The Breakout – Unleashing Personal Growth – Détails, épisodes et analyse

GIVEAWAY ALERT!!
Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is coming out October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And there are bonuses for you if you do! Our fabulous podcast listeners can win the deluxe new AirPods Max headphones.

Here's how to enter:
1 Pre-order the book on Amazon at this link between August 14th and October 8.
2 Post a podcast review on your favorite listening app
3 Post your book receipt on Facebook or Instagram using the hashtags #WhateverTheHellYouWant and #VoicesforChildren and you will be entered into the drawing!

Done! The deadline for entries is midnight Pacific Time on October 8th. The winner will be announced in our October 16th episode.

Episode Summary:
“When you are a bully, when you're, when you're rich or powerful or influenced and you think you can get away with it, that's really when I come alive”.

Alreen Haeggquist has done something incredible with something incredibly awful.  As a child, she endured years of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. When she finally got out, Alreen harnessed her anger, put herself through law school, and now advocates for women being harassed or abused in the workplace at her women's rights firm, Haeggquist and Eck.

In this episode, Alreen takes us through her breakout from victim to influential advocate. She tells us about the powerful book she wrote about her journey, and how confronting her father made it easy to take on one of today's biggest bullies, Donald Trump.

About Alreen Haeggquist
Alreen Haeggquist is a lawyer, survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and fierce advocate for those brave enough to stand up to their abusers in court. Over the last two decades, Alreen has fought for victims of abuse, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and fraud in high-profile lawsuits. Her law firm, Haeggquist & Eck, has recovered millions of dollars for its clients-and plays a critical role in allowing victims to reclaim their narratives. Determined to break the cycle of abuse, Alreen shares her story of how she uses her trauma to help others get out of the darkness and reclaim their light.

Connect with Alreen
Website: https://www.alreen.com/
Book: Fired Up: Fueling Triumph from Trauma
Haeggquist & Eck: https://haelaw.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alreen-haeggquist/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alreen/

About The Breakout
The Breakout is the hit podcast hosted by human resources and change experts Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther. The founders of Abbracci Group, a results-driven coaching, HR Management and consulting firm, Keri and Kelly are laser-focused on getting the best out of people. They launched The Breakout in early 2023 to find the best stories and advice on busting boundaries and making change, and since then the show has charted #1 in self-improvement, #1 in education, and #7 in all podcasts.

Join Keri and Kelly on The Breakout as they get advice and insights from change experts, and learn from people who have really done it how you can dive into personal growth, increase self confidence, and move your life into bold new territory.

Each episode comes with lessons on living courageously, with topics on self-help, leadership, personal development, building success, setting personal boundaries, growing your confidence, overcoming self doubt, and knowing your self worth. From huge transformations to quiet shifts, The Breakout highlights why every change matters.

At Abbracci Group, Keri and Kelly offer a four-step coaching process to help you increase your self-awareness, break out of expectations, and live life on your terms.  Learn more at abbraccigroup.com.

Keri and Kelly’s new book Whatever the Hell You Want – An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free From Expectations, will be out in October 8 2024 and is available for pre-order now! Dr. Keri Ohlrich’s book The Way of the HR Warrior is available now.

Connect with Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther
https://www.instagram.com/thebreakoutpod/
https://abbraccigroup.com/podcast/
https://www.facebook.com/thebreakoutpodcast/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbraccigroup/
https://www.youtube.com/@thebreakoutpodcast

GIVEAWAY ALERT!!
Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is coming out October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And there are bonuses for you if you do! Our fabulous podcast listeners can win the deluxe new AirPods Max headphones.

Here's how to enter:

1. Pre-order the book on Amazon at this link between August 14th and October 8. 
2. Post a podcast review on your favorite listening app
3. Post your book receipt on Facebook or Instagram using the hashtags #WhateverTheHellYouWant and #VoicesforChildren and you will be entered into the drawing! 

Done! The deadline for entries is midnight Pacific Time on October 8th. The winner will be announced in our October 16th episode.

Episode Summary:
“People who overwork - more than 55 hours a week - which is most Americans, will die younger. Not that it's correlated with early death. It causes it. This is serious”.

Celeste Headlee wants to start a revolution.

In her new book Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, she’s asking out loud the question we’ve likely all been wondering: Why are we so obsessed with productivity and efficiency? Even when it's making us miserable?

