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  • Penalties and Possibilities with Marques Ogden

    Penalties and Possibilities with Marques Ogden
    2026/11/13
    Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana | Penalties and PossibilitiesMost people hear “former NFL player” and know what they’d ask Marques Ogden first. Tina Eliana had two other words in mind. Janitor. CEO.There’s a lot of life between those titles. If the people who worked for a leader back then described how that person led, would the leader recognize themselves in the answer?In this Movember episode, Tina and Marques talk about authentic leadership, faith, and starting over. A promise that sounds easy on Tuesday gets a little more interesting by Friday. And Tina has a few things to say about the words “I’m just…”From Mel Robbins to a bag of spoiled trash, Tina and Marques talk about the moments that change a person’s direction, what it takes to rebound, and where faith and purpose come in when it’s time to start over. Content note: Includes discussion of suicide, including references to methods. Mental health resources begin at 15:34.U.S. crisis and mental health resources988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline · Call 988, text 988, or chat online.Crisis Text Line · Text HOME to 741741.NAMI HelpLine · Call 1-800-950-6264 or text NAMI to 62640.Movember men’s mental health resourcesAbout Marques OgdenMarques Ogden is a former NFL player, keynote speaker, business coach, author, and podcast host who speaks on authentic leadership and accountability.Website · Speaking · Get Authentic podcastThe Success Cycle · Built for the StormOgden Victory Mindset · Mastermind, Jan. 15–17, 2027Mentioned in the episodeNFL Player Care Foundation · Gene Upshaw Trust FundKick Ass with Mel RobbinsSports Missions Outreach · Rolesville High SchoolMarques on NewsNationJudge Frank Caprio · Felix Morgan, TrucordiaWill Durant on habit · Job 1:21 About Tina ElianaTina Eliana is a Leadership & Learning Systems Expert, author, speaker, and founder of Tina Presents LLC. Through advising, speaking, and professional development, she helps people see how their everyday decisions shape the way they lead, learn, and influence others. She is a four-time graduate of Western Governors University and holds three Master's degrees.Tina Eliana | Author and speakerTina Presents | Advising, speaking, and professional developmentTina Eliana on LinkedInAbout Jam Sessions with Tina ElianaJam Sessions with Tina Eliana is a podcast about intentional leadership in everyday life. Tina invites guests to leave the titles at the door and talk about the decisions, relationships, and experiences that shaped how they lead. Jam Sessions with Tina ElianaJam Sessions with Tina Eliana on Instagram Subscribe and follow Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana in your favorite podcast app and share it with your friends and on social media.
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  • Spaghetti Dinners and Second Chances with Dominick Domasky

