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GETTING BEYOND MAYBE
27 May 2025
00:10:48
In this fire-starting episode of the UNCOMMODiFiED podcast, host Tim Windsor dismantles the fear-fueled complacency that keeps us chained to “what is” and makes a fierce case for stepping boldly into the space of “what may be” and “what now is.” Tim challenges listeners to confront their sense of insignificance and to stop waiting for permission, conditions, or saviours to push them into action. From the prison walls that once confined Nelson Mandela to the mental cages we build around our dreams, this episode is a wake-up call for anyone tired of being stuck in passive potential.
But this isn’t just inspiration—it’s a battle plan. You’ll walk away with five gritty, practical steps to ignite your transformation: from dreaming uncomfortable dreams that spark neural rewiring, to eliminating excuses, surrounding yourself with catalysts, taking relentless action, and reprogramming your mindset to embrace risk as a gateway to impact. If you’re ready to stop bitching and start GETTING BEYOND MAYBE to NOW WHAT IS … hit play. This one isn’t for the faint of heart—it’s for those hungry to turn audacious ideas into irreversible realities.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@uncommodified.com https://uncommodified.com/
PRODUCERS: Kris MacQueen & Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
GIVING a DAMN: UNCORKED with WILLIAM WALLACE & ADAM SMITH
20 May 2025
00:39:27
What if giving a damn wasn’t just a nice sentiment—but a radical act of rebellion against apathy? What if care were currency, and the real wealth in a community came from 100 men who stopped scrolling, showed up, and put their money where their heart is? In this episode of the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast, Tim Windsor sits down with William Wallace—the thespian-turned-body-bag salesman—and Adam Smith—the IT guy who's been to hell and back—to unpack the movement, 100 MEN WHO GIVE A DAMN … No politics, no proxies—just raw grassroots generosity and radical action.
This isn’t about charity-as-usual. It’s about showing up, stepping in, and stirring others to do the same. You’ll walk away with a challenge: stop outsourcing your care and start taking ownership of your impact. Find 100 people who give a damn—or be the one who starts it. Takeaways? Learn the power of micro-communities, how nominating and voting puts local causes on the map, why presence is as powerful as money, and how not giving a damn is the real risk. The question isn’t, “Can we make a difference?” It’s, “Why the hell aren’t we already?”
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@uncommodified.com https://uncommodified.com/
PRODUCERS: Alyne Gagne & Kris MacQueen MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
Back in the GROOVE
12 Feb 2025
00:09:24
Spotify and iTunes may dominate convenience, but vinyl embodies the crackle of connection. In a world fixated on perfection and speed, what if the secret to a richer, more connected life lies in slowing down and dropping the needle on something authentic?
This UNCOMMODiFiED episode dives into the surprising life lessons Tim Windsor is learning from rediscovering the world of vintage vinyl records. Tim challenges listeners to embrace the crackle of imperfection, commit to deep connections, and live with intentionality in a fast-paced, digital-first world.
Packed with neuroscience insights, practical strategies, and thought-provoking questions, this episode is a call to stop streaming through life and start living with a richer tone and texture.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@uncommodified.com https://uncommodified.com/
In this NITTY-GRITTY episode, I encourage you to understand that your ears are not the only body part that helps you listen. So listen, and you will discover the other appendages you need to activate to help you hear better and more.
Give me 10-minutes and 53-seconds of your time, and you will discover the secret power of note-taking when you use it to keep you on track in the conversation, contain and place our interruptions so that they don't get in the way of good listening, and build greater trust along the way.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
Haile Selassie: Bigger. More. Greater. and Larger for Others
12 Jan 2022
00:50:48
This UNCORK conversation is sparked by this quote from Haile Selassie, "We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community."
Leadership Historian Craig Minchin and I UNCORK some exceptional whiskey and chat about the powerful and captivating character and leadership traits of Haile Selassie. We explore some of his accomplishments and expose some of his failures and flaws: his light and darkness.
During our conversation, we discover the destiny in his name. We explore what we should engage with and retain. We experience the captivating power of charisma, the real grace of leaders. The importance of self-care and soul-care, and we find out what good thing can start to happen at 3:30 am every morning.
Craig shares how Selassie's life and legacy challenge him to live and lead and how it should challenge us to owe our allegiance to the right thing and the right people and serve it all, and all, for the betterment of the human community.
Pour a drink and get ready to be inspired to be Bigger. More. Greater. and Larger for others.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
TENACIOUSLY PATIENT: Unleashing the Wisdom of Hurry & Wait
05 Jan 2022
00:09:55
Back in EPISODE # 50 entitled UNDETERRED & UNDENIED (If you haven't listened to that one yet, please check it out), I outlined 12 positive predispositions undeterred and undeniable people.
