Be Fabulous Podcast
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2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 2: AI - Is My Job Doomed?

2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 2: AI - Is My Job Doomed?

In this episode, we’re going to dive into a topic that is taking up mental space for many of us. We’ll be discussing AI and its impact on our jobs. While many experience some degree of low-grade anxiety, others panic when thinking about the idea. And then there are others who are excited about it and see it as a huge opportunity. And some of us experience both fear and excitement. In this episode, we’re going to dive into how to think about this topic so that you have a broader perspective and know what you can do now to start moving in the direction of the skills that are going to be the most highly valued.

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaApril 3, 2024Leadership, Executives, If Only It Was That Easy, ai

2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 1: Implications of Working Remotely

2024 Series If Only It Was That Easy Episode 1: Implications of Working Remotely

In this first episode of the series, we’re tackling a topic that evokes a huge amount of emotion - working remotely. Employees question why they can’t work remotely forever as they value flexibility enormously. And they have proven the productivity benefits during Covid. If only it was that easy. Join us as we provide a variety of ways for fabulous people to truly appreciate the complexities as they look through the lens of their boss, the organization, the country, and even the world so that they can best navigate this complex topic without unknowingly creating longer-term unintended consequences.

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaMarch 20, 2024Leadership, Executives, If Only It Was That Easy, Working Remotely

2021 Series Episode 7: DEI Accelerate or Fizzle Out?

2021 Series Episode 7: DEI Accelerate or Fizzle Out?

Be FabulousPrem RupawalaOctober 25, 2021DE&I, Leadership

2021 Series Episode 5: Conversations We're Not Trained For

2021 Series Episode 5: Conversations We're Not Trained For

Up until last year, hot topic conversations that are social or political in nature were an HR and Legal no-go zone for most Executives. This changed in 2020 where Executives are now seen as complicit if they don’t engage in these conversations. And they've never been trained how to navigate the complexities of these conversations!

Be FabulousPrem RupawalaJune 23, 2021Leadership, Executives

2021 Series Episode 4: RIP Functional Career Paths

2021 Series Episode 4: RIP Functional Career Paths

In this episode we discuss why adaptability and re-skilling will matter more than ever in the post-Covid world. In fact, we assert that it is going to be more important than deep knowledge acquisition if you do want to be a Fabulous Leader!

Be Fabulous, LeadershipVipul KapadiaJune 8, 2021post-Covid Leadership, Leadership, Adaptability

2021 Series Episode 3: Emotional Kevlar Becomes Key to Success

2021 Series Episode 3: Emotional Kevlar Becomes Key to Success

In this episode we discuss a framework to become bulletproof and stop your brain from hijacking your success. We teach you how to thrive in our noisy world of disinformation and cancel culture where change and the need for adaptability is constant.

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaApril 30, 2021Key to Success, Bulletproof

2021 Series Episode 2: What’s Going to Stick and Rebound in a Post-Covid World

2021 Series Episode 2: What’s Going to Stick and Rebound in a Post-Covid World

Through the lens of the 5 thinking levels - tactical, operational, structured, systemic and meta - we work through what’s going to stick and rebound in a post-Covid world. We cover everything from how zoom levels the playing field to what happens when you don’t have the same proximity to power and decision making. Organizations want the maximum amount of agility while humans want the maximum amount of clarity, stability, and flexibility - these are two opposing forces that are impossible to reconcile like repelling magnets.

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaApril 21, 2021Post-Covid, 5-Levels, 5 Thinking Levels

2021 Series Episode 1: The Future of Work in 2025 - An Overview

2021 Series Episode 1: The Future of Work in 2025 - An Overview

In this 13-part series (or more … if we get carried away :-)), we explore the Future of Work in 2025. We’ll be exploring each topic through the lens of the 5 thinking levels we introduced in Series 1 as we’ve had requests from many of you to share more examples of how to think in levels.

Be FabulousPrem RupawalaMarch 15, 20215 Thinking Levels, Leadership

Special: The Future of Agriculture - with Special Guest Sean Beard

Special: The Future of Agriculture - with Special Guest Sean Beard

In Episode 3, Sean helps us to imagine a new world of agriculture as he sees it. Today, you have to be middle class or higher to be able to afford fresh nutritious produce.

Be FabulousPrem RupawalaMarch 10, 2021Agriculture

Be Fabulous Series 4 Episode 2 with Sean McCall

Be Fabulous Series 4 Episode 2 with Sean McCall

In Episode 2, we dive deeper with Sean McCall into his career journey learning about the wisdom he has for others making the shift from Techie to Business Leader. We conclude with finding out if Business Leader was the right call given all his learnings or does he wish he’d stayed a Techie.

