John Bonesio 
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Healing from Corporate. Click here to listen. Employers have a huge impact on their employees. Whether it’s a for-profit corporation, nonprofit organization or government job, some of us have had pretty crummy experiences that affect our self-worth and our ability to create change even in our own … Read more
You may have heard that emotional intelligence is correlated with higher income and greater success. Studies seems to confirm this. So you may be wondering how do you increase emotional intelligence. Well, let me tell you some of my journey around this. First I should explain emotional intelligence for those of you may not have … Read more
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Freedom. Click here to listen. We enjoy a lot of freedom here in the U.S. We’ll celebrate our various freedoms. We’ll also examine where we may be limiting our own freedom and see what we can do to change it. You can listen to the show live … Read more
We are in a series on leadership. If you missed some of the previous articles in this series, you can read them here: one, two, thee, four. Today we are talking about leadership myths. We aren’t taught leadership in school much, so it’s easy to have a few misconceptions about what it takes to be … Read more
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Defending the Cause. Click here to listen. Meet Tiffany Loeffler of Defending the Cause Regional Alliance. DCRA is doing amazing work coordinating between agencies to strengthen families and protect children in the Sacramento area. You’ll learn about the needs of children and families and what it’s like … Read more
We are in the middle of a series on leadership. If you missed any of the previous articles, you can see them here: [one | two | three]. Last time we explained that you need to be the kind of person people want to follow. In today’s article we are explaining that you also need … Read more
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, You Get What You Focus On. Click here to listen. Be careful where you let your thoughts go. Do you want problems or solutions? Do you want possibilities or limitations? Do you want positive or negative? You get more of what you focus on, so learn to … Read more
We are in a series on leadership. You can read the previous articles in the series here: first, second. Fundamentally, leaders have followers. Well, duh! Still, there is lot underneath that statement to unpack. You can’t make people follow you. Sure you might be the boss. But this isn’t necessarily leadership. True leaders have willing … Read more
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Thriving through Curiosity. Click here to listen. Sometimes we judge people without meaning to. But just accepting can be hard. Try this on for size: get curious and really seek to understand the other person. You can listen to the show live Wednesdays at 2 PM: on … Read more
Last week I talked about the first thing you need to know about leadership where we said that a leader is thinking about everybody rather than just themselves. The second thing you need to know about leadership is initiative. Leaders initiate. Leaders see what needs to be done and take initiative to get that done. … Read more