In this 9-minute and 55-second follow-up episode, I share some more thoughts and encourage you to consider, at a deeper level, how they were TENACIOUSLY PATIENT, tenacious and patient. You will discover the powerful TUG-OF-WAR and the PUSH & PULL that will make you undeterred and undeniable. And the wisdom of HURRY UP and WAIT.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
the GIVE. the TAKE. and the GET: UNCORKED with Matt Fletcher
27 Dec 2021
00:40:45
This episode is an UNCORK CONVERSATION with Matt Fletcher.
Matt is an UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast listener that I connected with through social media. After learning his story, I wanted to have on the show to share his personal and professional journey of buying his Dad’s business. And then recently selling that business to a larger corporation in an industry in which up to 70% of the industry’s knowledge could vaporize in the next ten years, and a historic number of businesses will be bought and sold.
Matt and I chat about the GIVE and TAKE in negation and what we GIVE and GET in life and business transactions and transitions. Because in the end, Matt didn’t just buy and sell a business; he purchased and sold roles and identities.
Along the way, we explore: What was easier than he expected? And what was harder than he expected when the business transitioned from his father to him and his brother? And then what was it like for him when the business was recently sold to a larger corporation?
Grab Pepsi or a Coke, and let’s see what we can GIVE and GET and BUY and SELL today.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
the 4 GIFTS: what People Really Want from their Leaders for Christmas
21 Dec 2021
00:16:25
In this episode, I highlight the 4 GIFTS that I consistently hear that employees, teams, partners, your partner, your children, and even your dog and cat want and need from you and other leaders this Christmas and throughout next year.
Give these 4 GIFTS that are on everyone's Christmas list this year and every year, and you will build trust and catalyze the attention and desire to set and achieve your goals. Because if you don't, there will be a lump of coal or a chunk of something else equally as disappointing in everyone's stocking and under every tree again this year. There will be division, confusion, and detrimental diminishment of effectiveness and impact for the people you attempt to lead and guide.
The four most BENEFICIAL and BEAUTIFUL Gifts that Wise Women and Wise Men who come together to lead others must come bearing this Christmas are CONSISTENCY. COHESIVENESS. COORDINATION. and CLARITY ... these are the Gifts people want and need from those who have been given the gift of leading and influencing them.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
a Curious Man. a Consensus Building Mayor. an UN-POLITICIAN.
14 Dec 2021
00:57:24
This episode is entitled "a CURIOUS Man. a CONSENSUS Building Mayor. an UN-POLITICIAN who Marches to the Beat of a Different Drummer." it's an UNCORK Conversation hosted by Kris MacQueen (my Podcast Producer) with Cam Guthrie, the Mayor of one of Canada's fastest-growing cities, Guelph, Ontario.
In this UNCORK conversation, Kris and Cam (and myself: eavesdropper and occasional interrupter in this episode) poke and prod into the mysterious world of politics and politicians. And as we do, we push into ideas like ... What you can learn when you lose. How curiosity and open-mindedness make all the difference. And the importance of living and leading with "NO REGRETS."
We talk about How to find a "hill to die on" without "killing people" on your way to the top. And about The cost and payoff of meaningful engagement as a leader.
We explore the power of Social Media and the boundaries that make it sustainable and healthy for you and others. And how a bit of levity and a proactive "thanks for caring enough to show up" conversation will break the harshness that can live within the rigorous debate and disagreements that will come from passionate people trying to be great and do great things for others.
Along the trails and rabbit trails in this Conversation, Cam … Mr. Mayor … Cam encourages us to understand the power of Authentic thankfulness and challenges and encourages you to understand that:
You don't have to go to University or College to be a continual learner. BUT YOU DO NEED TO BE CURIOUS & ADMIT YOU DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING.
And that there is one bad "political behaviour" that always causes politicians to not give their attention to the right thing for the right reason. Cam challenged us, and I am sure he will challenge you to understand and believe that Democracy is BIGGER than YOU and ME ... and even HIM.
You will need a drink and a pad of paper for this one. Got it; let's get really UN-Political and UNCORK this one right now.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
THE SANDS OF TIME: the Key to IMPACT & EFFECTIVENESS
05 Dec 2021
00:12:14
In this NITTY-GRITTY episode, I uncover and expose the GREAT BIG LIE that keeps you from being as productive as you could be.
Give me 12-minutes and 14-seconds of your time, which you will never get back, and you will discover the key to maximizing your impact and effectiveness. You will, as I have, find the TRUTH and the WISDOM within the GLASS.
Think about this question before you listen to this episode.
When you hear the word "TIME," what do you see? a Clock or a Calendar? or maybe you see something fundamentally more transformative, provocative, and instructive? ... I know I do.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
Relationships that SURVIVE & THRIVE ... are BUILT to LAST
29 Nov 2021
00:01:48
Are your personal and professional relationships BUILT TO LAST? Or do they crumble, fail, and fall apart too often or too quickly?
Here's what you will learn in this episode, if you want to build relationships that survive the "storms" and "winds" of life, relationships that thrive and stand the test of time, you will need to dig down and dig deep.
