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FINE is a 4-Letter Word

FINE is a 4-Letter Word

著者： Lori Saitz
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"Fine" is a lie leaders tell themselves — and it costs them their people, their culture, and their impact. Every episode, a leader gets honest about what it really takes to lead with empathy, vulnerability, gratitude, and courage… especially when everything isn’t fine. We're sharing how human connection drives innovation, retention, profitability and ultimately, legacy. I trust something in this conversation will stay with you. One thing’s for sure… you’ll never hear—or say—the word “fine” in the same way again.Copyright 2026 Lori Saitz 個人的成功 心理学 心理学・心の健康 経済学 自己啓発 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • 249. Why Not You with Ryan Lavarnway

    249. Why Not You with Ryan Lavarnway
    2026/10/15
    Ryan Lavarnway spent ten seasons in Major League Baseball and was called up and sent back down to the minors 26 times over 12 years. He was the slowest player on his high school team, never started a single varsity game at his natural position, and read in old newspaper clippings that every coach he ever had called him both the hardest worker they had seen and an unlikely success.At 17, desperate to be seen, Ryan raised his hand when his high school coach wondered aloud who would bat fourth. The coach didn't laugh. He asked, "Why not you?" Ryan didn't have an answer, and the doubts that had been running his head suddenly had nowhere to go. That question carried him to Yale, the majors, a World Series ring, and the Olympics with Team Israel.In this conversation, Ryan tells Lori how he trained the mental side of a career built on uncertainty: controlling what he could control each day, raising the floor instead of the ceiling, refusing to call any goal "unrealistic," and deliberately drafting the people he needs around him. He also shares the one thing he misses now that he has retired: waking up and knowing exactly what a win looks like.What You'll Take AwayWhy the question "Why not you?" can turn self-doubt into a roadmap of hurdles to clearHow to raise the floor, not the ceiling: give 100% of what you have on the days you don't feel your bestWhy calling a goal "unrealistic" is the first step toward not reaching it, and what to call it insteadThe six roles worth drafting onto your team: a coach, a peer, a gambler, an analyst, a cheerleader, and a BS meterWhy life after a scoreboard requires you to decide for yourself what a win looks like today, this month, and this yearGuest BioRyan Lavarnway played ten seasons in Major League Baseball as a catcher after starring at Yale, and is a World Series champion and an Olympian who represented Team Israel at the Tokyo Olympics. Over 12 years he was added to and removed from Major League rosters 26 times, a career he describes as proof that resilience, adaptability, and self-belief can beat the odds. Today he is a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and leadership coach who helps teams and individuals unlock their potential. He is also an Ironman, a 90s music fan, a coffee addict, and a proud girl dad.Chapters & Key Timestamps00:00 Cold open: 26 call-ups and the question "Why not you?"01:21 Meeting at the Warrior Defined men's retreat02:24 How "do your best" became "be the best" in a young athlete's mind03:45 A father who coached by asking Ryan to teach him05:00 From catcher to the slowest outfielder, and back again07:03 Every coach called him the hardest worker, and an unlikely success08:40 The mental side of being sent down 26 times10:01 Control what you can control today11:43 Raise the floor, not the ceiling12:29 The high school coach who asked, "Why not you?"15:04 Keep the goal audacious, make the next step small16:59 Why you should never call your goal unrealistic18:56 Draft your team: coach, peer, gambler, analyst, cheerleader, BS meter21:42 Letting people be who they naturally are for you25:16 Going after the Olympic opportunity instead of waiting for it26:31 New North Stars: husband, father, and life after baseball27:17 What he misses most: knowing what a win is28:51 A career's worth of walk-up songs30:15 Where to find Ryan30:46 Lori's five takeawaysResources MentionedBook: The Way of Excellence: A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World by Brad Stulberg - https://www.bradstulberg.org/p/the-way-of-excellenceBook: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (mentioned by Lori)Research: Goal-setting research by Locke, Shaw, Saari, and Latham (see Research & Sources)Walk-up Songs: "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison and "Head & Heart" by Joel Corry featuring MNEK (his two most frequent); others over the years included "What I Like About You" by The Romantics, "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas, "What It's Like" by Everlast, "Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, and "Superstition" by Stevie WonderConnect With Ryan LavarnwayWebsite: https://ryanlavarnway.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-lavarnway/Ryan is available for keynote speaking, workshops, and leadership coaching. Reach out through his website or LinkedIn.Continue With LoriWebsite: https://zenrabbit.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorisaitz/Email: Lori@ZenRabbit.comInvitation From LoriZen RabbitThis episode is sponsored by Zen Rabbit. Trust is the foundation of all great workplaces, and in today's hybrid, fast-moving work culture, it's built through consistent, clear, human communication.Quarterly town halls, Slack messages, or team-building events are rarely enough to create the connection employees need. That's why forward-thinking companies are hiring Lori to create internal and private podcasts that bring leaders and employees together through authentic stories and real conversations.Think of it as the old-school company newsletter reinvented for ...
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    34 分
  • 248. Not From a Nice Family with Diana Keough