Celeste is an award-winning author and broadcast journalist with NPR and PBS. She’s also a professional public speaker; her Ted Talk is one of the top ten most viewed talks with an impressive 30+ million views. In this episode, she analyzes our toxic relationships with work and what we can do about it. Celeste doesn’t mince words. With powerful research, and a tough love approach, this conversation is one of our favorites, and we’re confident it will be one of yours too.

About Celeste Headlee
Celeste Headlee is an internationally recognized journalist and radio host, professional speaker and author of bestselling book We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, Speaking of Race: Why Everyone Needs to Talk About Racism and How to Do It, and You’re Cute When You’re Mad: Simple Steps for Confronting Sexism. Her TEDx Talk, 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation, has been viewed over 34 million times. Close to 50,000 talks have been given at 10,000 events since the TED program launched in 2009, and Celeste’s talk is one of the 10 most-watched talks posted on TED’s homepage. Celeste is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media, serves as an advisory board member for ProCon.org and The Listen First Project, and received the 2019 Media Changemaker Award.

Website: https://celesteheadlee.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/celesteheadlee/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=celeste+headlee

About The Breakout
The Breakout is the hit podcast hosted by human resources and change experts Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther. The founders of Abbracci Group, a results-driven coaching, HR Management and consulting firm, Keri and Kelly are laser-focused on getting the best out of people. They launched The Breakout in early 2023 to find the best stories and advice on busting boundaries and making change, and since then the show has charted #1 in self-improvement, #1 in education, and #7 in all podcasts.

Join Keri and Kelly on The Breakout as they get advice and insights from change experts, and learn from people who have really done it how you can move your life into bold new territory. Each episode comes with lessons on living courageously, with topics on self-help, leadership, personal development, building success, setting personal boundaries, growing your confidence, overcoming self doubt, and knowing your self worth. From huge transformations to quiet shifts, The Breakout highlights why every change matters. Keri and Kelly offer a four-step coaching process to help you increase your self-awareness, break out of expectations, and live life on your terms.  Learn more at abbraccigroup.com.

Keri and Kelly’s new book Whatever the Hell You Want – An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free From Expectations, will be out in October 8 2024 and is available for pre-order now! Dr. Keri Ohlrich’s book The Way of the HR Warrior is available now.

Connect with Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther
Instagram: @thebreakoutpod
Podcast page
The Breakout on Facebook
LinkedIN
The Breakout on YouTube

 “One of the jokes I have in coaching is, the surefire way to kill passion is to build a business around it, or marry it”. Monique Allen will tell you that entrepreneurship is it’s own special kind of trauma, and it needs a special kind of business coaching. 

Monique is a professional gardener who has spent almost four decades in the industry. Over that time, running her own landscaping business she began to see a crucial need amongst her fellow creatives and trade-based entrepreneurs: they had started a business because they loved their work, and then suddenly they became managers and stopped actually doing that work that they loved. So she developed a fascinating coaching method that focuses on the unique struggles of trade-based entrepreneurs.

“Nature is a system”, Monique tells us. “It's the living and non-living things in connection with each other, with the overlay of energy and human interaction. This isn't all that much different than how businesses are formed”. In this episode, Monique shares the story behind “Lifescaping”, her coaching method inspired by the elements of all healthy ecosystems.  Lifescaping helps business owners push beyond their barriers and thrive as entrepreneurs.

About Monique Allen

Monique founded The Garden Continuum - a regenerative landscape design/build and fine gardening firm celebrating its 25th year in business. She is the creator of the Life-Scape Method for land development. As the Lifescape Coach, she's interpreted this simple method into a system to teach service-business entrepreneurs how to develop more satisfying ownership experiences.  

Connect with Monique

IG - https://www.instagram.com/monique.allen/

LIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/moniquetgc/

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/GardenContinuumINC

FB - https://www.facebook.com/TheGardenContinuum/

Shopify Store - https://shop.thelifescapecoach.com/

The Garden Continuum

Lifescape Coach

Book: Stop Landscaping, Start Lifescaping

About The Breakout

The Breakout is the hit podcast hosted by human resources and change experts Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther. The founders of Abbracci Group, a results-driven coaching, HR Management and consulting firm, Keri and Kelly are laser-focused on getting the best out of people. They launched The Breakout in early 2023 to find the best stories and advice on busting boundaries and making change, and since then the show has charted #1 in self-improvement, #1 in education, and #7 in all podcasts.