In this 1 MINUTE & 48 SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY, I share an experience I had when I was a teenager that challenged and changed me forever. I have used this life lesson for almost 50 years to build stable, lasting personal and professional relationships. Relationships that survive and thrive. Relationships that are BUILT TO LAST.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
MindSet ReSet: Getting off the Hamster Wheel
22 Nov 2021
00:45:26
This episode entitled "MindSet ReSet: Getting off the Hamster Wheel" is an UNCORK Conversation with Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner Lisa Schermerhorn.
Lisa and I walk some of the fiery coals of our fears and failures and challenge ourselves and you to explore the conscience and subconscious beliefs, the "scripts" we run and rehearse in our mind – good or bad and how they predict and propel our behaviour.
She shared some practical ideas, strategies, and tools to create and sustain mindset "shifts and resets"? And how discovering your "WHY" is deeply connected to all this.
If you choose (and it is a choice) to listen in on this conversation, Lisa will provoke you to find the "purpose your the pain." And to give the gift of your pain a new job to do. She also explains how epigenetics may be at work in you. And the importance of understanding that Your purpose doesn't always pay, but it will reward you and others when you find it and live in it.
Grab a glass of wine, have a drink, spin the record …. and find and fix the skip.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
The One Thing that Will Instantly Make You a Better Coach
15 Nov 2021
00:01:24
Do you want to be a better and more effective Coach?
Do you want to coach more and more often?
It's all about where you are during the game.
This episode is a 1 MINUTE & 24 SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY that will give you one very simple yet powerful tip to instantly "put" yourself in a better "place" to cause you to have to coach better and more often.
Would you please overlook the rawness of this short episode that I recorded on my iPhone in my office? I just had to get this little idea out of my head after a call from a client.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
WONDROUSLY DIFFERENT: UNCORKED with ANDREW LEITH
05 Feb 2025
00:45:47
What if the life you’ve built isn’t truly the life you’re meant to live? What if everything you believed made you “successful” was merely a carefully crafted facade—one that’s been stifling your true potential?
In this UNCORKED episode of the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast, Tim Windsor sits down with Andrew Leith, a former corporate sales executive who traded boardroom conformity for radical self-discovery, uncovering and embracing his neurodivergence, understanding the hidden costs of fitting in and the liberating power of embracing his wondrous differences.
HERE'S SOME OF THE THEMES AND QUESTIONS THIS EPISODE EXPLORES:
The prison you don’t know you’re in—and what happens when you finally escape. Ferraris vs. Tractors—Why leaders must stop treating all employees the same? The Evil Spell of Sameness—How is it killing creativity and innovation in business? Tension Creates Greatness—Why you need challengers, not yes-men, on your team. Taking Off the Mask—What happens when you stop playing the game and start living?
This isn’t just a conversation; it’s a call to action. Whether you’re a leader, a creative, or someone who feels they don’t quite fit the mold, this episode will challenge you to stop performing and start becoming.
Listen now and ask yourself: What mask have I been wearing, and am I ready to remove it?
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@uncommodified.com https://uncommodified.com/
In this UNCORK CONVERSATION, with Keynote Speaker, Facilitator, and Author, KRISTIN LINDEEN, we explore the idea of Generational Journeys. How personal and professional values translate, transfer, and continue to transform from one generation to another.
We muse about the privilege we all have to call out the gifts we see in others. And we ask if our journeys are determined choice or decided destiny. We challenge you to make sure you are transferring PASSION, not just process and principles. And we encourage you to understand that ideas and ideals are Caught AND Taught.
Kristin provides excellent advice and practical tools to empower and equip leaders, parents, and educators to transfer foundational values to the next generation. And, along the way, we challenge and encourage you to BE THE RIPPLE EFFECT and intentionally "ripple" into the next generation your most essential values.
Do you want to Equip and Empower others to be accountable and live a value-based life? THEN YOU MUST BREAK THE "WIZARD OF OZ" SYNDROME.
Grab a coffee and get ready to drop your pebble into the pond and become the "Ripple Effect."
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen TECHNICAL EDITOR: Alyne Gagne MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
The Alchemy of Change and Choice
01 Nov 2021
00:09:30
In this NITTY-GRITTY Episode, we explore the "Alchemy of Change and Choice."
Listen in and discover:
- The four base "elements" that need to be "mixed" together to create and sustain CHANGE and CHOICE.
- That when your desire for change is "magically morphed" into a true OBSESSION for the change you want, you will begin to make "gold."
- That the words you use to "mix" your "potion" of change with really matter. Do you "want" to change or "MUST" you change?
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
this is a 1 MINUTE & 42 SECOND mini NITTY-GRITTY Episode that will provoke and challenge you to understand that your organization DOESN'T EXIST or DO ANYTHING.
If you think that your organization can be fundamentally different than your people, you are deceiving yourself. Your organization DOESN'T EXIST or DO ANYTHING ... PEOPLE DO.