    Spaghetti Dinners and Second Chances with Dominick Domasky
    2026/11/04
    Bankruptcy with a side of spaghetti. Life has a way of serving things nobody ordered.In Episode 17 of Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana, author, publisher, and Motivation Champs founder Dominick Domasky joins Tina for Spaghetti Dinners and Second Chances, a conversation about starting over, being seen, and making room for what comes next.Business failure is part of Dom’s story. So are family, community, advocacy, creativity, and the people who recognize potential before someone can see it in themselves.And the spaghetti? There’s a reason it belongs in the title.WHEN HARD WORK DOESN’T FOLLOW THE SCRIPTDom believed in the restaurant he was building. He put in the work. The outcome still wasn’t the one he expected.His experience with bankruptcy opens a candid conversation about the uncertainty of rebuilding and the relationships surrounding someone during a difficult season. Tina and Dom explore the gap between working hard and having everything work out, along with the questions that surface when a business, role, or plan falls apart.What happens to someone’s sense of identity when the thing they were building no longer exists? Where does the next possibility begin?The conversation reaches beyond entrepreneurship into the human experience of disappointment, changing direction, and trying again without a guarantee. Career transitions, personal setbacks, and creative uncertainty can all bring a person to that unfamiliar place between what was planned and what comes next.Dom brings his own history to those questions, along with the personality and perspective of someone whose life includes considerably more than its hardest chapter.THE PERSON BEHIND THE CIRCUMSTANCESA person’s situation can become the basis for assumptions about their entire life.Someone needs a meal. Someone needs help with rent. Someone needs a safe place to go. The explanation an observer supplies may have very little to do with the person actually standing there.Dom’s work with Feeding the Spirit brings Tina and Dom into a conversation about compassion, dignity, advocacy, and the realities behind those assumptions.They explore the relationship between receiving support and becoming someone who advocates for others. They also discuss experiences involving Dom’s mother’s Alzheimer’s disease and his son’s type 1 diabetes, and how difficult seasons can influence someone’s understanding of what other people carry.Questions about leadership emerge in ordinary circumstances: noticing a need, deciding whether to get involved, and recognizing a person beyond what they appear to have achieved or lost.The conversation also considers the responsibility of having influence. What does it mean to have someone in a person’s corner? How does that experience shape the way they treat others? And what becomes possible when support includes both compassion and a willingness to do the work?THE STORY BEYOND ITS FIRST VERSIONDom works with authors, but this conversation reaches well beyond getting a book into print.Tina and Dom discuss the vulnerability of sharing a story, the responsibility of helping someone develop it, and the relationship between a message and the people it could reach. They explore author advocacy, publishing decisions, and the importance of finding an approach that fits the individual.Dom also brings a strong perspective on the lasting significance of a book. His discussion with Tina raises questions about care, quality, legacy, and the difference between producing something quickly and creating something an author can remain proud of.Then the conversation gets creative.Books, graphic novels, screenplays, podcasts, and a video game involving vampires and donuts all enter the discussion. A television storyteller explores another medium. An idea finds possibilities beyond the form in which it first appeared.Through those examples, Tina and Dom explore creative reinvention and transferable skills. An ability developed in one part of life may have applications elsewhere. An existing idea may still have places to go.Their discussion of the Cre8tive Con community adds another dimension: the relationships that form when people with different experiences and abilities come together. For entrepreneurs, authors, and creators, the people surrounding the work can influence what becomes possible.And the energy vampires? They deserve a little attention, too.LEADERSHIP CONVERSATIONS. TITLES OPTIONAL.Spaghetti Dinners and Second Chances explores intentional leadership through relationships, decisions, advocacy, and creative possibility.The conversation offers a point of connection for entrepreneurs navigating business setbacks, authors considering the significance of their stories, and people wondering how their existing skills might fit a new direction.It also speaks to the community builders, family members, friends, and everyday advocates whose influence may never appear in a job description.Tina and Dom discuss serious ...
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  • ALL-NEW THIS MOVEMBER!

    ALL-NEW THIS MOVEMBER!
    2026/11/01

    What happens when the conversations we need most are the ones we're least likely to have?

    This Movember, Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana is making room for conversations about men's health, mental well-being, vulnerability, and the importance of speaking up.

    Movember is more than growing a mustache. It's an opportunity to bring attention to men's mental health, suicide prevention, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer, while challenging the silence that can surround these issues.

    Because sometimes, the most important conversation is the one someone has been avoiding.

    Join Tina Eliana for meaningful conversations that challenge perspectives, encourage connection, and remind us why speaking up matters.

    Subscribe to Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana and be part of the conversation.

    Learn more about Movember: https://us.movember.com/

    #Movember #MensHealth #JamSessionsWithTinaEliana
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  • The Psychological Impact of Leadership with Dr. Giovanni DeJesus

    The Psychological Impact of Leadership with Dr. Giovanni DeJesus
    2026/10/20

    What happens when someone’s mood becomes everybody else’s responsibility?


    In Episode 16 of Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana, Tina sits down with Dr. Giovanni DeJesus, known as Dr. Gio, to explore the psychological impact of influence. Their conversation considers leadership, psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and the relationships that shape how we see ourselves.


    You may recognize the tension before you have words for it. A question you rehearse before asking. A mistake you are afraid to admit. A room where you first check the mood before deciding how much of yourself to bring into it. Or perhaps you have experienced the other side: someone whose presence made you feel able to try.


    What separates those experiences? And how often do we consider which one other people are having with us?


    Tina and Dr. Gio approach those questions from both sides of influence: the people we look to for guidance and the people who look to us. They consider trust, communication, emotional consistency, and the responsibility that comes with having a voice someone else values. The conversation moves through workplaces, parenting, faith communities, and everyday relationships, where leadership can carry real weight without an official title.


    They also explore what it means to be given responsibility before you feel prepared for it. Being the person others turn to can feel very different from knowing how to support them. Where do mentoring, self-awareness, and room to learn belong in that experience?


    This episode invites reflection on the space between what we intend and what someone else experiences. It raises questions about encouragement, criticism, belonging, and the way we respond when someone needs help, disagrees, or gets something wrong.


    QUESTIONS WE EXPLORE

    How do words, tone, and presence affect the people around us?
    What does trust look like when a relationship includes authority?
    How can we examine the influence we have and the influence we accept?
    What does it mean to support someone’s growth while respecting who they are?


    If you lead a team, raise children, mentor others, serve your community, or are reconsidering a relationship that affects your confidence, there is a place for you in this conversation. You can also listen with one specific relationship in mind and notice which questions deserve another look.