Join Keri and Kelly on The Breakout as they get advice and insights from change experts, and learn from people who have really done it how you can dive into personal growth, increase self confidence, and move your life into bold new territory.

Each episode comes with lessons on living courageously, with topics on self-help, leadership, personal development, building success, setting personal boundaries, growing your confidence, overcoming self doubt, and knowing your self worth. From huge transformations to quiet shifts, The Breakout highlights why every change matters.

At Abbracci Group, Keri and Kelly offer a four-step coaching process to help you increase your self-awareness, break out of expectations, and live life on your terms.  Learn more at abbraccigroup.com.

Keri and Kelly’s new book Whatever the Hell You Want – An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free From Expectations, will be out in October 2024 and is available for pre-order now! Dr. Keri Ohlrich’s book The Way of the HR Warrior is available now.

Connect with Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther

https://www.instagram.com/thebreakoutpod/

https://abbraccigroup.com/podcast/

https://www.facebook.com/thebreakoutpodcast/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbraccigroup/

https://www.youtube.com/@thebreakoutpodcast

Imagine this situation. You graduate college with a business degree and have multiple job offers. You say, “No thanks, I will try my hand as a stand-up comedian”. That is what our guest, Nic Novicki, said. And, guess what?  Nic has been very successful at it. Listen to his journey as he took his wonderful skills of connecting people and creativity to pursue an acting career as well as launching the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. He started the Film Challenge as he wanted to see other people with disabilities behind and in front of the camera. 

His sage advice includes…realize things will scale in time, failing is okay, set realistic goals, build on your own and don’t wait for people to give you “something”. You don’t want to miss listening to Nic's incredible story. 

Nic Novicki is a comedian, actor, and producer that has performed on 6 continents including several tours through Armed Forces Entertainment, performing for troops.  His television credits include: Boardwalk Empire, The Good Doctor, The Sopranos, Loudermilk, Alone Together, Gotham Comedy Live, Jack and Triumph, The Neighbors, Austin and Alley, Private Practice, Drop Dead Diva.  He has appeared in several movies including: L!fe Happens, November Rule, The Last 5 Years, Boston Girls, Breaking Wind, Dead Ant and the upcoming Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks. He is the founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge and is a board member of Easterseals Southern California.

Connect with Nic to learn more about him and the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicnovicki/
• https://disabilityfilmchallenge.com/
• Instagram: @disabilityfilmchallenge
• Twitter: @DisabilityChall

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Doing the right thing becomes more important than the money you make. Collaboration, asking for help and networking. These are key tenets for Emma Fox. You don't want to miss this episode as Emma shares her decision to commit to a working in a transparent environment. 

Emma wanted her career to match her values and talks to us about how her life evolved in order to align her values and career. Her top advice: Do not do it alone. Reach out and there is help for you. Take a listen to this Emma’s honest and straight-forward story. 

Emma is the Chief Operating Officer at E-Powered Benefits; a benefits consulting firm designed to deliver high performance health plans while staying committed to industry-wide transparency. 

Emma has been an outspoken advocate for cost and healthcare quality transparency using direct contracting, referenced based pricing, and a consultative approach with clients and colleagues alike but most of all, she is dedicated giving a voice to healthcare consumers and dispelling the myths associated with non-traditional health care solutions. 

She is the founder of Empowered Leadership; an organization dedicated to growing the confidence and capabilities of leaders in perceived minority groups and serves as the Chapter Leadership Development Chair for the West Coast Region of NAHU. 

While residing in Portland, Oregon, she stays busy with her two children, enjoys cooking, writing, and traveling.

Connect with Emma at https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmapassefox/ to learn more about her and her background. 

Sign up for our newsletter at https://abbraccigroup.com/. Please subscribe, leave a review and tell your friends about our podcast. Learn more about the CHARGE® model by purchasing the book, The Way of the HR Warrior. Let us know about the moments for you that changed your life trajectory. Drop us a note via our website.