If you want to be a better "organization," you have to focus on making your "people" better.
If you want to be a world-class "organization" that delights its clients, you have to focus on making your "people" world-class delighters ... it's really that simple and that hard.
If you want to be a kinder, more tolerant "organization" that treats each other well and respectfully, you have to focus on making your "people" less rude and disrespectful ... it's really that simple and that hard.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
Indira Gandhi: Committed, Courageous, and Combative
18 Oct 2021
00:54:10
In this episode Leadership Historian, Craig Minchin and I explore the life, legacy and leadership lessons we can learn from MOTHER INDIA - Indira Gandhi.
We chat about:
Building alliances. Seeing beyond and through the Crowds to individuals. Wise and Foolish advice. Discovering what we need to stand up for and stand up to. The danger of becoming an overconfident leader. How our strengths can become our weaknesses. And that regardless of our flaws and failures, we ALWAYS still have a choice.
Along the way, Craig shares his process of how researches and learns for historical leaders.
Grab a whiskey. And Get ready to be inspired by the past … to live better now .. for the future.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
UNCOMMODiFYiNG in my World: the NITTY-GRITTY for me
05 Oct 2021
00:07:18
Riddle me this. When food isn't free ... but you can't buy it ... but you can shop for it ... where are you and what are you doing?
In this NITTY-GRITTY, I share the story of how my friends and I UNCOMMODiFiED compassion and support for the poor and marginalized in a community I lived in for over 20 years. And at the end of this episode, I give you my cell number and ask you to do me a favour. Please listen and give me a call.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
The Great Resignation: Understanding the NO and the HELL YES
28 Sep 2021
00:49:39
This is a thought-provoking and timely UNCORK Conversation with leadership speaker, consultant, trainer, coach, and author Alain Hunkins
Alain and I dialogue about the impact and implications for employees, employers, and leaders of the fact that the U.S. Labor Department reported that a record 7.6 million people quit their jobs in April and May of 2021. and that The 2021 WORK TREND INDEX shows that 41% of the workforce is considering leaving their employer this year
The Great Resignation:
What is it? In what sense is it "great"? Why and how is it "great" or could it be "great"?
How do employees, employers, and leaders Lean into the wind of the Great Resignation?
What Values and Ideologies are people Resigning from and resigning to.
As we explore these questions, Alain shares some ideas and wisdom (from his book) on the desire of employees to have Safety. Be Energized. Have Ownership. And find Purpose in their jobs and How Managers and Leaders must make sure that their behaviour, systems and structures help meet and address these four core needs and expectations … especially during these times.
Alain will encourage and challenge you to understand that leaders that Lean into being exceptionally more human and more communicative and focus on facilitating more connection, communication, and collaboration will position themselves and their organization to weather this storm, harness this wind, and create positive momentum.
The Great Resignation: Understanding the NO and the HELL YES
Unfurl your sails, and let's get into this one.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
World-Class Change Agents Cultivate and Catalyze One Powerful Emotion
21 Sep 2021
00:01:31
How do you get your people to desire and embrace change better and quicker?
In this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone, I share a provocative idea that I believe is what leaders often forget and overlook when they are trying to get their people to embrace change. You will instantly catalyze the energy and desire required to propel your change if you do this.
Change Agents cultivate and catalyze DISSATISFACTION! Do you?
Please overlook the rawness of this recording and hear the provocation. Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
GO-LIVE Better: Humanizing BIG-ASS Change
14 Sep 2021
00:51:38
This is an insightful and practical conversation with an international SAP and Supply Chain Execution Architect, my friend, and as you will find out … just a “dude” – Dave Webb.
Dave and I explore what over 22 years of working with Senior Leaders during large-scale process and system change & implementation have taught him about: Leading change. Leaders. Leadership.Life. And Himself
For Dave, it’s all about the journey, and if you journey with us today, Dave’s experience will challenge you to understand that:
Change is scary.
And, you should never buy into the lie that it’s just about changing the process. Or the lie and that asking your people to meet you in the middle is a great strategy when it is just lazy leadership.
Dave will challenge you to be honest about your motivation for change … even if the truth hurts.
And he will encourage you to understand that simplicity brings sharpness and that clutter in your life and your business is a curse that must be broken.
Grab a tea, have a sip, and let’s get into it this…
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
In this UNCORK episode with Jon Wagner (Virtual Team Pioneer & Author), we tuck into a conversation about Making Virtual Teams Much More Human. We explore the importance of Personal and Professional Community, Connection, Collaboration, and the Human Systems that create, enhance, and sustain them.
Jon shares 11 Key Principles that his years of research and experience showed him will create an effective Virtual Team. Along the way, we ask and answer the following questions:
How has your sense of mission driven and shaped you and your work over the past 40 years?
How have you used and applied your formal education (as an Engineer and in Cross-Cultural Psychology) to drive and shape your work with Human Systems?
