00:21:27	Christine Clapp:	casaa seems so far from his work. how did he get into it?
00:22:02	Alison Cardy:	I've had good successes and I've fallen on my face.
00:23:00	Alison Cardy:	Michigan sent me two rejection letters.
00:23:18	Alison Cardy:	I evolved into high tech sales
00:23:42	Alison Cardy:	I became a turnaround specialist.
00:24:07	Christine Clapp:	rebuilding teams and cultures
00:24:34	Alison Cardy:	I really enjoyed rebuilding teams.
Imagine going home to your spouse and saying that you don't have a job.
00:24:36	Christine Clapp:	resiliency after losing job
00:25:30	Alison Cardy:	It's like running into a closed door with your face.
00:26:18	Alison Cardy:	All of them just want more.
00:27:43	Christine Clapp:	if you are running in the right direction, growth is easy
00:27:58	Alison Cardy:	You have to decide in any business what your focus is.
00:28:21	Christine Clapp:	coaching isn’t something you sell. you educate the buyer and they decide if they want to get on the train.
00:30:16	Alison Cardy:	It's like little light bulbs turning on.
00:31:06	Alison Cardy:	Hiring people who wanted to leave footprints in the sand.
00:32:38	Alison Cardy:	That's why so many of us leave our jobs.
00:33:32	Alison Cardy:	It's a relatively easy thing.
00:38:34	Charlie Janes:	I love these events in the new normal
00:38:53	Charlie Janes:	Business is SO much better
00:39:33	Alison Cardy:	I was really interested in this major called rhetoric, which is the study of persuasion.
00:40:24	Alison Cardy:	I was terrified of public speaking.
00:41:22	Alison Cardy:	I lost every single one of my first 12 debates.
00:42:18	Alison Cardy:	I went to debate camp, which was 110% as nerdy as it sounds.
00:45:07	Alison Cardy:	I don't think that there's anyone who cannot improve their skills to improve their skills.
00:48:10	Alison Cardy:	I think that public speaking piece was huge for her.
00:49:29	Alison Cardy:	One of the things that's important to me is to lift up people who speak differently.
00:49:53	Alison Cardy:	A lot of what we're doing is training audiences to be receptive to different speakers.