Finally, a guest says our podcast is one of her go-to’s to push her thinking! Why did it take this long? Not only does Gelair Butler get the gold star for the best guest to date, but also, we break format and talk football. Don’t get it twisted, we are not ESPN, but Gelair does predict the Super Bowl and she is 50% correct. Stop in for football and stay to listen to Gelair’s amazing story. 

2015 was quite a year for Gelair. Her job was eliminated. She got married. She moved to a new city. Oh yeah, and found a new job while she is six month pregnant. Before her job was eliminated she was given a choice for a new career path. While she could have taken the sure thing, Gelair knew instead that she needed to leave the company and continue to be on the career path that she set out for herself. Gelair’s advice “Don’t let anyone define your value”. Boom. Hard stop. You don’t want to miss Gelair’s moving journey. 

Gelair Butler is a proud native of the greater New Orleans area and lover of all things New Orleans including the food, music, history, art, and the New Orleans Saints.  It was there that she received her bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications and Sociology from Dillard University.  After a brief stint in cable and local television, Gelair began a career in HR as an entry-level staffing associate.   

By building on current experience and taking risks to venture into new disciplines, geographies, and industries; she has developed a career as an HR Executive.  Gelair has demonstrated expertise in performance consulting, change management, and all areas of talent management including learning, succession planning, performance management, onboarding and engagement.  

She is currently the Director of Leadership Development at Rollins Inc.  She and her award-winning team are responsible for creating strategies and agile frameworks to develop leaders at all levels of the organization. Gelair’s fundamental belief is that by enabling the success of leaders, you can exponentially improve the lives of employees and change the heart of organizations.

Connect with Gelair at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gelairgilson/ to learn more about her and her background. 

Sign up for our newsletter at https://abbraccigroup.com/. Please subscribe, leave a review and tell your friends about our podcast. Learn more about the CHARGE® model by purchasing the book, The Way of the HR Warrior. Let us know about the moments for you that changed your life trajectory. Drop us a note via our website.

John Hagenow left his dream of being a player with the  Milwaukee Brewers in high school and instead focused on academics and corporate America. Using his great radio voice, John tells us his journey of leaving his steady, consistent job and venturing off to start his own business, during the recession of 2008. Great timing! 

He shares the trip on an airplane that sparked his idea of starting his own business. He knew there was a better way to recruit and have relationships. All his life, humility and goal-orientation are keys to his success. His advice “Don’t just be - Be outrageous enough to pursue what you love”. Take a listen to John’s upbeat and advice filled episode to help you reCHARGE® Your Life. 

With over 25 years of Human Resources and Talent Acquisition leadership experience across both industry-leading recruiting agencies and corporate environments (including GE and MillerCoors), the opportunity to build lasting relationships has always been the aspect of John Hagenow’s career that he’s enjoyed most.

A degreed HR professional (UW-Whitewater - Go Warhawks!), John quickly realized how much he enjoyed recruiting - the people, the process, and the impact that hiring talented individuals has. There’s nothing else he’d rather be doing …(unless the Milwaukee Brewers finally call and make him an offer to play professional baseball)!

John is a family-oriented individual (he two young boys and an incredible wife), who always find ways to both motivate and humor him.  He’s an avid sports enthusiast who likely quotes 80’s and 90’s movies too much and is a big believer in work hard, play hard…and a good Wisconsin fish fry.

Connect with John and learn more about him and his company, Fusion Recruiters, LLC:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhagenow/ 
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/fusion-recruiters-llc 
• www.fusionrecruiters.com 
• Twitter: @FusionRecruiter

Sign up for our newsletter at https://abbraccigroup.com/. Please subscribe, leave a review and tell your friends about our podcast. Learn more about the CHARGE® model by purchasing the book, The Way of the HR Warrior. Let us know about the moments for you that changed your life trajectory. Drop us a note via our website. 

Moving from a for-profit company to a non-profit organization. Taking risks to develop himself. Understanding that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. These lessons and more are what Tony Battaglia shares with us. 

Tony describes the decisions he made and the risks he took when he moved from a Fortune 500 company to a start-up and later, moving from a for-profit company to a non-profit organization. He explains the courage he needed to take these risks as well as resilience. You need resilience not only when you make your decisions but also when there are crises. Take a listen to hear about how Tony and the leadership team shifted their business model in 2020, during 2020 COVID times to, in just 7 weeks, create a results-oriented product. 

