One Spark Stories brings conversations with innovators, creators, and unsuspecting risk takers. They share about navigating highs and lows, laughter and tears, and how sometimes all it takes is one *spark* of inspiration to find your way to happiness.
One Spark Stories Podcast
3 Lessons to Turn Rock Bottom Into a Solid Foundation
This episode I highlight three major lessons I’ve learned that will shift your mindset from a feeling of rock bottom to setting a solid foundation for your future.
How Adversity Can Fuel Your Entrepreneurial Success
This conversation with Will is a unqiue perspective into what drives someone to entrepreneurship and how to overcome unexpected challenges.
Three Ways to Get What You Want
Finding happiness isn't always an easy journey. It involves challenges, setbacks, and heartbreak. But trust me, going through it all is what shapes us into the person we're meant to be. This solo chat details experiences and insights on how to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals.
Personal Growth Through Consistent Creativity
Thank you to Mike Brennan for this incredible conversation. It served as a great reminder of why we should not neglect our passions and creative side.
Dumb Luck, Desktop Publishing, and Creating Theme Park Thrills |Tim Bernardi
Tim Bernardi is an experienced writer and entrepreneur who has been working in the construction industry for the past 25 years on some pretty epic theme park attractions. He may also be one of the best examples of someone that has followed their passions and embraced the spark each and every time it comes.
Keep Your Cool on the Frontlines of Hospitality | Eleanor Erickson
When Eleanor, a serial entrepreneur at heart, leaves her 20 year career in daily hotel operations to empower frontline teams in the hospitality industry, she discovers a challenging yet innovative journey to bridge the divide between decision-makers and those on the frontline.
Find Yourself and Fulfill Your Life | Letty Benavides
Letty Benavides is a passionate people person and self-development coach who loves to help others discover their purpose and passions.
Embrace a Serendipitous Life | Rob Midiri
After a momentary pause it only made sense to jump back into things by having a conversation with a dear friend and previous podcast guest (ep. 11), Rob Midiri.
Six Failures in 2022 and What to Do Next
Failing is what leads to your next biggest success. As we wrap up the new year I share some of my biggest failures and what we can all take away from them.
Mental Fitness, Masculinity, Plant Medicine, and Pressing Forward - Neal Conlon
This episode is taking on three things we have yet to tackle on this show; Mental Fitness + Masculinity + Plant Medicine. Neal Conlon is joining to share about his journey from Marine veteran to corporate to startups and cyber security technology to what he is calling his own personal development reset.
Mastering the Mental Part of the Game
Lauren Ammon specializes in working with student-athletes to master the mental part of the game. Her company, Performance Reimagined, exists to show athletes there is an outlet to be heard, seen, and supported mentally and emotionally at the same level they are physically.
Finding Purpose through Fertility Challenges, Profound Loss, and Clean Beauty
After years of navigating ongoing challenges with fertility Katie Klei finally reached the day her daughter arrived. Yet in all that joy she was surrounded by incredible loss. It was then that she decided to take a leap into an opportunity that she had been turning away from three and a half years.
The Sidetracked Parent: Navigating Rare Disease Parenting
While neonatal diabetes is rare and occurs in about 1 in every 400,000 live births in the United States, it is usually seen as a random genetic mutation. The Vacchio family somehow beat the random odds by welcoming their two incredible children into this world with the diagnosis. They may be considered rare, but they aren’t alone.
Ignore the Imposter and Start Celebrating You
Part 3 of the Connect Create Celebrate series takes a look at the mental beast of imposter syndrome and the five ways I have found help overcome that limiting noise.
Create Opportunities that Bring Your Joy
During this episode I share ways that I have been able to create with purpose and live with joy. Stop thinking you need all the things, all the experts, and all the tools. Start reflecting on what brings YOU joy and start creating in alignment with that.
Connect with Purpose to Let Your Power Shine
When you connect with purpose you're aligning yourself with people that are doing the things that are going the direction that you want to go. And there is a lot of power that comes from that level of intention. People are a lot happier to help than we tend to expect.
Show Up Positive and Ignite Your Extraordinary
Rita and I have an abundance of mutual passions including things like psychology, Language and using the word ignite. This was a great conversation where we worked through her story and how she is bringing impact to organizations today.
Nudging Technical People to Embrace their Human Skills
Emily Nichols nudges technical people to embrace their human skills, so they can become better problem solvers, team players, and leaders. A professional engineer - seriously, she has a BS in Systems Engineering and a MAS in chemical engineering - with more than 15 years of experience in manufacturing and innovation, improving products and processes from breakfast cereal to automotive paint and electrical steel. Emily easily connects at all levels of organizations, inspiring deeper understanding, and collaborative teamwork.
Financial Abundance for Visionary Entrepreneurs
"We have to get out of a place of trading time and money."
Hannah Chapman is the founder of X2 Wealth Planning and is my Financial Advisor. She has over 16 years of experience in finance…but she is not your typical financial advisor. She grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, learning that we each have the ability and responsibility to create our own wealth story, while she was also learning from her parent’s businesses that money is hard to make and hard to hold on to.
Quitting, Getting Fired, and Finding Purpose in Your Career
Over the last 25+ years, Nate has switched careers over seven times and knows the frustration many people can have in not finding purpose in their careers. Today he helps students of all ages as well as early and late-career professionals better identify "What they SHOULD do for a living."