Be FabulousPrem RupawalaMarch 10, 2021Business Leaders

Be Fabulous Series 4 with Sean McCall - Techie to Business Leader

Be Fabulous Series 4 with Sean McCall - Techie to Business Leader

In this special series 4, our guest Sean McCall takes up through his journey from Techie to Business Leader and how he successfully figured out how to navigate those painful Circles-of-Suck experiences when we’re not in alignment. People are inherently messy. We learn how he figured out whether he should choose the technology or traditional management track.

Be FabulousPrem RupawalaMarch 10, 2021Business Leaders

Special: Crisis Leadership with Robert Greiner

Special: Crisis Leadership with Robert Greiner

In this episode we talk with Robert Greiner on Crisis Leadership. Crises happen more than we realize - once in a 100 year events now happen about every decade. We explore Crisis Leadership as it relates to you as an individual leader of yourself and others.

Be Fabulous, LeadershipLori AllenMarch 10, 2021Crisis Leadership

Episode 11: The Thinqshift Why

Episode 11: The Thinqshift Why

The final episode in a 3-part series of the ‘‘why behind the why” ThinqShift exists. We help develop fabulous people to reinvent our work, and the world because we believe that deeply that you can be successful, kind, compassionate, high-performance and lead meaningful and happy lives.

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaFebruary 16, 2021fabulous, ThinqShift Why

Special: The Thirteenth Amendment Exception- With Special Guest Sean Beard

Special: The Thirteenth Amendment Exception- With Special Guest Sean Beard

In this new special series of the Be Fabulous Podcast, we are asking ourselves and our listeners to “ Imagine a Reinvented World” guided by our Fabulous special guest and big thinker: Sean Beard.

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaFebruary 4, 2021fabulous, Sean Beard

Special: Imagine a Reinvented World - With Special Guest Sean Beard

Special: Imagine a Reinvented World - With Special Guest Sean Beard

In this new special series of the Be Fabulous Podcast, we are asking ourselves and our listeners to “ Imagine a Reinvented World” guided by our Fabulous special guest and big thinker: Sean Beard. In Episode 1, Sean helps us to conceptualize a world without garbage? Is that even possible or just a utopian ideal?

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaJanuary 20, 2021Reinvented World, Sean Beard

Special: The Top Notch Executive in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington

Special: The Top Notch Executive in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington

The final episode in this three-part special series with our guest Will Harrington from MiQ. This time we dig deeper into that ‘circle-of-suck’ from being an Awesome Manager, responsible for clear results to that mysterious place of being Top Notch Executive.

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaNovember 27, 2020Will Harrington, Top Notch Executive

Special: The Awesome Manager in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington

Special: The Awesome Manager in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington

The second on this three-part special series with our guest Will Harrington from MiQ. This time we dig deeper into that ‘circle-of-suck’ that often follows when a Superstar Performer gets promoted and is now on the journey to being an Awesome Manager. In the world of programmatic trading, this is a tough transition where you have have to rewire new habits of success. Learn how Will navigated this, and how he coaches people in his team.

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaOctober 5, 2020Will Harrington, Awesome Manager

Special: The Superstar Performer in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington

Special: The Superstar Performer in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington

In this special series, our guest is Will Harrington from MiQ, who’s imagination was captured by the ThinqShift Career Journey - the quest, to Superstar Performer, then Awesome Manager and finally Top Notch Executive. It resonated because he has successfully navigated those transitions, those Circles-Of-Suck where you have have to rewire new habits of success. Will is going to make this real for those of you who are in the world of marketing platforms and programmatic trading.

Be FabulousVipul KapadiaSeptember 21, 2020Fabulous Person DNA, Programmatic Trading, MiQ, Will Harrington

Special: Black, Brown & White - Let's Do...

Special: Black, Brown & White - Let's Do...

Continuing our special 4 part series on race, we continue the exploration and exposing of our vulnerabilities by sharing our stories of growing up, black, brown and white, exposing how that has shaped our identity and normative beliefs on race. Over the series we also describe what we can all do, as individuals, companies and at a societal level to move the needle. This episode moves to “White” - through the lens of Vicki, a South African, lived in Switzerland, UK and now in California, USA.

Black-Brown-White, Be FabulousVipul KapadiaSeptember 21, 2020Fabulous Person DNA