Tony Battaglia is President & COO of BellXcel, one of the nation’s leading providers of educational solutions to youth serving organizations.  Tony began his career at BellXcel in 2007 and is responsible for the product development, sales, service, support functions and infrastructure in the delivery of BellXcel’s renowned and evidence based educational solutions.   During Tony’s tenure, BellXcel has grown by over 450% and navigated through numerous pivots of the business model ranging from a direct serve to a licensing model and now launching an “all in one” Enterprise Solution which will permit BellXcel partners to deliver their youth serving programs with much greater efficiency and cost effectiveness.      

Tony joined BellXcel after 18 years at Arch Wireless, the nation’s leading provider of wireless messaging and paging services.  Tony was a member of the start-up team that grew Arch from its venture capital beginnings to $1.4B in revenue. Tony held several key positions, from Corporate Controller to President of the company’s $450M Northern Division with over 3,000 employees. Tony has a B.S. in business administration from Boston College and an MBA in Finance from Ohio University.  Tony resides in Bedford MA, just outside of Boston MA, with his wife and two daughters.

Connect with Tony at https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-battaglia-820814/ to learn more about him and his background.

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Bev Attfield shares an emotionally devastating story of losing her baby at the 20-week ultrasound appointment. Bev explains her journey of what occurred that day and it is, unfortunately, not a unique story for many families. 

However, Bev shares how this event has changed her life forever. She has an amazing story of resilience and how she and her husband navigated the grief together. They made the conscious decision to continue through and do it in the best possible way. She hopes her story helps others to learn and know that you too can get through this type of loss.

This is a powerful episode if you have had a loss or know anyone who has miscarried. Bev’s lessons are powerful: Life is short and uncertain, anything is possible, look forward and act with compassion. Listen so you can better understand and support yourself and others. 

As Principal, Workplace Science at Jostle, Bev cares about the experience people have at work. She explores the role that leaders play in purposefully crafting engaging environments for people to be themselves fully in the workplace. Bev’s curiosity about what creates individual fulfillment at work and unique workplace cultures drives her day-to-day work at Jostle and beyond. 

She's a regular contributor to the Jostle blog and host of the People at Work podcast and Conversations at Work dialog series.

When Bev's not doing workplace science, you’ll find her running, taking lessons in presence from her dogs, or sharpening her Bananagrams skills.

Connect with Bev at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bevattfield/ to learn more about her and her background.

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Before we even get to our big question, we have a great discuss about the culture of an organization and what is necessary to rebuild and create an inclusive culture.  Then we get to our big question…

Jennifer Turner's big change was moving from Michigan to Illinois for a new job. She didn’t know everything but her drive for development, courage and humility propelled her to take the risk. Not only is she passionate about development, but also her leadership style is patterned after her belief system. Jennifer believes fundamentally that cultures need to be transparent, development focused, show empathy and promote collaboration. Take a listen and you will want to work for Jennifer! 

Jennifer is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Tennessee Performing Arts Center, a Nashville-based nonprofit arts organization dedicated to excellence in the performing arts and arts education. Since 1980, TPAC has welcomed more than 12 million audience members and served more than 1.8 million students, teachers, and adults with performances, teacher resources, professional development, classroom residencies, and enrichment programs. 

Formerly, Jennifer served as Executive Vice President and Managing Director for Segerstrom Center for the Arts, an acclaimed arts institution in Southern California, where she built a world-class leadership team, led innovative community initiatives, and spearheaded multi-million-dollar capital development projects, including the successful completion of the 56,000 square foot Julianne and George Argyros Plaza. 

With more than 20 years of experience in nonprofits arts, Jennifer previously was the Chief Operating Officer for the national historic landmark Auditorium Theatre in Chicago and held roles with Michigan Opera Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Harper College. 

She is a graduate of Michigan State University and holds a graduate degree from Roosevelt University in Public Administration, Nonprofit Management.

Connect with Jennifer at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifercturner/ and on Twitter @JenniferArts to learn more about her and her background. 

To learn more about Tennessee Performing Arts Center, please visit:

• TPAC Website: https://www.tpac.org/
• TPAC Instagram: @tennesseepac
• TPAC Twitter: @tpac

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