Why are personal and professional community, connection, collaboration, and relationship (virtual and in-person) crucial to people, organizations, and you personally?
How do we use technology to assist or even enhance community, connection, and collaboration? When is technology not enough?
How do we build trust with individuals and teams (virtual and in-person)
What does it mean to work "cross-culturally" to you? How do we do this well personally and professionally?
What is "Friendship Force?" What is their story? Why is it such a powerful movement? Why are you so passionate about it?
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
In this UNCORK conversation, Tim Windsor and Adam Hammerman explore the dynamic tension between pursuing bold goals and embracing the power of “pause.” Through personal stories, practical insights, and compelling lessons, they challenge listeners to rethink the glorification of constant busyness and discover how intentional pauses can transform personal resilience and professional success.
Adam shares how a life-changing experience motivated him to push past his limits and become a volunteer EMT, teaching the importance of turning discomfort into growth. Tim reflects on the wisdom of creating margin in life, inspired by a farmer’s lesson on letting land lie fallow to regenerate. Together, they unpack practical strategies for recharging without guilt, honouring rest as a tool for productivity, and creating space for meaningful human connections.
Key Challenges and Lessons:
Breaking the Cycle of Burnout: Are you running so hard that you risk burnout? Adam and Tim discuss simple ways to press pause and regain clarity, even if you’re not ready for an entire “Sabbath” day.
Creating Margin for Growth: Learn why leaving "space" in your schedule, finances, and energy—just like a farmer leaves part of the field unharvested—can empower you to thrive rather than just survive.
Respecting and Empowering Others’ Downtime: Tim and Adam explore why respecting others’ rest—whether in your personal or professional life—is a vital leadership skill that builds trust and loyalty.
This episode offers practical wisdom and real-life applications for anyone ready to run hard, rest well, and live with intention. Don’t miss this inspiring conversation!
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@uncommodified.com https://uncommodified.com/
Transition NOT Succession: a Better Way to Say it, See it, and Feel it
31 Aug 2021
00:04:36
A recent conversation with a Client inspired me to explain that my experience has shown me that Transition Planning, NOT Succession Planning is a much better way to say it, see it, understand it, and really feel it.
WHY?
Because words matter and have an immediate and lasting emotional impact, especially when talking about people's lives, identities, intrinsic value, future, and legacy.
And, it's a HUMAN THING, not just an organizational thing.
Join me for a coffee in my backyard, and let's meditate on this idea together.
Please overlook the rawness of this recording and hear the provocation of this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone.
Management Opportunity: a Fantastic Promotion or a Fundamental Career Change
24 Aug 2021
00:46:28
This was a thought-provoking and practical conversation with leadership and team trainer, facilitator, coach, consultant, and my business partner Amanda MacDougall.
In this conversation, we explore this provocative question ... if you are giving or receiving an opportunity to become a Manager, a people Manager, is that just a Fantastic Promotion or is it ultimately a Fundamental Career Change?
Your answer and understanding about this transition and transformation will make or break you and others.
Amanda uses her years of practical experience and research and the results of her recent LinkedIn Survey to respond to and explore these questions:
Why don't People or Organizations think of becoming a manager as a career change?
What is the cost to people and organizations if you don't?
If I am becoming a Management Professional, a People Leader, can you give me a Checklist of things I need to consider?
Along the way, we explore the "identity Shift" that must take place. The importance of going back to "school". The emotional impact of going from Technical Expert to Management Apprentice. And how the cost of no longer being one of the "gang" can be a price that even the "pay raise" can not cover.
AMANDA'S CHECKLIST
Checklist for Deciding to Become a Management Professional:
You love working with people (culture)
You are drawn to thinking more broadly than your own work (strategy)
You are ready to set aside technical details in your day to day work
You have good communication skills
Monitoring, measuring, and tracking are fun! (workflow management)
People come to you for support or advice (leadership)
Collaboration is a skill in your toolbelt
You routinely take initiative and don't wait for direction
Are you ready to shift from being one of the "gang" to setting the example? (Personal accountability)
You have talked to people who are in the role you aspire to – what does it take to succeed in your role? Open yourself up to reflection and feedback – because that is what you get in management!
What to do When you land in a management position:
Make your "FROM .. TO" list
Create your leadership philosophy
Build community – it's lonely in the middle
Additional Thoughts for Organizations
Review the employee checklist above with prospective managers
Be honest with yourself and with prospective managers on requirements – are they people leaders, or workflow managers?
Determine what skills are actually required to be successful and hire for those skills – long-term or strong technical individual contributors may not be the best managers.
Approach people management training as you would any other technical training requirements
Be clear on expectations, time requirements for people and leadership skill development
Ensure transparent support for employees considering management, clarifying the unique requirements and shifts required to move into management
Think about "off-ramps" if the move to management turns out not to be a good fit that honours everyone in the process.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
Work-Life Balance: Myth or Manageable Expectation?