    ABOUT DR. GIO

    Dr. Giovanni DeJesus is a chiropractor, coach, speaker, and host of Walk With Me. His work explores the patterns beneath thoughts, emotions, behavior, and relationships, with a focus on identity, personal development, and real, lasting change from the inside out.


    CONNECT WITH DR. GIO

    Walk With Me podcast:
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/2621105

    YouTube:
    https://youtube.com/@risetoreclaim-gio

    Email:
    giosreclaimpower@gmail.com


    JOIN THE JAM

    Subscribe to Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana for weekly insights on intentional leadership, leadership beyond titles, professional growth, communication, self-advocacy, and the ways leadership shows up in everyday life.


    To access prior episodes, listen to the Jam Sessions Jukebox, and learn more about each guest, visit:


    jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com


    If this conversation brings someone to mind, share the episode with them. Follow the show and leave a rating to help others find these leadership conversations.


    ABOUT TINA ELIANA

    Tina Eliana is a Leadership and Learning Systems Expert, author, speaker, podcast host, and community builder who helps individuals recognize the leader within themselves and helps organizations build learning and development systems that strengthen leadership across teams.


    A four-time WGU graduate and WGU Alumni Ambassador, Tina is also a patient advocate for Visual Snow Syndrome, using education, storytelling, and advocacy to increase awareness and understanding.


    Across her work is a simple belief:


    Leadership isn’t reserved for people with titles. It lives in the influence of our everyday choices.


    Leave the titles at the door.
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  • Editification with Holly Totten

    Editification with Holly Totten
    2026/09/22

    What if some of the most important leadership in your life happened before you ever realized you were leading?


    In this episode of Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana, Tina sits down with educator, editor, writing coach, and podcast host Holly Totten for a conversation about influence, storytelling, and the voices we leave behind.


    Holly spent years in the classroom before bringing those lessons into her work with writers. Along the way, she discovered something that reaches far beyond teaching or editing: people are paying attention to how we show up, even when we cannot yet see the impact.


    Tina and Holly explore the connection between leadership and everyday influence, why strong leaders sometimes need to step back instead of taking center stage, and what can happen when someone finally recognizes leadership qualities in themselves that others have seen all along.


    Their conversation also moves into storytelling and the delicate balance between improving someone's words and editing away the very voice that makes the story theirs. For Holly, helping people preserve that voice is central to writing, legacy, and meaningful connection.


    From former students who still remember lessons decades later to writers wondering whether their experiences are worth sharing, Editification is a conversation about what remains after the moment has passed.


    Because influence does not require a title, and your story cannot make an impact if your voice disappears from it.


    ABOUT HOLLY TOTTEN


    Holly Totten is an educator, nonfiction editor, writing coach, and host of The Edit podcast. After a career spent teaching English and writing, she carried what she learned in the classroom into her work with authors, helping writers strengthen their stories without losing the voice that makes those stories uniquely theirs.


    Through editing and writing coaching, Holly works with people who are ready to tell their stories, whether they need help getting started, finishing what they have begun, or shaping their words into a finished piece that still sounds like them.


    For more information about Holly and her work, visit:

    https://www.writelynotable.com


    To learn more about Holly and this episode, visit:

    jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com/holly-totten


    JOIN THE JAM


    Subscribe to Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana for weekly insights on intentional leadership, leadership beyond titles, professional growth, communication, self-advocacy, and the ways leadership shows up in everyday life.


    To access prior episodes, listen to the Jam Sessions Jukebox, and learn more about each guest, visit:


    jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com


    ABOUT TINA ELIANA


    Tina Eliana is a Leadership and Learning Systems Expert, author, speaker, podcast host, and community builder who helps individuals recognize the leader within themselves and helps organizations build learning and development systems that strengthen leadership across teams.


    A four-time WGU graduate and WGU Alumni Ambassador, Tina is also a patient advocate for Visual Snow Syndrome, using education, storytelling, and advocacy to increase awareness and understanding.


    Across her work is a simple belief:


    Leadership isn’t reserved for people with titles. It lives in the influence of our everyday choices.
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  • Monday Mourning with Patricia Freudenberg

    Monday Mourning with Patricia Freudenberg
    2026/09/15

    Grief does not stay neatly contained in one corner of our lives. It follows us into work, relationships, decisions, identity, and the moments when everyone else assumes we are “back to normal.”


    But what happens when normal no longer fits?


    In Episode 14 of Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana, Tina sits down with Patricia Freudenberg for a candid conversation about grief, recovery, self-worth, everyday leadership, and what it means to live forward without leaving the people we love behind.


