Soviet Union, Self Concept & Standing your Ground with Yuri Kruman

by Erik Garnica | Nov 17, 2020 | Lifestyle, Time Management

Soviet Union, Self Concept & Standing your Ground with Yuri Kruman

Yuri is the CEO of HR, Talent & Systems Consulting, an award-winning HR consultancy. As a certified SHRM-SCP, he is likewise a sought-after speaker and expert on HR, Digital Transformation and Employee Experience (EX). He is also a Forbes Coaches Council member and contributor to Entrepreneur, Business.com, Influencive and several other top platforms. He has consulted and spoken at numerous Fortune 500 and Inc. 5000 companies, VC-backed startups, and top universities, including EY, Google, Columbia and UPenn. In addition, his executive leadership coaching practice has impacted thousands of top executives. He is the author of the forthcoming book, "Be Your Own Commander-in-Chief," (Ideapress Publishing, 2021). In today’s episode, Yuri talks to Monique about making mistakes in every area of his life through inefficiency and stubbornness, then has to unwind the damage through the right mindset and learning and implementing methods of efficiency.

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HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[1:12] – Monique introduces her guest, Yuri Kruman.

[1:29] – I want to know who you are, where are you from, and what do you do?

I do HR consulting.
I do executive coaching.
I write as well, I speak.

[7:24] – Share with me about the Soviet Union that you have experienced.

It was a place that had its own very specific rules.
I just kind of grew up with that awareness like, “keep it to yourself, don’t rely on anyone else. Don’t ask anyone for help because you don’t want to be beholden to anyone”.

[12:45] – Yuri talks about Semitism.

[17:53] – So do you think there should be more conversations about how anti Semitism looks these days? And how can we change that?

The trouble with anti semitism, it’s always rearing its ugly head.
If you really dig what it is, that’s the modern anti-Semitism.

[21:25] – How was it for you, as a nine year old?

I was probably a little bit too serious even for a Soviet kid.
My childhood was anything but conventional.

[26:55] – Yuri talks about his experiences having a Russian identity and American identity.

[52:01] – What does efficiency mean to you?

Efficiency is basically more or less cutting away all the junk and all the wrong people and leaving whatever is left in some kind of digestible order that can allow you to maybe get sleep once in a while.

[53:37] – Which of the three things would you keep doing over and over again to get back to success?

Time management.
Block out the wrong things.
Go back to default lenses.

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IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

Yuri Kruman

Sometimes you have to leave a little bit of room open, for something new, for something unusual, for something that it’s not rational to engage with that person.

Yuri Kruman

Energy efficiency for me is everything about getting rid of the toxicity in your life, whether that’s materialistic or people.

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Bestsellers, Business & The Brain with Otakara Klettke

by Erik Garnica | Aug 4, 2020 | Business, Time Management

Bestsellers, Business & The Brain with Otakara Klettke

Otakara Klettke is an international bestselling author of “Hear Your Body Whisper; How to Unlock Your Self-Healing Mechanism”, and newly released “Hear Your Brain Whisper, How to Unlock Your Mind's Potential”. She is also an author of the bestselling children's book series “Detective Bella Unleashed”. She is passionate about anything from nature, whether it's a human, animal, or the whole universe. She is an avid supporter of eco-friendly life and education, fascinated by scientific studies, and an incurable traveler. In today’s episode, Otakara and Monique are talking about how Otakara suffered from many unfortunate health conditions, which kept her in bed for many days at the time. Without anything to watch on TV, and with a massive library her parents had available, she developed a passion for reading quality books. From an early age, she fell in love with folk fairytales from around the world which later on turned into her passion for writing books herself.

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HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[1:31] – Monique introduces her guest, Otakara Klettke.

[1:48] – Tell everyone who are you, what do you do, where are you from and where are you now?

I’m an author and books are my world.
I was born in the Czech part of the former Czechoslovakia.
I live in the United States in Oregon,

[3:00] – What made you decide to move to the U.S.A?

I used to come here at least once a year.
I went to Florida and I met my husband who was from Oregon.

[4:54] – Tell me about your childhood.

I was growing up during communism.
I was affected, but not at the same time. Not in a way people think.

[23:340] – Otakara talks about how accents make her feeling so excluded.

[40:12] – Tell me about the new book and what it’s all about.

It is about the human brain.
It’s about how we can tune up our brain into its best possibilities and it focuses a lot on our neurotransmitters and the way the brain functions.

[42:05] – How did you get started writing these types of books?

This book about the brain actually follows my first book “Hear your body whisper; How to unlock your self-healing mechanism”.
Part of it was based on my childhood.

[1:01:15] – When is your book coming out?

July 22, 2020
Coming out on international brain day.

[1:11:41] – What does efficiency mean to you?

Efficiency means to focus clearly and get things done whatever it needs to be in a shortest amount of time.

[1:12:32] – Which of the three things would you keep doing over and over again, to get back to success again

Dancing
Books
Traveling

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IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

If you focus on changing the chemistry of your brain, you can change how you feel, if you change how you feel you can become more productive, you can become better and do what you love and you can change the things in your life a lot just by tuning up your brain.

Otakara Klettke

Efficiency means to really focus clearly and get things done whatever it needs to be in the shortest amount of time.

Otakara Klettke

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Self-Awareness, Systems & Support with Loic Alix-Brown

by news@moniquelindner.com | Jul 23, 2020 | Business, Time Management

Self-Awareness, Systems & Support with Loic Alix-Brown

Loic is one of the CEOs and Co-Founders at Flick, a SAAS solution to help entrepreneurs, content creators, and small businesses find the best hashtags to reach their target audience on Instagram. In today’s episode, Loic and Monique are talking about how being efficient with money and a small team helped him turn his agency from being in debt to a highly successful software company in only 18 months.

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HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[1:33] – Monique introduces her guest, Loic Alix-Brown.

[1:58] – Introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about who you are, where you are located, what you do?

My name is Loic Alix-Brown.
I’m half French, half English.
I am the head of the product of flick.tech.

[2:59] – Where did you grow up?

I was actually born in London.
I did go to a French school.
My whole education was French.

[3:44] – What was your childhood experience growing up in London?

I was very lucky to have a sort of very close parent to me who did take very good care of me.
I have quite a sheltered childhood.

[5:29] – Loic talks about why he decided to start working by the age of 16.

[7:44] – Where do you think does this mindset come from?

Part of it was school and just a general dynamic between myself and my friends.
We always push each other quite hard in a nice way.

[10:26] – How did you get started in building a drone?

Did some research from youtube videos.
A detailed blog post about how to build a drone.

[13:57] – Loic talks about the very start of his digital marketing journey.

[17:55] – What has been enabling you with your mindset to go faster and further with this company?

There’s a lot of hard work that goes into it.
I’ve been very lucky with the people I’ve met. My business partners are absolutely amazing.

[30:27] – Loic talks about how he managed to organize his time between school and a building a business.

[39:03] – What does efficiency mean to you?

Efficiency is just making the most of the time you have.

[39:28] – Which of the three things would you do over and over again, to get back to success?

Finding my current co-founders somehow.
Optimizing my organizational skills a lot earlier.
I’m cultivating this idea of accountability.

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IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

Planning is the biggest thing. It just gives you freedom

Monique Lindner

Efficiency is just making the most of the time you have.

Loic Alix-Brown

Once you know what you do when you do it, and you just do it, it’s gonna be so much more efficient, and it gives you so much time back.

Monique Lindner