    248. Not From a Nice Family with Diana Keough
    2026/10/08
    In 1988, Diana Keough came home for Christmas for the first time in three years. She was married, she had a six-month-old baby, and she was determined to finally build the kind of relationship with her mother she had watched her friends enjoy. Within weeks, her family learned that her father, a trial attorney and pillar of a fundamentalist Baptist community, had AIDS and had been living a double life for 27 years. Three weeks later, her mother tested positive for HIV.Diana was trained as a journalist, so she did what journalists do. With her mother's permission, she dropped a tape recorder into her purse before her mother confronted her father in the hospital, and she kept recording. Over the next six years she gathered more than 100 hours of interviews with both parents, their caregivers, and her mother's psychiatrist, trying to understand the people who had raised her inside so many secrets.In this conversation, Diana tells Lori what it took to forgive a mother who had been cruel, to keep loving a father who had been her North Star and had also lied, and to reconcile with five siblings who split into Team Mom and Team Dad and went years without speaking. It is a conversation about truth-telling, the grace families rarely offer each other in a crisis, and why she ultimately decided her story had no victims and no villains.What You'll Take AwayWhy Diana started recording her parents in 1988, and what 100 hours of tape revealed about two people she thought she knewHow learning her parents' own childhoods helped her see them as broken people rather than only as the source of her painWhy the silence in an interview, or a hard conversation, often gets you closer to the truth than the next questionHow six siblings who went years without speaking found their way back, through a Sunday morning book club that became "a reconciliation in real time"What it means to tell a painful family story so that there are no victims and no villainsGuest BioDiana Keough is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, on NPR, and on PBS. Named AP Ohio Reporter of the Year, she has won roughly thirty journalism awards across print and radio. She holds an MFA in narrative nonfiction from the University of Georgia's Grady College, where she teaches, and writes the monthly column "Between Sundays" for Salvation South. Not From a Nice Family, her reported memoir podcast produced with Campside Media for Audible, is her first podcast.Chapters & Key Timestamps00:00 Opening and episode premise01:29 Growing up fundamentalist Baptist in Elm Grove, Wisconsin02:32 Leaving Bob Jones University, and the mother who stopped speaking to her03:47 Coming home in 1988 hoping to finally connect with her mom04:54 The diagnosis that exposed her father's 27-year double life05:50 Why a journalist put a tape recorder in her mother's purse07:48 Seeing her parents as broken people, and the abuse she had to forgive11:00 Team Mom vs. Team Dad: how six siblings split apart13:13 Why both parents agreed to be recorded17:54 The interviewer's best tool: staying silent19:22 A marriage her mother never wanted, and her father's side of the story23:41 National media, and her father becoming a leader in Cincinnati25:55 "The six of us is the only club I ever wanted to be a member of"27:07 Thirty years of boxes, 33 cassettes, and full transparency with her siblings30:15 No victims, no villains, and the Sunday calls that became the ending33:05 Her hype song: "Brave" by Sara Bareilles33:45 Where to listen to Not From a Nice Family and connect with DianaResources MentionedPodcast: Not From a Nice Family by Diana Keough, an Audible Original produced with Campside Media (search "Not From a Nice Family" on Audible; Audible subscription required)Column: "Between Sundays" by Diana Keough at Salvation South - https://www.salvationsouth.com/author/diana-keough/Hype Song: "Brave" by Sara Bareilles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4&list=RDQUQsqBqxoR4&start_radio=1Connect With Diana KeoughLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-keough-a354646/Instagram: @dianakeyo (https://www.instagram.com/dianakeyo/)Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557124244395Twitter/X: @dikeough (https://x.com/dikeough)Podcast: Not From a Nice Family (Audible Original; search the title on Audible)Continue With LoriWebsite: https://zenrabbit.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorisaitz/Email: Lori@ZenRabbit.comInvitation From LoriZen RabbitThis episode is sponsored by Zen Rabbit. Trust is the foundation of all great workplaces, and in today's hybrid, fast-moving work culture, it's built through consistent, clear, human communication.Quarterly town halls, Slack messages, or team-building events are rarely enough to create the connection employees need. That's why forward-thinking companies are hiring Lori to create internal and private podcasts that bring leaders and employees together through authentic stories and real ...
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    38 分
  • The Pause Is the Work with Jobert Abueva