    This conversation explores questions many people carry but do not always know how to ask:


    What happens when grief follows you back to work?


    How can a leader or coworker support someone after a loss without avoiding the subject or forcing a conversation?


    Why can simply showing up matter more than we realize?


    And what if the role you have called “just” something has been leadership all along?


    Tina and Patty make room for grief’s complexity: the awkwardness surrounding loss, returning to responsibilities before the heart has caught up, and the quiet power of presence. They explore legacy without turning it into a polished slogan or a demand to “move on.” How can love move forward with us while life is still being written?


    Patty’s story also challenges the language of “just.” She spent years calling herself “just a hairstylist,” even while creating a safe space for people during some of their hardest moments. What influence might we be minimizing because it came without a recognized leadership title?


    Whether you are grieving, supporting someone after a death, welcoming an employee back from bereavement leave, leading a team through loss, or exploring how purpose and legacy can coexist with sorrow, this episode offers a compassionate place to begin.


    ABOUT PATTY FREUDENBERG


    Patricia Freudenberg, known as Patty from New York, is the founder and CEO of Miss-U-Gram, a free social media app created exclusively for memorializing loved ones. She is a certified grief recovery consultant, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and host of the Live Your Legacy podcast.


    With more than 33 years of entrepreneurial experience and personal experience with loss, Patty brings practical insight and warmth to grief recovery, remembrance, self-worth, purpose, and legacy. She is also the author of Live Your Legacy: A New Spin on Mourning, a guided reflection book created to help readers engage with grief without becoming overwhelmed.


    Explore Patty’s story, Miss-U-Gram, Live Your Legacy, her book, and ways to connect:

    https://jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com/patty-freudenberg


    CONTENT NOTE


    This episode discusses death, grief, bereavement, and the loss of loved ones, including the loss of a child or spouse.


    Patty is a certified grief recovery consultant, not a licensed medical or mental health professional. This episode offers perspective, insight, and encouragement. It is not medical advice, mental health treatment, or a substitute for qualified professional support.


    JOIN THE JAM


    Subscribe to Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana for weekly insights on intentional leadership, leadership beyond titles, professional growth, communication, self-advocacy, and the ways leadership shows up in everyday life.


    To access prior episodes, listen to the Jam Sessions Jukebox, and learn more about each guest, visit:


    jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com


    ABOUT TINA ELIANA


    Tina Eliana is a Leadership and Learning Systems Expert, author, speaker, podcast host, and community builder who helps individuals recognize the leader within themselves and helps organizations build learning and development systems that strengthen leadership across teams.


    A four-time WGU graduate and WGU Alumni Ambassador, Tina is also a patient advocate for Visual Snow Syndrome, using education, storytelling, and advocacy to increase awareness and understanding.


    Across her work is a simple belief:


    Leadership isn’t reserved for people with titles. It lives in the influence of our everyday choices.
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  • The Go-To Myth with Chris Cushing

    The Go-To Myth with Chris Cushing
    2026/09/08

    What happens when being the person everyone depends on becomes the very thing that keeps people from seeing what else you are capable of?


    And how do you know when being the go-to person is a strength, a comfort zone, or a role you may have outgrown?


    In Episode 14 of Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana, host Tina Eliana sits down with Online Business Manager Chris Cushing for a candid conversation about leadership, professional identity, visibility, self-advocacy, career growth, and the complicated relationship between being needed and being valued.


    Because being dependable does not automatically mean being recognized.


    Chris Cushing is an Online Business Manager who helps founders step out of the operational weeds and start leading. She manages systems, projects, launches, teams, communication, follow-up, and the details that can quietly become bottlenecks.


    Her work offers a unique lens for a conversation about leadership that often happens outside the spotlight.


    Tina and Chris explore questions that reach beyond entrepreneurship and into workplaces, teams, and careers:


    • What causes highly capable people to become known as the go-to person instead of being recognized as leaders?
    • Can someone become so identified with being helpful, dependable, or needed that the role starts shaping how they see themselves?
    • What is the difference between being needed and being valued?
    • How much do fear, familiarity, acceptance, and other people’s expectations influence the roles we continue to play?
    • What happens when everyone around you sees your capability before you fully recognize it yourself?
    • How can someone begin advocating for themselves without feeling performative, arrogant, or uncomfortable?
    • And if your title does not fully reflect what you actually do, how do you begin examining the gap between the two?


    The conversation moves through operational leadership, workplace identity, support roles, career advancement, self-perception, professional visibility, communication, growth, and the assumptions that can form around the people everyone trusts to get things done.