17 Aug 2021
00:05:57
A recent conversation with a Network of Consultants and Coaches that I connect with inspired me to explore this question - Work-Life Balance, Myth or Manageable Expectation?
Join me for a coffee in my backyard, and let's ruminate on this idea together.
Let me challenge you to consider the mental image that immediately comes into your mind when you think of this subject. And share some strategies that I use to establish a healthy rhythm in my own life.
Please overlook the rawness of this recording and hear the provocation of this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
a New Kind of CAR SALESMAN: UNCORKED with Craig Kieswetter
10 Aug 2021
00:55:30
This UNPEDDLING Conversation with a 3rd Generation Car Guy, Craig Kieswetter, tucks into how to Sell Well in an industry with a problematic selling image.
Chris, Craig, and I explore these questions together:
How do you "Sell Well" in an industry with a problematic selling image?
What are you and your team doing to break the negative "car salesman" image?
What is your best advice to someone who wants to get into the business and sell professionally and well?
The best lesson you learned from your Grandpa, from your Uncle and your Dad.
Where do you see the auto industry going in terms of the selling process? And what is your hope for the future in the car selling industry?
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UNDETERRED & UNDENIED: the Unusual Rigour & the Ultimate Reward of the UNCOMMODiFiED
03 Aug 2021
00:39:25
The UNCOMMODiFiED are undeterred and undenied. You can’t stop them, push them down, or hold them back.
They won’t let you or any force of nature deny them the fulfillment of their predetermined and possibly predestined preferred future. So come hell or high water, diabolic demons (theirs or yours), or raging seas; they are getting there, wherever there is, preferably with you, but without you, if that’s what it takes.
The Undeterred and Undenied have unusual rigour and will ultimately be rewarded, even if that reward is subtly or substantially different than they expect it to be when their forecasted future becomes their present moment reality.
Roll up your sleeves. Get ready to be challenged and encouraged by what over 30 years of collaborations and collisions with the Undeterred and Undenied have taught me.
Get ready to discover and practice the 12 Characteristics, the 12 qualities, the 12 positive predispositions of the Undeterred and Undenied.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
This was a candid and compelling conversation with transformational leadership coach and author Dave Loney.
Dave and I dive into the deep and dangerous waters of our genuinely authentic personal and professional selves.
In those sometimes murky and sometimes clear waters, we navigate and investigate these ideas and ideals:
- Acknowledging and Articulating our Authentic Needs - Appropriate Assertiveness - Affirmation Addictions - The journey of Acclimating our eyes to our own darkness and Finding light in our shadows - Our Strengths and Stresses - The power and pitfalls of Social Biases - The wisdom and warnings in our Leaves and roots. - And the privilege and power in Bringing your gift into your future and the future of others.
Get your wet suit on, strap on your air tanks and don your mask. It’s time to jump into the sea of authenticity.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
Framing the Fantastic Fractured Light: Calling or Career
20 Jul 2021
00:39:20
This was a provocative and punchy conversation with storyteller, photographer, and humourist - Tom Vogel – one of the most UNCOMMODiFiED people I know.
Tom and I gibber and jabber about the essence and power of a great story … about what makes the best "story"... whether conceived in the mind and communicated by voice or captured by the camera?
Along the way, we rife on ruminate on the mystical power of Vocation and Calling not just Career and how we sometimes Feel like criminals when people pay us to do what we love to do.
We remind ourselves of the honour and opportunity we all have to "call out life from people and things"
The birth of our GIFTS. The Magical Impact of our Mentors. And the wisdom and wonder of capturing the beautiful brokenness of the fractured life and light that surrounds all of us.
And along the way, Tom teaches us his "secret" to capturing the moment and being captivating in the moment.
Buckle up your seatbelt and let's ply Tom with some sips of coffee and straightforward questions and find out exactly what the hell he's all about!
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
It may be time to admit that sometimes you're just a symptom soother and not really a problem solver at all?
Discover the simple secret to being a world-class problem solver. Challenge yourself not just to be a "pill pusher" when you really need to be a "skilled surgeon."
Please overlook the rawness of this recording and hear the provocation of this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone.
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Their Perception is Your Reality
06 Jul 2021
00:51:07
In this UNPEDDLING episode, Chris and I have a conversation with Lisa Genovese, the President of BottomLine.
We explore the world of Market Research and ideas and insights that will show you:
What can help you, your company and your brand be "scrappy" and "punch above your weight" as an "underdog" in your Market.
What the best way to seek "feedback and opinion" from your customers is? And if you hire someone to help you do this, what is the most critical thing you will need to believe about them?
How to start the process of getting market research?
What are the most critical aspects you need to pay attention to when reviewing research documents and information?
How to use Market Research used in your Sales Strategy?
and, How to use your Market Research to "UNPEDDLE."
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This is an insightful and challenging conversation with Richard Stanley – the President of Bartell Global and the CEO and President of Precision Metal Works.