    The Pause Is the Work with Jobert Abueva
    2026/10/01
    On September 6, 1997, the day of Princess Diana's funeral, Jobert Abueva couldn't get out of bed. He was in a Hong Kong hotel room, paralyzed for the better part of 48 hours, unable to touch the club sandwich or hot tea he'd ordered, crying from exhaustion, loneliness, and homesickness. It was, he says, the lowest point of a career that from the outside looked like nothing but success.For most of his thirties, Jobert had been living the frenzied pace of a global marketing career, opening new markets for Herbal Essences across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, jumping from country to country in a matter of months, taking calls with U.S. headquarters at all hours. He got the raises and the next plum assignment. He also got the lack of sleep, the overeating, the overdrinking, and the signals he kept ignoring, until his body simply stopped.In this conversation, Jobert tells Lori how a childhood memory of Janus, the two-faced Roman god of beginnings and endings, surfaced in that hotel room and became the seed of a framework he now calls the Janus Plan. It's a conversation about what happens when you finally stop outrunning burnout, why looking backward is what makes it possible to move forward, and why boundaries only stick the second time you build them on purpose.What You'll Take AwayWhy ignoring burnout signals for years eventually catches up with even the highest performersHow a childhood memory of the Roman god Janus reframed Jobert's understanding of endings and beginningsWhy 'ponder the past' before 'frame the future' makes goals more sustainable than New Year's resolutionsHow setting boundaries the second time around, including turning down future expat assignments and developing a team instead of doing everything himself, reshaped his second corporate careerWhy any personal threshold, not just January 1st, can be the start of a meaningful new chapterGuest BioJobert E. Abueva grew up between four Asian countries and went on to a three-decade global marketing and philanthropy career, including launching Herbal Essences into international markets. He is a TEDx speaker, a Lambda Literary Prize recipient, and the author of The Janus Plan: A No-Resolutions Path to Begin Your Year with Intention. He lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania.Chapters & Key Timestamps00:00 Opening and episode premise00:39 The nomadic childhood that shaped a global career07:09 Launching Herbal Essences across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia10:55 The signals he ignored: exhaustion, overwork, and a frenzied pace12:00 September 6, 1997: the Hong Kong hotel room he couldn't leave15:48 A childhood memory of Janus reframes everything20:15 Ponder the past, frame the future: leaving corporate to write24:13 Setting boundaries the second time around26:05 The Janus Plan: a no-resolutions path to a new year34:24 His hype song and the moment it found him36:17 Where to find Jobert and the invitation to 'be like Janus'Resources MentionedBook: The Janus Plan: A No-Resolutions Path to Begin Your Year with Intention by Jobert E. AbuevaJobert's 2023 boyhood memoir (referenced in conversation; title to be confirmed with Jobert's team before publication)Hype Song: "You Get What You Give" by New Radicals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE&list=RDDL7-CKirWZE&start_radio=1Connect With Jobert AbuevaWebsite: https://joberteabueva.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jobertabueva/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joberteabueva/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joberteabueva/Book: The Janus Plan: A No-Resolutions Path to Begin Your Year with IntentionContinue With LoriWebsite: https://zenrabbit.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorisaitz/Email: Lori@ZenRabbit.comInvitation From LoriZen RabbitThis episode is sponsored by Zen Rabbit. Trust is the foundation of all great workplaces, and in today's hybrid, fast-moving work culture, it's built through consistent, clear, human communication.Quarterly town halls, Slack messages, or team-building events are rarely enough to create the connection employees need. That's why forward-thinking companies are hiring Lori to create internal and private podcasts that bring leaders and employees together through authentic stories and real conversations.Think of it as the old-school company newsletter reinvented for the modern workplace.If your company wants to strengthen communication, connection, community, and culture, connect with Lori at Lori@ZenRabbit.com or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorisaitz/About FINE is a 4-Letter WordFINE is a 4-Letter Word is the show for leaders who are tired of pretending everything is fine.We explore what it takes to lead with empathy, vulnerability, gratitude, and courage, especially during the seasons when life and leadership feel anything but fine.Listen for honest conversations about how human connection influences innovation, retention, leadership, and real impact. New episodes every week.Follow FINE is a 4-Letter WordFollow or subscribe so you never...
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