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In this episode, we ask:
- Are you unemployed?
- Are you faced with challenges, as a business owner?
- Who is Nicole Martin?
- Who is Katie Cummins?
- What about leadership?
- What about shared leadership?
- What ingredients do you have to put on the table?
- What’s the state of our current employment landscape?
- What’s the biggest competition?
- What happened with the low wage jobs recently?
- What about the other industry shifts?
- What will the talent pool look like post-COVID?
- What happens to the workplace?
- How might we adjust?
- What changes do we need to make?
- What about furloughs and layoffs?
- What about industries that need more staff than they can locate?
- What about virtual work?
- What about working in the office?
- Will we go back to the way things were before?
- What are some fun and creative things happening in this new normal?
- What about fun family activities while working from home?
- What about meeting pets and family members of coworkers for the first time?
- How might we develop caring?
- What about the Best and Brightest survey?
- To whom might you reach out?
- What does this crisis make possible?
- What about a chaplain?
- What about Zoom Bingo?
- What about drink parties?
- What about high performing businesses?
- What are the four pillars of a high performing business?
- What about shared core values?
- What about everyone being a leader?
- What about transcendent organizational value and purpose?
- Have you ever just asked why?
- What about performance excellence?
- What about measuring indicators?
- What about growth mindset?
- How might we innovate?
- What about trying something new?
- Is now the time?
- Are you a leader of the future?
- Would you like to be in business for yourself but not by yourself?
- Do you love what you do?
- What does it look like to create your own path?
- What about truth telling?
- Would you like to apply to work with Mark and the Lake Growth team? bit.ly/worklg
- What does HR Boost do for clients?
- What about the free scorecard?
- What are the takeaways?
Nicole Martin is Chief Empowerment Officer and Founder of HRBoost, LLC, a HR Shared Services consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois. In recognition of her professional excellence as well as her community, Nicole has been honored by multiple organizations including most recently as one of Mirror Review’s 10 Game Changing Women in 2019. Awardee for Business Excellence by the Chicago Daily Herald, and a 2016 Enterprising Women of the Year Champion by Enterprising Women Magazine. A sought-after expert, her knowledge and advice have been featured in newspapers and magazines throughout the country. In addition, Nicole is the host online of HR in the Fast Lane and contributing writer for the Chicago Business Journal. Nicole has authored, International Literary Award and Amazon Best Seller, The Talent Emergency, the accompanying Talent Emergency Guidebook, The Human Side of Profitability, The Power of Joy & Purpose, and her newly released co-authored book No Fear Negotiation for Women. Nicole serves on a number of Boards dedicated to Human Capital, Culture and HR Excellence of which include Best & Brightest® Companies to Work For, Social Service in the community and Women in Business. To learn more about Nicole, go to www.hrboost.com or www.nicolemartin.live
Katie Cummins is a talented Human Resource professional and leader with experience across multiple industries and HR practices. She is an HR Consultant with HRBoost, LLC, an HR outsourcing and consulting firm. HRBoost believes every business deserves Strategic HR from day one and provides fully integrated HR outsourcing to HR projects and everything in between.

Tom Hegna, CLU, ChFC, CASL, is an economist, author, and retirement expert. He has been an incredibly popular industry speaker for many years and is considered by many to be THE Retirement Income Expert!.
Sean Morrissey is a landlord and real estate broker, in the western suburbs of the Chicagoland area, who has built a $7M real estate portfolio and owns/manages Chicagoland Realty Group Partners LLC. 
Matthew Shanlian received his bachelor’s degree in finance from Liberty University before working full time in the mortgage industry starting in 2007. Matt began as a Loan officer assistant and has worked his way up to Division President with Primary Residential Mortgage, INC. Matthew is a nationally recognized speaker, frequent podcast guest, and also serves on the board of directors for NIME, a non-profit , financial services education organization. These activities have helped him earn the achievement of being ranked by Mortgage Executive Magazine as a Top 1% Mortgage Originator in America. In his time away from the office, Matthew loves serving in his local church’s children’s ministry with his wife, Maria. Together they have 3 children, Miles, Millie, and Maverick.
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