Richard and I dive deeply into what he has learned about taking organizations (people) from inefficiency to efficiency - from losing money to making money - from an unhealthy culture to a healthy culture.
He shares from his 35 years of experience in organizational leadership, business and plant turnarounds, startups, and process improvement about what is relatively easy and much more complex than one might expect in creating Positive, Proficient, & Profitable businesses and systems.
This conversation will inspire you to find and eliminate the “awkward” and exercise and encourage “wise risk.”
Grab a drink .. And let’s build and sustain Sturdy Success.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
Stop being a process drone. And start architecting systems that drive creativity and demand ownership.
If the "perfect process" you've created, or the one you're trying to follow, requires your robotic attention and execution, you're not just missing the point — you're killing innovation and individuality, and mediocrity will be your only reward.
In this episode of the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast, Tim Windsor tears down the lifeless world of process worship and rebuilds it with the magic of individuality and creativity within a framework.
Highlights You Can't Afford to Miss:
Process is Rocket Fuel for Personality: Learn why mastering the system is essential, but mindlessly following it is a critical error.
Rules Are Meant to Be Bent: Picasso didn't stick to the rulebook, and neither should you—Tim teaches you how to master the system and then make it your playground.
Kill the Culture of Compliance: The bold truth about why "colouring inside the lines" guarantees irrelevance.
This episode isn't for the faint of heart. It's for people ready to evolve their processes, inject real life into their work, and kill the culture of fear stifling greatness.
It's time to take control and make your work processes work for you and answer this question: What are you doing to make your process a playground for individuality?
LISTEN NOW. Break the rules. And be UNCOMMODiFiED — or be FORGOTTEN.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@uncommodified.com https://uncommodified.com/
In this UNPEDDLING episode, Chris and I caution you to be careful and DON’T LET DEMAND DECEIVE YOU.
Demand deceives us when we say: I am too busy to … Be proactive and strategic. Prospect “new business.” Plan or follow “our” plan. Take time for big picture thinking and dreaming of our preferred future. Do the “little things” that got us here.
Demand deceives us when we say: This is the new normal, and the demand will always be here …. Maybe or maybe not. We need a new “addition” on our “building” when a “portable” is more prudent … scalable, and elasticity may be required.
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PUSHBACK HARDER & Be a Better Listener & Learner
15 Jun 2021
00:01:12
Do you want to become a better listener and learner?
Understand and practice the "PUSHBACK," and you will be ... but first, you need to understand who you need to push back on and the two things you must "PUSHBACK" and "PUSHDOWN."
Please overlook the rawness of this recording and hear the provocative message of this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
Seeing, Summoning & Shaping the Destiny of Others: UNCORKED with John Wright
08 Jun 2021
00:48:00
This episode is an inspiring and encouraging conversation with John Wright, one of the founders of Eagle's Flight - a global leader in Business-Driven, People Focused Experiential Learning and Engagement.
John and I chatted about a leader's opportunity and obligation to see, summon, and shape people's positive potential and help them move forward into their destiny.
Our conversation touches on boulders and balloons … the gift and the shadow … and on what leaders and parents need to start and what they need to stop doing so we can all be like Michelangelo and "see the angel in the stone and chisel until it is set it free."
Grab a drink .. and a chisel … and a bag of balloons … and get ready to breathe life into the destiny of others.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
if it Matters, it's a Fact: UNCORKED with Matt Locke
01 Jun 2021
00:53:36
In this UNPEDDLING episode, Chris and I have a conversation with a Vice President of Sales and our friend Matt Locke.
Matt once told me this ... "I don't think I have ever been successful at getting a customer to engage because it matters to me ... that's not how it works."
Listen in and explore these ideas with us:
How understanding and uncovering a customer's personal 'success metrics' will change how you 'pitch' to them and how they will 'sell it' in their company.
Who are you really selling to, and why? Do you really know?
... and that your benefits, programs, products, specials, rebates, and even your story only matter if they matter to your customer.
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Please overlook the rawness of this recording and hear the provocative message of this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone.
Do you want to become a more effective Presenter?
Do these two things more and more effectively, and you will be better prepared to deliver a "knock out" performance.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
Momentum ... your Mass in Motion: UNCORKED with Pete Mohr
18 May 2021
00:42:21
This episode was a powerful and practical conversation with Entrepreneur and Business Coach Pete Mohr … a mass times velocity conversation … a get off your 'Mass' and put it in motion kind of conversation where Pete and I explored and examined some of his practical ideas and answers to these vital questions:
What is "momentum," and why is it so important in life and business?
Where does momentum come from?
How is momentum created, sustained, and harnessed?
What diminishes it and can even instantly vaporize it?
We explore Pete's idea of the "Wheel of Momentum" and how you can understand it and ride it to propel yourself towards your preferred future.
Get ready to get off your 'mass' and put it in motion.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
In this UNPEDDLING episode, Chris and I explore the power, value, and importance of being and making it "EASY."