    It is a conversation for the reliable one, the fixer, the operations person, the behind-the-scenes leader, and anyone who has ever wondered whether being indispensable is actually moving them forward.


    MEET CHRIS CUSHING


    Chris Cushing’s philosophy is action over noise: clean execution, clear communication, practical systems, and consistent progress.

    Learn more about Chris and connect with her:

    jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com/chris-cushing


    ABOUT JAM SESSIONS WITH TINA ELIANA


    Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana is a leadership podcast hosted by Tina Eliana that explores intentional leadership beyond titles, positions, and organizational charts.


    Here, we leave the titles at the door.


    Through candid conversations across industries and lived experiences, Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana examines how people lead, influence, communicate, navigate uncertainty, and recognize their own capacity, often long before anyone officially calls them a leader.


    No pedestal. No pretending.


    Just meaningful conversations about how we show up, what we learn, and the influence we carry.

    JOIN THE JAM


    Explore prior episodes, listen to the Jam Sessions Jukebox, and learn more about the guests featured on Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana.


    Visit:

    jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com


    ABOUT TINA ELIANA


    Tina Eliana is a Leadership and Learning Systems Expert, author, speaker, podcast host, and community builder who helps people recognize the leader within themselves and helps organizations strengthen leadership.

    Leadership isn’t reserved for people with titles. It lives in the influence of our everyday choices.
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  • Why Progress is Not the Finish Line | Woman's Equality Day Roundtable

    Why Progress is Not the Finish Line | Woman's Equality Day Roundtable
    2026/08/30

    Progress is proof that change is possible. It is not permission to become comfortable.


    Every right women exercise, every room they enter, every definition they challenge, and every expectation they outgrow was once unfinished work in someone else’s hands.


    Now, some of that work is in ours.


    Why Progress Is Not the Finish Line closes the inaugural Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana Women’s Equality Day Series by turning inheritance into responsibility.


    The first conversation asked what we received.


    The second challenged who gets to define us.


    The third asks what we will do now that the work belongs to us.


    Ten women from different generations, backgrounds, professions, and lived experiences return to the roundtable with a question that reaches far beyond a single commemorative day:


    • What do we owe the women coming behind us?
    • How do we celebrate progress without mistaking it for equality?
    • What happens when recognition becomes appeasement?
    • What must women protect, question, change, refuse, and create?
    • How do we make sure the next generation inherits more than access on paper?
    • And if equality is not a finish line, what does it mean to keep moving forward?


    This conversation takes women’s equality out of slogans and places it where it actually lives: in the choices people make, the voices they use, the communities they help shape, the beliefs they challenge, the support they offer and accept, and the possibilities they create for others.


    As the panel considers women’s rights, gender equality, voice, mentorship, community, identity, self-advocacy, survival, and generational change, no single perspective is asked to stand in for all women. Agreement is not the goal. Honest examination is.


    Because womanhood does not have one story, and progress does not have one measurement.


    This episode holds gratitude and urgency in the same room. It honors the women whose courage changed the boundaries of what was possible while refusing to treat their victories as evidence that the work is finished.


    Progress deserves celebration. It also requires stewardship.


    Rights can be won and still need protection.


    Doors can open without changing who is welcomed.


    Voices can be heard without being valued.


    History can move forward while people and communities are still left behind.


    Why Progress Is Not the Finish Line is an invitation to consider your place in that unfinished story. What did you inherit? Who helped shape your understanding of womanhood? Which definitions have you had to question? What will your life teach the next generation? What are you willing to do with the influence already in your hands?


    Your place in this conversation does not depend on having a title.


    Whether you are listening as a leader, parent, educator, mentor, advocate, entrepreneur, storyteller, community member, or woman still deciding what progress means in her own life, this conversation asks you to move beyond the easiest answer and consider what you are carrying forward.


    THE WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY SERIES

    Episode 10: What Did We Inherit?

    Episode 11: Who Gets to Define Womanhood?

    Episode 12: Why Progress Is Not the Finish Line


    Featuring Allison Wells, Anne Hill, Chris Cushing, Holly Totten, Kris Keppeler, Lesley George, Patricia Freudenberg, Renee Hastings, Sarah Ramsey, and host Tina Eliana.


    Meet the women of the Women’s Equality Day Series, explore their work, and continue the conversation at:
    https://www.jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com


    Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana explores intentional leadership beyond titles, polished answers, and traditional definitions.


    Leave the titles at the door.


    The Jam Sessions with Tina Eliana Women's Equality Day series is dedicated to the memory of Dolly Parton. We will always love you.
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