on LinkedIn Learn the integrated vertical development program that changes your consciousness, awareness, and perspectiveDiscover how companies box breathe together before important meetings #UnbeatableMind #BoxBreathing #NavySEAL #MentalToughness #StillnessSkill #PeakPerformance #ConsciousLeadership #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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