Here's a question to consider ... Can you absolutely delight your customers and demand and drive absolute organizational efficiency for your company?
To understand the values and dynamics that impact and help us approach and answer this question, we examine our own customer experiences and challenge ourselves to make it "easy" for our customers to buy and partner with us.
Let's "UNPEDDLE" the sales experience and make "customer delight" a core Business Value, not just a Sales Value.
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a Fresh Formula for Success: UNCORKED with Catherine Metrycki
04 May 2021
00:48:30
This episode is a fragrant and fascinating conversation with Catherine Metrycki, the Founder & CEO of Callia Flowers, a Canadian-based tech start-up that’s disrupting …. absolutely disrupting …. the floral industry.
In this conversation, Catherine and I explore how she and her team are UNCOMMODIFYING one of the most commodified things you can buy … flowers. Just think about it ... when was the last time you bought flowers because of the “brand name on them” … it just doesn’t happen … a flower is a flower … or maybe not.
Listen in as we discover how she is cultivating a fresh experience that is attracting dames, dudes … and even a dragon. Learn how Catharine and her team are finding success as they flourish, fail fast, fix it, forget it …. and future proof it. All to delight their customers and grow their youthful enterprise.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
UNPEDDLING - Sales & Marketing: Allies, Not Adversaries
27 Apr 2021
00:39:13
In this UNPEDDLING episode, Chris and I explain why Sales & Marketing need to see themselves as Allies and not as Adversaries.
We also discuss the ONE THING every Marketing Person wants to tell a Sales Person about their World, and the ONE THING every Sales Person wants a Marketing Person to know about theirs.
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In this episode, Craig and I continue to explore the lives of historical leaders and the life and leadership lessons we can use to capture the “evil emperor” in our own hearts and realize and release our better life and leadership of ourselves and others.
Join us as we allow the Revenger. Conquer. Explorer - Alexander the GREAT to encourage us to:
Take care of our soldiers.
Lead like a lion.
Create a vision that sustains us through the battle.
Lead from the front.
Discover the scared nature of our time and presence.
Unlock the power of moving as one.
Experience the evolution of the “pathos” and compulsions that drive us … what begins in angry revenge can end in exciting exploration … it did for Alexander the great … and it can for you and me.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
Think where you “do it” doesn’t matter? Think again.
In this episode of the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast, Tim Windsor dispels the myth that "what" and "how" are all that matter. He exposes the shocking truth that where you work, dream, and create is the game-changer you're ignoring. Armed with cutting-edge research, Tim explores the psychology of space, revealing how the environments you choose can affect your focus, creativity, and results.
From the chaos of open-plan offices to the tranquillity of nature, this episode is a masterclass in reclaiming control over your life by mastering your surroundings. Learn why your bed is the worst workspace, how the wrong space pulls you into mediocrity, and why your excuses about space are self-imposed prison walls.
You'll get practical strategies for defining, auditing, and optimizing spaces to fuel productivity and creativity—whether you're hustling solo or leading a team. And Tim doesn't stop there. He takes on leadership, challenging you to create environments that energize your team, turning them from burnt-out zombies to boundary-pushing innovators.
This is your wake-up call: control your space, or it will control you. LISTEN NOW AND FIND OUT WHY.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@uncommodified.com https://uncommodified.com/
The Creative Chemistry of Human Collision: UNCORKED with Brady Wilson
13 Apr 2021
00:45:18
In this episode, Thought Leader and Author Brady Wilson and I lean hard into his mission and passion of creating a world where businesses and people pulsate with creative energy.
As you listen, challenge yourself to lean into the ideas and insights we explore … the Gift of Collision. The power of Seeing and being Seen. Possibility Fields. Releasing positive energy from the tension in the room. Getting the Juices flowing, and producing the hope and the power that you and the people around you need to sustain and catapult you to the fulfillment of your professional and personal vision.
To connect with Brady: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradyjuiceinc/
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com
In this UNPEDDLING episode, we explore a conversation with Marketing Expert Garry Scott about the Key to unlocking your Uniqueness and the power and process of BRANDING.
We explore how a "brand" is born. Is it created, or is it discovered, or is it a bit of both?
Garry also explains how a great brand is like a key. But don't be fooled ... it does not, should not, and will not unlock every door.
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Be a Community "CFO". Shatter Shame. Gut Guilt. & Build Belief
30 Mar 2021
00:45:30
This episode is a thought and action-provoking conversation with a Community "CFO" … a Chief Failure Officer ... a Chief FUCKUP Officer and the Community Leader, Jeff MacIntyre.
Jeff leads the Gutty Grassroots, of a failing and learning and failing again ... feet on the street movement and idea that is breaking the shame and guilt of personal and professional failure around the globe and in the Silicon Valley of Canada .. and My Backyard.
Tim Windsor the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide tim@theuncommodified.com